Catalist

Catalist Updates -> https://tapas.io/episode/790953

Notes <below>

I’ve been so so busy with life, Catalist has been updating twice a week for all August; so that’s good! And Act 3 is almost done.

I moved out of my apartment in Brooklyn to Manhattan in July after a room mate threatened me... no so fun. I decided to quit my corporate day job as a Design Director to work freelance so I can write more and return to living in Los Angeles. (I'm excited) I moved back to New York while writing Catalist in 2015; to work hard, fund my dreams and I ended up just burning out.

Working so hard to survive and make comics but every day it became harder in a lot of ways ultimately ending a relationship, causing gender break down, going to therapy, reconnecting with my self, small bouts of depression to a place of personal acceptance.

The life of a creator is always testing and we push on. Changes are made where they are needed; I'm finishing up on some writing next month and working on the post prologue Catalist. Still unnamed but will feature The Blackhearts, The Eye and yes Hal while introducing a new protagonist and group that will tie together all the short stories. I've decided to change the format and opt to go black and white to allow more story to be covered vs the animated full-colour gaminesque elements that the prologue featured.

Thank you for all your support over the years.

Catalist Update - I’ll be adding new concept work for the short story after Act.3 called “The Cloud” 

New Updates in May.

Both myself and JQ have had family issues, Sadly my grandmother passed away and JQ’s partner was in the hospital (but is healing now much love to both of them).

Updates will return to normal soon. However, I’ve posted the Full Soundtrack for Catalist Act 3 on sound cloud and it will be up for download shortly. The full soundtrack was produced by the amazing Body Blank (https://soundcloud.com/1812922)

Today I ran into the cutest dog. He was sitting on a bench in Madison Square Park, with a small shaved body with a large fluffy afro head. As I walked past my meet the dog's eyes I knew I needed a photo.

I paused thinking to pull out my phone and take a guilty photograph but felt like I should ask the owner. I asked, and the owner said he "I can't make it a block without people asking to take a photo. Go ahead"

I sat for a minute taking my one photo as the owner, a rather slim older well kept gay man told me of the breed. "You see he's Cuban, he a pure breed but they have three different hair types" he continued to tell me of silky hair versus the other hair of the breeds of the dog. I took in the knowledge watching the afro bounce as the dog briefly hoped off the bench to greet me and returned to his perch.

As I was getting ready to leave he said "I love your tattoo is it Japanese" I nodded a no, and greeted my reaction with a small sigh "I meet a "lesbian" girl last summer in the park, with a lovely apple blossom tattoo running down her arm."

He paused from talking to illustrate the tattoo by run his finger from the top of his arm down to his hand. I stood watched thinking to myself "I pretty sure he meant cherry" but I didn't say a word as he returned to his story "She got it in Tokyo, it was utterly fantastic. But after getting the tattoo, she went back later and added different breeds of finches on the branch" As he said this he pointed to different places on his arm as if to say one two three or more imaginary birds that he recalled from his memory of the arm.

"I loved it so much," He said with a tone of excitement "I just wanted to chop off her arm and take it home and keep it behind glass" He laughed once more "Oh that is just so John Waters!" I paused and lightly laughed in return motioning to leave, but my ears prevented me from taking a single step forward. "You'd need the the mustache to be like John Waters"

He raised his eyebrow slightly "Oh I don't need a mustache to be like John Water" Smiling back at me with a grin "Besides I'm more Divine darling."

Working on a larger update; And working on the next two major scenes for Act 3: The Heart.

Me and JQ want to play with colors for each major scene, so I did a quick color study of the all the colors used in the first 40 panels. So I can introduce new colors, I thought I'd share as it's fun, especially when animated.

Terror is the main ingredient in Terrorism. This "terror" may or may not be real, but the effects are.

It's is what keeps up at night, prevents us from leaving our beds, houses and living our lives.

The only way to counteract Terror is by living our lives and defying it. To be our best selves, to project positivity for us, our friends, families and the world. If we fear the world and fill it with our fears, we only strengthen the terror escalating everything.

When we submit to terror, we become victims, and sometimes we encourage these fears and victimization ensues.

I believe we can unite and become one against bigotry, hate for all individuals, regardless of gender, the color of skin, sexual preferences, and income.

I’m working on the future of Catalist and excited to share in the next few months. The project has always been an experiment and hopefully that ideology can grow and expand! Working with great artists, designers, programmers, and musicians.

Starting next release are going to post a work in progress of Act 3: The Heart in Greyscale and go back and work on the colors after and animations! It’s a new process, but I’d like to wrap up the story (like 20 more releases) Hopefully by April.

Update for [3-4] and [3-5], I’m going to try and update the Catalist website this week. I’m talking deep with JQ, Emily Rabbit and others about what to do after Act 3? We are thinking either to do a game post-prolog or maybe putting the project on hold or doing has been written as light novels. I love input I hope your day is swell.

Read Release at https://tapastic.com/series/Catalist Music by Blank Body https://soundcloud.com/1812922

!!! Update !!!

Catalist: The Heart [3-1] https://tapastic.com/episode/561583