BLOG: Taking Care When I Can (and if I can)

Hello friends! I hope your weekend is going well. The news gets a bit quieter on the weekends and that is always a welcome thing! ISSUE SIX (WOW) of PLEASANT LIFE starts right here tomorrow! I’m quite proud of where this issue goes. Part of the goal with bringing back the series was to give every character a bit of business, not just the main two guys. We finally address some stuff talked about in Issue 2, involving Kelly and her dad. I got to draw some fun (and real) Mt. Pleasant, Michigan locations too! So few from my days growing up there still exist. Sad face. So enjoy the story and the personal trip down memory lane starting tomorrow!

Meanwhile I got 16 new pages for issue 8 in the coloring/flatting stage. I got room to add another scene into issue 8. Gonna color these and think about it. And also the work continues on STARSLAM over at the Patreon! A new part drops early August like always. Let me tease you some newly colored panels from the book (now at 188 pages!)

And this big one:

I’m so damn proud of where this book is going. I’m hip deep into the climax of this story and man I got A LOT of drawing ahead of me. A LOT on these pages. Big events. I am not even sure how I am going to pull it off, but I will. Just taking it one day, one panel at a time. Lots of Splash pages too! This one is going to 11. Fuck… 12!! You’ll see (if you are on my Patreon of course) Link: https://www.patreon.com/ADAMTALLEY

Not only am I drawing my ass off, but I am letting the writing bug get me. I woke up at 5am with a line in my head and so I decided to chase it down and combine a bunch of ideas I wanted to write about into a short chapter of a novel I have been working on forever. Here’s how far I got this morning on a seperate new chapter...

Not bad! So yeah, I’m doing THREE things at once. Am I crazy? Probably. But at least it keeps me out of trouble. Mental health is always a struggle nowadays. Physical as well. I fell off the wagon on the diet and am working myself back to the point of actually WANTING/NEEDING to do it. I’ve stopped and started all my life. I cannot count the times I’ve rehabed myself. I definitely neglect it all, ain’t going to lie. I have a whole issue with “self love.” I’m not good at it at all. I can’t even look in the mirror half the time. All I see is my fat, my aging, my balding, my crooked teeth… Gone are all the little things I thought I had going for me, physically. heh… I used to be such a young, full haired, thinner handsome motherfucker. Life came along and gave me other plans.

A majority of my problems comes from my obesity. I am not sure why I am not fully motivated to turn the ship around. I got every reason in the world to be. Only thing I seem to be motivated on lately is doing the comics. I’ve neglected little house projects and piles of stuff all spring and summer. I’ve put off doctor’s visits, car maintenance and deep cleans of things that desperately need it.

Well, here’s hoping I can wake up and get back in the saddle and actually make it this time. Hope always springs eternal. :)

Thanks for reading, be well and enjoy the start of Issue 6 of PLEASANT LIFE starting tomorrow morning right here!

Much love, T