Total number of years I've been selling stuff on Zazzle: 8
Total earnings in those years: $30.20
In the several months that I've been an Amazon Associate I've generated a total revenue of $0.00.
Money from AdSense ads on this blog? Ha.
So far my earnings on Hub Pages have totaled $0.14.
I've done somewhat better with Heroic Portraits. With 4* customers - over the course of 5 years - I've generated a total income of $500.
However, that income is offset by the costs of server space and Domain Name registration. I don't think I'm in the negative numbers from that alone - I don't remember how much I've laid out for those expenses, but it's somewhat less than $500 - but if you factor in the cost of ink, paper, my large format printer, and my Wacom Cintiq, I'm seriously in the red.
*That's 4 paying customers. Total number of "customers" has actually been 7. Even a free Portrait promotion only got me 1 person willing to take me up on the offer.
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Friday, October 07, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Ashamed About Being Ashamed
Bit-by-bit, in the manner in which I seem to read things these days, I've been reading Supergods by Grant Morrison.
I'll be writing more about the book in a future post - or more likely, in a future Hub - but there's something in particular that I wanted to mention here.
In a section in which Morrison discusses the various portrayals - and portrayers - of Batman in TV and movies, he casually mentions that the most recent cinematic Dark Knight, Christian Bale, looks like a Neal Adams drawing come to life.
...
I've mentioned here in the past that when I look at real people I often see them as being representative of a particular comic book artist's style. For example, Keira Knightley is a total John Byrne.
The reason I mention it again is that when I read the aforementioned bit by Morrison, I thought, "Holy fuckballs - he's so right."
And then I thought, "Wait...how did I never notice that before?"
That was when the shame kicked in, because I should have noticed that. How could I have not noticed it? What is wrong with me? Do I have to turn in my Geek Card now? Do I have to get a Geek Card so that I can turn it in? Will I have to do that whole walk of shame thing where, dishonored, I'm stripped of the symbols of my former rank, and my asthmatic, overweight, and pimpled peers turn their backs on me as I wander off, alone and ashamed, into the wilderness, hated and forgotten by my people?
Branded! Scorned as the one who missed something so fucking obvious...
I'm only kind of joking, because, in all honesty, the "How did I miss that?" thought really has been eating away at me for days.
Days.
And then I thought about how ashamed I felt about the whole thing and, realizing how foolish and meaningless it ultimately is, I felt ashamed about being ashamed, instead of just blowing the whole thing off and realizing that I'd been silly.
And it didn't stop there - after mulling it over for days I tried finding ways to restore what honor I could, and observed, to no one, "Sure, granted, I missed the fact that he looks like a Neal Adams, but I have noted in the past that he also looks like an Alan Davis. Surely that must count for something. Right? Right?"
Right?
And of course the moral of the story is that this is why I don't have a girlfriend.
I'll be writing more about the book in a future post - or more likely, in a future Hub - but there's something in particular that I wanted to mention here.
In a section in which Morrison discusses the various portrayals - and portrayers - of Batman in TV and movies, he casually mentions that the most recent cinematic Dark Knight, Christian Bale, looks like a Neal Adams drawing come to life.
...
I've mentioned here in the past that when I look at real people I often see them as being representative of a particular comic book artist's style. For example, Keira Knightley is a total John Byrne.
The reason I mention it again is that when I read the aforementioned bit by Morrison, I thought, "Holy fuckballs - he's so right."
And then I thought, "Wait...how did I never notice that before?"
That was when the shame kicked in, because I should have noticed that. How could I have not noticed it? What is wrong with me? Do I have to turn in my Geek Card now? Do I have to get a Geek Card so that I can turn it in? Will I have to do that whole walk of shame thing where, dishonored, I'm stripped of the symbols of my former rank, and my asthmatic, overweight, and pimpled peers turn their backs on me as I wander off, alone and ashamed, into the wilderness, hated and forgotten by my people?
Branded! Scorned as the one who missed something so fucking obvious...
I'm only kind of joking, because, in all honesty, the "How did I miss that?" thought really has been eating away at me for days.
Days.
And then I thought about how ashamed I felt about the whole thing and, realizing how foolish and meaningless it ultimately is, I felt ashamed about being ashamed, instead of just blowing the whole thing off and realizing that I'd been silly.
And it didn't stop there - after mulling it over for days I tried finding ways to restore what honor I could, and observed, to no one, "Sure, granted, I missed the fact that he looks like a Neal Adams, but I have noted in the past that he also looks like an Alan Davis. Surely that must count for something. Right? Right?"
Right?
And of course the moral of the story is that this is why I don't have a girlfriend.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Because You'll TOTALLY Bother To Click, I'm Sure...
For what good it'll do me, here's a link to my Hub on Hub Pages.
I'll sit back and listen for the sound of everyone not clicking on the link...
I'll sit back and listen for the sound of everyone not clicking on the link...
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