Before Coffee 12/1: December already!

Good morning! It’s been a busy Thanksgiving break here, even though we’ve done a lot of sitting around at the house, my kids are off of school until Wednesday, which sort of disrupts the workflow a bit, but I haven’t minded. It’s really rare for me to just sit down and relax. Usually my mind is racing a million miles an hour thinking about the things I need to get done and adjusting priorities. Or I just generally feel like i’m slacking. I did some of that this weekend, convincing myself I was “recharging” my batteries.

Hey… Go Steelers! It’s refreshing to totally demolish the New England Patriots for once. Steelers are in rare, HUNGRY form this year.

SHoot! It’s December already… JEEZ OH PETE… better make this quick…

Looks like my wife and I will definitely be headed to Denver December 30- January 2nd for the Flobots.org conference. Flight is booked and we’re stoked. Well, my wife is nervous, she’s never flown before, but I can’t wait to get her on a plane. I think once she sees how friggin easy it is she’ll want to go many places. This could be a blessing and a curse. – Over the weekend we also got the Flobots.org donation incentive page up (store) featuring items designed by me. Shirts, Bandanas, Posters… go get some!

Over the weekend I also sat down to actually WRITE comics. It’s not something I often do, but I have this crazy universe and plot points developing for the Flobots comic and I needed to get them in order. I can’t wait to talk more about it, I’m really excited and I aim to open up a bunch more of my priority time to get that cooking. It’s, in my opinion, way better than anything else I’ve ever done. It’s REALLY fun to write science fiction.

I think I’m just going to embrace the fact that I’m a one-man-army of comics creation and just do everything myself from now on. While having a “team” would make  things easier, it also complicates things. I always end up feeling like I’m on a roll, and someone else drops the ball and the whole machine I’ve built kinda collapses, and I’m left scrambling to pick up the pieces anyway. And that’s what happens when there’s too many people relying on other people, and publishers not paying, or weird communication problems, and ME who can’t afford to pay people — Plus, I’ve done a lot of thinking about this, and it’s probably just too much to ask anyone else to sacrifice of their time. The truth is, I’m probably just friggin crazy obsessed workaholic when it comes to making comics. You knew that already though, right?

This way, I have nobody to blame but myself if things don’t get done on time. If I can somehow clone myself though, I’d totally consider hiring myself to handle a bunch of things so I could just write and draw.

And with that, my mind is starting to race about the things I have to accomplish this week. It feels refreshing knowing that even with all I’ve been doing, I’m still doing less than I was earlier in the year, with less deadlines and I’ve made probably double the money I would have drawing comics, which really starts to put things in perspective for me here. If I actually opened myself up to more clients, things might be crazy in the bank account department— but I’ve worked really hard this year, so I’m happy with not killing myelf with too much work right now. Gotta get the New Year’s Eve posters ordered at the printers, update a couple websites, draw a few WILL DRAWS… yeah, there’s never a lack of something to do here.