This week, I have decided that I want to start blogging. I am challenging myself to write a week's worth of articles, focused on my newly rediscovered love for comics. I have not been able to be in a conversation for the past few months without bringing up comics. It's become an obsession and I need a place to put this passion. I have been incredibly inspired by the Work David Harper has been doing with his website SKTCHD.com and his weekly interview podcast Off-Panel. Whenever I become passionate about a medium, I develop a deep desire to use that medium myself. (it’s why im in filmschool.) Writing about comics is slightly easier for me than making them myself (but that won't stop me, stay tuned). I have not done any writing for myself in a long time, and honestly, school has been burning me out, It took something I was incredibly passionate about making and turned it into a time-consuming routine and stressful work, this is my way of giving myself something to express myself creatively, as I repair those feelings of film I will dive deep into my passion for comics. Eventually, I hope to write about the movies I love because film analysis is something I love, and am much more well-practiced at than comics analysis, but this is the start. As I have almost graduated, I have been incredibly aware of how fast time has passed. Spending time each week writing will hopefully ground me and allow me to reflect. I would say expect weekly columns here but I don't have any expectations myself, this is a complete experiment and I am embracing the unexpected here. 

One of the reasons I have fallen so deeply in love with comics again is that in a lot of ways it's my idealized version of the film industry (still filled with flaws though) I have always wanted to have a place I can discuss and discover new and old films on the regular, and with the disappearance of video stores that level of curation doesn't exist, but it lives on at your local comic shop. Being in a comic shop is such a fun experience, I have had so many interesting conversations with strangers, was hand-sold interesting books by passionate clerks, and got to recommend my favorite books to a curious customer. The comics world isn't immune from the cynicism that also plagues the film world, there is a purity to the passion that I struggle to find in film. My goal is to have personal curation and passionate discussion about both mediums in my life, and this project is a step to make it happen.