There are many vehicles for storytelling. It was definitely a love of mine from the start, as was drawing. I tried to do storytelling with comic strips but it was at a time when comic strips were more one-off gags. I had a comic strip syndicate guy say ” Your stories are too big for comic strips. Have you tried animation?”.
I had an interest in animation at a young age, but it was rekindled. And it soon became my passion, my “vehicle” for storytelling. I was talked into doing it for television animation, but my real attraction was to independent film itself. I’m so grateful to have had the experiences I had with creating shows ( and living the Hollywood life) but I love being in Belgium now, continuing my passion of storytelling in film. Not sure who will see it, or if anyone will like it ( none of my business) but I enjoy every day that I do it.
When I was in Hawaii many years ago, I was chosen to have a tattoo of an ancient Hawaiian petroglyph of “Storyteller who speaks from Spirit”. That sounds spiritually pompous, but I resonate with it.
