...and a Happy New Year, too!
As you can see by the blurb at the bottom of today's strip, I'll be taking my annual Christmas week off a little late this year. I didn't want to interrupt the story so close to the end, plus I need some time to freshen up this site as well as my studio site for 2007.
This is a cliche because it's true, but if you had told me this time last year that I would have walked out on my day job and gone out on my own - in addition to publishing 3 dead-tree editions of Suburban Tribe* - I would told you that you were half-nuts.
I'm likely jinxing myself by telling you all this, but for quitting a job cold turkey back in April and starting my own company, the last year has been (technically) financially successful; something that many people and a lot of research told me not to expect until I had been at this for 3 to 5 years.
None of this would have been possible without the endless and encouraging support of my wife. (They say that behind every great man is a great woman; My wife is surely wondering where her great man is.) Since I've been working out of my home for the last 8 months, I've taught myself how to cook as a kind of ROI for her support. I can make one mean pizza folks, I ain't shittin' ya. We haven't set foot in Clifton's since June and we don't miss it.
Lots of things are planned for 2007. They're written down on paper and I intend to follow through, but you'll have to find out about them as they happen. I just don't believe in spilling the beans about those kinds of things, because that's a surefire way to make sure that they don't happen. I doubt that it will lead to my own publishing deal or an animated series, but if I'm lucky, maybe they'll point me in that direction.
I remember this time last year, several articles were published and broadcast in the news about what an awful year 2005 was in terms of world events and states-of-the-union(s). Doesn't seem like 2006 was much better, but maybe 2007 will be better for everyone, so here's hoping.
*Issue 3 has been delayed. One week or two by me, and two or three weeks by my printer. But it should be on sale by January 2.
Labels: comics, cooking, day job, New Year's, pizza, vacation