Eh? Eh? The first comic of the year is done and uploaded! I am continually trying to find time to do these. I MAY have something, but I don’t want to talk about it now. All Glory goes to God. Even though the “quality” isn’t the best, each comic IS my best effort. A sacrifice of time and energy. Ultimately for God, though, if I sacrificed for actual viewers and money (creation) I might be a little more successful in that regards. Who knows though? I think God would understand if He allows it. How long has it been, 21+ years of “art”/cartooning?
My first comic was in 2003. It was a strip, still a two word title. Don’t know why I like those, but that was the beginning. I did make comic strips even earlier still, it was a school assignment, I think like sixth or seventh grade, I’m leaning on sixth grade for this one. Based on the technology available. We, the students were tasked with creating our own newspaper, from the front page, to the last page. Writing made up articles and help wanted was the easy part for me. The part I loved the most was the comic pages. I did also the art (this was an individual exercise over a series of weeks) for the articles. This was an english assignment, so the art wasn’t important, just the final product of did you finish it or not. The content wasn’t important either. But, that comics page(s). I think (and I could be wrong) I did 2 whole newsprint pages of all original comics. It could be one, as historical memories aren’t reliable in court, but this isn’t court, and this is me remembering a past of the beforetimes. Before the internet times.
I remember quickly racing through the whole project and saving the comics for last. That is not to say I didn’t doodle, what kid hasn’t? But the doodles were not as good as the kids with natural talent. I was at a summit recently on art and story telling, and the advice was, if you are not drawing every day by age 20, then you shouldn’t be an artist. I agree with that statement, because while in school, you can find the time to doodle and take art classes, and build discipline.
Thank you all for your continued support over the years. I MAY have a project start to move again. More on THAT later. Have a wonderful day and may God Bless you All!
Well, I have a lot going on behind the scenes. None of it for Schwofield. I had some projects started, but those unfortunately got put on hold due to a lack of discipline, and me trying to get better at time management. I struggle to keep Christ as the focus of my life, and that pursuit is needed now more than ever for me. Politics aside, I am preparing for my own death. Not that I am going to die any time soon, but because I want to understand more of my (own) Faith. Will the Lord Jesus Christ allow me to write\draw\create content? Is that my purpose? Obviously not.
Am I Jealous of others who create? I used to be, but now, that my cup is full, I am doing other things, and am training towards a goal, which will use up more time, which should strangely enough free up more time, once this goal (God Willing) has been reached. I am trying to make up for a lack of commraderie with other men, and that includes the physical domain of strength. One of my many mistakes growing up was playing video games and indulging in other vices, rather than playing team sports and learning the lessons that humanity (men) need to learn. Video games and other vices, yes, are actually part of the spiritual terrorism that the people who rule in the shadows inflict upon the *free* people of the Western world (other nations have learned the benefit of destroying men and women in this same fashion; i.e. a demonic-focused form of slavery). It is incredibly difficult to get out, not impossible, but near impossible without Christ. Without a support group (a True Church), its very easy to lose focus and give up. When a fall occurs, one is supposed to pick up their Cross and keep marching up that hill. Fully focused on Christ. Who is Christ (Logos?) That is something I will not answer here, yet. I am not qualified enough.
I am just reflecting upon the lessons I am learning from my current exprience, in this time of sadness and spiritual slavery (to sin). Learning to deny the flesh the pleasures is very difficult, especially when one spent a life time doing so. Pride constantly assailing me personally, trying to get me to appease the flesh, that comfort is a good thing, causing me to forget that my life before was comfort, but at a terrible price: wasted time and a focus on the material world. I love the phrase Ecclesia, which means being called out of the World. It’s wonderful that there is a real place of sanctuary and healing, especially now the world seems doom to fall apart, and America and the West is supposed to fall apart by its own corruption. A tale as old as time. Perhaps those that rule from the shadow will live forever and enslave the animals (goyim in hebrew), telling us that their God(s) were more powerful, but when death comes for us all, we all go before the same Judge. Even the “Gods” understand who and what the Judge really is, they know they will not escape Judgement, but their focus was on on their own pleasures and powers and principalities. It was on deceiving the people. Every single demon and false God is the same in this respect. They know Christ is King, but they will not allow forgiveness, because then they lose their power and influence.
This is not of my own knowledge, this is only what I have experienced and read about by those who are closer to Christ than I will ever be. I submit myself to Christ Jesus, but I also stumble and fall, on a daily basis. I cannot give up because I made a decision to betroth myself to Christ through His Church. There are many things the media or the government or even the military will not allow and that is Salvation. They need to enslave others for power and money, that is their choice, they are an example of what happens when someone goes to War with Christ and His Church through their actions (fruits of their labor). There is only deception in them; they refuse any acts of Humility. We are still called to pray for them, because they might repent. Just as we pray for loved ones, the departed, and our own souls (most of all) to help us repent. I have no power over those who rule from the shadows, they are enslaved to their demons, much as at times I listen to my own demons. I must be an example of Christ. Not for others sake, but my own salvation, and because the True Church requires it. There is no such doctrine of once saved, always saved. Every breath that I am allowed to breathe, I must fill it with prayer and ask for forgivness, so that I may be allowed into the Kingdom and enter into the next life.
This life was doomed long before I was born, and there are many who are fighting the good fight. I am not them, all I can do is pray to make the world a better place, and prepare before that day of Dread Judgement.
Thank you.
Not my most prolific year, but still a year I got some comix done. I would like to get more done. I cannot and will not promise a schedule. BEHIND the scenes, I am establishing some patterns. Even at my advanced age, I still must grow and take on challenges. I am still woefully behind in my respects. My generation is like this.
Recent events and discussion in real life, has made me take another look at my “creative” side.
Self assessment of today’s strip: The characters are way too big. The text is also too big. I need to make smaller characters. Also, I need to create a lettering guide to keep the text uniform. I don’t know when that will be done, but I will try to work on it before I make the next one.
The “writing” is always something I need to try to improve upon. Since I don’t write things down or have that “this would make a great comic” mentality, whatever I come up with is what is there. All on the fly. I did say a prayer to help out. I want to improve my connection with God rather than connect with people, that is saved for my real life interactions.
I do like the background, I used an Archie comic for help with characters and background. I like the Archie style a lot. That reminds me, I need to renew my subscription.
Not sure when the next comic will be made, as per usual, but as long as I slowly get them out, that is all that matters. I don’t see how to monetize it, so all I can do is improve.
The game had some major improvements, but a brother who plays games didn’t see the ability to monetize it, which is why he was so hesitant to play it on game nights. I may try to work on another one. I don’t know the future of Retail!? But I will try to create another game or two at some point. Even if its just within our church it will be neat. We shall see, God Willing.
The movie script has also stalled due to time, and the fact its expensive to print large documents. Thanks to Government Spending\Inflation and Recession and bad leaders in America, the price to print a script at Office Depot is now about $60 per copy. I don’t like writing things online because of intellectual property theft. The AIs steal ideas without giving any credit and are then turned into weapons of censorship against the people who created those ideas. It’s not the AIs fault, but its the fault of those behind it, who turn everything and everyone into a weapon of war against freedom. Such is the role of the “Satan”. They cannot create anything on their own, but they destroy freedom so they can have control. I don’t know how long they can go to war against God (and Christ), but that is not really my concern. All it can do is make me go inward and purify my heart before my own government is forced to kill every single citizen it deems a threat because it cannot admit a single “mistake” and correct its behavior. I still pray for the members of the powers and principalities, but I also see them as a reminder of why its important to repent. A corrupt government destroys its own kingdom because it cannot Repent (Pride), the same true for the Self. If one does not Repent and accept fault, then destruction comes, hopefully its not too late. Although its never too late, as Christ will forgive all Sins, but GETTING to the real Christ (not the magical, feminized and\or impotent protestant\Hollywood) version is incredibly tough.
It’s been said that the hardest (and most beneficial) thing for (hu)man [humans are meant to become like God through Christ] is to purify one’s own heart. God’s Grace is another topic of which I am not qualified to speak on, all I can speak about is the need for my own purification, to help be an example of someone trying to pick up ones Cross and walk up that hill. Even after stumbling and falling down, one has to get up and keep moving. Confession exists to help relive the burden of sins when one falls, but Pride keeps one from Confessing properly. That is why it is important to have a Spiritual Father, especially in this modern age where “most” fathers are missing or atheist because the Government-Media apparatus has sought to destroy masculinity and fatherhood, so it can replace it with single mother households that rarely if ever have a good outcome unless one seeks Christ and finds a Spiritual Father for guidance.
The Sixth hour is upon us, I must go now.
Forgive me Brothers and Sisters in Christ. May God forive us all.
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.