So About Those Strips...

Khelden: As I see it, if you are faced with the possibility of sacrificing the quality of your work to maintain a deadline that you have yourself set, it is better to reduce the deadline and maintain the quality of the story. This does not, however, mean that you need reduce solely to 2 updates a week. One possibility is that you might reduce to 2 full comics a week (Mon-Fri) and additionally produce one extra piece of single panel art (Wed) that may or may not necessarily be related to the storyline. This will allow you to maintain a sufficiently regular update schedule to ensure your continued readership while reducing your workload to the level where you can continue to produce strips at the quality you have previously managed.

Also, should this reach the Floorum, I exhort my fellow readers to provide David with fan art/writing, guest strips or even just friendly emails of 'Hello, how are the trolls?' At this stage of any artistic work, the story and artist are at their most vulnerable. By those who view that work showing their appreciation, we help to support the artist enough to convince them to keep going. An artist must have praise (or at least a healthy degree of delusion) to continue producing their art for all art is pointless without someone to appreciate and enjoy it. Providing support in the form of fan art and the like not only helps the continuation of this work but also can be a subtle form of propaganda for your own work.

Not that I would be guilty of that. Ahem.

"If music is the food of love, then praise is the crack pipe of art. Toke on."

David: I'm just going to work as often as I can and update as often as I can. If it looks like I'm getting really far behind I'll try doing art days but I'm not looking forward to the idea. Fan art I would love. Fan fiction... you might be opening up a whole can of worms. Tell you what, the best (or worst, depending on your point of view) fan fiction will be made into a strip and the rest will posted either here or in a new page. How about that?

Thanks for your mail, as always.

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