A question I often get: “Why don’t you stop starting new comics and finish the ones you’re already working on?” (Patreon)

Hello there!

With the first page of My Priority out and EVO joining the line-up, I thought this would be a good time for a quick reminder of how we make our comics.

As you know, drawing and colouring a comic page takes time. Once I’ve written the story and handed over the storyboard for the current page, there’s usually nothing more for me to do on that page until I have a draft to review. So rather than sit around twiddling my thumbs, I use that time to write and storyboard other comics with different artists.

That’s why dropping one comic wouldn’t make the others come out any faster. Different artists work on different comics, so stopping one project wouldn’t free up any time for the artists working on the others.

Each Menu du Jour tier funds its own comic. Some projects can run at two pages a month if there’s enough support and the artist has time for a second page. When a comic is set at one page a month from the start, that’s the pace its artist can commit to.

I’ve reached my own limit with the current line-up, too. EVO is the last ongoing comic I’ll launch until one of our current projects wraps up. But don’t worry if you’ve been waiting for a particular project: there should be room for another comic before too long. Thrill of the Hunt should finish in about two months, and Nothing Personal is the next to finish after that.

And speaking of finishing comics, we’ve already wrapped up quite a few! I picked our finished comics to illustrate this post.

I hope that clears things up. Thank you for reading and for supporting our comics! o/