Welcome to the last issue of the Tuesday Night Party Club. Thank you for joining me in 2020. I needed to practice writing so putting out this newsletter on a weekly basis has been a way to do that. Starting Friday, January 1st – in four days – I’ll be launching a new newsletter. I’m using the tinyletter.com service.
That newsletter will be called the Skook WIP. WIP for Work in Progress. Most of the images I presented here over the last year were of finished work I’d done in years past. The Skook WIP will focus on new and updated art. I’ll be showing illustrations at different stages, from rough sketches to finished images. I enjoy seeing other artists’ processes so hopefully you’ll enjoy seeing mine.
I will also be spotlighting a different artist each week with links to where you can see more of their work. Many of them will be folks whose work influenced me as I was growing up. Others will be folks who are inspiring me now.
And, of course, I’ll continue to comment and complain about my job at USPS. Complaining is what humans do. Am I glad to have a job during these days of sickness, economic uncertainty and political chaos? You bet! Am I frustrated by an economic and cultural framework that means most people are scraping by and feeling lucky that they aren’t in worse shape? Hell yes.
But that’s later. I’ve just survived another Christmas season. I’ve worked multiple 13 hour days and finished most of my shifts after the sun went down. From what I’ve read in the news and heard via shop talk, our station had less back up and higher staffing than a lot of others. So it could have been worse. Yay, not worse!
I have today off. This newsletter is a short one because I’m working on getting a headstart on the first issue of the Skook WIP. And I’ve got errands to run. And art to work on. And maybe take a nap. If you’ve already subscribed, THANK YOU! I plan continue to post links here but if you want to avoid the hassle of link following, well … use the form below.
Here’s to a better year in 2021! See you on the 1st!
Seldom do you hear how “we” maintain our financial lives outside of being artists. So, I thank you for sharing that. I too have been lucky to have been working during all of this (I’m a Fedex guy.) I don’t have as many wonderful opportunities as you have with illustrating comics. Mostly my monetary “appreciation” in terms of my art is through Etsy, Redbubble, and the all mighty Tee Public. Mind you, if it wasn’t for my “relentless” posts about said sites and items featuring my wares? Well–? WELL.
I’m glad that I found your site through serendipitous happenstance. It does offer a great deal of comfort. Oh, and the art is really good too!
Thank you for dropping by John. I’ve had one year when I made a slim living just from doing art. It felt good to have succeeded at it for that one. I’d tried a couple of times in the past and had to find a “real job” after just a few months. I took the job at USPS in order to have health insurance and a pension/better social security.
Yeah, we’ve got to be relentless promoters of our own work. Nobody tells you that marketing is going to be a necessary skill for artist.
Marketing? What’s that? Oh yeah, that activity that opens you up to the most comically demeaning circumstances ever! HAHAHAHAH! Yeah, it’s true. Marketing is very important. ANNOYING, but very important.
Happy, and profitable (financially, and mentally) NEW YEAR!