[“Breakfast”, which I sent out in the newsletter recently. You can buy the print here etc.]
“TREAT IT LIKE AN ADVENTURE. AN ADVENTURE WORTH SHARING.”
1. Now that Evil Plans is at the publisher’s and in production (Release date: February 17th), the newsletter and the art gallery chugging along nicely, I’m starting to think about my next adventure.
Some people live paycheck to paycheck. Some people live project to project. I prefer living “adventure to adventure”.
I reckon that if you can’t treat what you’re doing like an adventure, it’s not worth doing. You might as well be dead.
What’s my next adventure about? Haven’t quite decided yet. Something to do with Cube Grenades and the next book I plan to write. Plus the cartooning, of course.
It’ll all fit together somehow…
2. Here’s what I’ve always noticed about us humans: We all want the feeling of adventure. It’s just about the closest you can get to God while you’re still alive.
And often, we fail to heed the call. We’re too busy with IMPORTANT things. Cars to buy, bills to pay, people to schmooze and meetings to attend.
It’s not the American Dream if it kills you for stupid reasons. Sorry.
3. I wrote this little rant earlier today, while in a grumpy mood:
Fuck y’all.
You know who you are.
Your endless droning on about nothing, the endless tedium that is your career…
Well, it makes the CEO of your employer rich, but does little else.
Surrounding yourself with the overpriced, plastic baubles you learned about from TV, like anyone actually cares.
And you’re raising your kids the same way, raising them to be the same fine specimen of nowheresville. Lucky them.
You are boring. You are boredom. And that’s what you peddle.
Every day. To anyone who is desperate enough to listen.
An empty life, followed by an equally empty death.
Fuck y’all and good riddance.
My definition of “Mediocrity” is: A Triumvirate of small minds, smaller hearts and even smaller deeds. Usually with some lame-ass, entitlement power trip going on. One rarely has to look very hard to find it; it’s everywhere.
To have an adventure, is to reject that.
4. The Cube Grenade idea is all about making drawings about other people’s adventures.
That’s why I started the Cube Grenade giveaway competition. That’s why I hope you’ll nominate somebody. That’s why I hope you’ll go read some of the nominations.
It’s all about the adventure, People.
5. [TO BE CONTINUED…]
The New Republic
Len Schlesinger
Seth Godin
Brian Clark
Hugs, you brave soul!
Just a quck note. I ran into your stuff not that long ago through Mark McGuinness. Just wanted to let you know I’m a fan. Keep it up.
Harsh but truthful.
I love your latest rant hugh, a grand adventure it is! 3 and 4 yr olds know this, they wake up at around daylight every morning
& charge out into the day to throw themselves into the adventure of life. You know you’ve lost something when you’ve forgotten what that’s like:) Viva the kid within us all.
I am so glad to wake up to this post having given someone the boot last night for not being adventurous. Who was interrupting my adventure. No more.
I have been reading gapingvoid for months now. I have some serious favorites. Or maybe I’m just trying to learn how to make a living from drawing too.
I had an idea for a collaboration or a short animated clip for Jerry’s let your ass hang out post on the Monster. When I have time I will contact you. You may not even be interested. But it is a fun little piece.
Thanks for keeping the adventure front and center, and real.
Alex
ouch! So true. So true.
Hugh, I Love you.
Reminded me of Malvina Reynolds’ “Little Boxes”.
Cheers to this! Adventure Ho! Man this should be part of our education, a debugging of cultural traditions that lead to no where. And a plugging in of adventures and creative ambitions.