D.J. Coffman - Sequential Artist, Thinker

A day in May. A May day.

May Day. May Day. Hmph… go figure.

I slept in today until 10am. I didn’t intend to do this, but found myself laying in bed “thinking” and planning– then before I knew it, 10am. ARG! — So I’ve been bustling around here all day playing catchup. Inked a page so far, which is unacceptable– but spent a lot of time on the phone today with business stuff…

I have a couple things going on I can’t really talk about, and at some point I have to do the dreaded “talk to a lawyer” thing or find someone I can trust to help me draft up a simple agreement so I don’t get screwed in upcoming endeavors. I don’t have or want to pay for johnny law shit right now though until my financial situation improves a bit—– it’s all a weird catch 22,– I know this is vague, but my financial situation can’t improve until either A. I’m paid on time or B. I work really hard on speculative things.

The thought has crossed my mind to open myself up to commissions online for you know, comic booky stuff, people who want Green Lantern fighting Hulk or something— , or even open myself up and say I’m available on the side for paying small jobs. So I guess I’m available even though I haven’t advertised this fact other than my blog. Call me! heh.

My main workload right now is working on Hero By Night, I’m ALMOST done inking issue 4, then i have a window to work on top secret project 1. But yeah… I gotta get MY ducks in a row here money wise as things are getting pretty stupid tight. It’s only temporary, but it sucks.

Related news… I guess Diamond canceled the Hero By Night power ring through that catalog. Not enough people ordered through comic shops (which I don’t blame them really) - BUT this may be a good thing for fans because my Alchemist is ready to go at forging said rings so I could sell them direct to hardcore readers online, direct from me. And it’ll be a tad cheaper as well– so that’ll be a win for Hero By Night fans…. It frustrates me a little bit though– I could have been probably selling the rings since late February. Oh well!— I think it’s become one of my goals again to just not even HAVE to use the direct market system. I keep thinking about McCloud’s book Reinventing Comics and his illustrations of cutting out the middlemen…. this is what I use to do with Yirmumah and it worked out pretty well….. Some day soon.

Now I’m on DAD duty here as my wife is out running around picking up bridal dresses or some crap with my sister-inlaw — so that means I get to go feed three kids… my oldest son says I cook better though, so NYAH-NYAH to the Mrs.!

By the way— here’s her new  tattoo she got based on the design I did for her. It turned out groovy… she’s so cute. She is the BOMB.