The amount of time to assume rejection has elapsed with Dark Horse for our submission, so we’re going to head off in another direction, and it’s my hope to get this one done by early March. Instead of doing it as a graphic novel, I’ll just do an illustrated version of the story, something along the lines of an image per page or so. Dustin and I will have to discuss it more, but I’m looking at possibly just doing the whole thing ourselves rather than fooling around with waiting for someone else to tell us it’s good enough. Obviously I would prefer to spend most of my time making art and not editing and formatting the book, but I’ve done it before with much larger projects than this, so if it feels worth it, then I’ll make my case to do it that way.

Maybe we’ll do a kickstarter to do a big book that’s hardbound and see how it goes.

Looking forward to a great year of art making and reconnecting with friends and family.

I hope 2024 is an amazing year for as many people as possible.