Seeing the days leak away between updates is doing nothing to help my creeping SAD depression that’s sure to hit once October hits. Feel like it’s going to be a bad one this year, too.

• The days I’ve updated this blog lately have been days I’ve inked. That sucks that in nearly 20 days, I’ve only inked like 3 times. Sure, I spent 6+ hours at it today, and probably around that each other day. But so many days in-between off just KILLS my momentum. And it’s no damn wonder it’s been 5 long years working on this book. Argh.

But work I am, and little advances are still advances.

I’d better win an Eisner* for this.

And that’s that. Not much else to talk about. Listened to more Marc Maron podcasts today, drinking a lot of soda lately to stay awake and vaguely interested in continuing to work. Days like this remind me beyond a shadow of a doubt why I NEED to hire an inker for my next project. Sure, the final product is worth it in my eyes after spending so long working on it, but someone with more skill and more time can burn out images at least as good as the ones I am, if not infinitely more so. Lack of funds for that sort of partnership, and also having just about fully alienated myself from the entire comic industry at this point, proves that a challenging task. But someday, and for sure, it will happen.

*sell more than three copies.