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Journal Entry #17
14 March 2012
Greetings, earthlings!
More
than 2 months after the wedding, me and my wife were thrilled to
discover that she is pregnant with our first child. Since then, we had
lots of weird and funny experiences together and I enjoyed sharing them
with some of our closest friends. Along the way, I suddenly had this
wild idea of turning them into comic strips so we could share our tale
with more people.
With my wife’s motivations, I did just that. Writing and drawing My Wife Is Pregnant
is really a great learning experience for me. My wife is both my #1 fan
and #1 critic. That’s definitely a good thing for a first-timer like
me. With a little help from my friends (Teardrop Cordez and StephFaith
Bautista – yey!), I got to finish a few strips. Actually, my wife even
assisted me in inking a few panels because I am terribly bad at using
rulers hahaha! I then posted the comics on my Facebook and made a Tumblr
account for it just for fun.
Currently, I
already have 11 pages of thumbnails (plus a cover concept) on my
sketchbook. I’m hoping to work on them one step at a time. The goal is
to complete at least 20 finished pages (I have 3 – 17 more to go!) and
then eventually release them as a compiled comic book on one of the
upcoming conventions. I believe this year’s November Komikon (or Summer
Komikon 2013, at least) should be a good target. Besides, I think our
baby’s birth should be the book’s main highlight. I want that to happen
first and I want the experience captured on the strips as well.
Mark Rosario
Writer, Illustrator for My Wife Is Pregnant
