Hi everyone. A lot of you have been asking if/when I’ll be coming back from my break, so I’ve decided to give y’all a long overdue update.
If you started following sometime during the last 8 months and have no idea who I am, you probably know me from one of these comics:
In a lot of ways forcing myself to make comics on a daily basis was super great. I got a lot of regular practice, it forced me to try out a lot of ideas (I think a lot my best work would not have come out had I not pushed through my less-good ideas), and the sense of accomplishment—my days adding up to something tangible—was truly gratifying. But in the long run the constant deadline became a crushing burden and sucked a lot of the joy from the process.
I do miss making comics. I’ve even made a handful of comics during my long break that I plan on sharing with you one day. But I recoil when I think of making cartooning an endlessly recurring obligation again.
I’ve put off this update for a very long time because I desperately wanted to say, “I’m back! And here’s some new comics! And everything’s back to normal!” But I can’t. And I need to give myself permission to move on.
Will I ever go back to posting regularly scheduled updates? Probably not.
Will I post a new comic sometimes when the mood strikes me? I hope so.
Thank you all so much for reading and enjoying my comics. It’s an end of sorts, but also a beginning.
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