distance

Busy busy times.
Compiling content for the monthly digitals SP! Nexus and Arcana Magazine, as well as for the debut iss of Arcana's print mag AND a special bonus iss we are putting together for this year's SDCC (which I might actually be attending). Tons of review articles and interviews.
As well, my series of artist interviews continues for the A.N.A. Comics blog, although I am giving myself a brief rebreather on that.
Andy Dawe-Collins has completed art for our ten page story for the A.N.A. Comics Spring anthology, which will be out later next month, although preorders are still in effect. We wrapped our lettering corrections just last night, and I love how it all turned out. Of course, our non-secret plan is to continue the story of Rafferty as an ongoing, weekly webcomic to be hosted at the A.N.A. website.
Lucid, my story for the Less Than Three (<3) anthology of romance-themed comix is in full swing too, with the lovely and talented and lovely Melike Acar churning out some of the prettiest pages I have ever seen. Jaymes Reed is on tap for lettering and prepress. Len Wallace, the book's conductor and a good pal of mine, has been putting together a pitch (with assistance from yours truly) withwhich to find a publisher at the big fat C2E2 this weekend. I will not be attending the new Con in Chicago, although I learned a wee bit too late that my name is indeed on their media list.
Also inching forward with my two commitments for my friend Alex Ness, on the Ripper book and illos for his book of verse. Although, finding windows of time to get into the proper mindset for those has been troublesome. Comparably, my NEON EDEN project with Peter Palmiotti and the Control Syndicate project with Greg Harms and Roman Morales III are dripdropping their respective ways into reality at an agonizingly slow pace.
I am looking for side gigs still, day work to keep my coffeecup full of bourbon. But having difficulties finding prospective employers who can so much as pretend to be at all organized.
Spring is here, though it feels like Summer. I spend most of my waking time reading and writing and working on this near-dead laptop. Al and Nat are good flatmates for me now. I like to think we all keep each other proactive. However, I am not sleeping enough, not eating enough. I have been having nightmares again, regularly. Very vivid and confounding imagery.

That's where I am. Mostly.