Hey and howdy! It’s been far too long since I posted ANYTHING here … in particular, an explanation for the lack of updates. It would be easy to presume that 10′x10′ Toon was just another web comic that simply evaporated … but that’s not the case. Well … maybe it is … but I’m working on reconstituting it!
My first love is cartooning. If I had my druthers on any given day, I’d spend it writing and drawing comics. And I’ve had some moderate success doing it. However, the real-world challenges of bill paying and food gathering and shelter providing mean that I still have to give primary focus to my other pursuits–namely writing and game design. I love those too, but not as much as I do cartooning.
The good news is that so far 2011 has been a pretty successful year for the writing and game design side of things. LOTS of assignments, one right after the other. The bad news is, this has left me practically NO time for drawing of any kind, with the exception of a couple of brief commission assignments. As much as I love 10′x10′ Toon, it is something that still needs to be done during my free time … and there has been precious little of that so far this year.
The second half of the year SEEMS like it’s slowing down a bit. That’s a mixed blessing in that I DO still need the work for all those money-related reasons I talked about above … but if I have free time, I’ll be able to get back to doing these comics more regularly. Heck, I might even be able to make it back to WEEKLY … but let’s not get ahead of ourselves, shall we?
Luckily, because one of the assignments still regularly on my calendar is to do comics for Kobold Quarterly, I will have a new comic every few months. This week and next, I’m catching up on a couple of them that should have gone up a while ago. After that … well … I can’t promise you when the next time I’ll post here will be. But I HOPE it will be soon … and regularly.
Those of you who want to keep track of the happenings here can follow the comic at its Facebook and Twitter accounts … or you can follow me at mine and I’ll usually mention when there’s something new here.