the struggle
The Struggle pt. 1
Kissing Chaos: Sweet Nothings almost never was. In 2003 I was planning to take a break from KC and work on a brand new story, and my creative eyes were wandering in My Destroyer's direction. At that point in my (ahem) career, I had planned to allow my artistic juices flow in a different direction before heading back to my baby, my pet project that is Kissing Chaos. But as we all know, things don't always go as planned, and by late 2003 I found myself dreadfully behind schedule on My Destroyer. I just felt exhausted and burnt out on drawing comics day in and day out, so much so that I had to postpone production on MD indefinitely, and here we are 3 years later and that book has yet to be finished. Bit back then in the fall of 2003, with one book insanely behind (my entire fault!), Oni Press implored me to do another KC one-shot. It wasn't really in my grand design for KC to do another one-shot; I had already begun preparing the next mini- series. Oni's reasoning behind dropping another stand alone issue was sound. By doing one more 22 page story in the standard monthly comic format, the series of one-shots would add up to the nice round number of 3, and bring the page count to an easily collectable length, thus creating another KC TPB, and we all know that’s how publishers make their money.
So, there you have it. The seed of KC: Sweet Nothing’s was planted essentially for Oni Press. And why not? Without Oni to bring the first two KC volumes to the masses, I would be nowhere.
Faced with a task I hadn't planned to endeavor, I began the brainstorming process. This is usually the first step I take when formulating a story. This is never a chore; in fact I'm more often than not in a constant state of creation. Every experience, every piece of art or media I consume, every bit of conversation I have or over hear in some way or another spark ideas and get wheels turning in my head. Similar to people who scrapbook and keep photo's and news paper clippings of various events in their lines, I apply that same mentality to the notes I take. I am never without some writing implement by my side in any occasion. A fear of nine is to have a brilliant stroke of an idea or thought, and be without a means to record it. My brain is like a Pentium chip, working a mile a minute and I Know unless I write everything down, a lot will fall through the cracks. Of course some will say you'll always be able to come up with new ideas, but I guess I don’t trust myself. So, I'm a pack rat of ideas.
After doing one-shots that focused on characters from KC series one, I decided to let the series two cast shine for a little. It only took minutes of sifting through my small library of ideas to find the right concept from which I could build the Sweet Nothings One shot.
ADC
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www.kissingchaos.com
Kissing Chaos: Sweet Nothings almost never was. In 2003 I was planning to take a break from KC and work on a brand new story, and my creative eyes were wandering in My Destroyer's direction. At that point in my (ahem) career, I had planned to allow my artistic juices flow in a different direction before heading back to my baby, my pet project that is Kissing Chaos. But as we all know, things don't always go as planned, and by late 2003 I found myself dreadfully behind schedule on My Destroyer. I just felt exhausted and burnt out on drawing comics day in and day out, so much so that I had to postpone production on MD indefinitely, and here we are 3 years later and that book has yet to be finished. Bit back then in the fall of 2003, with one book insanely behind (my entire fault!), Oni Press implored me to do another KC one-shot. It wasn't really in my grand design for KC to do another one-shot; I had already begun preparing the next mini- series. Oni's reasoning behind dropping another stand alone issue was sound. By doing one more 22 page story in the standard monthly comic format, the series of one-shots would add up to the nice round number of 3, and bring the page count to an easily collectable length, thus creating another KC TPB, and we all know that’s how publishers make their money.
So, there you have it. The seed of KC: Sweet Nothing’s was planted essentially for Oni Press. And why not? Without Oni to bring the first two KC volumes to the masses, I would be nowhere.
Faced with a task I hadn't planned to endeavor, I began the brainstorming process. This is usually the first step I take when formulating a story. This is never a chore; in fact I'm more often than not in a constant state of creation. Every experience, every piece of art or media I consume, every bit of conversation I have or over hear in some way or another spark ideas and get wheels turning in my head. Similar to people who scrapbook and keep photo's and news paper clippings of various events in their lines, I apply that same mentality to the notes I take. I am never without some writing implement by my side in any occasion. A fear of nine is to have a brilliant stroke of an idea or thought, and be without a means to record it. My brain is like a Pentium chip, working a mile a minute and I Know unless I write everything down, a lot will fall through the cracks. Of course some will say you'll always be able to come up with new ideas, but I guess I don’t trust myself. So, I'm a pack rat of ideas.
After doing one-shots that focused on characters from KC series one, I decided to let the series two cast shine for a little. It only took minutes of sifting through my small library of ideas to find the right concept from which I could build the Sweet Nothings One shot.
ADC
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www.mydestroyer.com
All text (c) 2006 Arthur Dela Cruz
www.kissingchaos.com
posted by ADC at 8:29 AM
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