hello, my friends! what a crazy world this is. i have a couple pancakes in the oven. if you know what i mean. perhaps you do not. that is okay. there will be some new comics. also i have a reinvigorated interest in telling my robot story somehow. more as that develops.
i have been making music, playing shows around san diego. some of my music is strange and goofy like this comic; some of it is sad and pretty. some of it does not fall into either of those narrow categories. the first record, entitled forgive me i am very drunk. can be found here. it is not indicative of the style or content of future recordings, but none of the things i do really represent much of what i do. the name of my musical project is the mighty sun. it is named after this comic.
i will probably be merging my projects pretty soon. not sure which url will be the one that redirects. my goal is to have one web site with comics, music, some videos, and a bunch of super awesome people like you who make me want to make things and put them on the internet.
email me by using the contact link above if you want a free download code for a sad song about time travel that otherwise won’t be released until much later this year. only other way to get it is to see me play live.
thank you to everyone who still visits this site or has subscribed. you will see a lot more of me in 2012 than you did in 2011, i reckon.
-jared
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rather personal addendum for readers who want to know about my life:
i always kind of felt like one needed to maintain an element of mystique when making art on the internet. like if you knew too much about the creator, it would lose some of its power. but fuck that. i am who i am. i wear my heart on my sleeve in my offline life, and i no longer feel inclined to act like someone else online. i hope that is okay with you. that is just the way it is now.
when i stopped writing the comic last year, i was in a strange place. i was in the middle of a divorce that had been looming for years. we weren’t in a horrible place or anything, just stagnant. we weren’t really in love anymore, but that is a terrible thing to have to admit to yourself. i was not feeling funny. i was not feeling light. i just wanted to roll up my sleeves and get to work. make myself awesome again.
that is not really what i did. i fucked around with some music. i smoked a lot of weed. i really had not been single since i was 17 years old. i felt like the basic outline of a person, not even a rough draft. but i set some deadlines. i finished my first record in 9 years. i recorded and produced a record for my good friend. i played a few really awesome shows.
and at some point, all my swirling doubts, all my jumbled beliefs and misguided notions, they all just assembled. all the parts of me came together like goddam voltron. i suddenly realized that the life i had always wanted to live, the ridiculous-musician-with-no-worries kind of life…was the life i was already living. it sounds kind of pathetic, but i never knew if anything i ever did was any good; it was always clouded by some terrible shroud of doubt in my head. but to suddenly have that shroud torn away, revealing the freedom and wonder of the universe once more… to be honest, it is humbling. it is magnificent.
long story short, i may not have the time to do as many comics as i was doing, or honestly to even adhere to a rigid schedule at all, but i find myself in a stage of my life i have never known: happiness. and with that happiness comes a lot of ideas and the eagerness to share those ideas. so bear with me as i tame my enthusiasm. 2012 is going to be the best year of my life, and i want very much to share it with you.
