Procrasti-comics

Sometimes avoiding your responsibilities can lead to good things

I’m currently working on my next comic! But I haven’t been able to push past the difficult phase where I just need to sit down and figure things out. I thought maybe having made one comic that I loved I might feel ready to tackle another, but honestly it makes me anxious about whether I can manage to do it again. While feeling frustrated I’ve been trying to find different ways to get a faster creative release as a source of both motivation and reassurance. One solution has been procrastinating working on my comic…by working on another (shorter) comic.

To be fair, these four panel comics are still useful as practice in an effort to get more confident in this form of communication and storytelling. It’s like doing a mini-workout at home to feel better about avoiding a full-length routine at the gym (not speaking from experience here). Maybe sometimes the best motivation to finish something is using it as an excuse to escape doing something else?

I’ll keep chipping away at my bigger comic project, but until I figure out how to resolve it, please enjoy my procrasti-comics!

A comic about the struggle of making comics:

A comic about feeling overwhelmed:

✦ Recent obsessions ✦

• Red Rising Saga by Pierce Brown: From November of last year to March of this year I binge-read all six books of this series. I can’t remember the last time I was this addicted to reading? I loved the fast pace, the balance of multiple character arcs and plotlines, and the unforgiving and relentless dystopian sci-fi universe it’s set in. I’m now very impatiently waiting for the seventh book!

• Hail Mary by Andy Weir: Following the Red Rising Saga, I’ve been reading Hail Mary to satiate my craving for more sci-fi, though it’s a very different type of sci-fi. Similar to The Martian, the main character is stuck in a pretty dire situation, but reading it doesn’t feel heavy because of the quippy and sarcastic tone. Lots of cliffhangers and switching between timelines has been making it really hard to put down.

• Suzume: After missing the American theatrical release last year I finally sat down to watch Suzume once it hit Netflix. It was such a beautifully animated and heart-breaking film, and I was left thinking about it for quite a while after.