Miseducation and Miscellaneous Hold Up's

So I am sure at this point that (if anyone reads this blog at all) I'm sure your wondering, " Hey, where is your comic?" Well, let me tell you. At this point in time I am sure that Barely Alive in Cubicle 5: Issue #1 is cursed. I'm sure of it. After so much has happened to discourage me from making this comic. First a few pages went up missing and I had to re-draw them, then the pages I re-drew were almost ruined when my bf spilled wine in my purse, then I found the original drawings I had made that we way better. And with the printing of the cover, first it's been put off for months because of conflicting schedules and my own personal lack of knowledge on illustrator. Forgive me but I look at myself as a traditional artist. I like to draw with an actual pen to my paper, I like to sculpt and actually cut my own blocks when I print. I don't believe in the photoshop, illustrator mumbo jumbo. In fact if I could do an awesome screen print with as minimal computer usage as possible I'd be a happy camper. Anywho, after all the months of missing the printing, finally I go to get things done this weekend. And I am as happy as a button. But there are just a few small things that wind up being a lot bigger standing in my way. First, I had orginally selected Teal and Pink for my zine colors, and apparently so did Endless Canvas for their 3rd zine, who happens to be the group that I'm publishing barely alive with. SO I had to change colors which was annoying but not horrible. But next, my disc was the one that was magically lost in limbo, which meant my screen would not be burned because I had no vellum copy. SO, no biggie, get some copies right? Or even better I'll go get transparencies, and I'll print them on my computer and have them out in no time! Right? Wrong! Couldn't find a place that was open that had transparencies for computers at an affordable rate. I only needed 10 at the most, not 120. So we think HEY, we can just print out copies on my computer and take them to the copy store. Right! Wrong AGAIN! You know why? Because your printer doesn't work you fucking idiot. BUT IT'S OKAY! Because there is still hope! You can just email it to yourself and take a back up copy with you to the copy store and print everything out there, right? WRONG YET AGAIN! Because damn near all the copy stores are closed because it's SUNDAY, and one of the files that you need so desperately is corrupted on your email account as well as on your Flashdrive. So you get to go all the way home and drive all the way back to Berkeley from West Oakland, after putting everything on a disk. But it's okay, everything is cool right? NAW! Because even though you were just there literally 15 minutes ago, now they no longer have a working hub that can black and white copies on the computer. So now your lucky self gets to go to yet another Copy store, where we run into the same computer problems all over again. Except this time they have a MAC, so it ends up working out randomly.

As if the rest of the day hadn't been annoying or frustrating enough, we get to the final copy store no one hardly wants to help us, and the guy that we ask to print our transparencies tries to give us the shittiest one in the pack with holes and crinkles all up on it, and then looks at us crazy when we tell him that we need the copy to be darker with less streaks. Turns out, the guys the brother in law of the manager and complaining does nothing because there is no way he'll ever get fired for sitting on his ass and doing nothing.

*Sigh* I love this, but if you can't tell I'm starting to get discouraged.