I will not be able to update the comic today on account of I haven’t colored it and want to do it right.  Time management and I have been on the outs lately, and real life has entertained me far more than it usually does.  Hey, real life, thanks.  But I’ve got a job to do.

So I wanted to compensate by posting something on the blog today.  And I’ll start with a little inside baseball into why I do my comic in the format I do:  I decided to use the standard newspaper strip format because I originally intended to submit my comic to newspaper syndicates.  I did so only once, a few months back when my act was noticeably less together, and it was rejected.  So up until I introduced the stoner character I was still operating under the assumption I’d submit again when I thought my material was good enough.  But lately I’ve been less interested in that direction and am becoming more content on doing whatever I want with my comic here, on this site.

The 3-4 panel format has always terrified me because everyone knows you have to dump a joke in the last panel, and I always feel like I’m under a lot of pressure to work in a rigid format.  So I may change the format of this comic up a bit in the coming weeks.  I noticed that when I started the graphic novel I’m working on, my brain felt so free and unencumbered by structure.  Updates to follow.

Other than that, the song remains the same.  I hope you’ll forgive me my gaffe, and maybe you and I can take solace in the fact that the next comic represents a leap in progress.  I don’t know what happened but I’m becoming better at picturing things.  Legitimacy is within reach!