15 Dec.

Self-portrait

cartoons and comics have always been a huge part of who i am ever since the first time i started reading Doraemon in elementary school. i found myself totally engrossed with the world of comics, clipping newspaper comic strips daily and compiling my own collection of daily funnies in a scrap book before graduating to more pulpy stuff like the X-Men and their related titles (despite not understanding much of what goes on in them. i was nine, after all). my love for cartoons is also a given, having still enjoyed episodes of Spongebob Squarepants in high school (for its sheer absurdity) and in my college years, Teen Titans and Flapjack (for the general mindfuck-ness of it). quite recently i discovered Adventure Time, one cartoon that seriously unearthed my love for cartoons simply because it is awesome, childlike and adultlike at the same time. i watch these cartoons, and i think about how awesome it is to be the guys making such wonderful and ass kicking shows. they may be cartoons, but you will get a punch in the gut for its seriously whacked out adult humour - something i notice to be prevalent in modern day cartoons. the more i think about how these guys who make these cartoons and how they conjure all this craziness into cartoons, the more i believe that they have the best jobs in the world.

i now believe that being a cartoonist beats being anything else in the world. unless you're a spy or an astronaut. or a travel show host.