Um, hi. Remember this comic?

If you’ve been following this comic over the years than delays and impromptu hiatuses are nothing unusual. Unfortunately that’s just how it is. But I always come back. This time out it’s been a conflux of work and new baby that made the last month or so just slip away from me. I can’t really promise that I’m going to be back on a weekly schedule just yet so new pages may be intermittent for the time being.

So where were we? Just starting a conversation between Casey and James that will take us through the next few pages and will have lots of little flashbacks and juicy nuggets of backstory. Probably another thing that’s slowing me down a little is that this entire scene is turning out to be more complicated to draw than I had anticipated. Lots to think about in how I coordinate what is being said with what is being shown. Especially when we get to the James/Nathan bits. I think in general making a long conversation between two people in comics is tough to make interesting even with flashbacks to fill in some visual space.

- In other news, I spent a good part of early 2011 working on a 12 minute animation to illustrate a discussion by the economist Richard Wolffe about class inequity in the U.S. It just went live online recently and you can watch it all here: http://rootsofhealthinequity.org/how-class-works.php

I was working on this long before the whole Occupy Wall Street movement began but it eerily predicts the idea of the middle class rising up the way it seems to have begun and a lot of what is discussed in this video is basically what the movement is trying to raise awareness about. If you’ve got the time take a look. I’m really proud of how it came out.

To tie this back into things a little, this is a job I got because of the work I’ve done here on Nathan Sorry. Although I don’t make any significant amount of revenue directly through the comic I’ve gotten a good amount of paying work this year indirectly from it.

- If you’re in Charlotte next month swing by the Charlotte Mini-Con on January 22. If not to see me then to see superstar artist Cliff Chiang and to buy this poster that he and local cartoonist Dustin Harbin created.

This will be my 3rd year appearing at this convention. This time around in addition to selling copies of Nathan Sorry Volume 1 I’ll probably be selling prints like this and maybe some postcards like this.

- Finally, the pop culture blog Four Colours & The Truth listed out their Top 20 Digital and Webcomics of 2011 and Nathan Sorry came in at #6. It’s a smart and tasteful list filled with a lot of great webcomics that I would highly recommend myself. My comic beat out comics by people like Warren Ellis and Chris Ware so obviously the guy who wrote the list is a crazy person but still I’m honored to place so high. I put a lot of work into this book and it’s always a trip to see people enjoying it even more than I ever hoped they would.