Hello.
As you may know by now, my drawing tablet is broken. It's very discouraging to have a busted tablet and no way to get your good ideas out. I had the best April Fool's comic ready and you would have loved it, but I can't show it to you because of my dumb tablet.
It's really not the best idea to use a drawing tablet for a webcomic anyway. It's much more efficient, I assume, to scan your drawings and then play with them in photoshop before uploading them online. Unfortunately, I do not have a scanner, and I do not see a scanner anywhere in my near future. I would like a scanner, it would be very useful, but I don't have one. I have to put out crappy comics that I hate and I know everyone else will hate because they don't make sense, they suck, and they're drawn on a freaking laptop trackpad.
It really sucks, and it sucks for any readers I have, too, because I've been doing this for close to a year now. It doesn't feel like that long, but I guess it has been. Those of you that have been sticking it out from the very beginning: good work. I mean, you didn't really do anything, but it's nice to know that you may or may not exist. Happy trails.
I want to do bigger comics, better comics, funnier comics, longer comics, but I don't like to do that on a computer. I like to do that in real life. On paper. It's very frustrating to have to make comics this way.
I'm a bit frazzled or something at this moment, but I'm getting my thoughts out here. I've been posting my comics later and later in they day instead of automatically uploading them, because I have dumb school and dumb homework and dumb things to do and I categorize comics under work. They shouldn't be work. Work is something you generally don't like. Work is something you do for something in return. I don't really get anything in return, I don't make money off this, in fact, I lose money. I'll paraphrase Craig Benzine here: I operate under the principle that the work I do is for the sake of the work itself. I make comics for the sole satisfaction of making people laugh, and these lazy trackpad comics just don't give me that. It takes away the point of my work from me.
I want you to know that I'm not slacking off. Well, I am, but it's not my fault. I mean it is my fault, but it's only partially my fault. Let me try this bit again...
I want you to know that my drawing tablet is busted, and I'm searching for new ways to make comics.
Hang in there, guys.
Liam
