Well, All of next week’s strips/pages are done and up in the club section. This is like the second or third week I’ve been 5 days ahead. I’m proud of me! heh… Really, when I’m writing and drawing, I can’t wait to get it up in the club section to share with people and get instant feedback. It’s awesome. I got all five pages finished in 48 hours, and there ain’t no skimping either, it’s pretty deep and complex (i think) — I’ve been up until 3am the last two nights working my tail off.

Of course, there’s that other reason I’m busting my hump to get ahead… the San Diego thing. I’m hard at work on perfecting my pitch. I’m very confident in the idea, or I’d of never sent it in the first place. I have to admit, I’m a little nervous– not about pitching a comic idea– but it’s been…12 years since I left California. And I really haven’t traveled out into society proper very much, nor been on a plane to anywhere– and San Diego COmicon is HUGE. Giant. Then suddenly– I’m plucked from ol’ Fayette-Nam to go pitch my comic idea in front of movie stars, comic veterans and some serious wheelers and dealers in the entertainment industry. Weird. I guess I wouldn’t be human if I didn’t feel a little nervous. Just about the unknown. But to heck with it– it’s in the unknown that stuff happens, right? The ol’ “known” really is bland.

I went ahead and cut my fro. It was REALLY out of hand, and I do want to look somewhat presentable to the public, and not looking like some crazy mountain man– or my wife says with it fully out I looked like a dirty hobo. (we know I don’t like hobos by now, right?)

Anyway, I sort of feel like I wasn’t made to be doing “pitching” and such. I was made to be behind the drawing board, plotting, writing and drawing the actual stories. But that’s why I entered this thing– it would be amazing to win it, and be able to have a contract with a place that COULD represent my ideas. I’m not getting my hopes up or anything like that, I’m sure the competition will be sharp– but I am confident in the idea I have. It’s entertaining to just about everyone who’s heard anything about it or seen the samples, and that energizes me even more. I always ask myself what Jack Kirby would have done in my shoes right now? It’s probably one reason I’ve been up all hours of the night working away in a juggernautic fashion.

One week from now, we’ll know if I had any luck in getting in the top three. I’m gonna try my damndest– Having only seven days to plan the trip and perfect the pitch is a challenge, but c’mon now…. I’m D.J. Coffman, here!

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