To whom it may concern:

My name is Corey Edward Phillips and I considered myself an artist for a long time. As far as I can remember I've dreamt of being known as an artist. I was addicted to showing off whatever new page I had in my sketchbook, I was proud of every scribble and dot on the page.

I have a small mountain of artwork, sketchbooks (big and small, lined and unlined, colored and uncolored) scraps I've scribbled on, different mediums, short comics, one panel comics, 5 page comics, a seeminly infinite supply of un-done "to do" lists... portraits of ex-girlfriends and even love-y dove-y pictures that would make auzephre cum in his pants if he saw them. I have so much that It's difficult for me to look through it all in one sitting.

I truly love my artwork and I always have. However, I have somehow lost sight of the most important thing about my art: It's only important to me. To everyone else, it's just scribbles. I can't honestly say that I think my artwork is important or valuable to the world in any way. I'm sure all artists feel like this; yet they continue to create artwork because they want to.

The honest truth I guess is that I am at a point in my life where I just don't know who I am or what I really want to be. I don't know where I belong and I don't know what I want out of my life. I am, for lack of a better fitting word; lost. I don't know if I will ever "find" myself or even if I do find myself, where I will find myself. get it?

This is my official announcement that I am giving up on my proffesional ambitions to be an artist. It was my dream for so long; but we do not live in a dreamland. It's time for me to wake up and focus my attention on something more realistic, valuable, practical even. Who knows, maybe I'm just plain better at something else. I'll never know until I give it everything I've got.

So I hope you all continue to create great art and keep your dreams alive for as long as you can. I wish you all the best in your ambitions and I'll leave you with a quote by a very smart dead man named Ralph Waldo Emerson:


"Make the most of yourself, for that is all that there is of you."