Kevin Hayman. Professional Amateur.

Since I've started doing Errant Apprentice exclusively I've noticed something. "Ah hate writin' in these here durned dialects!" I suppose I went a little overboard with it for Ernest and Dottie but I think I can get away with most people just droppin' the "G" that end some words and it will still sound sort of southern since they live in rural Mississippi. Which brings me to something. Unlike some people, I actually like living in Mississippi. It's really a great state to travel in. One of my favorite hobbies is about once a year getting "lost" in the middle of no where and seeing what we can find. For instance, this is Rodney, Mississippi. Actually, it's Brumfields Grocery in Rodney and it's delightfully run down and has so much character it practically speaks to me. The gas pump has warnings about how the chemicals are only for use in automobiles. You just don't find that these days. The whole place is actually a ghost tow...

Ladies and gentlemen, I've been thinking a lot lately. You see, for the last while I haven't been having fun doing the comics. It's been work and I hate work. Today I was nearly ready to call it quits. No more web comics. Then I stopped myself. "What's really bother you, Kev?" I asked myself. Well, it turns out that my heart hasn't been in part of it. I've been stretched too thin lately and it's been killing me, my ability to draw, and my ability to create. So what am I going to do about this? What is it that I thought? For the forseeable future, the Sweatshop will have one on going series. I will try my best to keep it updated once to twice a week. Thursdays and Mondays. That series is "The Errant Apprentice". Every time I work on Munki's Tales and Geebo it's like I'm trying to suck an orange through a straw to get at the juices I need to get the pages done. When I do EA it's like it flows in a river in a way that I have...

Sorry folks. Saturday I was rather sick and then Sunday I had to work so no comics. I'll just pick back up Tuesday. Sorry guys. Dropped the ball again.

Hello! Well, I've just finished tomorrow's Munki's Tales comic. We're at page 12. This is moving much faster and I can keep track much better. Motivation is still a bit of a problem at the moment but it's mostly due to stress at work. I figure things will be okay soon. That, or I may have a psychotic episode. Whichever comes first. Also, if anyone reading this has anything to do with Delirium, I've got an article ready to go up since Saturday, but I feel like an ass tracking people down and asking for it to be approved. I'm starting to consider printing The Errant Apprentice through LuLu or something. I'd have some bonus material in there of course, but I want to sort of gauge interest. Expect some changes to the list of links on the top of the page in the next couple of weeks. Not this weekend though. I have to work again. Well, that's it for now. More next time.

I updated Munki's Tales again today and now that I'm on the new schedule I'm actually getting somewhere. This makes me happy as compaired to before. Errant Apprentice continues and will update in the morning. It seems like everytime I think about switching it to color I do a page that makes me change my mind. I'm happy with it right now. Also, I'm starting to draw the majority of my comics at home. I don't know why this change has happened but I'm liking it more this way. Maybe it's the fact that I'm sitting at my own desk. It feels right. I added a tray and clamp to it so I can hold my crap somewhere while it's tilted and I can keep a page held up so I can work on the bottom of it without a problem. Scott McCloud has a new book out. It's called "Making Comics" and unlike his last one this is funny, educational, and not full of crack pot ideas and ego. This one is a lot more like "Understanding Comics". I got i...

So, here we are on the eve of another Munki's Tales update and I have so rather important news reguarding the update schedule. From here on in I'm going to concentrate on one story at a time for the color series. Errant Apprentice will continue to update on Mondays, but for now you'll get nothing but Munki until the issue is finished on Wednesdays and Sundays. After that I'll pick back up on Geebo and finish that issue on the same days. Then I'll switch back to Munki, then Geebo, and so on and so on. Why am I doing this? Simply put, confusion. It's getting hard for me to concentrate on a specific storyline and keep the narritive straight. I hate to say that I put too much on my plate but it's looking that way. I hope you'll all understand and keep reading anyway. Thanks for your understanding.