My friends and fans (the few of you that there are) I must share with you a heart-warming success story.

My closest friend has just finished her first comic. Complete, detailed, beautiful and marvolously put-together. Her heart and soul has been poured into it and that ahs payed off.

She's my best friend and has been for 5 years (sort of 6) I have seen her grow and develop as an artist every step of the way. Believe it or not I'm the one who started her down this path, in a way.

I don't mean that as a way of taking credit....it's actually quite humbling. To think that this incredible girl started her comics because she saw ME drawing. LITTLE OLD ME! I can't do ANYTHING in comparison to her. Sure, I still love art and drawing and painting and I'm proud of the things I can turn out.....But if it really came down to it, she has so much more raw and genuine talent than I do. And she's all self-taught. I'm lucky, it's in my genes to be good at art. In her family, she's the only one.

And that makes her all the more fascinating to me.

Now the comic I spoke of at the beginning, is her pride and joy "Dragon Slayers" It all started out the summer after our 6th grade year. She showed it to me when she came back from Seattle. Originally, I hated it. We were young and innocent, yet this comic had swears up and down it! I wasn't comfortable with it and I just thought it was strange. (The truth though, is that I was mad that it was taking attention away from our old comics. The ones I loved.) I wasn't going to bother having a role in this one as co-writer. I was convinced that she would drop it cold in a couple of months, like she had with so many things.

But she didn't......She never gave up on it. It stayed around and eventually I came to love it just as much as she did. I started throwing in ideas here and there, giving her ideas for funny moments, and helping her when she got stuck.

We worked long and hard on it. Many many years went into her drawing it and me helping move it along as a story. But when we were almost done with the first season....SO close to the end.....SHE DECIDES TO START OVER! I was shocked and somewhat angered because I again started thinking it would never get done (except this time I WANTED it to be finished) But, in retrospect it really was the only thing to do and I pretty much knew it. The story was so sporadic that in all truth, it really only made sense to us...the people who had worked on it.

So she made a second draft and it quickly died. That wasn't so bad. I knew it would get done. Third time's the charm, eh?


Anyway, this journal entry has turned into something a little bit more like a blog...but that's ok. I just want her to see it and know how proud I am of her accomplishment. Let her and all of you know how happy I am to have been a part of this. She's incredible and you should all go see her work.

her screen name is BlizzardComics