First of all, I'm sorry for my relative inactivity on this website and the art community at large. For a long while now, I was investing myself heavily into blue-collar jobs and stuff like that to raise money for to going back to school in Poland, which I still plan on doing this summer hopefully. I've raised a good chunk of money towards this end, but because of my recent unemployment, and the fact that I can't really get any financial assistance for going to school in another country, I've pretty much fallen short of this goal and might have to redirect fire a bit, but I have backup plans for getting me over there on time still, and blah blah blah, that's all boring and uninteresting.

What I really want to talk about is some of the projects I'm going to be working on. Since I'm currently unemployed, I've had a lot of time to invest myself into more creative endeavors, and its been the soul food I've been needing for a long time.

I've started working on a Minecraft server run by DawnSomewhere.com's Greg Hoffman and Petirep, to which we collaboratively hope to construct large scale projects for exhibition on youtube, possibly turning a profit with some of that sweet youtube money for both ourselves and the site in general. And, as much as I'm looking forward to that, what I'm really looking forward to is working on a comic I've been approached to make for the website!

"In Sickness and in Health" is a story about Abigail Zucht, a charming and intelligent mother and wife who finds happiness in many of the simple pleasures of life. For weeks now, she's been attempting to contact her work-traveling husband, but to no avail, until one fateful day, after leaving her son and dog with family, she decides to embark on a train ride to visit him at his far away job, and enters into a setting of horror, occult, and political instability.

I can't tell you how much I'm happy and willing to be working on a horror story, and for once, I think my black and white style and dynamism may lend itself to a project. I'm sure most of the writing will be left in Greg's nimble hands, but much of the panel layout and art direction will be left in my control, and the whole thing will be given a modern touch with digital enhancements provided by Kenza Faten (who unfortunately doesn't have an online gallery yet). Kenza originally illustrated this comic herself, but found it a bit unwieldy to produce on her own, and since I'm also a novice in regards to comic-smithing, I think a homogenized effort between two artists will lend itself nicely to the project.

Anyways, look forward to that. In the last year, and as I've grown older, I've wanted nothing more than to devote myself to the creative process, and I have high hopes for a concerted effort towards this comic and weekly to bi-weekly updates.