Under 60 second MUSIC + COMIC on our collection of memories. It isn’t an autobiography at all. I can’t overstate that enough.
In 2001 I originally thought a book on my Oz Music Tech, Japan Music Tech then back to Oz journey as an autobiography might be interesting, but it didn’t take long via my website to discover that no one was interested.
Some 10 years later I wrote a Kindle book about making car cartoons and put it on Amazon and discovered I wouldn’t go that route again either. The volume needed before you ever saw a payout was far too high for a niche book that wasn’t getting any promotion. A few years later I did the Heavy Metal Garage car cartoon webcomic hosted on my own website, all free to read and discovered that was the direction for me.
Some 20 years later a short comic of just history and memories was something I felt like doing. I started it in a small apartment we rented after retiring/ downsizing in preparing to move back to Japan in 2019. I just hosted it on our website like I did the webcomic using the same basic php comic viewer. All free to read. That approach meant I didn’t need to write it all at once and can add and change it whenever I feel like it. It received enough views, but more importantly, positive comments, to keep going. Only a handful, but that was enough. A key feature is it is short. Only 40 pages!
The CBR format came later. Must say I have no idea if that format of My Collection Of Memories has been read by anyone the way I host it, but do know constant website accesses from China indicates it is being used to train their AIs.
Not something I am going to fuss about though, as a retired guy just doing music & comics for fun.
We can be found at ArtAndTechnology KYOTO JAPAN
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