Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve been busy moving in to a new place (we DID get the place from the July 20th strip) and am still trying to unpack all my junk. I really have too much junk, I need to get rid of at least 25% of the things that I own. My new goal.

I’m for the most part finally set up at my new place, so I can update again.

Be warned though, I have to get ready for the Small Press Expo next week so updates may/will become sporadic again. But when haven’t they been sporadic lately, eh?

Also, potentially HUGE news coming in the next month or two. Well, huge news if you like my comics. Some changes, they are a’coming.

I FINALLY caught up to the two year mark, and now that I’ve reached that point there are some changes coming. Potentially huge changes.

It’s no secret that I’ve been behind on these comics for most of the last year and I’m not really catching up. I mean, I’ve finally reached the two year anniversary of inkdick almost two full months after the fact. That’s not good. Not good at all.

inkdick will no longer be updating everyday.

I’ve been so set-in-my-ways of catching up and making sure I have a comic for every single day that I missed, but I think I’m the only one who really cares about that. And by being the only one who cares about that I’m exhausting myself and putting aside other bigger projects. I asked myself, would the world really end if I skipped days because either something else came up, I didn’t have time, or I just wasn’t feeling it? No. The world would go on, same as it always has.

So as of now inkdick will update on a “whenever schedule”. Some weeks you might get a comic everyday, some weeks you might only get one or two.

Yeah, this may seem like it stinks but trust me, this is a very good thing in the long run. There are so many other projects that I want/need to work on, and some of those could potentially be PAYING projects. I have only so many hours in a day to work on comics, and it’s dumb of me to spend almost ALL of that time on a comic that is no longer the main priority. Now I still like doing inkdick, people still like reading it (I hope), and I want it to keep it going in some fashion but not have it get in the way of future projects, so I think this is a fair solution for everyone. You still get some comics and I get to try out new and exciting things and grow as an artist.

Now if inkdick somehow became my bread and butter and that’s what was making me money, I’d come back to seven days a week every week. Or if I could swing it and become a well-paid full-time cartoonist and treated inkdick like a morning warm-up sketch, I’d come back to seven days a week every week. But until one of those things happens, this is how it’s going to be. Who knows, maybe I’ll be able to get back on top of things, manage my time better, and just organically slip back into doing these everyday again. Hey, it could happen.

Whatever does happen in the future and whatever does happen with this comic, don’t worry! I’m working on a few other projects and I think you are going to love those as much as you love inkdick, if not more!

So onward and upward, dear readers, to the future!

Oh and also, thank you all for two great years. I would have given up a long time ago if it wasn’t for all your support and awesomeness.

I should start using this blog part of the site more. Anyways, SOME NEWS!

My posting schedule is going to be even more sporadic than it has been (if that is even possible). Why? Because I’m going to be tabling at MoCCA this year and I’m busting my ass trying to get my next minicomic done AND get all my older minis reprinted and put together. Because of that, inkdick is not going to be the priority and I will get to it when I have spare free time, which there won’t be a lot of.

If I didn’t have a day job this wouldn’t be a problem and I could just work on comics all day and all night and get everything I want to done, but such is the life of a cartoonist who still wants to be able to afford food and rent. Someday I’ll figure out a way to make a living of of these comics, someday. So right now the priority is getting ready for MoCCA. I mean,I did throw down a pretty penny to table, so I might as well show up with my A-game.

Trust me, I think the non-frequent inkdick updates will be worth it if I can accomplish what I’m trying to do with the new mini. I think you’ll like it (and will be able to buy it from me online someday when I finally get my store set up). Here’s a preview (It’s still a work in progress):

So check back here every so often to see if I’ve updated (or just follow me on twitter and I’ll tell you whenever I put up a new comic).

Things will get back to “normal” soon, just hang tight.

Long time no blog. Anyways, yes, I’m behind on these thing (as always). BUT…here is a treat for you: This year I finally partook in Hourly Comic Day! All across the world hundreds of cartoonists did one journal comic an hour for all of yesterday! My hourly comics will eventually be posted up here on the site when I finally get caught up to February 1st (whenever THAT happens) but until then you can go check them all out by clicking the image below! Enjoy!

Sorry for the lack of new comics. The reason for that is that I was busting my ass getting ready for THE SMALL PRESS EXPO 2009!!!

If you are in the Washington D.C. area, please please PLEASE stop by the show (it is one of the best comic shows there is). I’m going to be at table A-5 with lots of minicomic goodness! I’ll have all inkdick mini-collections from #1 to #8 and, this is the big one, my brand new minicomic BEARD! Plus some other good stuff. Oh, I almost forgot, Amy (yes, THAT Amy) is actually debuting a minicomic project this year, and it is amazing! So again, stop by table A-5, you know you want to.

In inkdick news: Comics will start back up when I get back. I’m staying with my family until the end of the month so check back October 1st.

Now, to make the 500 plus drive solo back up to D.C. on only four and a half hours of sleep…

Now that my website seems to be working again, I want to formally welcome everyone who ventured over here from Allan. For my regular readers who don’t know, I did a guest comic for the very talented Allan yesterday. Check it out!

To any new readers who may have wandered over here: I’ve been doing inkdick for over a year now, so if you have lots of free time on your hands, there are over 425 days to read through. Feel free to start from the very beginning HERE. Or start from the strip above and travel backwards through time like some sort of sexy time traveler. Your choice! My friend Bullett recently made up a new way to read my comic: Only read the last panel of every strip. This last option works really well if you have a few beers in you.

You may notice it is currently July 11th yet the current strip up as of this writing is from JUNE 12th. Let me explain that one: The past two months or so has been rough what with my mom’s cancer, her surgery, my moving, and my friend and mentor Sweetwater dying. Sometimes life gets in the way of comics, even when said comics are about life. I’ve been trying to catch up, posting anywhere from one to three comics up a day. So check back everyday and there should be a new comic or two or three up. Follow me on twitter if you want to know when I post up a new comic. Someday I’ll get caught back up, I swear. Someone even said they’d pay me ten bucks when I get caught up, so I’ve got that going for me.

Look around and I hope you like what you see. I admit, my life may not be as sexy as Allan’s, but I do try.

So first off, I want to say welcome to all the newcomers from Allan. Welcome!

Secondly, I want to say “Damn you, Allan! All your readers broke my website!” I kid, I kid. I love you, Allan! And I love YOU new readers! It was not your fault. It was my webhosts’ fault (webhostingpad.com)

Here is the problem: My webhosting service apparently sucks and cannot handle more than 2,000 visits a day (awesome, right?). So right now only this front page is working. You cannot read the archives, can’t read the cast page, the about page, none of it. Just this front page. So this really screws over you new readers, you can’t read the rest of this comic.

I’m currently in talks with my webhost to fix this problem, so hopefully that will be taken care of soon. Hopefully. Then in the next few days I am going to try and transfer to a different webhost (because webhostingpad.com sucks). I don’t know if there will be downtime for the site, I don’t know if I’ll have to rebuild everything from scratch, don’t know what will happen to my e-mail account. I don’t know, I never switched hosts before. But I need to transfer because any webhost that cannot handle more than 2,000 views in a day is a joke (again, that’s webhostingpad.com). So I don’t know what will happen over the next few days. I hope there’s no downtime, but be ready for it just in case.

I would ask for suggestions on webhosts or how to transfer hosts without losing anything, but the comment function probably won’t work until the rest of the site is fixed (webhostingpad.com). Twitter me with suggestions or advice (I’m @pranas).

EDIT: The site seems to be working fine now. Cross your fingers, who knows how long it will last. I’m still going to do some research and transfer to a new host at some point in the future. I’ve gotten some good suggestions and advice from people in the past few hours. Feel free to post some more in the comments if you want.

Amy, yes, THE Amy, needs YOUR help!

She recently got a shirt design up for voting on Threadless, and she needs YOUR vote! So please sign up, and vote for it! I mean, come on, a dashing piece of cereal, what more could you ask for in a tee-shirt?

Again, please vote. It would mean the world to both me and Amy.

I’m heading up to Athens, GA for FLUKE, the coolest comic festival in the Southeast United States! So I won’t be around this weekend, so no new comics won’t be posted up until Sunday night. See you then!

And if you are going to the show, come by my table and say hello!

So. One year ago today Sweetwater gave my Self-Publishing class the assignment to keep a journal comic for four weeks. This was either my fifth or sixth try at doing a daily journal comic, and instead of crapping out after a few days, this time actually stuck. And with that inkdick was born.

It is weird to think that I have a year of my life (minus the three weeks I didn’t do comics for in May) in comic format and online for the world to read. Moments of my life archived for a year. All the up, all the downs, all the in-betweens. My. LIFE.

I wasn’t sure I would get to this point. Some days it was such an uphill battle to get the comic done. Sometimes I’d slip and get a few days (or weeks, or months) behind. And I thought that after the first year I’d stop and move on to something else. But I want to keep on going. It is keeping me drawing everyday. It is giving me something that I’ll be able to look back on years from now and remember what life was like. I will have my own personal history.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll do this. Maybe another year. Maybe another two. Maybe I’ll be like Kochalka and do it for ten plus years. Maybe I won’t stop until I die as an old man. Who knows. But for the time being, inkdick will go on into the future until I decide to stop, if I ever do.

Thank you to all the folks who have stood behind me over the last year. Thanks to Sweetwater for getting this whole thing started in the first place and making me set up a website and opening my eyes to the possibilities of webcomics. Thanks to Amy for being my very better half and letting me put our private moments into comic form for the world to read. Thanks to all my friends who I’ve put into a comic and haven’t hated me for it. Thanks to Brett, Burkhalter, Martyn, Thomas, Birdie, A.W., Christopher, and all my other fellow journal comicers who both inspire me with their work everyday and encourage me to keep on doing what I do. Thanks to my family, even if they leave super embarrassing comments. Thanks to the crew at Seqalab. Thanks to all of you who bought an iDonate (I’m slowly getting them done, you WILL get yours, I promise). Thanks to every single one of you who read this comic, leave comments, bought one of my minicomics, share this comic with others on your blogs and forums and twitters. Thank you anyone who I might have missed. Thank you ALL! Thank you all for supporting what it is I do, thank you for actually liking what it is I do, and thank you for putting up with me and my life. You are all a huge part in me deciding to keep on doing this comic everyday. On the days when I feel like doing the comic is a chore, I think of you all and keep on drawing. I can’t say it enough, THANK YOU!

Here is to another year of my life for you all to read and another year of dick.

(And I know I’m still behind on the comics by a few days. Still playing catch up. I’ll get there, don’t you worry.)