I hope your holidays were great, but mannn, I’m happy to be past em! Bring on the new year. There’s a lot I want to accomplish and I’m certainly over spending money I don’t have! Anyhoo, while I was busy with IRL nonsense, I casually chipped away at comic stuff. I finished a page of Driving Nowhere, and I have a fun six-part (!) mini comic I’m excited to throw together.
While working on that I observed and was reminded of the bizarre (to me..) culture of the current generation. A term I like being labeled for this nonsense, brain rot, made me think initially about how there’s no way my generation would be this stupid… then I thought more deeply about our cringe and… yeah we weren’t any better.
Every generation has their own pop culture cringe they try to forget about… they’re no worse than us…
I’m back… again! The website got compromised and I had to start from scratch, so I took the opportunity to build it back better than it was. While it was really annoying to go through this, considering how things were basically duct taped together outta hope and desperation before, it ended up being a blessing in disguise as this forced me to start over with a clean slate. Annoyingly this nonsense kinda put me on a holding pattern for comics/posts, but luckily when this happened I was already nearly done with a few pages anyway…
ANYHOO I’m super excited to be at this point with the comic finally. I was also mindful about making them flexible to cut up for social media. On here I’ll have the original full pages though.
I’ve looked forward to this arc for a while as one of my personal interests is sim racing, and I’ve simply never seen a good representation of it in media/comics before. While Driving Nowhere is about a broader ‘slice of life’ view of various characters living with different circumstances, on a personal note Layne’s interest in motorsport and sim racing is something I love. Making it has been challenging, but I’m having a blast! Of course, the first attempt at this had to be centered around Formula Vee.
I’ve always been a fan of Formula Vee since I first tried a simulation of one out. It’s just a good simple race car platform and one I always go back to when I wanna learn a track or something. Racing those things is a joy and I knew when the time came to illustrate racing in Driving Nowhere, the first one I’d tackle is Formula Vee.
It was a pleasant surprise to learn that my affinity for the category extended to my family who ran an entry during the 60’s. These vintage shots from Willow Springs are amazing. I love em.
Lost everything. Site got compromised I guess and I had to reinstall wordpress. Was hoping my files would at least be saved, but yeah it’s all gone. I have the comics backed up and thankfully got those posts I was writing saved too. I’ll eventually get things sorted here… but yeah this sucks.
Stay tuned I guess. Might as well try and make the site better than it was since I gotta start from scratch anyway.
