ноябрь 10, 2025

I'm in Canada so we have to do this at least once a day

I'm sorry. I can explain.

It’s been so long since I posted that I owe you an explanation. 2025 has been filled with non comic business that took much too much of my time. There were deaths (human friends, not animal), threats, an unnecessary and deliberate matter with the government, and illnesses (mine.) I got sick after two short trips in the province. That should tell me something. Winter is here, we just got our first snowfall. I won’t be traveling for the rest of the year.

I had to keep working through all of this and it was not possible to update the strip every day at the same quality. In July I started drawing one panel strips in black and white, as ‘bridging shots’ between strips. I liked it so well I changed them to color. They double the production of the strips (I am unfortunately very slow) and also help pace the action. I used some in the July strips with the talent show and Magic Camp. Some of the results were very picturesque, particularly the ferryboat rides to and from the Islands.

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Floof as a magician’s rabbit, wearing a bunny suit, from the Talent Show arc.

I was very pleased with the story lines, particularly the Magic Camp/Talent Show, and had a series of one off gags. My favorite was the Capybara Cafe. It’s very hard to come up with new ones, as you know…story is the hardest part. Thankfully the characters write their own dialogue by now. Sirius just flushed out two skunks and got the entire family stinking. The next story line involves the latest AI idiocy. I seriously cannot make these things up, and the AI dialogue is 100 percent authentic. The trick is not to let it take over the stories the way it is taking over everything else.

There was one unusual development in September that might be good news. I won a ‘book package’ from a company called TellWell at the Toronto Word on the Street book fair. They would design, upload, and arrange online print on demand sellers for a book of mine. The award was designed for writers. I explained that I wanted to publish a collection of my comic strips from June 2023 to December 2024. Instead of the eight included illustrations, I have 500.

A few of my readers have asked about a collection but it’s been rejected by ‘real’ publishers. Then again, publishing is in a transformative state right now (that is the nicer word) and hardly anyone is getting things published. Print on demand seems to be relatively low risk.

The thing is, would anyone buy it?

I’ll let you know if and when it goes ahead. Thank you for your patience, and be well.

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