Let's Try Something Different.
Redirection with my comic strip or book art.
I’ve done political cartoons on and off for the last twenty years in an attempt to pull realities of people into what happens within politics or the USA. I started on Substack, but realized that I was still doing the same thing over again in a different format.
Currently I’m working on a comic book called, “Ayahuasca, Wisconsin”. In ways it carries through with my political ideas and sense of humanity. The idea started at the coffee house I go to daily basis. We were talking about Ayahuasca one day and I thought that it sounded like a town in Wisconsin. It developed from there through my growing up in Wisconsin and stories told through my father and other relatives.
As a boy I had heard all kinds of strange things - nothing horrifying, but sometimes hysterical. My father was a great storyteller and I feel a lot of his stories could lend to a comic book series. After leaving the coffee house I started to think about the possibility of a comic book series based somewhat on these stories by creating a fictional town in Wisconsin. It didn’t take long to script out fifteen stories.
As of now I have devoted my time to bringing “Ayahuasca, Wisconsin” into a comic book form. I thought about turning my Substack site into a diary or the day by day development of my comic book series. It’s a concept I’ve never seen before and thought it would be interesting to show how a comic book is developed from scripting to printing.
This will be a place to breakdown how the story or comic book develops. A good place to start would be with a logo - though I haven’t thought of a subtitle. All states have a claim like Wisconsin is “Forward” or Minnesota is “Land of 10,000 Lakes”.
