Not as good news first. I don’t have a comic update this time. But it will come! The main factor in preventing posting Next Adventure right now is finishing the short comic (completely non-Next-Adventure thing) I’m working on for a book I’m putting together with my friends. I’m very excited about this, guys, and I can’t wait to share that once it’s finished! I will be sure to let you know.
I want to thank the people who’ve been emailing and asking about Next Adventure! It means a lot to hear that you want read more. Don’t worry, it’ll be back. In the meantime, here are a few things that may help. I know some people want to be updated when the comic starts back up again. I’m afraid I can’t really email everybody that–I don’t have the time–but there is an rss feed at the top of the page and I’ve also got a Twitter that I use almost exclusively to inform when I’ve posted art anywhere. Follow if you’d like! Which brings me to the other thing, my sketch blog, which has been recently updated with a fresh page of Next Adventure sketches. Stay tuned there for little bits and pieces of Next Adventure as well as a myriad of other things. All art, all the time ; )

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Natalie’s dad has made an appearance. A lot of her physical characteristics take after her father, but her cleaning habits…? Maybe not as much. Still, I don’t doubt she could tolerate her dad’s apartment more than I could.  Natalie’s mother is blond-ish, though whether or not that is natural remains to be said.

I (listened to) “The Cricket on the Hearth” by Charles Dickens the other day. It was the first time I’ve ever heard that story, and it was so good. I love how Dickens is so set on making sure we know what happens to everybody at the end of his stories. He’ll go into crazy detail about what everybody does after everything’s been resolved. It might not be good for all stories, but somehow I really appreciate it when he does it.

I also went snowshoeing with my dad and brother yesterday, and that is another experience I would enjoy repeating. We trekked on the outskirts of our town. My hometown is in the northern half of the United States and we get tons and tons of snow. Walking through the woods after and during a snowfall was like walking through a million hallways of an enormous palace built of trees and snow. We had to keep to a tight trail, but we could see through the branches at how vast everything was. It definitely made me want to draw.