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.)