My cartooning confidence has been at a real low so far this year – every day I see great comics on the web that make me wonder how I can justify posting my own comics online. I thought I was doing ok when I started drawing Beaver and Steve comics for the Thing, but when I saw the amazing amount of talent on display there it knocked me right back down. Gah, stupid self confidence! Does anyone else struggle with this or is it just me?
Anyway, in order to get the juices flowing, I’ve been knocking around a few ideas for other comics. Here’s a team ine up for a comic I have imaginatively titled ‘monsterland’ :
They are kind of a team of monster hunters for hire, living in a sort of half fantasy half contemporary sort of world. One of the team is an adventurer chef.
I think the team might be too big to write for though – there are 7 characters already (and that’s only if you don’t count the two that live inside other characters pockets/heads that you can’t see here). Might strip it down a bit and then inevitably discard the idea entirely.
I think if I was going to be completely honest I’d probably rather start a completely new comic than go back to Beaver and Steve – I think the challenge would be good for me, and I’m maybe ready for something with a bit of a grander scope. But I’m also secretly scared that it would be a complete failure and all the people who liked Beaver and Steve would laugh and say I told you so. My brain is pretty good at coming up with these sorts of self-destructive fantasies – I’ll have to keep feeding it biscuits and hope that it just lets me get on with things.