2019: Goals, panels and Banana Man!
Happy New Year! I personally feel like boiled crap after a stressful couple weeks around the holidays, with too much work in the ER, all the stress of the season, and very little down time. But it’s a new year ...
To make a comic book, make a comic book
This one is about the nitty gritty of making comics. By the Time I Get to Dallas is largely written, and the whole story calls for 200 pages of art. I have an art team I paid to make an awesome sample minib...
The continuing story of a quack who’s gone to the dogs…*
...or the cats, actually. I'll explain. When we last left our midlife crisis-ing hero (me) it was 2013 and I was preparing for a one month sabbatical to start writing a graphic novel based on a dream I had abou...
Rock is wasted on the young
I'm digressing from comic books in favor of an equally frivolous mode of middle aged creativity: making noise. I’m late with the blog because I was too busy gearing up to play dumb rock music for drunk friends...
Writing down a dream leads to a lot more work
March 3, 2011
I woke up from a dream at 4 am. In the dream a guy who is sort of me is raking leaves on a suburban street, as are his neighbors all down the block. One by one the neighbors drop their rakes an...
Dream Projectors: Nelson Kim on balancing life, art and fake cocaine
In my first blog I asked about your dream projects, creative ideas big and small you might be nurturing in your scarce free time. As my own responsibilities grow with every year of this mid-life, I marvel when ...
Sabbatical, Ulysses, and the struggle for self actualization
Sabbatical. A mystical search for enlightenment. Donning a pith helmet, roughing it on the African savannah, logging your observations on meerkat copulation in a battered leather journal; blowing centuries of d...
Summer camp, death, and my first comic book
Not what I planned to write about this week!
Last weekend I picked up my son Ezra up from sleepaway camp at Camp Shohola, in Greeley, Pennsylvania. I went there myself from 1984 to 1988, and it was my first ...
Using midlife crisis for good!
THANK YOU!
First off let me thank you for signing on to hear updates from me about my graphic novel, By the Time I Get to Dallas. Many of you have already supported this project in ways large and small, and e...