Blue Met

Above is a not too accurate drawing of Beatrice, a fellow artist with whom I took a "Master's Class in Comics" with the artist Kim Deitch at the recent Blue Metropolis Writer's Event in Montreal. It was neat to hear some of his stories, and see some of his methods, though I would have preferred some more technical content, and actual drawing of comics. Still, some of us sketched like mad, as is our wont.

If you click on the above drawing and go to flickr, you can find two more drawings done on Hyatt Motel notepad stationery.

Anyhow, I've been remiss with blogging, because of more deadlines, and dealing with directors and producers. This is the week before the big MIP television trade fair in Cannes, and a few of my show proposals are being sold around. Sounds glamourous, but I don't get to go. I'm a lowly writer, and an unproduced one at that, so far. But watch this space and see what happens, though I've been pretty secretive about my TV work to date.

Oh, the stories I could tell, if I was one of those anonymous blogging tattletales! But unfortunately, the business is such, these various projects could be totally wrecked if I put stuff about them on the internet.

What a clash of egos and image it seems to be. I'm lucky at the moment, because people seem to like my writing and ideas. I'm trying to make some more money out of them, but I don't feel particularly ambitious in television. It's a way to buy my time to paint my watercolours and feed my cats. Still, it's fun editing and creating, so one might as well take the opportunity.