EDIT: I’m moving this from a comic to a blog.  When Clockworks returns for good, I’m not sure if I’ll continue this storyline or just go straight back to our heroes.  For now, I’d like to remove it from the main archives.

Hey gang.  Welcome back.

It’s been a long time since I’ve drawn a comic, or much of anything really.  I figured it would be wise to ease my way back in with a side story, something less art intensive and with more freedom to write whatever comes up.  Do something simple to get my sealegs back.

Inspector Snarky here (not his real name) will be with us for the next two or three comics, and then we’ll return to Eva, Thorton, Ophelia, Oliver, Toby and the rest of the gang.  Some familiar faces will show up in this interlude, including perhaps a mysterious villain or two.

Anyway, hello again.  It’s a comic.  I’ll perhaps ramble a bit about my Lost Summer in future blog posts, but for now just know that I’m safe and sound and all of that.

For the next couple of weeks, updates will happen a bit randomly.  I’m still going to do two pages a week, and by September I’ll settle in to whatever the permanent schedule will be.  It may be Tuesday/Friday again, or something else all together.  We’ll see.

So, how have you guys been?

Hey gang.  It’s been a while.

I’ve been overly quiet around here, partly due to life and meds and random stuff and inertia.  My brain’s been full of vampires in New York in the 1980s for the past several weeks, and the comic I had in mind for Clockworks #103 seemed boring and slow.

But screw that crap.  I have a story to tell, damnit.  I have a script written, and will draw a comic before Friday if it kills me or is only stick figures.

Sorry for the absence.  I’ll see you Friday.

So, you may have noticed that Friday’s delay has extended through the holiday weekend and well past Tuesday.  In lieu of a new comic, I at least owe you guys an explanation and a sweet airship closeup.

So what’s up?

I’ve always been pretty upfront with you guys about my various mental health issues.  (For the record: I have Moderate Depression, Major Depression, and ADHD.  ADHD was only diagnosed a couple of years ago and has never been treated.)  I’ve been off any kind of depression medication for the past year, due to a lack of health insurance.  (Go U.S.A.!)  A week and a half ago I started up on Zoloft again, and it’s been a bumpy ride.

For those of you unfamiliar, it usually takes a few weeks to a month or more for drugs like Zoloft, Lexapro, etc to have an effect on one’s mental disorders.  Unfortunately, the side effects are often front loaded in the first week or two.  How an individual drug will react with an individual person is also something of a total crapshoot.  Lexapro for example screwed me up good.  (I used Zoloft several years ago, and the side effects were annoying but not devastating.)

Anyway, the short version of this is that the drug effects combined with my depression have made it pretty difficult to get much of anything done, including the comic.  I should be past the worst of it, and really want to get back to making comics.

I have a guest comic from Syhd that I will run on Friday, and I will either return to making comics normally next week or post a blog on Monday letting you guys know what’s up.

Apologies for the delay, and thank you all for your patience and support.