Updates

Hey y’all!

Some updates for those that are interested.

Q-con was great! We both had fun and did well, and it was really good seeing everyone. My self esteem is really low after my injury, I hate looking at myself after not being able to workout for 2 years, and honestly it was nice seeing people who were happy to see me regardless of that. Also, lots of people were wanting to see what was new this year, which had us kicking ourselves for not having a new book or two, so we will have to rectify that for next year.

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So it will be back to regularly scheduled programming here, I’ll still finish up these Grey Otter posts, but also back to putting up Stray Bullet/Dinosaurs, and working towards the next books.

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Finally, I’ll be closing my tattoo shop. It’s been over a decade since it hasn’t been a struggle to keep the doors open, and business just hasn’t recovered since the pandemic. It’s become a money pit that I’ve been filling with credit, but my credit has run out and I’m out of options. It’s unreasonable to think business can turn around to the point that it would be worthwhile to keep it going, and I am tired of struggling at it. Once I announce my intention to close I expect a bump in business that will determine when I ultimately close, but honestly I would rather put that struggle into making comics and commissions work. I don’t make enough to get by doing that at the moment either, but it’s a much smaller gap to bridge without the expense of keeping a shop. Plus I am totally burnt out on tattooing and would rather look back at the end and not wish I had tried harder to get my comics finished!

It’s been a long time that I would rather be drawing comics and such, but have kept at tattooing because the potential of making enough to make ends meet or more is there, but it’s not meeting that potential and hasn’t for some time. Probably partly because of my not living the life/living for tattooing, like other tattoo artists do, and certainly partly because I have social anxiety that’s only gotten worse as I get older. It’s never been good (someday I will make a comic about it) but it’s always made this intimate line of work a very bad fit for me. So yeah, it’s probably going to be a good thing for me, but it’s still going to be a struggle, but one I would rather be doing.

Thanks for being my patrons, patrons!