Some nice links today. First, I was interviewed on the GIGCAST. Big kudos to those guys for finally getting me on a nerdy headset setup to talk to them. I actually enjoyed that whole podcasting thing, maybe I’ll do something in the future. Anyways, we talk some Yirmumah and how Bob wants to box me, and we talk some Hero By Night and Comic Book Challenge… click the KING OF WEBCOMICS logo to go there:

A really nice sort of double write-up today on Newsarama’s “Indy Weekly” - First they praise the Hero By Night comic and then directly after they review Yirmumah #5 (Jesus vs Superman cover) — Here’s the full writeup.

So he says Yirmumah #5 was the “best of show”. That is amazing. And what is doubly amazing to me is how the hell I’m doing this? In one step I’m putting out a unique super hero book that’s getting great reviews and lots of buzz, and on the other side of the review I put out a comic that made this guy laugh page after page. It’s like I’m covering the full spectrum of entertainment there, thinking about that more, this past one year, I’ve covered the gamut of hardcore humor, emotional bio comics, action comics, etc and I’m, well, impressed with myself.

It’s hard not to have all this praise go to one’s head, but I’m really trying to stay grounded so it doesn’t effect my actual work any. I put Yirmumah on hiatus for that very reason, because I had a gut feeling I should be putting ALL my creative energy into Hero By Night, and I’m glad I did. I’ve never really taken the time to STOP and take a look at the work I’ve actually produced over the past year. It’s been sort of a “done, done, onto the next one” mentality with me here. That’s how the old timers worked after all. But even a slight glimpse out that window into the forest of work, has me in awe suddenly.

Here’s a weird thought. I joked a long time ago about having a split personality, that being Drew Price. I do believe, as many over thousands of years have believed, that we all have those dual personalities built into our minds. For years and years I would struggle along debating drawing “humor” in the comic strip side of cartooning wishing I was a daily comic strip artist in newspapers and achieving that goal, then pretty much failing at it and moving online . That would be the D.J. Coffman “nice guy” passion. That DJ wants to produce work that all ages can enjoy. Drew Price’s passion was always drawing straight up comic books and revolutionizing and saving the comic book industry. No nonsense, Drew Price is on a mission, focused like a juggernautic laserbeam– the weird thought is, what if both personalities were finally working together, taking shifts producing what they want. Finally coming to terms that they are one person. Strange huh? Think about yourself there for a second– can you identify your two halves?

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