so ...

... health problems and other things kept me away from the drawing board for a bit.  once things cleared up i started working on the graphics program i previously mentioned and had a minor breakthrough, but before i could go any farther two of my friends asked me to create a one page cartoon for them.

the cartoon i made for them uses their characters, but in a way very different from how they use them.  last time i made a one page cartoon for these friends i felt i crammed too much into the page, so i cut down on the number of panels.  the reduced number of panels helped make things less crammed, but with less panels i felt the story became overly streamlined.  i can never find a happy balance.

here's a panel from the comic ...

in other news, there's another project that i started and about which i would like to write, but it's not far enough along yet.  hopefully soon.