State of the Peggy: meh.
I keep on thinking “I should do a short little comic about being depressed, it would probably get tons of reblogs”. But every time I sit down to work I end up poking at ongoing projects instead. In part because I’d rather work on things that I’d enjoy reading, in part because really examining those feelings in sufficient detail to say something about them feels really un-fun.
It’s been a bit more than a year since my mom died and I still feel pretty useless and shitty. I’m not sure if it feels any better than a month or two after.
I’ll turn 45 next week. It kinda snuck up on me. Don’t have any plans; I’m tempted to just hop on a train going south and spend a week in a cheap hotel in another state. I’ll probably just sit here and mope. Or play video games and get stoned. Which has kinda been a lot of my life this past year; it’s easy to escape to worlds where I get to look at gorgeous environments and kill monsters.
I haven’t dyed my hair in what feels like months. Maybe I’ll pay an expert to do it for my birthday.
Current status of various projects:
* Rita 3/omnibus Kickstarter: video is finally done, need to write text pitch and finalize schedule with printer. I’ve been reluctant to fool with this because drawing the ending is all tied up with Mom dying. But having it unfinished makes it really hard to work on other comics.
* Parallax pitch. We have about a full season’s worth of story outlines. Gonna be able to package it up and send it off soon. And we’ll see what comes of that.
* Absinthe ch 2: I draw a panel every month or so.
* Drowning City: same.
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