new comics day: li'l depressed boy

Yesterday was new comics day. Every Wednesday is new comics day, but I haven't been buying individual issues for a few months because of monetary concerns. That being said, there was one comic that I couldn't miss yesterday: Li'l Depressed Boy (LDB).

Now before you go off referring me to emotional counseling or something (which many have when I have received packages from the Li'l Depressed Boy website or when I read the comics in public), you need to know that this is one of the most poetic expressions of a normal life, in a normal town, involving realistic circumstances. It's a perfect expression of the journey of life and the little joys we can find to brighten what could otherwise be a pretty bleak existence.

Life often doesn't go as we plan. LDB often gets what many would call the short end of the stick. His life often sucks, but he finds solace and joy in friends, comics, and his various adventures. The narrative of his life shows us that even though life is hard, we can find things around us that will help us through.

The creators of this comic had taken a break (one and a half years to be exact) so that they could get ahead on material and release more content. Now they are back and releasing more of this wonderful comic. I was excited to get a new chapter of the story this week and was elated to find that they had published a letter I had sent to them about my story with the comic. It was one of the best new comic days ever.

escape: comic signing

 

 

The week before finals it was way too cold and I needed to escape Cedar (a feeling that is reoccurring with too much frequency. I am getting anxious to start some new things in my life aka senioritis is setting in).

 

I got in the car with my best friend Alisha Fabbi and headed toward Vegas (her boyfriend was studying too hard to hardly notice).

 

 

We went to Maximum Comics in Henderson to a Christmas Party/ comic signing. It was Daniel Freedman and Sina Grace. Sina Grace is one of my favorite artists and he draws my favorite comic Li'l Depressed Boy.

 

 

He signed all my volumes of Li'l Depressed Boy and did a piece of original work for me with Li'l Depressed Boy standing below the Giving Tree. As he signed and drew in each of my comics/worked on the piece of art for me, we talked about college and what I was studying. I had talked to him on facebook, twitter, and instagram a few days before going down to tell him that I was going to make the trip from Utah to take a break from studying for finals. When I got there, he recognized me and remembered my name (and its consequent spelling). I told him that I wanted to work marketing and advertising in comics. He and Daniel were both excited about that and told me that when I graduate they want me to help them manage their social media to get more press for their comics. I thought they were joking at first, but the more they talked about it, the more they sounded completely serious. When I got back in the car with Alisha, I fangirled for the whole ride home and then some.

  

 

Alisha was a great friend for going on the drive with me. She came along only as company and a friend. There was nothing for her in Vegas, but she came with me anyway. She is a wonderful friend. 

 

Also, things look like they will work out for me to have a job in comics somehow.