Happy new year, one and all! Progress is steaming ahead on the next Skybloom comic. In fact I’ve done nearly 100 pages, and we’re already at the last scene!
You know what it’s like at the beginning of the year; everyone’s forgotten what their jobs are and nobody does anything, so I’ve been busy riding the quiet waves and … you know … creating comics.
So check back, won’t you?
In the meantime, how are we all doing eh? Reflecting on 2024, I have personally had quite the thrill ride. I lost a couple of people close to me, gained a certain qualification that makes me very happy, had more sex than I did the previous few years (which were already fairly healthy, but yuh, 2024: srsly good year for doin’ it), got some pretty serious counseling (click for more about that; this was mid-series) that tore my tender little heart into new realms of consciousness and wonder that caught me a little by surprise, I hung out with people at more extreme ends of the political and poverty spectrum than ever before, I met national treasures like Mary Berry, and various world leaders [long story. True, though; I’m not really Liz Truss or Dave Cameron, but I do find myself in … interesting situations …], and I laughed probably harder and longer than I have done in quite a while.
Funny how love and suffering tend to correlate, isn’t it? How we can opt out of one only at the expense of the other. How we can push up and out from the comforting shell of our numbness only if we’re willing to suck some sword-sharp air for a bit, feel the pain of the transcendent environment, eh? Ah well, that seems to be the way of things.
Which is probably why we look for little comforts along the way. Boobies.
And probably why lots of people like my comics – talking of which, I’ve updated the Feedback page with a batch from lots of wonderful people – haven’t updated that list for years so it’s nice to see some of the lovely things people have said about these comics over the years. I haven’t even gone through all the feedback for this – it’s literally just cherry picked from a recent batch! Crazy right? Anyway thank you for the things you all say – what a delight you lot are.
… anyway, new comic out soonish, check back 🙂
I am glad you had a good year! Those little exclamation points we find along the way add up over time and may be one of the few things we can take with us as we venture beyond the illusion of mortality.
You stretch the energetic cord which is the core of humanity out througj space and time, gently pulling out the knots of emotional insecurity many have assumed to be normal and demonstrate a clearer, cleaner map of human experience and possibility.
That is the true essence of art!
Looking forward to the next installment of….. boobies!
Glow forth and create!
Thank you! I’d love to say I do it for very worthy reasons, but honestly it just helps me procrastinate from my job! I think I may have ADHD!
But yeah, it’s nice when our ‘art’ (whatever that is; taking photos, painting pebbles) gets under the skin of other people too – sort of helps connect us all I suppose 🙂
The last time I saw the lovely Mary Berry on TV she looked very frail and, sadly, old (I know). How was she? She seems like an utter delight.
Happy New Years to you too. I hope you have an even more sexy time filled year in ’25. Thank you for all of the lovely boobies, um I mean comics.
Yeah, she seemed pretty frail but looking … I don’t know … ebullient as always, I guess. Which is no mean feat for someone in their nineties. My experience of meeting famous people in the flesh is they tend to be absolute delights – but then I tend to avoid bellends no matter how famous they think they are, so it’s probably a self-fulfilling path.
Happy New Boobies to you too! I mean Year.
I know you’re busy with ‘Lithium’, and ‘Skybloom’, I was just wondering if you’ve made any progress on the ‘backyard’ concept? That one looks rather intriguing!
Aye it’s a nice little one, that. Having to replace the major characters and redo 50 pages was a pretty major drawback, but that’s done and it’s now sitting at a healthy 55 pages complete. No plans to complete that one at the moment, it’s shelved until I certainly Skybloom #2 and [probably] Lithium #14 are done.