I hope it's okay to post this here. :) In the past few months I've been trying to quit programming computers (which I'd been doing since '98) and what I've found in the past few months is that it's been about as difficult as quitting smoking. Though in recent weeks what I've been focusing on most has been my illustration and getting more of it onto cafe press to help me generate a 2nd income source to help me move on to bigger and better things. In the past week especially I've focused on comic strips, putting up as many as 7 per day, partly because even when I color them in photoshop they don't require the kind of investment of time that other illustrations require. Anyway I'm also trying to work up a portfolio of comic panels quickly so that I can interest a syndication company in getting a daily or weekly panel in newspapers around the US. I genuinely feel I'm good enough to be compared favorably to Gary Larson's old Far Side strip that he retired back in '95. Check it out, let me know how I stack up to Larson and if you like it help me spread it around! :)

www.cafepress.com/anupwardspiral/2705826

Plus, I'm always interested in new ideas for illustrations, whether they be comic strip ideas or general illustration, such as the illustration of the athame on my storefront.

In Joy,

ike