Thanks to everyone for the kind messages and support while I was taking my time to recuperate, I have been very careful only to resume work when I felt it was safe to do so, and at the moment it all seems to be going well! TPoH is back on track (though I will take a week off at the end of the month when we have family to visit), and the books from the TPatJ kickstarter have finally arrived in our warehouse in America! After all the rewards have been shipped out to the supporters, all the surplus books will go up on sale on the Topatoco store: that's the new hardback 'The Princess and the Jester', and the rerun of Volumes 1 and 2 of TPoH! I'll be announcing when they are up for sale on twitter (@UncleMod) and tumblr (modmad.tumblr.com) so your best way to get the news asap will be by following me on those platforms! I will of course try to remember to update this news feed as well!
Thank you all again so much, I couldn't make these stories without you guys!
Burnout is currently hitting me over the back of the head with a step ladder and the ref is doing Absolutely Nothing about it.
Hahaha but jokes aside I have actually managed to work on the next TPoH page this week on account of having had the sketch (the part which uses the Most Brain) done before I ploughed face-first into the dirt and lost all my braincells in the divorce, and it happens to be a simple page so while I could actually conceivably bung in the speech bubbles and text in time for tomorrow the issue is that I then would not be able to update for ????? who knows how long after that because... I am nowhere near recovered. I had a few days of being able to function this past week so I was optimistic, but then I’ve had a terrible last two days and zero sleep last night so I’ve gone backwards instead of forwards.
I’m afraid this whole burnout thing is taking much longer than any of us had hoped, but as many of you have said I literally can’t do anything about it other than try to rest and recover (which, hilariously, is now significantly harder as my brain is now able to process Guilt and Stress again! joy).
Consequently I’ve decided that I will sit on the page(s) I have done for TPoH until such a time as I feel that I can make reliably regular updates again. I figure a solid block of hiatus and then getting back to normal will be less frustrating for you/stressful for me than very erratic updates made in a vain attempt to say “hey hello I’m alive please don’t send flowers to my grieving parents”. In summary: the comic and all other work is on hold until I have recovered completely, as it appears that resuming work before then is only going to worsen things. Thank you for your patience.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Thanks to the hard work of my supporters we not only reached the base goal for the Kickstarter, but the stretch too! This means we will be able to print both The Princess and the Jester, and do a rerun of Vol 1 and 2 of The Property of Hate, so if you're dying to get your hands on those they will be back in stock in my shop some time next year. Thank you for signal boosting and getting me to where I am!
As a sort of reward for this (and owing to the fact that I haven't taken a holiday in over a year and a half) for health, sanity and family reasons I will be taking 2 weeks off from updating TPoH. This will refresh me, heal up my hands, and basically mean that I can get back to work at full steam in the new year (and boy, what a year this one was...).
Thank you for your patience and constant, constant supply of love and support, I read every message I receive and reply to all I can and really I am just staggered by the kindness you've all shown me and the work I make! I hope that I can continue to create stories and pictures that will make you smile for many years to come.
Happy holidays, take care!
-S.Jolley
IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP AND SMELL THE HARDBACK BOOKCOVERS or. Something like that. Anyway I AM RUNNING A KICKSTARTER! We are aiming to make a jawdroppingly gorgeous version of The Princess and the Jester, hardback with lovely high quality colour print pages and even shiny gold on the cover, wowie. We are also hoping to reach our stretchgoal which is to reprint Volume One and Two of The Property of Hate, which is currently completely sold out! If you want to get a copy of either, this is your chance!
Support the kickstarter and look at all the shiny rewards you can get for doing so over here!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yourmchenries/the-princess-and-the-jester-by-sarah-jolley/
Go go go! There are only 28 days left, make them count and shout about it to all your friends!
Howdy folks, been a while huh? Well, things are rolling on apace with the kickstarter rewards, and we should be seeing the books appear around April! All the reward art is done and the folks at Make That Thing have done a great job with the books layout! Very exciting stuff. Also, those with beady peepers might have noticed we have a slightly new layout on this here mainpage, including a brand new lower-right tile! That link will take you to a collection of Duck Doodle Comics- I've been creating them through the past year and I've wound up with so many that people have asked for a place where they can read and find them more easily, so here it is! I hope you like them, I have great fun making them (and, as the disclaimer states, I make them 100% for free and for fun so hopefully Disney won't get mad at me putting them here on this equally none-profit making website!)
In less good news I've gone and broken my hands from too much work, again, so it looks like TPoH is on a tiny hiatus while I heal up. Hopefully it won't be longer than a week or two, but yeah, remember to rest and do your stretches kids! Don't be like me!
-Mod.
