MS Paint Portfolio: Summer, 2004
Apparently when I got back to college after my semester/summer abroad, I created an old-school style “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” cartoon, and then completely forgot about it. This might be one of the main reasons I’ve never tried to get anything published; once a project is done to my satisfaction, it drops off my mental radar almost entirely. Going through old word document files is always a revelation. So many stories and song lyrics and weird little snippets, and all of them such a surprise! I’m terrible at getting letters in the mail—I write them and forget to send, and they’ll moulder on my dresser until long past the point of relevancy. As a kid I wrote thank-you notes for every Christmas or birthday gift I ever received, and I’d say 80% of them never got sent.
On that note, this blog has noticeably increased my output of at least certain types of projects. Up until I started this blog, there were three options: 1. start and finish a project and immediately forget it; 2. start but don’t finish a project and have it hang over me eternally, filling me with daily guilt and self-recrimination for years or even decades; or 3. don’t start a project at all. Making cartoons that at least a handful of people will read feels much less futile than making them just for my own occasional future moments of surprised amusement.
Aaaanyway, here’s the cartoon:
the original is here
