About the author, comic origins

Adventures in space was inspired by, well, this might sound a bit silly, but it was inspired originally by the paint texture on the wall of my bedroom at my parent’s house. I told you it would sound silly. A small spot near the window looks remarkably like an alien talking to another alien. Since that time, I’ve always wanted (in the back of my head where I can’t realize it until later) to draw a comic about a few aliens or people or whatever in a spaceship doing you know, space stuff. I drew a few frames and realized that it was stupid and had no direction or real humor in it. So what did I do? I forgot about it and went on with my life, kind of just coasting and not really paying my future or my potential skills in anything any attention.

Fast forward 8 years…

Anyway, I got this job at an evil corporation in Texas, where I live nowadays. After about a year of this job, I realize that it makes me miserable. But its a job right? Got to grind away day after day on stuff I really don’t care about or like doing right? Yeah, no thanks. So, in recent months I’ve had a bit of downtime. A lot of midnight shifts where nothing really happens. I cherish these hours, because when fall is over, downtime kind of disappears and I don’t get to dick around at work anymore. But I’m going off track here. During the recent downtime, I got bored and read 10 books or so, spent countless hours playing around on the internet, and tried my hand at drawing again. Much to my surprise, despite my lack of practice, my drawing skills have greatly increased in the past 8 years since the time I tried to draw that comic. I must admit though, I have a ways to go before I can brag about them. A certain co-worker noticed these drawings that I did in my spare time and encouraged me to develop it and try to get out of the corporate world while I’m still young.

So, I’ve decided to take another stab at the comic. I’ve added a bit to it and developed some characters and story and so on. I’m doing this comic in particular because I enjoy working on it, and also it will give me a chance to learn the ways of drawing, painting and story telling like a pro. That said, if you don’t mind, if you see something that you think is crap, or just not that great, tell me. I want to improve my skills, and if something is crap and is on here, chances are I didn’t notice how much it resembles crap.

I’ll be updating every time I have day off from my day job, so updates are irregular, But I tend to pump out at least one a week. Enjoy!