Hello, Stacie! You get to read a whole bunch of reports tomorrow! And it’s only the first night. We’re having so much fun already.
Also, yes, Lisa is in the staff office, just out of frame. I wasn’t able to get the composition to work with her in frame as well. This is one of the first comics I scripted, and have been looking forward to drawing for quite some time. (Again, I love drawing exaggerated reaction shots!)
Hello, all. It’s been a while.
The last update I put up here was that my tablet pen had broken, and I was waiting for a replacement. They have arrived, and I confirmed they work. I’ve had them for a couple months now.
So why no comics since March? Truth be told, I just….haven’t felt like drawing them.
My tablet failing on me interrupted my “rhythm” (frantic though it was) and that happened right around the time the pandemic shut the world down. And of course, things in the U.S. haven’t gotten better since then.
I am extremely fortunate, in that I transitioned to 100% work from home immediately. My wife, Cindy, did too, so we did not have to worry about lost income. I’m doing more-or-less OK -at least, physically. Mentally is a bit of a different story. I’m hanging in there as best I can.
I’ve doodled here and there in the intervening months. But it feels a little weird writing and drawing a comic strip set on a college campus when college campuses across the country are shut down for the foreseeable future. It also feels weird that the next story arc is titled “Party on Frat Row” at a time where parties should not be happening, either. But I miss my characters, and I do have a lot of stories to tell and share with the world.
McCall on Call will be back, eventually. I like the setting and characters I’ve created, and don’t have any intentions of abandoning them. I’m just not sure when my muse will come back.
But when it does, I’ll let y’all know.
In the meantime, wear a damn mask, and Black lives matter.
-Eddie
Good afternoon, readers,
After some Googling, troubleshooting, multiple restarts, and a driver reinstall, it looks like one of the function keys on my drawing tablet pen stopped working. This particular function key is the one that controls zoom and pan functions, so it’s kind of important and pretty much impossible to work without it.
I have a help ticket in with Huion, but I have no idea what the timeline on response is. After some testimonials I found around the internet, I decided to hedge my bets and go ahead and order a spare pen. Of course, due to current events, shipping and distribution chains are kind of messed up right now.
Amazon estimated I might have a new pen next week sometime, but at this point, it gets here when it gets here. This is a hobby, after all, and there are far more important things going on in the world.
So until I have a new pen, McCall on Call will have to be on hiatus. It’s a little frustrating that there are literally only two comics left to finish off Move in Day and Night Duty and I couldn’t get those out before a break, but it is what it is.
In the meantime, I can work on the script for the next chapter. Once that’s done I can start on pencils as well, so when my rig is up again I can jump right back in.
-Eddie
