Sta.sh
You might have noticed (or more likely have not) that my output here in the gallery has gone in fits and starts. My usual practice of attempting to respond to notes and comments has also gone a bit funky of late, and i apologize for all the above. No, I'm not intentionally distancing myself because I plan to LEAVE dA 4EVER but rather because things have sort of bottlenecked here at Fort VanHeist and I'm trying to work through the mess.
Most urgent to note is that I still have several commissions owed to a couple of people who've been gracious enough to not send me death threats or nail cats to my door. If you have an outstanding commission with me, I assure you that I am working on them as we speak and it WILL get done in the next week or two. I won't sloppily hammer through anything either. The least I can do at this point is put some sweat into them. Thank you for your patience thus far.
Right, moving on...
Oh, and work. You know, I'm very grateful to have a full-time job again, complete with health benefits (which I kinda sorta really need) and steady pay. It will banish a lot of demons for me in the long run, but in the short term, ye gods, does 3rd shift ever eat up your week. My "magic hour" for drawing has always been somewhere between 9 pm and 4 am, and now that 5 nights per week that time slot is spent moving boxes of groceries around, i think some sort of soul amputation has occurred. As such, it's left to me to figure out how to use my remaining...uh, "soul limbs" (awkward metaphor) to do the same artistic lifting i've done before. More, even. Awhile back I made some noise about how it's no shame to have a day job as an artist to support yourself, and while that's still true, I DON'T HAVE TO FRIGGIN' LIKE IT.
Alright, so ends bitch-mode, hehe...
I've posted a few things recently regarding a "new direction" for Bomango as an oft-hinted at, never-followed-through-with full-length story. This is, of course, the running gag of this gallery, that "Bomango" is a fun story that somehow manages to also not really exist, with characters that develop but in some sort of vacuum, and that sort of thing. You may be pleased (or very displeased) to know that my intentions of driving the Bomango Bus, pedal to the floor, towards The Rocky Cliffs of Hubristic Ambition has not abated but actually accelerated. It's either going to fly miraculously, Magic School Bus style, or it's going to crash and kill all on board.
....i guess that's kind of grim, but metaphors, dude....
And so, here we are. I'm excited to share some of the ideas I've come up with the past few weeks, and there's an enormous amount of work ahead--in addition to sorting out prior obligations (no, I didn't already forget paragraph 3
) but I'm determined that if this is going to be a failure, it may as well be a glorious one.So in the weeks and months ahead, I'll be working on making it a reality. Job one is the work itself. Once I've accumulated a satisfactory amount of content, I'll make an informed decision regarding release method. As it stands, I'd like to feature it as a site-based webcomic that's ultimately collected as a print, but haven't ruled out the possibility of developing it as an e-reader-friendly sort of work either. I'm also looking into Kickstarter as an option, but I'm a little in the dark regarding what steps to take until I have a better idea of what the final product will be: book? Webcomic? iPad-style comic? Laser show? Feel free to holler suggestions, since I'm sort of a man on an island even in this connected age, and i often fear that my head is lost up my own behind when figuring this stuff out.
peace
! Pls? 
