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I guess Tumblr got rid of the title function for new posts. Weird.

Since my last entry, not much new stuff has been done. I’m spending the first 8 hours of the day running a machine for my day job and then going home to do some of my actual job. These are tough, exhausting times.

But… I can’t let that stop me. My energy is picking up because of the physical activity and better eating habits. In fact, most nights it’s hard for me to get to sleep.

I need to make better use of my evenings without burning myself out.

Haven’t touched the post production on the comic I mentioned the other day. I could, at the very least, be doing some of the lower power stuff like changing characters in word balloons. Hell, I open the fucking document almost every day.

Nothing new yet on the project with an artist. Do I start using codenames? That seems useful. I think might have told him that I was going to deliver a sketch. I need to double-check that. I’m ready to start cracking into scripts for it. I don’t want to get too far ahead of the artist, because I want us to build this together, and I have a tendency to hog the ball. Plus, this is a specific sub-genre that he’s wanted to work with for a long time.

I need to get the website to a place where it only requires minor updates, such as new product and blog posts. It’s very close to that point. This will fold well into the house ad that I need to put together for the comic I’m working post production on.

This year marks 10 years of Pulp 21 doing print comics. I’ve got a nice way to celebrate that, but I’ll go into that more later.

The aforementioned first 8 or so hours of my day are working a machine, like I said. It’s boring tedious work that’s got me thinking about all of this again with some fervor. I’ve brought in a little note book to jot stuff down. To keep the exercise of these thought processes nimble. Also, dodging social media or curbing that habit is helping a lot too.

More tomorrow. I’ve got a few ideas to test tonight.

It’s been awhile since I’ve been here. I lost focus a good long time back, and just recently - yes, The Plague has helped - have I been getting excited about ideas and comics work again.

This page was always intended for me to work out things privately. Nothing against socializing, but this is my place on the web to check myself, research, and possibly run through some ideas.

Currently, I have one comic in post production, and that’s almost complete. A few edits, designing an in-house ad, and adding a forthcoming pin-up is all that’s needed. I’m not quite sure if we’re going to attempt to print it right now for obvious reasons. And this line of thought is going to push us at Pulp 21 into some places we were already going quicker than originally planned.

A few months ago, I finally worked out the rest of the plot for my solo effort. It strated with a challenge from a friend that I failed at miserably, but it’s back on track now. I maybe have 10 more pages left to complete the first issue. There’s a fair amount of writing left for those pages, too.

Last week, I delivered some long overdue concept notes to a friend for a new project. I don’t think I sold it quite as well as it lives in my head to him, but we’re on the same page and things seem to be taking shape very quickly. I’ll need to keep on top of my shit to match his level of output.

This post is too vague and poorly conceived for my tastes, but it’s indicative of how long I’ve been out of the game and not properly thinking about comics. Whatever that means.

All of that’s fine. It just reminds me that I need to be working on this more often.

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King Feral is the name!

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Suicideforce demo various versions

Heeeeey, Tumblr. How’ve you been? I’ve been busy. Yes, this is me attempting, again, to return to some semblance of regular blogging to get my head right and back into making comics. And, believe it or not, a month ago Pulp 21 released four - FOUR! - new titles. The crew does me proud.

No different than before, there’s still so much to do, but it’s only going to happen one day at a time. I’ve taken the last month off since Comicpalooza - where we debuted the four new titles - to acclimate into a new role at my Day Job, and that seems to finally be plateauing and allowing me to return to focus on Pulp 21. We still have so much new and exciting stuff to put out there.

I’ll be thinking out loud about our next steps here in the coming weeks and looking at whatever progress happens. Lots of different directions to go in, but I need to simplify and focus. I have a tendency to make things a little more difficult than they probably need to be, which can quickly make this game a grind. I’m going to be retraining my thinking to default out of that mode.

Okay, that’s enough of this.

I had all of last week and some change off from my day job. I had plans to get a lot of stuff cleared up and ready for 2018. Instead, I was sick for most of that time and spent it in bed reading and watching wonderful crap on the TV. I wanted to feel guilty about not getting anything done, but I just couldn’t muster the will to really give a shit. 

Before sitting down to write this, it occurred to me that 2017 wasn’t an especially bad year, but it was unproductive for the most part. I only managed to draw 7 new comic pages that might never see the light of day, and Pulp 21 didn’t get any new material out. Lots of stuff was started but hasn’t quite been completed. Last year, I guess, worked well as a reset. Taking a year to do that is a lot of time out of a person’s life, sure, but here we are and all that can be done is to move forward. 

So, I’m writing this to kickstart my thinking. To get thoughts running through lists and clearing out old things that didn’t quite take off and, sort of, starting off as fresh as possible. There are plans for this year that started last year which are still going to be pursued, but hopefully without as much baggage. Sometimes you have to wipe the slate clean and put yourself in a different place. You try things and they don’t do the job. Time to see if we can get the work done a little differently. That’s all you really can do, and that’s very far from being a bad thing.