Holiday Greetings From Yellowland

WELL, it's that time of year again. A time when blog posts everywhere begin with cliches like, "it's that time of year again."

There's no movement on the "Yellow" front, other than to let you know that I plan to dive fully back into production after Tropical Storm Christmas has blown over. I apologize to my many fans, and to my detractors say, "You may have won this round, but the war is far from over."

Look for "Feels Like The First Time" to land sometime in late January/early February, with subsequent issues following every month or two after that. (Some new techy gadgets might help me speed up production. I'm talking to you, Zombie Santa!)

In the meantime, I hope you have some good times with family and friends over the next couple of weeks, stuff yourself with plenty of good food, and don't forget that the holidays aren't just about eating other people's brains. It's about giving your brains to be eaten, too.

In the immortal words of the ever-eloquent Neil Diamond: Have a very merry, cherry-cherry, holly holy, rock n' rolly Christmas. Thank you Neil. You truly are the Shakespeare of our time.

Nothing to report.

Sorry to disappoint you, loyal readers, but I have nothing new to report at the moment. But since it's been exactly one months since my last post I figure it'd be a good idea to at least let you know I'm still alive. And so is Yellow.

What with the Holidays n' stuff, I haven't had much time to devote to it. Unfortunately that means my publishing schedule has been thrown off quite a bit. Issue #5, "Feels Like the First Time," is probably looking at a January release, if not February. My hope was to have my second trade (or Episode, as I choose to call them) printed and available at Planet Comicon in March. However, that would require me to not only get #5 pumped out by January, but to immediately turn around and within a matter of weeks have #6 ("Butterflies & Hurricanes") written, drawn, inked, scanned, lettered, shaded, printed, and shipped back to me.

Miracles have happened, but not in the comic book world.

Funny story: Back when I first started drawing Issue #1, I had grand delusions that I could push out one episode every month. I was so excited that I went through the calendar in my phone and set alarms to remind me when to start writing, drawing, and publish each issue. Great idea at the time; but now that my pace is much slower it's more like a constant, mocking reminder of my failure. It's a blow to your morale when you're struggling to draw Issue #5 and you get an alert on your phone saying, "Publish #10," and another a few days later that says, "Start writing #11." And apparently I was very thorough in my alarm-setting, because the reminders never...seem...to stop.