by New decade, new website.
I’m planning to regularly post new stories and new comics on this website in 2020. I hope someone likes some of them. I hope I like some of them. Either way I need to build some creative habits again and having this blank slate staring at me every day is probably going to help with that.
The first project for the new website is actually an old one. Life In Four Panels was a webcomic I created in sporadic bursts of effort between 2002 and 2004. A lot of conflicting influences on this — a slacker romance, some twenty-something angst (reflected through the mind of a thirty-something year old author) and a desire to write more honestly than some of my earlier comics. Plus, I had been reading Jim’s Journal and other “anti-humor” comics at time. The idea that a comic could be kind of “eh” was pretty freeing for me at that time in terms of trying to write.
At first, I was just going to re-post the strips here, but in re-reading them I realized that I hadn’t really hit the story that I had wanted to tell when I started it. So I’ve taken a lot of the original run and sorted it around so that something closer to the story that I envisioned plays out over the course of 2020. That means I now have quite a few gaps to fill in with newly created strips. I don’t know how well my 50-ish year old brain is going to sync up with my then 30-ish year old brain but so far I think hope it works.
