[dc]G[/dc]et behind me, Satan. I mean, 2013. Yes. Sorry. Another year gone, never to return (unless I get my time-machine banjo idea working. Look for the Kickstarter/IndieGo/GoFundMe soon).
Uh. Maybe next year. Image via Amazon.
Our Wedding Year
What a year though. The stress and pain joy of planning a wedding. The credit destroying magical Disney World honeymoon. And yes, fights over which cabinet to store the wedding dishes and why do we need any more for the love of building our home together.
Ice Stormpocalpse 2013
2013 ended on a crazy note here in Lansing, and most of mid-Michigan, what with the Crazy Ice Stormpocalypse. Here’s a couple of photos I shot of the aftermath.
Ice, ice. Baby? Lens: Canon 50mm 1.8.
I mean, DANG. Grass, frozen like Han Solo in carbonite. Crazy.
Buy a print of this photo (without a watermark). Lens: Canon 50mm 1.8.
Here’s a fancy photo of an ice-covered fence. You can buy a print through my new Society6 store. I’m still playing around with Society6, and might use it more for comic related prints/merch, and set up a Zenfolio site for photos (I have dozens of photos I think would make for fun prints).
Hogan Manor escaped the hammer of Crazy Ice Stormpocalypse 2013. Barely. We didn’t lose power, which was a rarity in this town (many, many folks were without power for over a week), but fallen trees and/or power lines cut us off from a couple nearby streets.
Rags is Nigel’s Co-Pilot
We adopted a second cat, because one source of hairballs was not nearly enough to keep Stephanie and I busy. I jest though, because Rags has yet to loose a hairy discharge in the month and change he has lived here. Nigel, however, seems to have hairballs more often. I can’t decide if this is cute or weird, but Rags always runs to his brother’s side when Nigel starts to hork up a hairball. Rags could be on the other side of the apartment, and at the first tease of Nigel hacking, he’s off like Darren Helm on a breakaway.¹ Rags then watches Nigel contort and spew.
Well, so do I, but only to make sure Nigel doesn’t launch a juicy fur missile at the nearby pile of my Star Wars t-shirts.
But Seriously: 2014 and Beyond
I’m happy with the Clattertron comic and blog output for 2013. My drawing style is still evolving, as is the ‘quality’ of my cartooning. I would like to do more character focused strips in 2014, and rely less on pop culture gags (with occasional exceptions, because if I get an idea, then I just go with the flow). Multi-part stories might show up more in 2014 too, as long as I have the ideas (in some ways, multi-part stories are easier, because I typically plan all or most of the strips out in advance, instead of week to week).
In February, I’ll be at Artist’s Alley at the MSU Comics Forum, which is a big deal, and I’m super-excited. As I mentioned above, I want to at least experiment with merchandise using sites like Society6 (I don’t have the resources and time to handle selling stuff on my own through the site—yet. Shows and conventions are a different matter).
In novel news, I’m nearly done with the 5th go-round on my next book, Riddle of the White Gun. Then: sending out to agents. Woo boy. Novels are easy, agent query letters are hard. Then: starting another book, or short stories.
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¹ Hockey joke.
