Happy Tet/Chinese New Year, Happy Valentine’s Day and Happy President’s Day.
I was thinking about how many times over the past three years (I started Em oi! in 2007, believe it or not) I have thought that a particular comic would be my last, or that it wasn’t worth doing and that I would quit. The answer is – a number of times. Maybe every six months since I came home from Asia (that would be August of 2007). At this point it seems clear to me that Em oi! is never going to be big like Pictures for Sad Children or Hark! A Vagrant! People enjoy it, mostly if they know me, but they don’t send it to their friends, twitter about it, do whatever it is that makes some comics famous and other comics failures.
I guess I’ve come to terms with that by now, mostly. When I draw the comic, it’s because I genuinely enjoy drawing the comic, and the small amount of feedback I get makes me happy enough. But since I’m now doing this for me and not because I’m going to become famous, you may be seeing larger gaps between updates. Juggling school, two jobs, planning a wedding, and trying to finish my novel IN ADDITION to drawing the comic is becoming too much some weeks. I’m sorry; I know there are a lot of people out there who find this entertaining (I assume there are, anyway – some silent minority).
So, thanks for reading. We’ll see how it goes for the next three hundred.