eric Hews
"Persistently Misunderstood" a.k.a. "4.7 Ronin" an Across the Pond™ comic by eric Hews © 2014
So this bummer of a comic took me a week to produce. I was very wishy-washy with the color choices. Also, there were other things...
The frame of mind during which it was originally written has long-since passed. Hence, this means a whole chicken less to me NOW than it did, then.
Shorthand.... Friendship is serious. For me, anyway. I got this with age and with tragedy, some of it self-inflicted. Not all of it understood or tallied. Friendship is a form of love, to my mind... but it's also about respect and communication and the ability to take some criticism without imploding. It's about making each other better and tougher and stronger. It's about making ourselves laugh...
Anyone who knows me, knows i am fierce and full of salt. While I am fond of adding 'Small planet. Be nice." to emails and bios and whatnot, I am not believing that credo like i once did. The salt in me knows some people don't understand 'nice'.
Something happened to these people, as kids, probably. Something they were powerless to stop. A nice is gone. They feel lost to it or have stopped seeking it out.
As if they don't deserve it for the lacking.
I DO still try to give people the 'benefit of a doubt' for some level of social responsibility to our Village, such as it is, but I'm sure it is far fewer people who deserve it than I had once hoped.
...
All content of this and other 'eric Hews' or 'erichews.com' flickr albums, collections or 'streams', both visual and verbal, are the property of/and COPYRIGHT © 2014 eric Hews and should not be appearing without prior permission of the artist.
Do NOT display, print, merchandise, alter, or otherwise 'use' my work for your own nefarious purposes. My work HAS a nefarious purpose already. It's MINE.
• - •
Small planet.
Be nice.
© eric Hews 2014
"Persistently Misunderstood" a.k.a. "4.7 Ronin" an Across the Pond™ comic by eric Hews © 2014
So this bummer of a comic took me a week to produce. I was very wishy-washy with the color choices. Also, there were other things...
The frame of mind during which it was originally written has long-since passed. Hence, this means a whole chicken less to me NOW than it did, then.
Shorthand.... Friendship is serious. For me, anyway. I got this with age and with tragedy, some of it self-inflicted. Not all of it understood or tallied. Friendship is a form of love, to my mind... but it's also about respect and communication and the ability to take some criticism without imploding. It's about making each other better and tougher and stronger. It's about making ourselves laugh...
Anyone who knows me, knows i am fierce and full of salt. While I am fond of adding 'Small planet. Be nice." to emails and bios and whatnot, I am not believing that credo like i once did. The salt in me knows some people don't understand 'nice'.
Something happened to these people, as kids, probably. Something they were powerless to stop. A nice is gone. They feel lost to it or have stopped seeking it out.
As if they don't deserve it for the lacking.
I DO still try to give people the 'benefit of a doubt' for some level of social responsibility to our Village, such as it is, but I'm sure it is far fewer people who deserve it than I had once hoped.
...
All content of this and other 'eric Hews' or 'erichews.com' flickr albums, collections or 'streams', both visual and verbal, are the property of/and COPYRIGHT © 2014 eric Hews and should not be appearing without prior permission of the artist.
Do NOT display, print, merchandise, alter, or otherwise 'use' my work for your own nefarious purposes. My work HAS a nefarious purpose already. It's MINE.
• - •
Small planet.
Be nice.
© eric Hews 2014