Update 01: 7/26/26
We did it! As of today, Keith and Demi Issue 01 is fully drawn! It’s been a lot of hard work, sleepless nights, and uses of a white gel pen, but 20 pages of this story are done. Only 100 more to go! The best, and worst, part about this first issue is how much I’ve grown as an artist over these two months of completing pages. On the one hand, seeing the difference in quality of Page 1 (the last page I did) and Page 5 (the first) is stupefying, however, that jump in quality might turn some people away from the book, which would suck. I have to hope the “Come for the art, stay for the story” adage that permeates throughout the comic community is true. Regardless, shitty artist Mike and present, slightly better Mike are equally excited for you all to have this story! But, there’s a lot more to do. We still have coloring from the amazing Kevin Betou to finish up, lettering (which I’ve been told is my weak spot), continuing promotion-which, if anyone has ideas for that isn’t make 4 billion TikToks, I’d greatly appreciate it-and, hopefully soon, the dreaded Kickstarter. Not dreaded in that I don’t want to do it, but dreaded in my anxiety is already spiking just thinking about asking people for money. I sit in my room all day and draw comics, I’m not a business person. Alas, we’ll make it work…hopefully. So lots of work to do, but work that I love so why complain? I’ll leave you with a bit of that aforementioned Page 1 as a reward for enduring my rambling. Oh, I almost forgot! I guess I have to add “Start writing Issue 2” to that list, huh? Well, let me get to it then. Bye, y’all!