The next ten years of PvP starts today and I wanted to touch base with my audience about how I plan on moving forward.
Starting immediately, for an undetermined time, PvP is moving to Monday-Friday. There will be no weekend strips.
I had debated for a long time doing this on a permanent basis. It would be my 10 year gift to myself; my weekends back. Traffic is always low on Saturday and Sunday. Most people read the weekend strips on Monday.
Of course, the truth of the matter is that I could have my weekends to myself, and have strips running seven days a week, if I could just improve my workflow and get a nice big buffer of strips under my proverbial belt.
And after this weekend, I have a new productivity tool: The Cintiq. Talking to those who use it, including Scott McCloud and Steve Hamaker, not to mention DJ, Rich and Meredith, this thing is going to double if not triple my output once I get past the learning curve.
The problem right now is that I’m behind. On everything. I’m constantly working to get myself out of a deficit and what I really need to be doing is building a buffer. I’m a month behind on Ding! This is something that Crispy gamer has been kind enough to forgive me, but I need to guarantee that I can keep to a schedule from here on out.
Now that I have the Cintiq, I’m not sure I’m as eager to commit to no weekends forever. So I would like to at least commit to no weekends until I can get my shit together and build up a nice buffer of strips. I want to be like Howard Taylor and Paul Southworth and get a month ahead.
Once that’s done and I know how the Cintiq really affects my workflow it might be fun to introduce more color or grayscales into the strip. We’ll see. The bottom line is that you guys are giving me this wonderful life, the least I could do is have the new strip waiting for you at midnight.
So that’s the dealio. PvP is officially a M-F strip until further notice.
Thanks for your continued support!
