Back on Track, Looking Back

While everyone bids farewell to a bittersweet decade, 2010 marks the end of a college career that began in 2000. Now I sit before my degree on the wall (Next to my High school Diploma and Middle School Diploma (!) pondering where the hell my next.

To think about how much has changed when I began only to compare to when I left.


The Sitting President

2000: Clinton

2010: Obama

My College

2000: Maryland Institute College of Art

2010: Western Maryland College McDaniel College

My Career Aspects

2000: Cartoonist along the lines of Jim Davis ("Garfield", "US Acres") and Gary Larson ("The Far Side")

2010: Screenwriter, Novelist, Cartoonist along the lines of Berkely Breathed, George Herriman, R. F. Outcault, Sergio Aragones, G.B. Trudeau, Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, Frank Cho....

Hmmm. Looking at that last point, I realize now that I had cartooning at my core. I did everything else: newspaper articles, TV writing, speech writing. The stubborn person I am, I had to make my voice known in every other medium before I realized that I did it best on a drawing board.