Category: News

This is the best I can do with the camera I have. I will keep experimenting until I find something that works better. 

Continuing from pages 14, 18 and 19 of the PATRON SAINTS exclusive newsletter, this is the first step of my 10 STEPS TO A FINISHED PAGE guide. I have made it publicly viewable to introduce newcomers to the series, and to make it shareable. This exclusive guide is released step by step to patrons first, and details everything you need to turn your idea into a finished page. Remember, if you can manage a page a week, in a year you’ll have a 52-page book. 

Next Step: WRITE THE DIALOGUE!

The BANDS I USETA LIKE BIG BOOK OF COMICS is now available for purchase. You can get your own by clicking the following line: 

TAKE ME TO THE BIG BOOK!!! 

Until April 16, you can get a discount by entering the coupon code LULU10. If I can sell a hundred of these babies, my chances of survival over the next month will greatly increase. In case you haven’t noticed, nothing is currently set up to benefit freelance or independent artists. (If you think otherwise, you haven’t tried to apply for benefits.) I am considered “inessential”. This is ironic, now that everyone is “sheltering-in-place” and typically enjoying music, comics, books and movies created by other “inessential” people. It looks like we’re getting a repeat of the Obamacare fiasco, where thousands of artists had their healthcare fucked with and just died. If anything resembling an “artist class” still exists in 2021, I will consider that a miracle. Not like it still exists right now, though. 

If I sound desperate, it’s because that’s the situation. I go through long periods of despondency where I don’t draw because I’m losing the belief that there’s a future in it. If I didn’t have people who believe in me already, I would’ve given up by now. For that, I am thankful. But without more support, it doesn’t look like I can keep things going. I don’t have the audience I had 12 years ago; the means to reach an audience that size no longer exists for independent artists. Everything is compromised and censored by social media, to control people’s lives, what they buy and how they vote. In 2004 I once got a quarter-million hits in one month; for the past five years, I’m lucky if I crack a hundred. So yeah, sometimes I get angry and frustrated when I see some jerkoff getting a grand a month on Patreon for doing next to nothing. Sometimes I get angry and frustrated when I create something and everyone seems to be raving about Disney or some fucking reality show about meth addicts who own tigers. I don’t have the resources to compete with that kind of saturation marketing. 

Anyway, here’s a book that represents the focus of the last few years of my life. I think it’s great and funny as hell. If my opinion or abilities mean anything to you, consider telling people this book exists and they can purchase it. I can’t keep going alone. Any artist who tells you that they can is lying, or living off of someone else. Thanks as always for your support.