*You can see clearly MT kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain on the planet while sipping a chai when travelling from siliguir to new Jalpaiguri. *LTT hatia express from rourkela to ranchi passing through virgin forests in odisha and jharkhand. * The historic meter gauge train line passing through Dudhwa national park, pilibhit tiger reserve and katerniaghat wildlife sanctuary. *Travelling through Madhya pradesh and vidharbha just after monsoon, the train passes through lush green tiger reserves and amazing waterfalls and tunnels. *Rajaji national park between Dehradun and Haridwar View of the dhauladhars and clear streams, forests and valleys. *The joginder nagar pathankot kangra valley hill railways. Some amazing places i have travelled in India in a train are Travelling just after the monsoon and spring is amazing. The sights, sounds and smells that you get when travelling to a place ovee 2500 km away over a 2 day day journey is amazing, especially in the non peak season. I will always prefer sleeper over anything else because i love travelling. Over the weekend of September 23-24th I flew up to San Jose to table at the Alternate Press Expo with my friend Yang, who is a fellow game developer/engineer and comic artist.You get what you pay for. She makes the shoujo manga Red Reminiscence which you can read on Webtoons. Read on to find out how I prepared for this convention and my thoughts on APE.ĪPE: This Mortal Coil Booth Alternate Press Expo: A Big Comittment I've never exhibited or sold my own art before, and this is the story of how I did that and how I almost didn't make my #1 best selling book of the weekend, that is my comic The Rabbit and the Moon. I spent the last two and half months preparing for the Alternate Press Expo. Yang and I talked about it as far back as March of this year. I might have hesitated at the idea when she introduced me to it, but in the end I said yes. What would my table look like? What else would I have to prepare that I didn't know about? Would I be mentally prepared for this?Įven though I agreed to it, I still harbored a strong sense of doubt. "Why am I even doing this?" I think a lot of my self-doubt comes from years of asking that question as I worked on This Mortal Coil. In the end I'm proud of my work, but it's a tempered, battered kind of pride. It's not a perfect story, not even close. I cringe at the awful dialogue (not all of it, but some of it). Some pages look terrible, but I think in almost every respect I improve as I go along. I fought off perfectionism and focused on shipping. I learned how to solve my production problems, cut content, and tighten things up as I made my comic. The work was hard (and fun), but it was the mental gymnastics I put myself through that was harder. When you get a few years into a project and you don't have a sense of validation good or bad about what you're doing, it becomes a hard sell, even to yourself as to why you should continue. You could be doing almost anything else, why this? Nobody asked for it. Somehow I always convinced myself to continue. I was always more drawn to the characters and their potential, the art style, and the story I was crafting. I argued this with myself nearly everyday and though I have the fruit of all that labor, what I remember is the doubt. I often forget that there is positive praise for This Mortal Coil from peers and friends. When I check my analytics I'm always glad to see someone come by and binge read the comic. Yes, it's not all terrible, but leading into July, my first thought was, "This Mortal Coil will never sell." I answer the few comments left behind as well. Social Media also fueled this lack of validation and a blow to my ego.
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