JANUARY MEGA BLOG 2012 YEAH

Hello hello. Well I've been out of action with a mystery illness (pretty much since April last year on and off) and December 2011 was a useless month for me which will explain my lack of comics and website updates. Despite this I think most of my stockists should have the the new Depressed Cat book in store and thank you to everyone who bought a copy and said good things about it in the past couple of months. At the moment I seem to be ok again and so now I've got that generic why-I've-not-updated-as-often-as-intended-explanation-and-apology out of the way here are a few things I'm planning for the website and blog:

1) BLOG Monthly inspirations posts: there will be one following this in a minute. I'm going to blog a few items/books/films that are inspiring my writing at the start of each month of 2012. This is to give people some recommendations but also to help me focus on certain ideas and things I want to draw. This will usually be in the form of a book or two, a film or two and a food item. I might do a recap end of month post of all the books and films I've read/watched that month too, just because it's nice to keep a record. IT'S JUST NICE OK

2) ONLINE COMIC Now that Sushi Karaoke has sold out (...there may be a few copies in some of the stockists if you are after one but I'm not sure where...) I will be adding the pages from that comic online. Expect the first few next week!

3) CONVENTIONS I will be cutting down on conventions this year. This is mainly because I feel like there are only a couple really worth my while visiting in the UK. I will be at Comikett, Birmingham Zine Festival and Thought Bubble this year for sure but at the moment I don't know which other events I will be attending.

4) OTHER STUFF Are you really still reading this? ok... well I have quite a few projects lined up for 2012 including two new books to be out before April (one joint book and the follow up to At The Planetarium) and two exhibitions. I also have some other things to announce but details on all that soon.
5) MORE OTHER STUFF I will be continuing Grizzly Bear Thursday (which was yesterday if you missed it) and I'm organising the next Birmingham Zine Festival planned for September 2012.

As well as all this I'm hoping to have time to do some more comics for Top Shelf 2.0, some more Planetarium comics and to get some new tote bags or tshirts printed.

So, that was basically my "to do" list in blog form. If you read all that then well done, here is a prize.