Peter,
TL;DR - We all make mistakes. Des and JMH are inspirational we should be grateful to them.
The Speech To Text may make mistakes, but I certainly find it easier to read. We all make typos and sometimes rush an email that we should stop and re-read before hitting send (Scrapper!), so we can't claim perfection.
With drawing comics, people's interests change. I used to be very enthused to do fan art for a while - it is because of JMH that I started drawing the in first place; wanting to do fanart for Jim. For this inspiration I offer thanks, for without that interest, I would not have taken up air brushing (which I haven't done for a while, but still love) nor taken drawing classes and met some good friends (who I still see). My interests have been attracted elsewhere in recent years, so haven't really picked up a pencil. I'll probably go back to airbrushing, but at the moment my priorities and values are elsewhere.
It is a bit like the scenario of "when I was a kid I used to play..." you may not hate doing that activity, but you are no longer interested in it. I suspect this is the same for Des to some degree - she's not interested the anthro subject matter any more; she had bad experiences, negative associations and "grew out of it". I have Des to thank for her web site that led me to Skunkworks and JMH; without which the above things wouldn't have occurred.
People come into your life for a reason or a season. When that changes, the relationship may fade. The reasons have changed and Des has moved on, but I am still very grateful for what she has done. Look at what she did do with By The Tail - we got a lot more than if it had stayed as an idea in JMH's bottom drawer! So for this we should be grateful too. It seems nearly every great free comic strip seems to lose impetus and fade out. It is often a pity people don't "get to an end" and finish the story; some just randomly stop, others became patchy and then just cease, some should stop and the quality fails. Artists' interests go elsewhere and the comic stops; Two others that spring to mind are Nick Hardin's Jewel Vixens and Longtail's Apollo 9; both suffered "lack of interest" from the artists and just stopped.
Isn't it amazing how when you're working on the other side of the country, sitting alone in a hotel room, you suddenly feel the need to write some mega post?
Scrapper, Black Dragon, be grateful so the good things come.
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> From: "peter10_at_ns.sympatico.ca" <peter10_at_ns.sympatico.ca>
>I know exactly what you're talking about when you say fingers.
>There's been more than a few group members who have made negative comments about some of my spelling and grammar!
>I've been trying to use a voice to text program to remedy this problem. Although the software makes just as bad mistakes as my hands.
Received on Tue Nov 20 2012 - 00:52:10 CST