Boy what a month, coming straight out of Anthrocon I've been hit with a bit of Schedule-Bad-Luck. This bad-luck has manifested in the form of my truck being in and out of my local mechanic shop four times now since AC! I would've given up and switched mechanics but after they failed to address the problem the first two times they're now working on my truck pro-bono (something I can't really turn down). That's the nice part, the not so nice part is how much this has managed to inconvenience me on a daily basis: I can't run errands during the day, I'm constantly walking everywhere in hilariously high humidity, and, even more importantly, I can't take my young and energetic dog to the dog park (something he needs daily at his age) so that he can run till he's tired enough to let me work. I don't have a backyard and depleting his energy via walks takes upwards of two hours (and in this heat: depletes even more of what little energy my body has).

What I'm saying is: I really need my fucking truck back, and fixed.

You may have noticed that my uploads have been sporadic, this perfect storm of auto and energy issues is why. It has been a VERY hard month. I've had to cancel my upcoming vacation, delay projects that I would very much like to work on, operate on a very inconsistent schedule out of necessity, and just been generally running myself into the ground.

Luckily I was able to look at my options and determine a proper course of action. I'm behind on commission work and Patreon work so I did the following:

-Gathered up all orders that were completed and packaged them today, they'll be in the mail tomorrow.
-Paused my Patreon payments for August so I can focus more on overdue commissions.
-Am also going to do only one more comic page this month (next week) and then dedicate the rest of the month to commission work.
-If I'm not satisfied with the progress, or my mechanic decides to just never give me my truck back, I'll pause the comic work UNTIL I am satisfactorily caught up.

I do not like pausing the comics. I like working on them and people like when I upload them. However: they make me no money. Furries do not buy original pages or artwork the way most comic book fans do, my Patreon support is 90% commission based (If you'd like to support the comic, go in for as low as a dollar a month here: https://www.patreon.com/bone ) , and I simply do not have the time to color correct my old pages and compile them into a printable book (if YOU are someone capable of this then I might be able to hire you or do a Saturday painting for you, make me an offer). Until the comics make money I have to do what people are willing to pay me for, which is fine, but it is what it is.

I know my journals are usually funny and brisk but, and I realize this is reiteration, I really had to grind myself down hard this month to get what little done that I did. It's a case where something's gotta give (IE: my car is finally fixed, my dog becomes inexplicably lazy, someone buys all my originals, VHB gets a Netflix deal, or I keel over dead) and I don't plan on it being me. So August SHOULD be a fairly illustration heavy month. I've got lots of cool stuff to draw for all of you, it's gonna be a good time.

Time to go to work~

-Bone