I've lost interest in writing, or rather, the way I used to write. The writing only happens in the midst of these comic strips...so there are hints of narrative, but I'm not super interested in developing them into something linear. I start to catch what I'm after as the strip unfolds, but I never know ahead of time. So I wonder, do they still contain something legible to other people or are they just personal scraps? My friend Jon told me it's ok not to be interested in narrative...which for me, a storyteller since early childhood, feels deeply uncomfortable. But it's almost physical, like the narrative mineral is draining out of my body as I enter menopause. My friend Tom thinks that as we get older, we start to see "the whole score" as Jack Kirby once said. And that the whole score includes abstractions that aren't usually allowed in standard narratives. And as I post these, my artist ego keeps going, "are they any good?" But Ed reminded me that we're not supposed to know that anyway. Which is a good reminder. Just keep doing it anyway. RIP Jules Pfeiffer, btw. A model for us all.
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