Thursday, August 28, 2008

The Situation Room

Slowly working my way through all these ideas and all these possible paths to take. The experiment of having several websites has been a mixed bag. Since none of them are very demanding I don’t feel stressed or anything, but I do feel like I’m not managing my time very well. And I am sad to say that certain ideas are just not blowing my skirt up these days.

Land of Hof is a total pet project. I knew that from the beginning. I have one issue posted, and a second issue partly finished. I don’t know when I’ll actually sit down and knock it out. But as I said, this is a pet project. No deadlines, no promises. My thought on this is that it will grow over time and I’ll be very proud of it along the way. No pressure.

Blood Red is a pin up site with no stated frequency of new posts. I have a lot of content on there so I’m not worried about it. As I do new artwork suitable to it, I’ll post it.

Random Order Creations is my main site. I’ve been online with this site since sometime around 2001, I think. But the Random Order imprint has been mine since I was publishing Anomalic in 1994. I treat it more like a hub site than anything.

Catgirl Mojo features Arzra of Aroora – a comic I’ve been stoked about for the past year. Updates are weekly or bi-weekly depending on what’s going on and how motivated I am. I don’t want to let it go more than 2 weeks without an update if I can help it. It’ll be a slowly developing comic and I’m totally fine with that.

Zoa Space Fantasy has been my biggest disappointment lately. I just can’t find the fire to work on it. I have several more pages scripted but I go weeks without even thinking about the comic. That tells me something important: it’s not high on my priority list. I hope to at least bring the story to a satisfying pause and then put it on the backburner for a while.

Even with all of that I have this gaping hole that needs to be filled with comics. I need a solid, regular, flagship comic I can get behind 100%. So that’s what I’m working on now. I have the concept down, based on some ideas I’ve been mulling for a year or so. But I’m playing it close to my chest. I don’t want to say much or show much until I have a more confident feeling. I hope to be able to move forward with this idea publicly by November, but if the fire isn’t there I won’t bring it out.

Fun fun and more fun! As long as I’m alive and drawing then all I can say is fuck it, bring me more.