Being aimless is sometimes good...

Today, working is hard. Writing is not coming to me. Therefore, I'm blogging to give myself the feeling like I am doing something productive. That said, I have been writing a lot lately. But today, I have accomplished nothing. Wanna know why? Because I'm procrastinating by surfing the internet, shopping for my son's 5th birthday party, paying bills, checking facebook. But I guess I am allowed mindless time so that I can let my brain stew. Actually, yes, that's true! Just as I was driving, I saw a girl crossing the street and she was texting on her phone. And I thought, "where would we be without our fingers?" -> "middle fingers" -> "Kim's middle fingers"-> "an idea!" You see, being aimless is good. Okay, now I just need to get that idea into a funny comic strip... ah dang, c'mon work mojo, make me focused! (but the clock says 4:43 pm. It's so close to quitting time...)

Happy NEW Year!

I love the end of the year and the coming of the NEW year! It means it's time to take stock of what you've accomplished and assess where you want to be in the coming year. I am admittedly, an ambitious person. And well, having kids kinda side-tracked my ambition. BUT, they did not squash it. I want to get back to what I was doing before kids, and that means I was acting a lot and I was trying to get an animated show based on ALG on TV. I was really on a roll acting wise before I got pregnant. But alas, I wanted to have a family and I didn't want to regret not having kids. So I decided with my husband, that it was time. And I hardly worked in acting during the 5.5 years I was pregnant, nursing, sleep-deprived and then deciding it was time to have a second to do it all over again. Well now the second child is now almost 2, and I'm done having kids. (I can't handle more than 2, hats off to the moms and dads that have more.) Anyhow, I've now gone back to acting class. And it's like turning on the lights to a darkened room. And my ambition to get an animated show has been re-awakened. It's time ladies and gentlemen for me to make my resolutions, and these 2 things are part of them! I hope you too will rise to your challenges and make your goals come true. Happy New Year and may all your dreams come true in 2012!

Monday's comic

I drew this comic because I really did believe my mom thought I was a nobody. It's very sad but true. Her nagging made me think that. Now I'm more wiser and realize that's just her way, but it was hard to realize that back in the day...

Are you GRITTY?

I came across this article in the NY Times about how failure can be a catalyst to success.
And as I read it, I thought, yes, I do believe there is truth to this. I know from my experience, that failure (and I've had lots of them) builds you up to overcome. That is if you want to overcome the failure. Failure can make you work smarter. It makes you think about what didn't work, and what could work. I thought I was wired in a strange way. That I wouldn't take no for an answer. But I think being the youngest of 4 girls, being bossed around, and knowing the people in the position to tell me what to do were wrong, somehow resulted in me being a bit gritty. (I'm borrowing Duckworth's term here) And this article went on to say, that test scores do not predict success, but the character of one's grit does. There's even a quiz, the GRIT TEST, to show you where you land on the scale of grittiness. Take the quiz, it's kinda fun and insightful. And if you have kids, it gets you thinking about what kind of lessons we want to teach them.
(If you're interested, I scored 4.4 on the scale of 1-5 on my GRIT test.)

standby at the airport

This weekend I saw one of my oldest friends get married. I left the kids and hubby at home and traveled the distance to a mountain top resort in Utah. (What a beautiful state!) I have to say traveling alone was nice. I got to enjoy the wedding and catch up with old friends, which I wouldn't have been able to do if the kids came. (Last month my cousin got married and my 1.5 year old broke a water fountain sculpture. Not good!) And so at this wedding, I was able to drink and be merry and I got to sleep until 9am! Yes! But alas, I decided that waiting til 8:25pm for the flight home was too long a wait. So I got to the airport at 2pm, returned the rental car and asked to be on standby. I didn't get on, but since I am a city girl who brought only flip flops and heels for the mountains, the comforts of hanging out in an airport was quite nice-in flip flops and AC. Congratulations to my friends!

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Me and MATT GROENING @Comic Con!

Here I am, with my cartoonist hero and idol, MATT GROENING! If you can't tell by my big smile, I look up to him immensely and think he's so awesome.  I have met him before, about 12 years ago when I was first setting out to be a cartoonist... I ran into him on the FOX lot, but I felt like an amateur and was a complete nervous wreck. Well I guess 12 years have given me the industry know-how to be professional enough to not lose my cool this time.  And now, we are now with the same publisher, Abrams Comic Arts. Thankfully, the Abrams photographer was there to snap a picture, so now I have proof that I know him! I hope to emulate his career and am so amazed that he took the time to see me on Saturday at my "Fairy Tales for Angry Little Girls" book signing! 

San Diego Comic Con

Here is my schedule for the San Diego Comic Con 7/21-7/24. 

Thurs AA11 2:30-7pm (upstairs in Sails Pavillion)
Fri AA11 2:30-7pm (upstairs in Sails Pavillion)
Sat 11am at booth #1216 (on the main floor downstairs)
Sat AA11 2:30-7pm (upstairs in Sails Pavillion)
Sun AA26 10am-1:30pm (upstairs in Sails Pavillion)