Sometimes you hear and idea and it just seems to stick. That happened this weekend.
A friend of mine had gone to the first ever adult cartooning workshop at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. The class was taught by Michael Jantze, the creator of THE NORM comic strip. What Mr. Jantze mentioned to the folks in that class was a simple phrase that seems to make perfect sense to me:
>DO
>HAVE
It’s so simple, but it can mean so much. Now this is my ‘telephoned’* version of its description, so it might not be right. But as I believe it to be:
BE-who you are, in my case an illustrator/cartoonist. You do not have to be doing it as a career, just BEing the person you are.
DO-Do the work, put in the time, make it happen.
HAVE-the results of the other two, sorta BE+DO=HAVE.
A good motto to live by indeed.
If you where at the class, or originally said it, and I have not explained it right, please don’t hesitate to comment.
* The kids game of Telephone has a group of folks sitting in a circle. One person starts by whispers a phrase to the person next to them, and then that person to the next person again. When you get all the way around the circle you see if everyone heard the same thing, or if it got muddled, as rumors do, by the time it finds its way back to the start.
