Major Sweatshop Announcement.

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 haven't felt in a long time. Every page I do that isn't progressing that story feels like a waste right now and it's because of this and the deep affection I feel for the world and characters that I'm choosing it as my one series. I love Errant Apprentice in a way I've never loved a concept before. I seriously think think this is the best thing I've come up with in a long while and I want to give it the attention it deserves.
A word on the other series. Geebo and Munki are not "ending". Let's just call it an extended hiatus. I have every intention of coming back to them and picking back up, but I just can't spare the creative energy right now. I love that world and it's characters, but it's been six years and I'm feeling a bit burned out.
I hope that you'll all understand and respect my decision on this one. I'm sorry if you're a big fan of either series, but I think that this is what's best for me. Thank you. Good night.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Seriously, man, I don't blame you. You're the only person I know who writes, draws, and keeps up with multiple comics.

So give yourself a break, eh? Your comics are amazing enough; we don't need multiple ones to make you stand out from the hoard of webcomics the rest of us read.
1:15 AM
Anonymous said…
Well I've always said you were crazy to do more than one comic at a time! ^_^ But really you'll keep your sanity and have a lot more fun this way.
10:56 AM
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