I’m feeling pretty good about my comics, despite a poor showing at APE this weekend. Rita is done (well okay like 10 more panels plus a last editing pass). My script for chapter 1 of Drowning City looks good. So do my roughs for chapter 2 of Absinthe.
And doing Rita proved that I can do Serious Comics by myself. That’s really powerful. Working alone, I can get kind words from folks with multiple major awards on their shelves. A lot of my creative intent with Rita was to do something more accessible than “furry porn”; I’m not quite sure I got that right what with it being such a byzantine storyline, but I’ve certainly stepped well outside the furry ghetto with it! 

Right now, it looks like I’ll be drawing pages of Absinthe before I start on Drowning City; I still have some prep work left for the latter, while the former has full roughs that’re just one edit pass away from starting to draw. If you’d like to see those roughs, I just posted them to Patreon.

So I guess… things are getting back to normal, despite me still processing my mother’s death.