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Anthony Scott Waters
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Hello, one and all!

Until I get my feud with PayPal worked through I'm switching to Dwolla. You'll find me there:

www.dwolla.com/

Sign up (it's free!) and you'll find me either using my biz email (wateryant at gmail dot coma) or on their business HUB as "ThinkTank Studios".

I've barely played with Dwolla a full day and I'm already liking it better than PayPal.

My apologies for the inconvenience. Thank you for bearing with me!
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Emerald City was a blast, recovering from it has taken a while, and it's time to bring to your attention the Next Big Thing that I am doing: a workshop, here in the lovely Sity of Seattle!

It's called "Making Weird Worlds Digitally". Two days of pure madness locked in a padded cell with me, Photoshop, a pile of reference and you, with your laptop and tablet. Hosted by the awesome Krab Jab Studios in lovely Georgetown, just south of downtown Seattle, it will be a weekend of artistic thrills and agony starting Saturday March 16th and ending Sunday March 17th. That's from 9am to 4pm each day, yo.

<www.krabjabstudio.com/#!worksh…>

I love to teach and I've made a successful career out of being weird, so come on down and pick my brain. I'll even trepan myself beforehand for ease of access!* It's going to be a hoot!








*Anthony Scott Waters makes no guarantee that eating his brainmeat will get you anything but Bombay Belly and Mud Butt.
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Down at the Emerald City!

I will be at the Emerald City Comic Con, starting tomorrow, cold and all. I promise to not breathe on anyone. Come by and say hello! I'm going to be sandwiched between Anson Maddocks on one side and Brian Snoddy on the other. Z-06 is the Table, up in the Gaming section. It's gonna be great!

Look for the giant haggard bearded Viking dude. That'll be me.



....Okay, first task on my roster, now that I'm back on DA: figure out how to paste graphics into my journals like all the cool kids do.
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Hello, 2013!

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It might be that some of you have wondered where the Ant went. I mean, for a while he was all over the place, then pouf! Come 2010 and he was gone. Again.

Something happened to me in 2010. Something huge.

January 15th came and suddenly I was 40 years and one day older than my dad had been when he died.

That threw a switch in me. I have pulled the plug on my professional career. Too blunt? Okay, I've put it on indefinite hold. I do teach on the side for the Laguna College of Art and Design with a wonderful gent named Bobby Hernandez. That gives me just enough to keep the engines running.

Why am I doing this?

2013 is the year I begin busting out my own stories. This January I completed a project called the Little Book of Pain. It's an eBook at present, available on iBooks; the Kindle versions will be uploaded as soon as they're ready. My first offering may seem like a strange way to start, all personal and soul-bearing and such, but I owe some of my healing to those who have dared to let me see their pain, and I want to repay that debt the best way I can. Kay Jamison, William Styron, Andrew Solomon, the anonymous voices in "A Music I No Longer Heard" by Leslie Simon and Jan Johnson: they showed me I wasn't alone. It's my hope the Little Book of Pain will have the same effect on someone else. I call it a "Shitstorm Inspirational". I started on this quest in 2010, the year I gained the distinction of being my own dad's elder, and it seemed appropriate that my first book should be about him, and me, and the Little Kid forever caught between us by his suicide in 1976.

There's much yet to be done for the LBP. I've got the Kindle versions to complete and the hard copy of the LBP to finish for the Kickstarter campaign. I don't think I will be done with this story for a very long time. It's taken me thirty years to realize I'm living the damn thing and I can do more than cope. I choose to thrive.


I've worked with others to help them tell their stories for more than 20 years. Now it's my turn. I'm off. I've got enough material to keep me occupied for the rest of my days. I aim to catch your curiosity and hold it tight. My next project is already building a head of steam. The prologue for my tale will appear as part of the Dead Anyway comic anthology. It will mark my first dip into the terror-filled world of comics.

It may not always be a smooth ride, mind you. But I promise you it won't be dull, either.



The Facebook Page for the Little Book of Pain:

www.facebook.com/TheLittleBook…

I post news relating to my book there, art and such, but I also share things I find inspirational. Videos, animation, links to resources for depression and other mental health issues. There's a lingering sense of shame in our culture around mental illness. We've got to break that down. Depression can be treated. There are people who care and places where you can get help. The LBP page is my soapbox for issues like these.


You can find the eBook here, on iTunes. I apologize to all those with Kindles! I will have the Kindle version up as soon as I am able.

itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-l…


Lastly, here's the Facebook Page for Dead Anyway, well worth checking out:

www.facebook.com/deadanywayboo…
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Sunshine.

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No, not the movie, and no, not the song, though I did have sunshine on my shoulder a few moments ago. I've entitled this journal entry "sunshine" as that exactly fits the mood I'm in. I've been quiet too long. It's time to make some noise.

More news at the end of the week. 'till then, my heroes and heroines, stay frosty. I've missed you.
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