Hey Everyone! I feel I ought to explain what’s been going on. Four things!
- I am not giving up on this comic! That’s right – you’re not getting rid of me that easy. I’m gonna keep posting updates, but they might be sporadic for a while yet, because of the next three things, which are:
- I’m applying to grad school! I’ve already informed various people on various platforms (including the now-severely-underpopulated meatspace, ahahahahahahahahahaha yikes), but I’m planning to start studying art therapy in the fall! I’m pretty stoked about it, and I’m hoping it will be a good art-related day job for a humble comic peddler like I. However, applications kept me pretty busy for a while. Fortunately, I got into some pretty awesome schools! Hurray! But turns out I’m still gonna be pretty busy because:
- Now I have to apply to ALL THE SCHOLARSHIPS FOREVER. Masters degrees are expensiiiive, and I would very much love to not be in horrific debt for the rest of my natural life. I want to be able to look forward to the future. Which brings me to the fourth point:
- There’s kind of a lot going on right now. Politically, I mean. I’ve been volunteering for the Sanders campaign, and plan to continue doing so for a primary season that’s likely to be prolonged or altered, (what with the pandemic situation we’ve evidently got on our hands). And…look, I’m generally optimistic about the world, but stuff’s pretty scary right now. Honestly, even though Simple, Inelegant is set in a universe ever-so-slightly to the left of ours, I feel a little weird writing a story about the everyday worries of teenagers when the teenagers in our universe have a lot of huge things to worry about at the moment. So I’ve also been volunteering with the Sunrise Movement, and am planning to do a lot more activism with them in the future. Check them out! They’re doing really good work trying to win a green new deal, and they need all the help they can get with it.
So: that’s how I’ve been spending my time lately, and also how I expect to be spending it in the near future. I hope to get back to a decent update schedule by May or so – I might post more pages in the meantime, but I figured it was better to set a specific goal than to keep saying “whenever I get the chance to start posting regularly again.” Thanks for reading in the meantime – I really appreciate you getting all the way to the end of this post, and I hope we all get some good news soon. <3
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