The logo for Ruby Red in blue, surrounded by the characters Naoko, Rumiko, the Snow Queen, Detective Wolf, Noah, and Judith.

7.1.19

Some unfortunate news with a silver lining: Ruby Red is on hiatus until further notice – long story short, I’m working on something new. However, there are only so many hours in the day and making comics is time-consuming. My life was a lot different when I started drawing Ruby Red way back in 2012. I didn’t have a full-time job and I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, aside from making comics. I needed consistency in my life, so I wrote a story – one that would long enough so that I would always have something creatively fulfilling I could depend on to draw. The entire story of Ruby Red is complete in outline form; it should end up to be more than 800 pages. But I’ve got to take a bit of a break, mainly because I don’t need quite the same things from comics now that I did when I started Ruby Red. I want to write something that someone else might want to publish, and while (in my humble opinion) Ruby Red is a great story, it is long, and it’s not the only story I have to tell. So, I’m going to focus on another comic idea I have for a little while–a story that’s a mere 175 pages long. I’ll post glimpses to my Instagram here and there, and I plan on posting the pages I create for pitching to agents/publishers on my Patreon. I will post art for Ruby Red here every so often as well – rest assured that Naoko and everyone will still be on my mind.

In the meantime, follow me on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Patreon to stay in the loop on what I’m up to!

(This image was submitted to the SpiderForest charity zine earlier this year – the prompt was to draw our webcomic characters as children.)

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