Welcome to The SoapBox!!

This is the freedom of speech page.. or the "SoapBox" welcome!.. obviously you dropped by because you figured... hey, I need to see how messed up this person is... well here we go...

I-Con was a success for me this year, not so much the main part of it, but the art show was well met... so woot!... I don't have a comic for this week, but next week I should have another two pages... bear with me, I was busy with the Con from 10am to 2am for two days and sunday until 6:30pm... so I'm pretty damn drained and was unable to draw anything comic related... but for those of you who actually give a damn.. it'll be coming soon...

Egotism, Pride, Arrogance, Being Cool... Do you want to be cool?...

I want to be cool without knowing that I am... but to have such humility is damning in itself... egotism and arrogance about being cool is the ultimate downfall... however pride itself is what makes someones work that much better. I still would like to be cool... but perhaps cool is the wrong word for what was trying to be put across... to act humble is foolish, yet the pride in knowing the work you've done is well received is a good thing... but never so much as the ego takes over and you become arrogant about it.

It is the pride I take in my work that makes me strive to do better... it is the ego that makes me put my work on the net, or attempt to sell it to make money, it is my arrogance that makes me have contempt for the people I see draw, and it is my humility which keeps my arrogance in check...

All together I don't know whether or not this makes me "cool"... I don't really understand that word too well, it varies at times and means something different to everyone... If I was ever cool to anyone, luckily I never knew. I have a rule that I try to keep true to at all times and that is to be myself, whether people think I'm an asshole or a nice guy or someone who just doesn't give a damn.. you'd be right on all accounts...

Cause I find myself not caring what people think about me... nor do I care whether or not you hate or like my art.. because even as grotesque or as sickeningly odd it can be.. I enjoy drawing it... so whether or not I want to be cool... it's not really a question of want or not... cause after all is said and done, I just don't want to be the arrogant and egotistical bastard wearing a beret and all black sitting in a beatnik cafe clutching my coffee and looking down my nose at the supposed peons that can't "understand" my "art".

Besides... I don't drink coffee.


OMGTKB (Ben)

Sometimes I wonder if anyone reads this last line...