THE NEXT ACT

When I was a boy I grew fond in drawing. Everywhere I went I got a pencil and paper. I was drawing at home and in school during break time. And I became good at it. Almost every time that I was with my paper and pencil doodling in the classroom some of my classmates were peeping over my shoulder to see what progress I made. I liked drawing old school superheroes like Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Tarzan, Korak – son of Tarzan (I never heard of him in decades). This has led me to my obsession to superhero comics. I saved up to buy them. And because of my fondness in comics, I made my own comics with superhero characters I created. One school holiday, my cousin connived with me to rent my comics to our other cousins. He would do marketing and I would keep on drawing comics. I made it a point that every comics was open ended so they would look forward for the next one. It was in the two series of my comics when my aunt found out that we were trying to con our other cousins and she got upse

Margaret’s husband, Walter, made it look like he was the painter behind her artworks. Her works became popular and his masquerade continued on earning money and recognition. Little did he know that the hideous setup created moral damage to Margaret that led to a crumbling marriage. The truth surfaced in the end and Margaret was salvaged from the ugly deception. I have twitted that Big Eyes is must-see movie but I never got around telling the reason why. Maybe because this is just me saying that this is one of those that makes me glad for the reason that it bring to surface what is right and what is wrong, I am glad that there is such a story that brings out what should be right. I think I have been in many places where people do not know credit grabbing is wrong. Or maybe some of them know but do not care. There are only two kinds of people in this case: one who is ignorant and one who is wicked.