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End of the Year; Not Well (2021)

Added 2021-12-20 18:35:21 +0000 UTC

Hello again. I guess I actually am not going to fly back to Oklahoma for Christmas. As C*vid gets worse, and mixed with high-traffic-holiday travel, I felt too unsafe to fly back. My family agreed, but it still weighs on me, and will continue to weigh on me in the coming new year. So, maybe you'll get some more of the Pinocchio finale before the year's over. Why not? I got nothing else to do now.

Regardless of that, I still wanted to make a post thanking you for subscribing and supporting me. I'm lucky I can make a living during all this. As much as I was ready to get back out in the comics world at the beginning of 2020, the knockback of a lockdown and such had little effect of my actual output. I still finished BACK. I started FOA. And kept on working. But as 2021 rolled up and felt like it was gonna be more of the same (save for getting to see my family again after vaccination), it dawned on me that I needed a new plan for the Next Thing.

Pinocchio being so close to done, I thought I could focus all my time into FOA. And I don't mind trying, but my brain doesn't work like that. I missed having the "anything can go" formula that Gunshow once was. Anything that I tried could be a hit or a miss. But after a while, Gunshow became less Anything, and more Certain Types of Things. A new mcRib comic, a new Eggnog strip, bring back Anime Club, This is Fine. Etc. It didn't have the same surprise for myself, which is why I ended it. Called the experiment over. But I miss having that freedom.

Going forward into 2022, I'd like to try to capture that again, but here on patreon. I'd like to try more meandering stories and one-offs that ONLY get posted here. In these NFT-days and Content-driven-years, it seems almost impossible to get anything new off the ground. But you're here for me and other creators on Patreon, so why not reward that more? Give people more of an incentive to get off the 3 sites we only ever use now (let's make it 4!). I'd like to make this place the same kind of dumping ground Gunshow once was and post half-baked ideas, one-off strips, and whatever else comes my way. I want to have fun again, which feels missing these days.

FOA will still be a flagship over on Comics Kingdom and it's archive site for anyone else, but if they want more of what I got, they gotta come on in. Maybe we can unlock a couple of strips here and there. Y'all can be the judge for that, we can have polls, etc. Kinda like what podcasts on here do, I want to attempt with comics. What I want to do is give you more of a reason to stick around and continue to support me. And maybe bring some other folk into the flock.

It's the one thing I've come up with that makes me excited to try again, especially in the coming new year. And once Pinocchio is wrapped up, I'll have plenty of time to make it happen. My heart may be heavy right now, but it's because of the love and hope I have for you, for my family, my friends and what I do. My art.

That sounds corny as shit, but who gives a fuck!!!!!

(post is public, cus i want everyone to know of my plans! I need to make a new patreon welcome video)