Greetings and salutations! I hope your week went well!
My right arm is still healing. At least I hope it’s healing. It’s in no condition for me to go back to delivering mail. I’ve gotten an MRI but it will be another week before I can see a doctor to find out how to manage it. I did have an acupuncture session two weeks ago that seemed to make a difference so I’m trying to schedule another one this week. I’ve run out of muscle relaxants and will be out of one of my pain relievers shortly. I have a few weeks of sick leave and annual leave still available so I’m not worried. Yet.
I’m managing to get a little art done every day.
Right now I’m bopping between the Mighty Nizz Tarot Deck and Goblin Alpha Seven. Mighty Nizz seems like she has more commercial potential than Goblin. The elevator pitch for Nizz is simple enough – she’s a little girl raised by a Sasquatch in a magic forest. Goblin is … I’m not sure what Goblin is. I haven’t come up with a simple way to describe it yet.
Below is my scan of a page of the original thirty plus year old art.
Below this is the revised art with the new dialogue.
I do know what will happen in the story but most of it is unscripted and still needs to be sketched out.
| Project | Count | Complete |
| Goblin Alpha Seven (comic) | 40 pages | 6 pages |
| John Bell’s Oz Book (illustrations) | 27 illustrations | 20 illustrations |
| Mighty Nizz: Getting Dressed (comic) – 18 pages | 18 pages | 5 pages |
| Mighty Nizz: Tarot Deck (tarot deck) | 78 cards | 4 cards |
| Skookworks Webstore | 248 designs | 7 linked from Skookworks.com |
| Observations (comic) | 8 pages | |
| Sunk Cost Elegy (comic) | 120 pages (tentative) | |
| The Surrilana Depths (comic) | 200 pages (tentative) | |
| Daughter of Spiders (illustrated short story series) – number of stories, word count and number of illustrations to be determined. |
Above is my progress chart. I’m going to keep it as simple as possible – just list what I will expect to be in the completed project and what’s actually finished. As you can see, I have a lot of work to do.
I hope your coming week is a good one! See you next Monday!
