by diddledop on Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:19 am
Well, I finally got the book, "Applying the Rules on an As-Needed Basis." I am very pleased with it and I love the bonus story featuring Miriam & Sherry in "Hollow E'en." The art is wonderful. I am still so envious of your drawing ability and the power to capture the many nuances of human facial expression so well. RCM, you are a true maverick of the caricature portrait of the human mind and its superfluous foibles. I don't know; I don't think they teach this well or even attempt to in art classes (of which I've many taken).
I'd love to see the bonus story in color as well as all of the strips. I'd also love to see a graphic novel with all new content. It's a tall order, I know, because you have to make a living and cannot devote yourself full-time to your art. This is a problem for many creative people in the Universe. Talent oftentimes must take a backseat to the integral eccentricities of living, sometimes even disappearing completely. And then, maybe then, one rues that loss when old age convenes and renders its verdict of what you've done and not done, what you've imagined but only dreamt about. Art is the magical stuff of dreams and we live in an age when many people no longer believe in the possibilities. Too much useless war and too much repetitive political rhetoric seem to suffuse the world with an unforgiving angst which no philosopher nor talk show host can resolve or reduce in scope or gravity.
At any rate, I believe that for every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows. I also believe and often sing that "I believe I can fly." Yes, I can touch the sky. I believe that one morning I will awake only to discover that I am a human-sized cockroach with magnificent super powers and the ability to eat as much as I want without consequence. I will appear dapper and dandy to all. I will be loved universally. Bloggers, editorial boards, diverse web commentators and critics will exempt me from the blows and arrows of their outrageous misinformation. Yes, all this - will be mine.
Yes, this book, (again) "Applying the Rules on an As-Needed Basis," this book - will henceforth be my salvation, my rescue from a dire past and a monotonous present. It will deliver me from the snares and wiles of the guile who seek to render me mute and moot. Ahhh, I can feel it now - it is deliverance. I am now whole because of this book, yes, this book "Applying the Rules on an As-Need Basis."
Say it aloud one and all - transform Mother Earth - causeth Her to beareth Fruit again. Simply read this book. Yes - It is what the World Needs Now along with Love Sweet Love. Respectfully and humbly, YVT - diddledop.
Somewhere between Truth and Lies lies reality.