Christianity and Comics

I've been thinking a lot about the past 16 years that I've been in and around the comic book industry, and the Christian Comic Book niche industry in particular.  I've written for such companies as Kingdom Comics, Quest Comics, and done drawing work for both of them as well.  I've also worked for such secular companies as Main Enterprises, and done an outright ministry/tract comic for Street Church in Calgary, Alberta Canada.  Yet throughout the past 16 years I've seen many things come and go.  Many projects start and fail to finish.  Many cool comics fail due to whatever reason.

Including my own.

That's more the fault of myself than anything and anyone else.  I didn't have the artistic chops to finish until a couple years ago.  Now I'm over halfway finished with my first all creator owned issue for a mini-series that I'm working on called Legacy.

But this has opened my thoughts once again to exactly how to bring my personal faith into line with working on a comic book property that may sell.  If you put too much blatant Christianity in it, the only people that will read it are Christians.  Too little and the Christians won't touch it with a ten foot pole.  So who is my audience?  How do I reach them?

A couple questions I'm working on.......will post more later.

When a computer crashes.........

As some of you may know, thanks to my facebook page; I have recently undergone a complete computer crash.  While this happened about two weeks ago, I've been taking some time off to recharge before returning to work on Legacy and other projects that I am working on.

Part of the reason is this:  It was simply overwhelming at that exact time to redo all the work that I had done with digital inks and colors.  Since I'm self-publishing, and not on a deadline that's set in stone, I was able to take a couple weeks to recharge my creative energies and try out some new games that are on the market.  (Or an old game that's right up my alley:  Star Trek Online.)

Now that a couple of weeks have passed, I'm returning to work slowly.  Tonight I'm hoping to restart the digital inking process on the rescanned pencil pages of LEGACY and to get back on track with this series.  Also, I'm awaiting some word on another shorter project that I will be scripting for.

I'll write more soon.