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Okay, where should I start? As I mentioned, this is something I did way back in the day. Obviously it is nothing more or less than a creation myth story that pokes fun a religion in a gentle way. Using the name ‘Gad’… one short letter of ‘god’, was intentional. I am not apologizing for the intent of the original story.
The original was laid out on 5 big pieces of paper. I scanned them and then sort of cleaned them up a little, and retyped the text, in order to post this story a long time ago. Evidently I was always a bad speller, because I noticed some obvious mistakes.
This was never meant to be a finished piece. You can still see the old, dirty paper around most of the images. I just cleaned them up enough to give you the idea of the story.
But Gadzookes, the adorable little wizard, is the perfect character for a children’s book… and that is what I am working on now. I removed all the religious overtones and gave him back his original, full name. I did some new watercolors to change the ending. But I am reusing all the pictures of Gadzookes that I did all those years ago.
My main goal is twofold; to have a second children’s book so that I can start sending letters to children’s book agents and publishers… on top of the sci-fi ones…. and also I am going to try to format this all by myself and send it to my self-publishing company.
If I can learn how to publish books on my own, I can stop relying on my older daughter to do it for me. (She isn’t sure I am smart enough to do this, just so you know, and neither am I)… HA!
Stay tuned later… or tomorrow… for some photos of the new artwork for the ending that I painted at my mom’s house. I might also post some of the cleaned-up, more-or-less finished pictures of my little wizard to get some feedback
See ya later.
Pouring My Art Out 
This IS magical, Art! 🙂 Very glad to see that you’re bringing the story and characters to life! ^_^
I am going to give it my best shot.
YES!! *high fives* ^_^
yay
i can’t poke at this post, reason being, you have created something i really enjoyed..
Doesn’t say much about your other posts, however it is not the post, i interested in. The creator, which catches my mind..
chris
I take that as a huge compliment… thanks,. buddy.
Oops! i think someone hacked my computer, i couldn’t have been that nice!
ha
lol
yup
That is fun Art. You’re plenty smart enough to do your own formatting.
we shall see…
I love the story of Gad. Too bad you can’t turn that into a marketable children’s book. Maybe atheists would buy it for their children, who knows? Anyway, if you can make a Gadzookes book to be just as clever, there will be people willing to buy it. In my unprofessional, unpublished opinion, at least.
It is going to be adorable… I mean, some religious people will still object to a wizard… but Santa Claus does magic… a bag that fits tons of toys, traveling the world in one night… fitting down chimneys, flying animals and a sleigh… so he must be a wizard too, right?
Yes, but he’s a Christian wizard. That makes a big difference for some.
a coopted one