OUR LITTLE SCHEDULE PROBLERM... and spellchecking. (Patreon)

(Mr. H) I've been asked to clear up some stuff for all of you wonderful Patrons. Bea R. has been concerned over the lack of regular artwork and the lack of spellchecking, recently. Let me take the easy topic first:

SPELLCHECKING. Reason: I suck. Actually, we suck, because we don't have a solid method of doing spellchecking. Bea R.'s language skills are a little bent, due to being a German immigrant, and I suck because I should be double and triple checking everything. Unfortunately I never see GAL-AXY lettered until it arrives on Webtoons; inking is done pre-letters and she letters it. KITTEN is my lettering from her printed worksheet, and for some idiotic reason I did not spell check thoroughly and just blasted it out after the initial task. Lettering on IN SECURITY was always a problem, because when you letter the slow way, with nibs, you tend to believe you are looking at correct lettering when it is misspelled--even on second or third run through! That needed a third pair of eyes. In a month, I will be trying to strong arm her into a method where everything is run across me, and I must triple check my own efforts. Sometimes Serra Britt will spellcheck, but... that's only if she sees the final.

And right now much of this is caused by our...

SCHEDULE. Which is caused by our lifestyle and choices. Nothing weird--we have been up north for 4 weeks to get rid of some old baggage hindering our life. We used to live up in North Dakota, and we need to ditch all the stuff we still own up here, settle accounts, and run back down to the SW desert where we now live. PITA. Apologies would mean nothing: we have to get this done, and there was no way to avoid it. GOOD NEWS! We are only 4 weeks out from returning. Originally we expected to return for July, head north for AUG-SEPT and wrap it up by October. Now, it might be wrapped up before July and we can settle down to regular art output before August. Many of the slow downs should resolve in a few weeks. Then we have our whole life in one place and no dangling bits causing us concern--our SW hermitage shall become integral.

We are embarrassed. It sucks to not produce art, because it is our raison d'être. Producing bad lettering is just some icing and maraschino cherries on that cupcake of suck. We don't want to be like this, but we are. Time to change. By mid-summer this year, it will. BEAR with us (get it?).