Wesley and the gang over at Indy Comic News are running a series of features showcasing indie creators, and who should the bottle happen to point to next but my dumb self…

ICN: What will be your focus for 2009 in regards to your projects, networking, and growing your career/business?

JA: I’d like to work on an OGN and have it published later this year. Nothing big, probably just a slightly oversized one-shot. It’d also be great to get a pitch picked up, so I’ll definitely be putting a real effort into that. Marvel or DC may be somewhere down the line, but I definitely need to strengthen some ties in that department and bang out a fresh set of samples apart from my indie stuff.

Yes, I behaved myself.  The rest of the interview can be read here.

Also, my friend Deanna over in Colorado recently sent me some love via the myspaceseses on the internets.

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She thinks I’m adorable.

Win.

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Order The Mask of Manolo here.

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A brief return to my ongoing thoughts about workspace:

As I mentioned in my last post, yesterday was a 100% writing day. I started with that blog entry when I woke up at about 9 AM and finished writing around 7 PM when Erin and I had to leave the house. While I was not butt in chair the entire 10 hours or anything, even most of my non-writing time was writing peripheral. I took a shower, which is where I often have my best ideas. I ran to Meltdown for some reference material. I took time to eat, since I’ve recently learned by experience how much diet can affect creativity. Throw in a few breaks to recharge the brain and there you have it. I even managed to keep my online surfing to necessary research and 90% of my e-mail was back and forth brainstorming with a co-writer. All in all, it worked out well. I was able to tick several projects off my list.

But I stalled out in the middle of the day, around 2 o’clock. It wasn’t that I was done writing, just that I was done writing at home. I needed a change of scenery. So I packed up my notebook and laptop and headed over the WGA library, which is about 11 blocks from where I live. The move worked and the most productive phase of my day started. The librabry closed at 5 PM, but after being there for a couple hours and building a head of steam I was so excited to finish what I was writing that I could work at home again and that momentum carried me to the end of the day. So sometimes I guess there can be an advantage to changing up the location of your workspace.

It’s also interesting that my best writing happened from 2 to 7 yesterday. I have observed for many years now that my best work often seems to happen between about 2 and 6, and yesterday seems to prove it out further. But for some reason I still rarely take this into account when planning writing sessions. Something to keep in mind for the future.

On a side note, a new site called Indy Comic News went live yesterday and have my Creator Services page listed as their first “Link of Interest”. If indy comics are your thing, go check them out. And if indy comics aren’t your thing, well…start reading indy comics. They’re where tomorrow’s stars of the medium are doing their work today.