Let me preface this by saying that this is not a funny post. Sometimes things just aren’t that funny.
First, I would like to apologize for disappearing without a word. The people who regularly read this comic deserve better than that. Here is the truth of the matter:
I started this site to post the stupid doodles I did at work when I was bored. My depression and that I just kept getting older (without even trying) prompted me to leave my job to pursue my artistic endeavors. I was lucky enough to be in a position to do that. Because I already had this site with maybe a hundred “comics” on it already, I chose to do this as my primary focus. Hindsight is a motherfucker, though, and it took me a full year to realize that I really did not choose the path I was most passionate about.
Now, I do not mean to get too heavy, and I certainly am not fishing for sympathy. A few months ago, my wife and I decided to get a divorce. It totally sucks, for sure, but it put a lot of things in perspective. For one thing, I just was not feeling very funny anymore. Comic ideas used to occur to me at random throughout the day, but recently it was everything I could do to squeeze ideas out of my largely unresponsive brain.
The last comic I posted, “to kill a snowman,” felt like a good stopping point. All the existential non sequiturs and absurdism that I more or less accidentally based most of the comics on seemed to be brought to the forefront. Basically, this last comic felt like I had finished saying what I wanted to say.
I won’t say that I’ll never write another comic for this site, but for now it is on indefinite hiatus. If at some point I do update it again, and you want to read it, I suggest subscribing to the RSS feed.
Lastly, I would like to thank you, very sincerely, for reading my comic. It is still amazing to me to think that something I scribbled on a sheet of note paper or on the computer could brighten someone’s day or make them say, “what the hell was that?”
I hope that this post finds you well, and that all your future days are filled with your favorite snack foods and plenty of brightly colored balloons.
-Jared
