This is a very quick update, which I’m writing on my phone so please excuse any spelling mistakes. Also, please excuse any wrong words because this little monster of a machine will not turn off autocorrect and I’m typing too fast to check it as I go.

I am incredibly busy again this week but that’s okay. I like being busy, it stops me getting bored. I have law to study, comics to draw and writing to catch up on because I did not get it all done yesterday. The perils of having to renegotiate a mortgage at the last minute, I suppose.

Anyway, I’d best get on with actually doing this work rather than talking about it. I’ll leave you with an interesting link however. I thought when I drew the image on the front of the invited to my civil partnership that I had captured the essence of the occasion but it is clear to me that the bar has now been raised. It was the person who drew this zombie-hunting happy couple who raised it.

Still it will all be worth it in the end.

Anyway, I’ll leave you with an interesting link. I designed the logo on my wedding invites and I thought the image suited the occasion perfectly. Nevertheless I have been outdone. Whoever drew this husband and wife as zombie hunters has clearly taken the invite business to a whole new level.

So the creative month of November is upon us once more. This year, I have decided that not only am I partaking of the madness that is NaNoWriMo but I am also going to attempt the 30 Characters Challenge. This should ensure that my creative juices are well and truly flowing by the end of the month; or possibly that I’ve totally burned out by the middle of the first week and I don’t do anything else for the rest of the year. Only time will tell.

For NaNo, I’m trying my hand at a horror novel; just like I’ve done for the past three years. In fact, it is the same horror novel. I never get to the end of it (I actually won NaNo in my first year but didn’t finish the novel) and restart it every year. This year will be the last time I do that, I swear. If I don’t finish the book this time, I’m going to have to face up to the fact that I never will. Then it will be time to move on to something else.

I’m semi-pantsing it this year, as usual. I have no plot outline, just an idea of where the story is going and who will be in it. The actual minutiae are not set in stone though, so with any luck I’ll enjoy ploughing through to see where the thing goes as much as any potential reader will.

As for the 30 Character Challenge, I intend to use this as a way of getting a host of characters prepared for use in Ink Proof Cannon when it launches in January. For those of you who don’t know what that is (and there will be many, I’m sure), Ink Proof Cannon is my new anthology webcomic. I have a friend interested in producing the art for one of the stories (a science fiction story involving bounty hunters, revenge tales and lots of mutants) but I’m doing the rest myself. I’ll therefore need to get my act together if I’m going to have these characters designed in time, and a 30 Characters in 30 Days style challenge seems like just what the doctor ordered.

I’ll keep you posted on how I get on.

A fellow webcomic creator and podcaster, who goes by the name Fesworks, asked on Twitter for pictures to accompany his podcast, The Webcomic Beacon. I listen to that podcast every week while I’m drawing my comics so I was happy to provide a couple of pictures for him.

Because he won’t be using the original size images (if he chooses to use the images at all), I thought I’d link to them here. As always, I’m happy to hear from you if you have any comments.

'Bunny Becky', or 'The Recursive Rabbit and Hat'

Cubist Becky

Enjoy!