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[dc]I[/dc]n a rare Sunday evening blog post, I mentioned how I spent the weekend working on mini-comics. It was a lot of work, as I penciled and inked the remaining three pages of Chocolate Quest (part 2 ran yesterday), and formatted four other mini-comic collections.

MSU Comics Forum This Weekend!

All five mini-comics will be for sale this coming Saturday (Feb. 22^nd) at the MSU Comics Forum in East Lansing. I’ll be at Artist Alley from 11 AM until 5 PM (free entry, and this is a kid friendly event).

So yeah, I will spend plenty of time folding over the next few days. I would rather be folding than scrambling to finish pages though, as I can always fold comics while at my table on Saturday.

Do It Faster

I put in many hours of comic work on the weekend, as I mentioned to Stephanie:

Me: “I feel like I did two months of comic work over the past two days.”

Stephanie: “Well, that just shows how much more productive you could be.”

My wife, folks. Sure, I could keep that pace going, if I wanted to burn out and go crazy (although, it would mean not having to worry about comics for a month or two).

Cats and Coffee Stout

But, I had a bit of help during my long comic haul. Nigel and Rags kept me company at the drawing table.

I put the boxes on the table so they could hang out with me, but not walk all over my drawings (or worse, knock over my bottle of ink). If you are wondering what’s in the glass, it is a coffee stout made by a friend of mine. Because:

Writing, drawing, and inking my own comics has taught me: when in doubt, coffee stout.

— Daniel J. Hogan (@danieljhogan) February 16, 2014

 

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