If you’re wondering which comic received the retraction, it’s this one.

It was an amazing weekend at the Comic Geek Speak Super Show, and the chance to road trip with Jamie and Danielle was definitely worth it. Stay tuned for two amazing books coming soon from both me and Jamie that you’ll be pretty psyched about, I promise.

If you came by the table and I seemed a little under the weather, it’s because I was coming down with a pretty nasty cold. I was losing my voice and had a mean cough, so if you thought “this guy is kinda a jerk” you’re not necessarily wrong, but sorry I wasn’t able to put my best foot forward.

New Rewards On Our Kickstarter

Btw if you haven’t backed the Super Art Fight Kickstarter yet, we just released some lower prices and rewards! Go check it out!

Just read the next post for news and events and stuff. See you at the Super Show!

Oh man, a lot of things, you guys!

Hey Pennsylvania Peeps

This weekend I’ll be a guest at the Comic Geek Speak Super Show in Reading, PA. If ONE of you just comes by and says hey that would be amazing. Details here »

Super Art Fight + ThinkGeek

We’re doing a Super Art Fight show with the gang at ThinkGeek on May 4th (“May The Fourth”, the geekiest day of the year) at Jammin Java in Vienna, VA. It’s gonna be a dope-ass motha of a show!

If you’ve never been to a Super Art Fight (seriously where have you been?) it’s a competitive, improvised, live action, geeky art competition. If that doesn’t have your attention, why are you reading this?

TICKETS AND MORE DETAILS HERE »

Super Art Fight: The Book

We are doing one of them Kickstarter things. Specifically, it’s a book all about Super Art Fight called SUPER ART FIGHT: “THE GREATEST LIVE ART COMPILATION IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE. It will feature:

• Comics
• A collection of our poster art
• original illustrations by our roster
• collaborative “MEGA TOPIC” illustrations
• Wheel of Death illustrations
• Anecdotes, Show notes and so much more

Not only is it gonna be a fun book, but there’s fun prizes like custom original artwork from our team, exclusive t-shirts, and all of it goes to help make Super Art Fight superer.

My friend (and fan of the comic and more importantly cancer survivor) Sam has a crowd-funded project to help those dealing with cancer by providing them with better nutrition. All of the artwork rewards are pretty great and drawn by many of the Super Art Fight crew. Anyway, I want to help her make this happen so if you have a few bucks, even only $1, send it her way.

Unless you LIKE cancer. Then don’t support her. Otherwise, here’s the project page.

Systemic Marty linked me to an Onion article that really really made me sad:

Find The Thing You’re Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life

This is pretty much what you’re reading right now, the thing I do on nights and weekends. Anyway, ouch. But I figured you guys would want to read it. My favorite bit:

It could be anything—music, writing, drawing, acting, teaching—it really doesn’t matter. All that matters is that once you know what you want to do, you dive in a full 10 percent and spend the other 90 torturing yourself because you know damn well that it’s far too late to make a drastic career change, and that you’re stuck on this mind-numbing path for the rest of your life.

Is there any other way to live?

This comic, Super Art Fight, freelance, it has all fit around a “day job” of some sort for me. I’m honestly not sure if I could do these things full time, as all my ideas come from my experiences in said day jobs. Some people (like Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist) will tell you this is fine, and that a job gives you stability and money and insurance, therefore the freedom to do what you want the way you want to do it. Others would clearly say that this is bullshit, and you should be doing what you want with your time.

I think you need to have things you do outside of your job. Hobbies, or more likely in this day and age a hobby that seems more like a side business in some way, help give you something else to think about and help hone the skills that employers wish you had but aren’t willing to pay for, or at the least help keep you sane while meanwhile driving you insane.

What do you think? Should you be basically serving more mistresses? Should we all be doing exactly what we love? Is it ever this simple? What do you do when you aren’t fulfilling your tons of commitments? Seriously, I’m asking.

Go read the whole thing and be sad »