Blogging – Page 8

The unbearable lightness of boredom

Posted on 17th January 2026 by PJH

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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Posted on 16th January 2026 by PJH

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

Posted on 15th January 2026 by PJH

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

Posted on 14th January 2026 by PJH

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

Posted on 13th January 2026 by PJH

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

Posted on 13th January 2026 by PJH

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…

Posted on 12th January 2026 by PJH

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

Posted on 12th January 2026 by PJH

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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IBS and me…

Posted on 11th January 2026 by PJH

About 10 (maybe 15 years ago) I started getting excruciating pains in my stomach. I mean end of the world, apocalyptic, doubled over in agony crying, wishing I was dead pains. They would start in the evening and typically go
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Blogging Frequency

Posted on 10th January 2026 by PJH

I think one of the things that killed my interest in blogging is that twitter became the first place to drop a thought. Over time, that slowly morphed my thinking into twitter formats, short, 180 characters (as was) blurts of
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