Category: News

Status Updates:

I’m feeling silly again. This is good-ish. It means the bubble level that regulates my mood is where it should be. It also means that everyone gets bad jokes and poorly thought out puns.

Sorry.

It also means that I’m reading more books. That’s almost always a good sign. If I read a little every day I’m usually a bit more on an even keel.

So if you have book recommendations I’d love to hear them.

The Comics:

Thanks for being here with me on this ride. It’s been a year of “drinking from the hose” when looking for subjects to editorialize and honestly it feels like we’re drowning some days.

Pro-Tip: Check your surroundings before you get comfortable. That seat may be open only because everyone else knows it has the shaky leg.

Have you tried a new hobby… not the old one.. a new one. What would even be a new hobby today? Everything that sounds like a hobby is something hundreds of years old.

Coffee Drawings:

What I’m Reading/Doing:

The Kaiju Preservation Society – John Scalzi

A laid-off food delivery driver in NYC, is recruited for a job with an “animal rights organization” that turns out to be a secret society protecting kaiju in an alternate Earth.

I really appreciate Mr. Scalzi and his work.

Status Updates:

So here’s my current comic plan, Maybe it’s a wish list, either way this is what I’m doing.

My 3 times a week updates have started falling into a predictable pattern.

• Fridays I post a traditional Madscott 4 panel comic. It’s in as close to the original style and feel of the original comic as I am comfortable putting out into the world. You all are getting the finished digital version but each one starts as a finished pen and ink comic in a sketchbook.
• Wednesdays are for weird. I post a comic mostly about aliens. There’s not a lot more to tell about Weird Wednesday. It’s just a fun single panel comic.
• Mondays need work. I think I forgot that the plan was to make them more of a newyorker style commentary comic. It’s drifted from that and been more wacky.. I like wacky but I also am trying for a theme here.

So, expect Mondays to be a bit more focused.

At least until I get sad or distracted or something else and fall off the track.

Do you still ready the newspaper comics? Maybe you read them online? I often check out Pluggers. It’s just a feel good comic. That’s it. No deep thought needed and only here to make you smile. I’d love to do it as a full time job. Until than I have submitted a couple ideas and Rick Mckee used them.