Well folks, its been a crazy week. In what should have been
a week of me coming down from the high of having a nice vacation (one I was
sorely overdue), I returned home and hit the pavement face first with a nice
bout of depression. There was family drama, some old friend betrayals, various minor worries about finances and check delays.
And natch, everyone that owes me money either never responds to emails or
simply just disappears. Um, I got bills to pay here! Guess I better work on my
business practices.
On the positive side, those who listen to the IDIOTHEAD
MORNING SHOW’s latest episode will know I took the deep plunge and parted ways
with my day job. Thus I am now a full time stay at home dad and artist. So
there’s a whole wave of new and unique stresses and worries that come along
with that. I gotta make my work into money for my family. Before it was always
considered a bonus to what I did. Now I have to evaluate my “worth” and make it
stick. I am considering all options at this point. I am going to be reprinting
my long out of print comics (Anna Pocalypse and Pleasant Life). I will be
making up a new table set up for next year to capitalize on the prints and
print cards to keep that end of things rolling strong. And
commissions/freelance work will need to get evaluated as well. I had considered
doing a price increase and I think I will very soon. I have to revamp the
online store here a bit and update things.
So that’s all on
my mind. Luckily this week to help combat the stress and everything else, I
got to spend some time with the wife. Its been refreshing to reconnect and
enjoy our 10th year Wedding anniversary. Both our schedules have
been hectic the last month due to her new job and my various pressures. But
starting tonight I am getting back to work. I am working on new samples to send
out to various companies to look for freelance gigs. I gotta color and letter
some new Star Slam strips as well. Any day now too I should have my Star Wars
return AP cards for sale, as soon as I get them back from Topps. So that will
help finances too.
Lastly, this
week I have been putting together my big celebratory artbook collecting my best
pieces and never before seen stuff from the last 20 years of me doing this.
This should be available by Christmas, to celebrate twenty years of working in
comics. I got about 15 pages left to put together and then the cover. I will be
putting out a contest here on the site to help me name it, as well as ordering
info. I am hoping to have this completed by Sept/October time and have it up
for pre-order. Then have it shipping by November/December. We’ll see. But more
on that later. Just know that its being worked on. It will have a lot of
sketches, process stuff, pics of my favorite pages from all my comic work,
history, bio pics, inside info on all my projects I’ve ever done up to this
point and more. A real celebration of 20 years of hard work!
Anyway, things
are getting better. We’re on the mend and hopefully get back to where I should
have been after Wizard World, before everything slamming my emotions at once
derailed me.
Thanks for
checking back!
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