Some Updates
- Spring Tides and a digital edition of Yearly 2024 are both available to order from me now. I should have done this a while ago! I forgot!
- Spring Tides is also becoming available through Glacier Bay’s other distribution avenues – Kickstarter rewards are going out, it’s appearing in the shops that stock Glacier Bay, orderable from Glacier Bay themselves, etc.
- A few days ago I posted the process zines I made for both Spring Tides and Together & Apart.
- I contributed to the Comics Journal’s best comics of 2024. It was nice to be forced to squeeze out a paragraph of writing about some comics I’ve enjoyed.
- I joined bluesky, we’ll see if I end up using it regularly
Some Thoughts
One thought: I’m between projects right now and feeling to some extent a broader lack of direction. A desire for structure. A fantasy that often presents itself in these moments: what if someone with taste and patience and attention to detail simply told me what I should work on next, and also gave me feedback on work in progress, and also maybe published the work for me? Or at least they could do all the packaging and shipping.
Then I think maybe I should restart my newsletter or start a Substack or start a Patreon or simply post new work online every day or week or month.
Another thought: It feels like an essential question, and for me an unsolved one, to know when a problem in a comic is best solved by staying focused — which in my case often seems to involve some amount of messing around, filling time, occupying my brain while I wait for an idea to appear. Therefore in these periods I probably feel unproductive, unfocused, drawn to a new project.
Conversely the problem might be best solved by putting the story down and forgetting about it for six months. Why is it always easier for me to see the shortcomings in a work after it’s already published? How might I trick myself into seeing a work as published, when it’s not, so I can identify those shortcomings earlier?
What should I work on next?