100 Tiny Moments Book - Available for Pre-Order.

"There is imaginative and poetic potential in the small details of life that surround us, and very small details can encapsulate the most important things about life"

- Josie Long, in her introduction.

Almost a year after I began work on the 100 Tiny Moments project, and finally the comic is ready for print.  I have brought together all 100 strips from the project, with an introduction by comedian and '100 Days' project leader Josie Long. 

 I am selling 100 copies of the book: each one is hand numbered and comes with a different 100 Tiny Moments badge.  You can pre-order your copy now through paypal and I will pop your copy in the post when the book is released at the end of October.  Just order your copy from the 'Shop' section of my main blog: www.edwardmaross.blogspot.com

 

'100 Tiny Moments From My Past, Present and Future' - 116 pages, black and white. Available for pre-order now.  The book will also be available to buy from me in person at MCM London (29th - 31st October).

Day One Hundred and One: Final Thoughts.

So this has been the first day in 100 days where I haven't drawn anything, haven't opened myself up to other people and talked about my life in comic book form.  It's been an amazing process and I've met so many lovely people and seen so much great work with such depth and variety.  Although it would have been nice to continue this project for a while, I'm certain it would only have been a matter of time before I missed a day or ran out of good ideas, or started to repeat myself.  I'd rather it was short and sweet than over-long and increasingly tenuous and flawed.

Perhaps in ten years, I'll come back for another 100 Tiny Moments, from what will be an entirely different persective.  We'll have to wait and see how my past will be viewed, and how my current experiences will be reinterpreted.  And what will my hopes and fears for the future be?

I would like to thank Josie Long for leading us all through this project, and my friends and family for supporting me throughout the process.  And of course, thanks to Mary for her inspiration, for putting up with me for 100 days, and for pushing me to produce the best work I could.

Finally, if anyone is interested in keeping up with what I do next, including me publishing my 100 Tiny Moments as a comic, as well as other projects in the works, please give me an email at:
edward.m.a.ross[AT]btinternet.com
Or follow me on twitter.

One-Hundredth Tiny Moment.

 

Ninety-Ninth Tiny Moment.

 

I should hopefully be at Josie Long's Lost Treasures of the Black Heart tonight.  Hopefully see some folk there.

Ninety-Eighth Tiny Moment.

Ninety-Second Moment.

Eighty-Sixth Tiny Moment.

 

A continuation of yesterday's strip... kind of.  Only two weeks left to go!  I can't believe it. 

Eighty-Fifth Tiny Moment.

Seventy-Ninth Tiny Moment.

 

I'm fascinated by the idea that one day I might just be so out of the loop, so old fashioned that I won't really understand the world around me anymore.  Previous generations who didn't understand racial or sexual equality weren't bad people, just informed by their own upbringings and confused by new social mores.  I worry and I wonder what's going to confuse me and shock me when I'm older.  In what ways could the world change that would leave me a bigot? Or will I cope just fine: will I roll with the changes?

Seventy-Eighth Tiny Moment.

Sixty Seventh Tiny Moment.

Sixty-Fourth Tiny Moment.

Fifty-Eighth Tiny Moment

Sorry for the lateness of this one, but my internet went down last night.  Better late than never!

Forty-Third Tiny Moment

Sorry, a bit bleak today. Click on the image to see the full face melting glory!

Thirty-First Tiny Moment

Where will we all be in ten years?

Nineteeth Tiny Moment

Twelfth Tiny Moment

I'm fascinated by what I'll get to see in my lifetime, so long as I survive long enough. And how different will the lives of our children be to ours, just a generation apart, but separated by a chasm of progress. Either that, or things actually won't change that much, and I'll be sorely disappointed.

Still, no matter the march of progress for technology, I guess we'll all wind up the same way.

Seventh Tiny Moment

Third Tiny Moment

Not a single tiny moment so much as a series of increasingly panicked tiny moments over a number of years.