It’s been three years since my father passed away. It hasn’t gotten easier, but he lives on in the pages of Secrets & Shadows and Someday. He always wanted to draw comics. In fact, he was a big Jack Kirby fan and fashioned his own style after Kirby’s. There were days when I felt like he wished he’d stuck with it and I’d hoped that one day, we could work on a comic book as a father and son team. Sadly, that did not come to fruition. However, I think he would think being a character in a comic book is just as cool.

It doesn’t get easier, but as long as I have memories and stories to remember him by, he isn’t really gone.

Later Days.

After I came home from Japan, my mother decided that she would do stand-up comedy. As a supportive mother, she has often shouted out my comic in the hopes that people would want to read it. Sadly, she doesn’t understand that when she says comics, people think Superman, Spider-Man, and other kid friendly books. Because of this I feel I should mention that my comics have some strong language. How strong? The first page has the s-word in it and there are a fair sprinkling of f-bombs . There’s also violence. A minimal amount, but it can get pretty graphic (people being choked with sand and stabbed).

Even my cleanest comic has at least one s-word in it.

So, I just wanted to make sure that I put up a disclaimer saying that if you don’t like your kids reading four-letter words and people getting stabbed, this probably isn’t the  book for them.

I’m just trying not to get angry e-mails.

Jon

(Please don’t send me angry e-mails. I can’t handle confrontation and will cry.)

Check it, fools.

Awesome stuff!