Who Needs Drawings?
You may have noticed a dearth of comics around here lately. Though it’s not purely intentional, it’s not like other periods of hiatus where it felt like things were spiraling out of control and we could do nothing about it.
We decided, rationally, as some humans do, that we needed to take a break while PJ finishes off a particularly challenging semester and while I… you know, live my life and shit. So we have some comics written and in the can, they just aren’t drawn yet and probably won’t be for a few more weeks. In the meantime we hope to store some strips up so we can unload them on you like confetti when the time is right.
This strip is about how little time it takes to write “Space Monkeys!” and how long it takes to draw them. It also shows you pretty much what I give to PJ when I write a strip, allowing him a wide range of pivoting leeway to do what he wants with the source material. Sometimes we’ll flesh out jokes over IM, but if he’s happy with what I’ve written it pretty much goes just as you see here with some visual embellishments along the way.
For this one, though, I hope you’ll use your imagination to fill in the blanks.
Textual rhymes with Sexual
Yes, school does get in the way of what’s really important. This is my last semester, however, so that shouldn’t be a problem after this hiatus of ours.
I’ve had people ask me if Space Monkeys! is dead, which kinda hurt, but I guess I deserved it for keeping you guys in the dark. I assure you that the monkeys are alive and kicking it in my and Omar’s heads.
The last few weeks I’ve really believed that I could still bring you comics with the schedule I have. But after a while of trying to find time, and no comic to speak of, it seemed better to just wait and plan for a grand return. We want to do these comics so much that it was hard to admit that we couldn’t at this time. I think that’s why it took so long to go on a definite hiatus.
Rest assured. We will be back with the monkeys you love. And we’ll be doing comics about monkeys again too.
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