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I just finished up the artwork for the Bim Skala Bim covers album. Oy. I kept screwing things up and it took days longer than it should have. Shaky hand, fucked arm, anxiety, and a bad choice of paper and a revision that rejiggered the layout helped make a bit of a mess. I redrew some of the art several times, the old hitching kicked in and I just had problems working on the details. I need to work larger or lose details, or both. Anyway, I ended up drawing most of the images on separate pieces of paper, different thicknesses and types. Annoying. I can't find decent paper locally and need to make an art supply order but kept putting it off to work. So I'm working on obnoxious paper and sections of paper cut up from previous jobs. I miss the days when you bought a pad of plain old Bristol paper from an art supply store and it worked fine without problems. Everything seems shoddily-made these days. Modern pen nibs, ink, paper, brushes, electric erasers, shoddy and undependable. Just like me. Ha ha.

I scanned all the elements -- some of them twice because I somehow deleted or misplaced the scans. Wheee, I'm a perfeshinal artist. Sarah's going to assemble and color the Bim album. She's slowly starting to be able to do some stuff. But I asked her if she could do it since I don't see us ever doing another music job, especially one for Bim. Old times, nostalgia, creeping towards death, etc.

Next up I have a drawing for a WFMU swag item. I should have said "no" but I'm a softy. it's a quickie, although my quickies turn into longies. I can spend hours on sketching books.  

Then I have four pages of a comic to draw as fast as I can without stinking up the joint. I haven't done "comics" in ages, so I'm actually kind of excited. I also need the dough, so I am hoping for a burst of 90's energy to envelop me. Maybe I should take drugs. Ha ha. I have one box of Jell-O left, that's my speed.

I am still nosing commissions along. Oh, brother. Six left. I hate being this late, I also hate not being able to solicit new commissions. It's been a long time and I need to do some hustling but I'm so behind on things. Hopefully I can get everything done asap.

I need to see my doctor, I need to see my dentist. I'm no longer avoiding these things, but I keep forgetting or waking up too late to call. My dentist actually has weird hours. Oh, some of you who follow me on Instagram know that I goofed up my schedule (even worse than usual) last Monday because Winky may have eaten half an Ativan pill I lost track of. I saw her licking her chops where I could have easily dropped the pill and freaked out. So just to be sure I stayed up until 2 p.m. to monitor her. She was okay. I'm a mess! I had to cancel therapy. Looks like I picked the wrong week to miss therapy! I've been inside the house screwing up drawings and a script and packing up orders for over two weeks now. It's been kind of fucking depressing! More than "kind of". 

I haven't been to the post office, my apologies for anyone who is waiting on Instagram art or books. Apologies to fucking everyone, cripes. I'm going to fire myself from this company, feel free to talk to my manager (Winky the Pirate Cat). All the domestic Blackwood orders went out, the one overseas package is ready to go. All Instagram card drawings are out or in the mail except for an international envelope. I have a batch of the trade paperback orders sketched, signed and sealed with extras and ready for the next mail run. I'll have the rest ready asap. I'll be contacting customers when they go out, with their tracking numbers. 

When I get caught up on book orders I'll be putting together a sale of the hardcovers I have available. Mostly Beasts of Burden, volumes 2-4. I think there's a few Blackwood copies left. And the foreign editions of Beasts if anyone has any interest. Things gotta go. I might put some art on eBay. And sell some stuff I have to get rid of. Spinning plates, selling stuff, spinning plates...

I lost several e-mails last night, literally after telling someone about how I've lost my inbox several times. I found a batch of the MIA mail in the Trash, but I know I lost at least six old e-mails. Aargh. 

I'm listening to a lot of horror story readings while I screw up drawings and Winky walks across the art table, depositing cat hairs on everything which I discover while inking. Some links to some sites I enjoy, in case you're interested:

https://www.youtube.com/@HorrorBabble

http://pseudopod.org

https://www.youtube.com/@ClassicGhost

I think that's all for now. I'm going to go to bed and put on the sleep mask and see what happens. 

I should have made that Jell-O last night. 

More soon later. Thanks so much for still being here. I'm sorry I haven't posted in a week, I'll get back on top of things asap. At least here. 

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(How is it April 7th? Where did the last three months go?)