I have a problem: I am not strong and do not have any instinct for fighting. But I am willful and respond badly to all bullying (and sometimes perceived bullying). Because of this, I have gotten into a lot of fights. Less lately - therapy.
I was trying to figure this stuff out when I started this series - plus, I knew I had enough material to keep this theme going. In the end, I went with my life with religion as the long-term weekly project topic (That's Me in the Corner). Both benefited greatly from the therapy.
Getting Beat Up is 10 pages - click it to advance the pages. A couple of other fights follow below.
Getting Beat Up was written right after getting home from the incident. Writing it forced me to start thinking more pointedly about the fighting in my life - mostly verbal after a certain age - so I started to go back and tell the stories of my fights in order - at least the ones worth talking about.
The first was untitled, about this little prick in my first grade class named Matthew. Confused About How Things Work told of a 4th grade fight - the start of a few big fighting years. All the fight stories used computer text instead of hand; I've gone back and forth about a lot. In the end, Marjan likes the hand-drawn better, and several people have said that in general, hand lettering is warmer, and I'm seeing their point. I wonder about mixing them, as in Confused, with one sort for boxes and another for dialogue. But lately I'm doing it all by hand, just so I get better at it.
I will write more of these fights some day. There are tons.
