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there has been a reason
So, my interview with the Aspen people was today. Well... it ended up not being so much of an interview as a nice chat. XD My mom drove me down there, and their building was really small and inconspicuous... like I'd thought it'd be. XD (It was kinda creepy.. their address is 1004, which is my birth month and birthday, and the last four digits of their phone number is 1987--my birth year. AHH??) Later, they explained that their exterior looked so boring and unassuming because at their last place on the Promenade, crazy fans kept on barging in and interrupting their work. ROFL. Also as I had thought. (They're actually right down the street from Hi-De-Ho's, which is... quite sad for oblivious fans. XD)
I met with three people--Mark, Vince, (yes, Vince), and... dammit. XD Can't remember the last guy's name, but they were all really nice, like Phil, (the guy who looked at my portfolio in the first place). Total geeks. ROFL. As if I expected any different? The office they were in looked like my room--papers and electronics strewn everywhere but strangely organized shelves. My mom came too, and she was actually really good with everything. Anyway... they asked me what kind of student I am, what kind of experience I have with computers and such... They were extremely pleased to hear that I work on a mac, since they mainly use macs there, apparently. >D I think they were mostly wowed by the breadth of my abilities than my actual technical skill: The fact that I pencil, ink, color, plot, write, Photoshop, and that I've been driven and motivated enough to try developing my skills in all of those areas. ...ROFL, did I just sound COCKY? Wtf is wrong with me?
Anyway, they actually seemed pretty sure they wanted to hire me before they even looked at my stuff, which they actually did at the very end. Rofl. Seems like they trust the first guy's judgment pretty securely. XD Anyway, seems they wanna pay me. Woo! Minimum wage, but I'd probably work over there for free anyway, so. XD They said I can probably start as early as Monday, and they're really close by, so I can take the bus from school after fifth and get over there around three and then work 'till six, when my dad can pick me up on his way home from work. (If I work Monday through Thursday, tentatively, that comes out to about 81 dollars a week. Not bad at all! :D) They were pretty honest that I'd be doing really mundane things--cleaning up rough drafts, fixing stuff, maybe doing some quasi-inking (?). In any case, they said it still required an artistic eye, and I'd still be working on a real life comic book page that would end up getting published and that wows me to no fucking end.
I'm sort of excited beyond being excited...? If that makes sense. I really hope I get a lot out of this, and that I'm able to pull my weight around there. XD They said that once I got used to it and if I ended up getting through more pages during my hours there, they could start paying me per page instead of per hour to increase my wages. They seemed really honest, and I hope I didn't misjudge them. (They reminded me of me more than anything else.) ROFL. We all joked around about how high school is so retarded and about how they all did more work while avoiding high school work than they've done anywhere else. On one of my pages, the forgotten-name dude, (who actually seemed the most like me), was like: "Now, you didn't do this in class, did you?" and I was like "Of course I did!" and then in the next page I was like "I did that one in math."
A life of endless geekiness seemed to pay off throughout the whole duration of the interview; as no-name guy was talking to my mom, my eyes wandered around and I saw a Spike and Vicious Ballad of Fallen Angels wallscroll that even my mom, (she's seen the whole series), thought was awesome when she saw it on her way out. XDDDD So, like, when Mark was going through my portfolio, he got to the two Bebop comic pages and was like OMG BEBOP and I was like OMG YES and he was like, THAT'S MY WALLSCROLL OVER THERE :D and I was like O RLY? ....It was sweet. XD Apparently, he's the one I'm gonna be working with mostly. ROCKIN'.
Just... wow. I know it's gonna be a hell of a lot of work, but it's also gonna be a hell of a lot of reward.
And a final message to Ms. Bouse, even though she won't ever read it:
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. <3
I met with three people--Mark, Vince, (yes, Vince), and... dammit. XD Can't remember the last guy's name, but they were all really nice, like Phil, (the guy who looked at my portfolio in the first place). Total geeks. ROFL. As if I expected any different? The office they were in looked like my room--papers and electronics strewn everywhere but strangely organized shelves. My mom came too, and she was actually really good with everything. Anyway... they asked me what kind of student I am, what kind of experience I have with computers and such... They were extremely pleased to hear that I work on a mac, since they mainly use macs there, apparently. >D I think they were mostly wowed by the breadth of my abilities than my actual technical skill: The fact that I pencil, ink, color, plot, write, Photoshop, and that I've been driven and motivated enough to try developing my skills in all of those areas. ...ROFL, did I just sound COCKY? Wtf is wrong with me?
Anyway, they actually seemed pretty sure they wanted to hire me before they even looked at my stuff, which they actually did at the very end. Rofl. Seems like they trust the first guy's judgment pretty securely. XD Anyway, seems they wanna pay me. Woo! Minimum wage, but I'd probably work over there for free anyway, so. XD They said I can probably start as early as Monday, and they're really close by, so I can take the bus from school after fifth and get over there around three and then work 'till six, when my dad can pick me up on his way home from work. (If I work Monday through Thursday, tentatively, that comes out to about 81 dollars a week. Not bad at all! :D) They were pretty honest that I'd be doing really mundane things--cleaning up rough drafts, fixing stuff, maybe doing some quasi-inking (?). In any case, they said it still required an artistic eye, and I'd still be working on a real life comic book page that would end up getting published and that wows me to no fucking end.
I'm sort of excited beyond being excited...? If that makes sense. I really hope I get a lot out of this, and that I'm able to pull my weight around there. XD They said that once I got used to it and if I ended up getting through more pages during my hours there, they could start paying me per page instead of per hour to increase my wages. They seemed really honest, and I hope I didn't misjudge them. (They reminded me of me more than anything else.) ROFL. We all joked around about how high school is so retarded and about how they all did more work while avoiding high school work than they've done anywhere else. On one of my pages, the forgotten-name dude, (who actually seemed the most like me), was like: "Now, you didn't do this in class, did you?" and I was like "Of course I did!" and then in the next page I was like "I did that one in math."
A life of endless geekiness seemed to pay off throughout the whole duration of the interview; as no-name guy was talking to my mom, my eyes wandered around and I saw a Spike and Vicious Ballad of Fallen Angels wallscroll that even my mom, (she's seen the whole series), thought was awesome when she saw it on her way out. XDDDD So, like, when Mark was going through my portfolio, he got to the two Bebop comic pages and was like OMG BEBOP and I was like OMG YES and he was like, THAT'S MY WALLSCROLL OVER THERE :D and I was like O RLY? ....It was sweet. XD Apparently, he's the one I'm gonna be working with mostly. ROCKIN'.
Just... wow. I know it's gonna be a hell of a lot of work, but it's also gonna be a hell of a lot of reward.
And a final message to Ms. Bouse, even though she won't ever read it:
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. <3
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