Part of the reason I took the long weekend, besides it’s my birthday and I wanted the time free, was I wanted to try and get re-acquainted with my drawing table. But all weekend long so far I haven’t even been able to look at it.<\/p>\n
I can’t draw. But it wouldn’t be correct to say that I’m blocked. My head is full of ideas for cartoons and other artwork. I just don’t want to sit down to the drafting table and pull it out of me. I don’t want to go there. Inside. Where the drawing comes from. \n<\/p>\n
I ran away from it for almost fifteen years, from the mid-1980s to 2001, when I started posting my political cartoons here for the first time. What I found when I picked up pencil and pen again after so long was I’d lost a lot of it. It was a struggle to get it back. But then I got better. Better then I’d ever been. I’m starting to be afraid now that I’m headed for another dry period. And it’s not dry in the sense that I have nothing to put down on paper. I have lots to put down on paper. Tons. But…I don’t want to any more. It just seems so pointless now…<\/p>\n
I remember back in the 1980s…which were a terrible period of time in my life…first the interest in drawing and painting went away, then my interest in photography. Eventually all my creative interests just…stopped. That was the period I took up computer programming, which eventually led to a whole new career and lots more money then I’d ever dreamed of making. So you could argue that it was a net gain. But it wasn’t. It was deathly cold and horrible. That’s where I’m headed. Again. It looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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