Feb 20

The day of posting an article!

It’s been a hot minute since I actually wrote something to post instead of just “grinding out” my Coven Cove comic pages (and I hope you’re all enjoying them, and will consider becoming paying subscribers!)

January was hard. Man, was it hard. Creatively dead—a wasteland, a frozen tundra of no ideas and no creativity. Post-holiday bills, little income. Bleak bleak bleak.

Then, hallelujah, came February; the weather broke and we had sun, the snow melted (it’s back but who cares, we’ve got sun!), and I’m back on the creative wagon.

Last year, I tried to do too much. I think I was working on five comics concurrently. Not only is that unfair to each script—to leap and jump from one to another—but it’s a financial disaster. What was I thinking? Was I going to run five Kickstarters side-by-side? Lordy, no.

So this year I’m mellowing out and concentrating on one book at a time. Once Coven Cove is finished posting, I’ll launch the Kickstarter for the print and .pdf versions to be available to all—and support the writer and artist that made it, naturally.

I’ve resolved to only appear at comic conventions I’m invited to. Monetarily at least, it simply isn’t cost-effective to travel to conventions where I have travel + food + hotel expenses; comics don’t make enough to recoup that expenditure.

I’m going to spend more time writing; it costs me nothing and builds my body of work, that I can eventually send to an artist to bring to life. Too, I finally broke the writer’s block I was having on my second novel, which is praiseworthy and feels like breaking through the ice to take a deep breath of fresh air after being submerged in a frozen lake the whole time.

2026 is looking up, and so am I, with expectations of forward momentum and great projects coming from me and Two Gargoyles Comics.

Cheers to that!

Michael