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Morning ya’ll! Hope all is well in your corner of this round globe…
… wait… geometrically that makes no sense… anyway…
I wanted to start off with a plug. I am preparing new prints and a new table set up for the upcoming Cap City Comic Con here in Lansing, Michigan. It will be my only appearance for the year so if you want to see me, come to the hometown show!
I will have majority of my comics there, sketch cards, prints and more fun stuff. Come on out and we will rage! Info here: https://www.capcitycomiccon.com/
I had a Saturday off to myself. I decided to actually work up the nerve and leave the house. See, I barely drive anywhere now cause of the car accident I was in almost 2 years ago. It really has messed me up with bad anxiety. But I got some trips coming up and I am trying to prepare myself for them. I mean, 5 concerts, a trip in August to see my pep pep in South Illinois and maybe a camping trip with friends too. We’ll see what happens.
So anyway, I decided to make a long delayed trip to Owosso, MI, which is about 45 minutes from me currently. Main reason was cause I wanted to go see an old friend…
My old pal Caleb, his birthday was this past week and I have been owing him a visit. I try to make it out once or twice a year if I can. It has been a year or two so I really owed him a lot of catching up. I only knew him for 11 months when we worked together and there literally is not one day that goes by where I don’t think about him. I miss him a lot. Every night when I am in the office, I walk by his old desk and I whisper “Goodnight Caleb.” Always on my mind. Some people enter your life and they have such an outstanding personality and soul with them that they are unforgettable. And all we are is a collection of memories. So long as we remember the ones that have left us to the beyond, they are never really gone. Its my privilege to carry a part of him with me as I go about the remainder of my days.
While in Owosso, I took the time to stop at one of my favorite used media stores, called JELLYBEAN. If you are looking for old comics, magazines, books, cds, dvds and more… I gotta recommend em. I got a pile of old Star Trek related magazines and a few books for only $2 each!
I used to have those Trek 3 posters on my wall as a kid. Trek 3 is a pretty important movie in my life… as you will see in issue #5 of Pleasant Life! (More on that in a minute.) And I have never read any of the Enterprise Incidents Magazines. Looking forward to them! I was blessed with some great Trek finds out there! Filling the holes in my Trek book collection and lots of toilet reads. Trekkk on!!!
After that I got home and got some artworking done. (blurred out to avoid spoilers)
I penciled 7 new STARSLAM pages and dropped flat colors on some PLEASANT LIFE ones. I about got the art done for issue #7 and now I gotta start on issue 8. The comic page posts here are fast catching up with me so I gotta start getting my arse into gear.
Belle Belle kept me company as I worked…
My cats always seem to surround me in bed as I work. One of either side of my drawing tablet, the other nestled into my side to stay warm. I’m very blessed with the fur babies in my life. Although they always try to lay on my drawing arm, limiting my movement. So if you see mistakes randomly, its cause I didn’t want to move too much to wake them. Yes, I blame them!
Beyond that, not much else to say. I just uploaded all of issue #5 for PLEASANT LIFE here on the substack. As usual you will get the new parts on early Monday morning, right here for free! Aren’t you glad you signed up for this substack snoop bloggy blog? I’m thankful you did, believe me. We’re into the nitty gritty with both STARSLAM and PLEASANT LIFE. STARSLAM is fast approaching the big conclusion of book 1. Book 1 for Pleasant Life is done as soon as issue #6 uploads. The art itself is done and I lettered it this past week. Just gotta do post production, file handing, uploading on that. that should take us into August/early September. I have that long to get more issues in the can. I am caught up enough that I can dedicate some time to making a couple more prints and some sketch cards for the con. What should I do? What would you like to see?
Anyways, I hope you are all staying sane out there. Thanks for reading! Comics tomorrow morning. I can’t wait for you guys to read all the greatness coming in issue #5. New characters, old characters and finally some changes coming for our main characters. WOOT WOOT!
Much love, T