59 - Oh hello
October 8, 2012
AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED I took a little hiatus from the comic. After Allan and I moved from that studio apartment, nothing got better; my time was eaten up by any and all jobs I could find (every single one took total advantage of my time and particular skills without offering what I needed in return. You know. A steady paycheck.) and then, in the end, our relationship took a turn for the worse. We parted ways, and while Allan stayed in San Jose to try and finish his degree, I came home to Seattle to live with my parents and try to pay off the thousands of dollars of debt I accumulated thanks to hospital visits, panic attacks and car repairs. Lucky me.
But I am very, very lucky to have parents like mine. They allowed me to make one giant mistake after another because they trusted me enough to figure it out in the end. Thinking about the agony my personal actions must have caused them almost causes MORE anxiety but, really, I’m so thankful and appreciative to have them in my life… even if it means working without a paycheck for my mom to cover all those times they bailed me out financially.
If you’d like to know about the past three years, I’d suggest just reading Allan, though there are tons of holes and (of course) bias to that that is completely different than how I’d tell it. I really just can’t sit down and draw it, it would take too much time and heartache to do so. I do have a couple pages that I started a few weeks ago, though, so if you happen to read these author’s notes you may get to see those next update.
Not going to promise a schedule because once I do that I’ll stop wanting to make comics. There are so many emotions I need to get out, though, and it just struck me that this really is the easiest way for me to do so and feel accomplished simultaneously. I hope this appeases you for the time being and thanks for leaving the comments over the past two years… they were all read and all very much appreciated.
Tschüs für jetzt. Not a German phrase. Totally just made that up.
Hope the road ahead is less bumpy.
Aw, I’m sorry to hear about you falling on tough times. Here’s a virtual hug, and I’ll be praying for you tonight. *hugz*
I’m glad to see you update again
And hope things improve for you.
Speaking from well on the other side of it—though there are plenty of bumps along the way, and plenty of bumps to come, life does get better. (I mean, when I compare what I worry about now with what I worried about then—well, never mind about that.)
So keep up hope, and don’t worry about comics writing.
Good to have you back. Hope you’re getting time to work on things.
Decent phrase.
Damn. I’ve been a long-time reader of Allan, and of this comic before it stopped for a while. That being said, I think it’s great you’re taking some steps to deal with this. I look forward to your work in the future, you’re a damn talented artist. I wish shit hadn’t hit proverbial fans, but you seem to be coping with it, if not well, at least admirably.
stay strong.
also, Tschüs für jetzt should have a second ’s’ in it, since you’re not useing an Esset character.
Is that a League Of Legends icon I spy?
Or even a third ‘s’.
’second’ characters tend to be defaulted onto the last occurrence of the character in the word you’re looking at. especially in german, where the “Ts” has a very distinct sound, and where adding a second ’s’ wouldn’t make any goddamn sense.
Hey there. I’m an occasional reader -really like your style though- and i have to say i was moved by your post. I live quite far away (France), but to see how the situation (or what we can see of it) have evolved… Well, i couldn’t stay still. Even if it doesn’t mean so much, said on the internet, i hope you can find courage in yourself to go on, to move on, whatever suits you best. I may be clumsy, my english isn’t always really accurate about how i want to say or feel things.
I don’t know if any of this can make you feel better, if you need anyone trying to make you feel beter. You don’t know me, i don’t know you, but… Please be alright. I see pain and despair everyday during my job, and it’s just not fair -in my opinion- that all of this shit happens to you. Still so much to enjoy.