Sabbatical

This is something I’ve been trying to avoid for at least a year, but I have to face facts. I do not care for the story I’ve created for this comic anymore.

One thing I’ve read many times is that people have a hard time letting go of ideas and that’s a really bad thing to hold onto, and I believe it now. I’ve tried so hard to make it work, but… I just don’t care!

I love the characters, and the world I’ve come up with, but the story just doesn’t interest me anymore. I know you long-running fans are probably crestfallen or at least annoyed to hear this, but I’m gonna take a break to re-think what I want to do with Jennis Gang.

Because all I’m doing now is dreading working on the comic, guilt-tripping myself for letting everyone down and getting even more depressed and therefore even less likely to work on anything.

I think this epiphany came from watching a documentary on comic artists, one thing this dude said really struck a chord with me. They make one comic a month. The average comic book industry standard is 21 pages, which is about 3/4 as long as I want to make.

If professionals who have honed their craft for years take this long to just INK… this means that to ink and color I’d probably take 2-3 months… but I’m taking closer to a damn year.

I dunno man.

I’m not having the excitement I should be making this comic. Like I’m not giving up…

I love drawing Jennis and AC interacting and stuff… I just… I think I need to work a little bit more until I can think of something.

You may have noticed that the comics are gone, that’s mainly because there’s a good chance everything I’ve established is gonna be trashed.

Like, you can still read the comic on dA and Inkbunny, but it won’t be canon…

I still want to thank all of y’all reading the comic and supporting me by buying the books and being patrons, like seeing spikes in views and reading comments really keep me going on days I’m so depressed I wonder why I can’t just die.

Like, y’all are great, and I hope I can get myself sorted.

So yeah, you can still keep up with comic development on Tumblr and Patreon. Though I guess just subscribe to the RSS or follow me wherever and one day there will be a new comic.