This comic originally appeared in Kobold Quarterly #19.

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 2012 is starting out as a pretty successful year for me overall. For the first time since 2007, I’ve got a full-time job (though it’s a contractor position, so it’s got a relatively short shelf-life). In the meanwhile, I still have a good number of freelance assignments keeping me busy in the evenings and weekends. The bad news is, this leaves 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.

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 … but I HOPE that I can find the time to do them even more regularly. Heck, I might even be able to make it back to WEEKLY … but let’s not get ahead of ourselves, shall we?

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.

This comic originally appeared in Kobold Quarterly #18.

This comic was originally slated to appear in Kobold Quarterly #17, and may have ended up running on the KQ website … honestly, I’m not 100% sure.

This comic originally appeared in Kobold Quarterly #16.

I apologize, and I’m working on it. I hope to get started again in the next week or two, and to continue uninterrupted from that point on. But we’ll see what life has to say on those scores.

Anyway, I DID want to pop on and say that I’m going to be at Emerald City Comic Con this weekend, and I’m VERY excited about it! I went to the first four years of this show and LOVED it … then, during my time in SoCal, it seems to have ballooned into one of the major comic cons on the annual schedule … so I’m not even sure what to expect.

Sadly, I did not act quickly enough to get myself a booth or Artists Alley table at the show … but I DO plan to be there all weekend long. Anyone who’s interested in my schedule should watch my Twitter stream (@stannex) and maybe we can have an impromptu meet up.

This comic originally appeared in Kobold Quarterly #15.