Autumn 2014 – Spotty Updates due to Overwhelmed Schedule
Hey guys! My loyal readers!
Just here to give you a little info on what’s going on in the next 2 months.
Most importantly, Vol 5.0 is officially done, approved, and at the printers being made into real live books! WOOHOO! The completing of this book completely took over every single waking hour I had for the past week and a half and I am now trying desperately to catch up with everything else. I have LOADS of client work that hit me all at once and that’s the stuff that pays my bills so it’s getting priority.
On top of that I have 2 jam packed months ahead of me with plans including NYCC in October (more info on that soon) and I am going to be all over the place. I could make it easy on myself and just take 2 months off of Imy but I REALLY don’t want to do that. It would mean being VERY SAD for 2 months every time I visit my site! So I won’t. However, the updates WILL be spotty. As it is, I don’t even want that. I want to be able to hit every single update. But I can see it won’t happen. I have deadlines that I can’t ignore. I can’t say which days I’ll be able to update and which days I’ll have to skip. We’ll just all go with the flow together here. š
Everything will return to normal in the beginning of November and, in addition to that, I can start talking about possible plans for MCM in LONDON! But we’ll get to that when I can.
I hope my readers can understand the upcoming spotty schedule (that’s sort of already started this past week). Imy is a labor of love and I still love doing it as much as I have from the beginning (actually… even more now), but some times you remember you should probably be able to eat and put a roof over your head and that’s going to take away a little bit of focus from time to time. š
try running small arc reruns or something different if you donāt have a buffer. Readers have demonstrated on many comics weād rather have rough pencils than no comic at all, when thatās an option.
You donāt see syndicates or newspapers running blank when cartoonists are on vacation – and about the only person I can think of that never takes a break is Scott Adams (and maybe even S. Pastis) – and in the case of Dilbert, he has 25 years to rerun.
Iād rather read an old arc that Iāve likely forgotten enough about than see nothing. Once youāre moved from the ādailyā or ā2 times a weekā set of tabs that open, people just move on – like a death in the family.
Try a different strategy. Itās better than āsorryā¦ I canāt right now.ā Only a handful of people get into reading about your personal stuff (example – Questionable Content – explaining how he went nuts one night, stabbed himself in the arm (and heās a guitar player of merit & music major) during a drunken depression episodeā¦ then the wife leaving him, then some other idiocyā¦
I read the comic. When Scott Adams found himself a year or two ago, having to run, from open to close, one of his own restaurants (Staciās in San Fran), rather than be just an investor, he became the management fodder he writes about. But he kept drawing, and didnāt explain excuses, etc.
He might have written about it in the blog – not on the comics page, but I found out about it in Fortune Magazine.
Point being, it didnāt detract from the comic.
Write the comic, and use guest comics and reruns when life interrupts. Donāt make excuses. It doesnāt work for your CLIENTS, does it? It doesnāt do much for reader loyalty – for those who donāt invest themselves in you personally. There are always those who do, but you, busy as you are, know that the people who do, donāt have schedules like YOU, (or me for that matter).
I like the comic, and this is harsh advice to hand out, but itās worth far more than Iāve charged you for it.