Thoughts and Ramblings.

With the functionality of this site growing and growing every day (thanks Th3rd World), I decided to take advantage of the blog feature.  The cool thing is that it links to my ancient wordpress blog that was started way back when.  I’m not gonna promise scheduled updates on this thing but I’ll try to make them semi-regular.

I actually sat down this weekend and read my own copy of “That’s The Smell Of Freedom: Pinkerton Volume #1″ and I realized:  This is the way Pinkerton was meant to be read.  I such a different experience reading the strips back to back rather than waiting 24 hours for the next strip to drop.  I think that’s always kinda been my plan with it.  To make it a continuous saga of sorts.  I have yet to fully succeed there but I noticed that, towards the end of the book, I was getting close.  I’d love to see if anyone felt the same on this subject.  Chime in if you want.

With that being said, Volume #2 is in the works.  Grant, I haven’t come up with a snappy title.  I think I’m just gonna call it “Chinese Democracy” just to piss off Axel Rose.  Titles are very important to me so I’m sure I won’t have one til the very last minute.  I inked the cover of the “That’s The Smell…” and cautiously let Jon Conklin from Th3rd World color it.  I was a tad nervous about it.  Not that I doubt Jon’s abilities.  I’m just a crabby old hermit who doesn’t want to let anything go.  However, the cover came out way better than I could’ve imagined.  Soooo, guess who’s gonna color the next volume (i hope)….

Readers are constantly listening to the web-cartoonist’s whine:  I’m too busy, I’m exhausted, I’ve got squirrels in my underpants, I need to recharge…  Yes, we’re all very tired of it.  So to save time, please re-read the cartoonists whine and imagine it coming from me.  Now, don’t get your panties in a bunch.  I’m not going anywhere.  I’m just up to my ass in life and it tends to affect my productivity and quality of product.  What I’ve decided to start doing, rather than reduce Pinkerton to a 3x a week strip, is to run one or two flashbacks a week so that I can find a little time to write and ponder without feelling like a gun is pointed at the side of my head.  I just haven’t figured out what days to run the flashbacks.  I could always be a jerkwad and run them right after a cliffhanger.  That’s not a bad thought…

Who knows.  All I know is that I wanna keep the pressure to a minimum at this point so I can put out the best comics I know how.

On top of the Volume #2 being in the works, I’m also working on a few things merch related.  We’re in the discovery process at the moment so I can’t really say much about it other than it rhymes with “slush boys.”  You figure it out.  All the talk of Pinkerton catch phrases in the comments section has gotten wondering if slogan t-shirts would be cool.  I could totally see a “What A Load Of Monkey Knuckles” T-shirt.

Well, I hope to God you’re enjoying the new site.  If you haven’t picked up your copy of Volume 1, hop out to the Pinkerton Store and grab it.  It’s practically free, fer cryin’ out Chrysler.