Let me say that Zoo Street is one of my many hobbies. Someday I hope to make it to be a little more than that, yet I must recognize what it is.
As new projects and priorities enter my life, I must balance my schedules. I have become spread too thin for varying reasons forcing me to made some difficult decisions. I have reluctantly decided put Zoo Street on hold.
My to-do list has become backed-up with reoccurring assignments that I plan to check off relatively soon. Zoo Street will remain on hold until I can pummel these of actions items down to a single digit, preferably to a number below 3.
Zoo Street has been great. I love writing, illustrating and creating the whole fictitious world. And I am very pleased with how it has grown since I started it in college. When I return to it I plan to re-evaluate certain aspects of this whole process, so if there are any parts of Zoo Street that you love, hate or think could be better, let me now and I will consider your opinions when sit down at my metaphorical drafting table.
Kicking off the NFL season this year is the first-ever NFL parade for the NFC Championship rematch of the New Orleans Saints vs. the Minnesota Vikings. The NFL sponsors this party with New Orleans-style floats, rolling at 5pm, and a concert in Jackson Square with Dave Matthews Band and Taylor Swift performing.
With an estimated 85 percent of hotel rooms full through the weekend, this should be riotous. I expect downtown to be gridlocked and crazy.
Geaux Saints
Game time: 7:30pm/CST
Krewe of NFL Parade Route
NFL Stage - Jackson Square, New Orleans
NFL Stage - Jackson Square, New Orleans
Yesterday, Tuesday, August 23, Lion announced that he purchased the URL morecandythanyou.com, to boast about his candy supply. Thank you to those of you that were curious to see if the URL was real and visited. I hope you were not disappointed or confused, as I would be, when the site redirected you back to the Zoo Street home page. I am bit behind on production. I moved about a month ago and I was out of town last weekend. I updated the site last night and plan to add more goodies in the coming weeks.
The world watches soccer/football every four years in a tournament to be named best team/country in the world. I have my money on Costa Rica. What’s that? The U.S. beat them in the qualifying rounds. Oh well.
Friday, the World Cup started. Everyone set your TVs to stun. The games are on. It’s going to be good.
Cheers,
Starting next Monday, June 7, I will change the writing format of Zoo Street. The comics will be written in a 3-act story structure, or my best attempt at one. All stories will start with a stylized title page, then continue to a story of no more than approximately 24 comics and wrap up with a return message and a fake commercial.
The comics you know and love will remain in a 3-panel gag style comic, but the story arcs will be plot driven. No more dragging things out and seemingly never-ending sagas that take a year to conclude, that got out of hand. The new format provides good quick punches.
It’s better this way. Trust me. This is how the pros do it.
Cheers,
