Oh crap, it’s a new year! We’re just over a month into it! And I haven’t written anything here since I started and abandoned those review posts in December! Oops!

Not that I’ve been a total lazy bum or anything of that sort, I’ve been busy. On January 1^st I moved into an apartment. Things have been kind of a whirlwind since, but I haven’t slouched too much on the art front. I’ve got two new posters that I’m selling at cons now. First, I repurposed my Beat About poster from November into a Spanish fight poster:
I also binged on some episodes of the live action Toei Spider-man TV show from the 70’s and this was the result:
Plus I made new business cards with Slimepunk on them:
And I’ve got my own convention banner on the way:
On Saturday I was a guest at the winter sale Mountain Empire Comics was having, which was a load of fun and resulted in me taking home a Bruce Lee magazine, the Batman manga (BATMANGA), and a handful of issues of Jack Kirby’s Kamandi. I got to draw my first mutant portrait of the new year, and my first ever mutant portrait of a dog!
I now have another dog and a cat to draw mutant portraits of, as well. I smell a lucrative new career on the horizon…

Originally, I was really on the fence about printing any new comics this year. I printed the Other Sleep collection, Burst Reach 4, AND Shouting at the Void last year, which was ludicrously expensive and…well, they aren’t selling as well as I’d hoped. I’ve had people ask me about printing Cannonball Fist, but I don’t think I’m up for that yet, and I’m done with Burst Reach as a series for now.

However, I have decided to do a new little full-color mini-comic starring Slimepunk, seeing as how he’s sort of my alter ego and his ugly mug is now plastered onto both my business cards and my convention banner. It’ll be a smaller thing, only 12 pages probably. Currently working on the script and some character designs for it, as well as giving Slimepunk his own spaceship!

I mentioned…I don’t know, some time ago, that I’m working on a new horror webcomic, black and white, set here in the south, featuring Gemini from Black Hole Ghost. I did bring that up, right? That’s still coming along, slowly, but surely. I can’t rush anything with it. I have characters and settings and plot elements here and there pieced together, but the overall story isn’t coalescing quite yet. I wanted to launch it in April or so, but that’s looking unlikely. We’ll see. In the meantime, here’s a Spotify playlist I put together for it that...was in order, but isn't really anymore.

Finally, I’ve already got most of this year’s cons lined up. In a few weeks, the 21^st and 22^nd, I’ll be at the third annual ETSUCon. I always have a good time at that, so I’m pretty excited. Hopefully my banner will arrive in time and won’t look like garbage. In April, I’ll be a special guest at Bristol’s first annual ShikaCon (oh hey there I am on the front page, whaaaaaat), an anime convention. In May I’m going to Myrtle Beach for XCon, then in June I’ll be at HeroesCon once more! This year’s Rob-Con is going to be TWO days, August 1^st and 2^nd, and I’m pretty thrilled about that. Finally, while I haven’t applied to get a table yet, I’m pretty excited for the next Asheville Comic Expo in October.

So this will be another full year for me. Nothing as momentous as finishing a graphic novel and getting my own art show for it like last year, true, but I’m still enthusiastic. Let’s make 2015 awesome, yeah?