Chapter 5 - New York More Ohio, but a better job

Never mind about that New York thing. As awesome as it would have been to make independent films with my cousins, I didn't have a job lined up in NY, and would have likely been working a minimum wage job to cover my mounting expenses. Recently, I was given a new opportunity, and I'm going for the sure bet for steady income.

I got a job offer from a small screen printing company near Springfield. The owner is looking to retire, and wanted to hire someone who can work as a full time employee for a year or two to learn the business, then take over the company when he retires. As of Wednesday, that's me.

So now I'm getting paid to design, screen print, embroider, and frame pictures, and by the time JTW gets back from Japan (she's got a good new job, too), I'll be a small business owner.

New Town. New Career. Still in Ohio. Oh well. Can't win 'em all.

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I'm sick of Ohio. I'm sick of the weather. I'm sick of the lack of topography. I'm sick of needing to drive an hour to get anywhere. I'm sick there being no jobs. I'm sick of towns with more Bob Evans than book stores. I'm sick of there being nothing to do but drink and watch college football. I'm sick of people who are content to do nothing except drink and watch college football. The whole state smells like manure, mold, dead fish, and beer. There is nothing good about the state outside of Cedar Point, even then a majority of their rides were designed in Utah.

Thus, next year, I'm closing the book on Ohio after 17 excruciating years, and starting Chapter 5 of the Robert L. Lynch story (Wherein our protagonist becomes a successful artist and independent filmmaker). This February, I'm moving to upstate New York to live with a few cousins in the Syracuse metro-area. One of these cousins is the seriously underground independent horror-film director Victor Juliet, whom I have previously described as a 21st-century Ed Wood. I'll be lending him my skills in 3D graphics, art, and studio lighting in exchange for room and board. I'll need to get another job to pay off some outstanding debts, but luckily, the Syracuse area is in a much better economic state than Ohio, so I should have no problem (as opposed to here; Nov. 10 will mark three months without a job for me). I'm hoping to get a seasonal job soon to cover moving expenses. (Maybe a few of you could buy some prints?)

At any rate, I'm glad to be getting out of this hellhole. Anyone know anything about the Syracuse art scene?

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If anyone cares, I'm finally getting my act together on Department 13. You know... That action comic I've been working on since 2003... Tried to make myself draw three or so times over six years... Have a domain parked for two years... Remember that one?

Anyway, since I know I can't draw, and since I'm to poor to hire someone to draw it for me, I'm pitching the comic script to Dark Horse. I'm working off their submission guidelines so I have a five-page synopsis of the full 24-issue series, plus the first eight pages of issue one scripted. I'm in the proofreading/show it to friends for input stage now, so if anyone wants to be a test audience and is not scared off by a little tl;dr, then let me know and I'll email you what I'm working on so you can give me feedback.

I'll be submitting it by the end of next week, after I get this semi-market-research done.

If you don't want to review it then just reply with "good luck" to make me feel better.

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...just outside of free wi-fi range.

I know most of you are here for the art, but I've been working on some literary diversions recently. If you wouldn't mind reading a bit, check out my new work I'm posting. Critique would be nice.

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Mission Cleared! 100 EXP Gained!

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