Many Wonderful Places in Auburn

Among the many wonderful locations my wife and I visited in Auburn, New York, we had the opportunity to see the Seward House, The Tubman Home, The Cayuga Museum of History (which includes the Ted Case laboratory) and the Seymour Library (which although is not a museum-it's a great building and wonderful folks there). Each location deserves its own blog entry and I'll do that over the course of the next week.  But overall let me just say "wow".

Just going to these buildings is a treat visually. When you actually stand there in front of a structure with such significance, as an artist I feel compelled to capture it-first via photo, then I want to draw it. But more importantly, INSIDE the building, when taking the tours of the museums, listening to the stories and information from the directors of the tour, I was constantly amazed and in awe of the history. For these museums, Paul, Christine and Eileen are truly passionate and knowledgeable-they are clearly experts in their field of knowledge and we were priviledged to have them guide us in our understanding of Auburn history.

With each visit I came away with a very sobering thought:

I must do this right.

I resolve to make the Jurascals comic strip, which takes place in Auburn and celebrates Auburn, not just worthy of print, but worthy of Auburn. This has always been my intention but even more so now, I will redouble my efforts to get it right for you. For the art, I resolve to make May's work even better than April's (they are already drawn, I will ink it even better than I inked the April's work). But for June's I will solve the lettering issue (make it better-more consistent with the other comic strips on the page). However as I continue the story, I have one focus in mind: the reader of the Auburn Citizen who lives in and around Auburn- you deserve to have your story told in an exceptional fashion. You will get nothing short of exceptional.

In the first week, the reader has met two of the three main characters-Lina and Dinosaur. In the second week, they will discuss their plan for promoting the new nickname for the city and head home. In the third week, you'll meet the  third main character-the Dad and the end of the third week sets the stage for the story that begins in May.