When I started doing Terran Omega, there were a couple of things I really wanted to do, quite apart from write/draw my own comic. I wanted to really experiment with how I bring an audience to it. As an artist,
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Author: PJH
The unbearable lightness of boredom
I’ve long contended that any creative needs boredom, and we’ve largely robbed ourselves of it. When my kids where young, I’d call the iPhone “daddy’s little helper” because I would so frequently turn to it when the kids were playing,
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Woke up a little late for a blog post, and yesterday… Well, hopefully you’ll hear all about yesterday at some point. If you don’t hear it’s because it has like so many things piffled away to nothing. But we’ll see.
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Building Castles in the Sand
Everything changes. Sometimes those changes are slow and gtadual, and sneak up on you and sometimes the change is wrenching and rapid and happens so quickly you’re left breathless. And when you have kids, sometimes those two kinds of changes
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Biting off a chewable Amount
I’ve been on reddit for around a decade but, to be honest, it’s not a place I’ve really used much. This past year though, in order to build the readership for Terran Omega, I’ve been posting the comic in there,
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Kicking the tyres on a Kickstarter for Terran Omega
I’m starting to mull over my kickstart options and so I phoned Matt Garvey, since there’s few people know more about publishing comics on Kickstarter than matt (who, coincidentally, has a new kickstarter about to launch – The Skim, a
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run fat boy run
About two years ago I started the couch to 5k running thing with a friend of mine. I’d previously bounced off it innumerable times, “Running”, I thought, “wasnt for me”. Well turns out running on my own wasn’t for me,
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Doing lines…
One of the dullest and yet something you do multiple times per page job is drawing panel borders. There’s no right or wrong on any of this, it’s all entirely subjective, and I’d argue all that’s important is consistency (in
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The New Normal
My wife is starting a new job today, moving from part time to full time employment. And, for at least the first six months, will be in an office for five days of the week. This is the first significant
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Big
After a bit of a grim night with IBS and wrecked sleep on a slow Sunday afternoon my wife and I sat down and BIg was on the telly. We’re about four years apart in age, not a big deal
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