{"id":14465,"date":"2023-05-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2023\/05\/10\/passion-projects\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:57","slug":"passion-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2023\/05\/10\/passion-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"post__image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1861\/IMG_20230504_111810.jpg.webp\" alt=\"A photo of the comic strip I'm working on, surrounded by pencils and pens\" width=\"3504\" height=\"3504\"><\/figure>\n<p>I started a project this year with no plan at all: a hand-drawn comic strip.<\/p>\n<p>I work on it Saturday mornings when I go out for coffee. (I call these solo breakfast sessions my &#8220;Doodle &amp; Noodle Time&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>The strip is about a guy who&#8217;s hired to work as a janitor on Mars. Yes, I know, HBO has since released a program based on nearly this exact premise, &#8220;Fired on Mars&#8221;, but it&#8217;s snarky, ugly, and seems to hate its characters *and* science fiction, so I&#8217;m just pretending it&#8217;s not there.<\/p>\n<p>Working like this, with traditional media, is a constant tightwire act and a dog to scan and publish in any way, so what am I thinking?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I wasn&#8217;t thinking. I&#8217;m doing something I feel compelled to do, just for me. Maybe I&#8217;ll never share it. That would be okay.<\/p>\n<p>It also feels like going back to the source, to those endless childhood hours I spent drawing with my best friend, Karl in his basement. He had muscular dystrophy, so we drew cartoons instead of playing sports (psst, I didn&#8217;t want to play sports anyway!). He was way better than I was, but, as fate would have it, I&#8217;m the one who&#8217;s still around.<\/p>\n<p>Doing this project feels like being true to him, and to Little-Me, too.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of this year, I&#8217;m going to fill up this sketchbook with comics. (I&#8217;m over halfway already.)<\/p>\n<p>#workinprogresswednesday #passionprojects #comics #cartoons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started a project this year with no plan at all: a hand-drawn comic strip. I work on it Saturday mornings when I go out for coffee. (I call these solo breakfast sessions my &#8220;Doodle &amp; Noodle Time&#8221;.) The strip is about a guy who&#8217;s hired to work as a janitor on Mars. Yes, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}