WE'RE NEW AT THIS!

I need a haircut. Badly. My head more or less looks like a small family of ducks nesting (as they are wont to do). I've put it off for quite some time because, having had my mom cut my hair exclusively up until this point,  I've never gone to a hair salon. Yesterday was open enough that I could have easily had that taken care of, but my efforts fell tragically short.

My Sundays are usually scheduled for getting things accomplished, but lately that has kept left me too nervous to leave the apartment. Agoraphobia is far too strong a term, because somehow I did find the stones to get out a look for a hair cuttery. What I feel is more of a lingering dread for figuring out something I'm unaccustomed to. The feeling is weak enough in that it allows me to leave the house, but strong enough to imagine walking into a hair-cuttery and witness everyone inside screaming "You have no idea what you're doing!" at me. Suffice to say, I bought a bottle of wine instead and went home to work on the comic.

The reason I'm bringing up this weird anecdote is to present the idea that Katy and I don't know what we're doing with our comic. To clarify, Katy obviously knows how to illustrate, and I have a reasonable enough grasp of the English language to write coherent sentences. In terms of combining those elements in order to make a webcomic, however, we are mostly inexperienced. Very mostly inexperienced. For example, this past week I've been shooting emails out constantly asking how to correct issues I've had with Wordpress and smoothing over details of our Comic Con tables (Side not: iPage has a very useful and expedient system for troubleshooting your website; and if you want both persons involved to sit at the same table in Artist's Alley, you need a FULL TABLE.)

So far, we've been throwing a lot ideas at the wall, and through luck and tenacity a lot of things have stuck and progressed. Simultaneously, running and website and networking for a product are two big things in which we're still feeling around in the dark. NYCC itself is thrusting us into totally uncharted territory, in that we are going to have to push our comic onto relative and/or complete strangers. On account of being new at this, it's also imperative that we try and glean whatever wisdom we can from adjacent artists who have likely been at this karaaazy game much longer than us. Regardless of our diligence, we still have loads to learn.

We don't know what we're doing, and that is more than ok. In spite of our relative inexperience, we've created a work of which we are very proud. After is still in its infancy, but already is encompasses so much of the style and storytelling that I feel are unique to both of our whimsically macabre brains. Had Katy and I simply stuck with repeating what we know how to do, none of these ideas would ever have been brought to light. There is an appreciable comfort in repetition, but moving forward involves breaking the equilibrium and embracing the horror of pioneering the unknown. God, I need to get my ridiculous hair cut...