My Medicated Cartoon Life is 1 Year Old!

Yep, my blog is one year old today. Kind of sad that I had to do my own birthday pic... not to worry, I got a cake from Astro Andy! Looks like the candle is burning my producer's crotch.

And he likes it.

It's been a long year. And a very short one. I don't think I thought I would blog as much when I began this thing. I didn't really know what I was doing with it actually. Initially, it was going to be just my own little private space where I could get stuff off my chest - stuff I couldn't say day to day. Mainly, that was because of my depression. It's something that it's generally not a good idea to mention, especially when the shows I've been working on have been so happy and are aimed at young children.

But then, sometimes people don't take into account that we're all adults, with our own crap to deal with. Even if we're making stuff for children. Who knows what kind of seedy stuff those Wiggles guys are into. Does it affect their wiggling? Not in the slightest. But some people might not like hearing about their debauchery.

So I chose to get stuff out here. Oddly, after the first few posts, which went along the lines of 'I have depression', I felt better. Had I quit the blog at that stage, it would have done its job. But stuff was happening in work and life and I just sort of kept going.

A lot happened over the year. I got my first comment (thanks Andy!). The iPhone was launched. I pissed some people off. I learned Flash and got a mention over at Cold Hard Flash as a result (thanks guys!). I got spammed. Workmen ruined my stuff (pack of wankers). Astro Andy got stranded. I got loads and loads and loads of rejection letters. That sucked. My dog (and best friend) died. That sucked more. I ranted about life, and society. And, almost every day, I wished I was somewhere else.

And I got a domain name - http://www.mymedicatedcartoonlife.com

The look of my crappy drawings changed a bit over the course of the year, not really for any intentional reasons. It just sort of evolved. I didn't actually set out to illustrate the posts initially but I did it for the first early ones and then, well, it's sort of hard to stop. It becomes habit. But I'm really glad I did - I actually enjoy doing the drawings for this blog, as crap as they are. They're quite honestly the first time I have drawn for pleasure in years.

Though, had I known I was going to keep drawing on the site, I would love to have actually used some sort of design. Put a bit of effort in or something. But I didn't and it just became what it is. Oh well.

I've had a lot of great visitors over the course of the year - Andy J. Latham (now of Traveller's Tales), the always polite Mr.Trombley, Toole, Mitch, Ron (of Collideascope Studio), Murray Bain (of Copernius Studio), the wonderfully talented Jeaux Janovsky, the (also talented) Bobby Pontillas, actually a whole bunch of talented people, like, em, Elliot Cowan (I suspect he's slightly twisted) and so many more I could just keep on dropping names. But then this post would get waaaaay longer than it should be. Suffice it to say, if you've dropped by, I really appreciate the company and I'm honoured to be visited by such an interesting and talented mix.

So one year on, here I am... still blogging. I hope those of you who have passed through have found something interesting. Who are all you guys? What brings you here?



Hopefully I'll still be here doing whatever it is I do in another year's time. If these chest pains don't kill me first. Or I decide to leave society and shack up on an island somewhere (in a shack, of course). But for now - happy blogday to me!