#jsab:bm

[pinktrashgoblin]

JSAB:BM swap au

random concept I came up with! I swapped the protags lol

how do y’all think the plot would differ from canon 👀

[pinktrashgoblin]

Hey when is the next chapter coming out?

Short answer: I don’t know, not as soon as I was hoping.

But long answer? I think a little bit of real talk needs to be had, and this was the perfect ask to spur it since I’ve gotten three or four of these lately.

Let me say this first: I greatly appreciate that you all are eager to see where the story goes next! I really am. But it’s also important to remember that I, and other comic artists, are also people.

We are each a single person writing these things. We script, sketch, draw, render and finalize each and every page ourselves, and that’s if we don’t redo things multiple times.

Take JSAB:BM, for example. I sketch each page on paper, then have to do the paneling and line work, then color and render each individual panel. Add to that the fact that I hand letter, and you can see why it’s so time-consuming. I don’t like to let the quality of my work suffer because of demand, quality over quantity if you will, so it takes a decently long time. Each page takes about 2 hours on average- for all 179 pages, that is a whole 358 hours. Two weeks- but that’s if I worked nonstop, no sleeping, eating or anything. And that is the average time for a page. Now remember that I also have school, and a normal life; I don’t work on this nonstop.

And sometimes I- and other artists- just aren’t in the mood to work on our comics at some point, and that’s okay. It’s good to take breaks, and often necessary.

I think a lot of people forget that we aren’t machines or studios; we can’t be constantly making new pages or chapters. We have lives too! School, jobs, family and friends, and just the general ebb and flow of day-to-day life. These comics are things we do in our free time, for free. These are passion projects, things we do because we love them.

My point is: comic artists are people too, and it’s not fair to expect us to keep pumping out pages or chapters. We have lives just as much as you do. At the end of the day we’re just normal people who have a passion for making comics for this little community, and it’s important to not forget that.

So yeah, there’s my two cents on the matter. I know some other comic artists in the community have had this same problem and I think it’s important to address these things and start a conversation.

TL;DR: Burnout’s a bitch, cut us some slack!/lh