Sadly, I have a day job.

This is the hair I would have if I would not get fired for it (Please note that this image is NOT representative of myself. Please see the header for an accurate representation of the artist). Unfortunately,  I would. Get fired, that is.

Anyway, I came to the interwebs to discuss comic-related matters today.

I would be delighted if I could somehow dedicate all of my time to "After" and not find myself homeless. I have a day job. I need a day job. I have learned to work around having a day job. I pour all of my free time into this web-comic. 

Time management, like everything else associated with this project, has been a learning process. If anyone reading this happens to be interested in making his or her own comic on the side I would like to give you the following advice: Do what you can, when you can, as often as you can without becoming burnt out.

A key to keeping myself passionate about this project is making sure I know when to STOP. Quality is very important to me. I don't like doing a half ass job. I especially do not want to do a half ass job with this comic. Every time I sit down to work I keep this mantra in mind, "No wonky panels." I repeat this to myself over and over again.

I do not want to present something to the audience that looks fucking off or odd. Knowing when to put the "pencil" down is  crucial to achieving this goal. If you are feeling frustrated or tired when you are working on something, how much are you actually considering what you are creating? If you are like me, the focus becomes pushing the work out. When I work this way I am not working intelligently. I make mistakes and the quality of my efforts suffer. I prefer to work when I am into it. I stop when I begin to question my own decision making abilities.


QUALITY has been the most FRUSTRATING part of creating a web comic. I have pages of work that I created many moons ago that the world will never see (and that I will soon have to redraw), because the quality of the work is not acceptable to me anymore.

I am getting better at this as I go along. It is very difficult to look back at work that I did a month ago and say, "Yes, I still want to use THAT!" I know better now than I did last month...let alone months ago. At some point I have to say, "If I keep re-doing it I will not get anywhere!"  Still, my laundry list of what needs to get a fresh coat of paint seems to be growing all of the time.

I should probably leave something to be said in future posts...Thank you for visiting our blog. Please  continue to follow us. Our comic will be out next month. If you would like to contact Bryant or myself, please e-mail us at After.comic@gmail.com. Thank you!