EmmaComics

Took me a few months to draw and write this horror story. It's still a draft, so, any comments are welcome. Thank you and please enjoy this creepy story.
JM

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I am in the process of cleaning up my basements and getting ready for maybe a garage sale, I went into my 6 huge bins of comics that I didn't look into in almost 10 years. As I flipped into the many comics, I realised now many did suck big time. Most are from the early 90s and they didn't age well, art and story wise.

Manga and Anime was new and rare, hard to find at the time. Me and one of my brothers, we would buy anything related to manga at the time. Some are easy to reconaised, even today, some not. Also, there is the Wannabees... Mostly from Antartic Press. They were a favorite of mine at the time. Ben Dunn, created  NINJA HIGH SCHOOL, a comic series that sorta ripped off manga and anime from the time (I am trying to be nice here). Amusing at the time, as I got any special related issues as the main series. The cool thing, it's they published many of the same artists of that circle of comics publisher. I am sure they had lots of fun doing it.

BUT something that just hurks me a lot today, as I looked into the pile of comics... Most are very SELF-REFERENCED, and totally are comics of it's time, and it's time only. Most look like old bad fan comics of a some bad anime. Most didn't age well... Not very well indeed..

Now, I wonder how many comics I will sell for a penny each or even give them away....

I will do some digging to see how much most are actually worth, but my understanding, I don't think they are many people even my age would get thoses for nostalgia reasons... I will not be surprise to needing to dumped them to a charity or sell them 5 for 10 cents at my garage sell.

JMG

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Please watch and enjoy!
jm

I taught for many years animation and comic book classes, and I remember the other "ART" classes teachers, who were themselves "Artists", would always gave me "attitude" and gave me dirty looks. We would have some of our pieces in a gallery to attract future students. They would sneer and make fun at my art on the walls, beside their painting of flowers and vases. They would look down to me, that I didn't spend 6 years of University in Art sciences and such as they did. They also hated the fact that I was the youngest of anyone working there, easily by decades.

And guess what...

I was the one pulling the most students too. Where they had maybe 5 students per night, I had more than 40, kids and teens. Sometimes, I had to come multiple nights per week to teach, because I had so many students.

Jealousy was always something I had to deal with and still do, with "ARTISTS"...

Yay... I never got along with "Artists". My high school art teachers were also "Artists" and yes, they hated me with a passion. I would outdraw their favorite students easily and they refused to believe someone like me could create my comics and art at my age.

I always wondered how they reacted if they knew I also became a "art" teacher for 8 years without going to University or college.

I joined on Facebook in the last weeks a few groups about drawing... And I quit them just as fast. It felt the same...

They refused to post some of my drawings, as themselves saw them as UNWORTHY of the group, as most were simply pencil copies of pictures. Mine, were all originals, nothing copied or traced, like everyone who was approved to post. 

This is something I never liked, to be honest, as I knew someone that was like this only. Traced and or copy real pictures into drawings... Yes, it looks nice, but it's nothing original... You didn't create nothing... You just photocopied a picture... But to many, this is "art", by ARTISTS....

Fuck them... I never called myself an ARTIST per say and never will... I am a story teller, a comic book creator... and Proud of it.

JM