How much is too much?
That’s a reasonable question for a website like this, which aims to collect one guy’s journalistic and creative work. When I started in January of this year, I assumed everything (more or less) would find its way here.
I don’t assume that anymore, and I also don’t think it’s a good idea.
Frankly, there’s just too much stuff. I’ve been archiving the pages I designed and editor for the Concord Monitor since 2005, and there are hundreds. No one would want to look at all of them. Well, I might, but I’d have to feel charitable.
That goes for cartoons as well. I drew thousands of pages of comics in middle school and high school. I saved them, but the task of putting them online is best reserved for my old age. Coffee and Main, which I draw for The Concord Insider, has racked up more than 100 installments on its own.
Thus, Clay Files includes a notable sampling. A condensation. These designs, these reviews, these stories, these cartoons — these are my best stuff. Some might have a flaw or two, but all show what I can do and who I am.
