#webcomics

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Hi friends, and happy 2019! I know I haven’t been active here lately, so I wanted to talk about why that is & what my plans are going forward.

My webcomic

I’m kind of at a crossroads as far as where to go/what to do with my webcomic, You’re Doing It Wrong. I haven’t updated it in a long time, and I’m not sure whether I want to continue it. This is for several reasons:

1. My day job has become more travel intensive, which makes it hard to keep up with a regular posting schedule. And I was already struggling to balance weekly updates around my job before. I don’t make money from my comic, & the added travel at work came with better pay, so I know what the priority is there.
2. Over the last year, I’ve gotten much deeper into cosplay. It’s an art form I’m really passionate about, & I want to keep growing my craftsmanship skills. Splitting my already limited free time between cosplay and comics also makes it hard to post regular updates.
3. I feel like a long-form webcomic is a lot of work for little reward. You’re Doing It Wrong is fully outlined/scripted & I know how it ends, but even at my old weekly update pace, it would take YEARS to get to that ending & share that payoff with everyone. And that can really kill my desire to work on it.
4. I’ve drawn some short-form educational comics about asexuality (hereandhere) that have reached more readers/gotten more feedback than the entire combined archive of my webcomic got over 5 years. This makes me wonder if my time is better spent making more short-form comics in that vein than continuing with my webcomic.
5. This is a more personal reason, but the friendship dynamic between the main characters in my webcomic is based on an IRL one that has since ended (that person & I are no longer on speaking terms). This wasn’t a big deal at first, but as the comic’s story goes on, sometimes working on it is a painful reminder/puts me in a not-great headspace.  
6. Another personal reason that has less to do with comics & more to do with IRL stuff… I’ve been questioning my gender for a while & finally (officially) came out this year as genderfluid. I know that has nothing to do with whether I have time to make art, but the gender questioning/exploration process is still a significant thing that’s taken up a lot of my mental/emotional energy this year.

So… what to do with my webcomic? I hate to stop working on something I started without finishing it, especially with as much work as I put into it (231 strips!). I also hate to just abandon a story that people are following. My readership is & always has been small, but I don’t like the thought of leaving them hanging. However, I have pretty much no motivation to keep drawing it. I truly feel happier drawing shorter comics that I can actually finish & post in their entirety, or maybe even get printed for local cons. I want to make more queer education comics, since the ones I’ve done have gotten such great responses & generated such awesome discussions.

All things considered, I’m going to put You’re Doing It Wrong on an indefinite hiatus. I won’t say I’ll never finish it, but I’m not going to update it regularly, or even frequently. If/when I post new strips, it will only be as I feel like it. I honestly hate this decision and I’m sorry. But I know it’s for the best. 

What’s next

It’s hard not to see my webcomic’s indefinite hiatus as “giving up,” but instead, I want to approach this as a new beginning. I’m going to keep making short-form comics and new cosplays in 2019, and I’m excited to share all of that work with you. Just because I won’t be updating my webcomic doesn’t mean I’ll stop creating - I’ll just be creating something different!

On that note, I’d like to try to be more active here again. The only place I’m active right now is Instagram (which has been a great platform for sharing cosplay stuff & getting more involved in that community). But I want to start sharing the things I post there on my Tumblr, as well. I’m updating my profile pic to something more in line with my gender feels. So I figured a literal rebranding like this would be as good a time as any to start posting again. :)

I’ve missed being on here & I’m glad to be back. Happy new year, friends!!!

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