Dear Tumblrverse: this week’s tearing-my-hair-out website crisis is solved, and I also moved the whole comix site over to bvbcomix.com.
As you may recall, that address has worked for a while…but up until now, it just directed you to kathleenjacques.com/sketchbook/bandvsband, which was long and unintuitive. That address was actually a holdover from back when I was posting the first few comics on this personal blog I had at the time, when I didn’t know it was something that’d last for more than like five pages and go on to become my favorite project that needed its own space.
So, in conclusion: hooray. New, better address. See ya there/tell yr friends.
Ugh. I’m so upset about my website being in this stupid broken limbo, and how there’s nothing I can do right now but wait for the hosting company to do a thing on their end. I barely slept last night, and I have a headache, and I feel like how can I even think about anything else while my baby’s in trouble. I mean, it’s going to be ok in the end, and it’s going to be back, but ugggggh, I just care so ridiculously much about it and this is the worst.
New Band Vs. Band today, in which the Candy Hearts are reunited, and Honey gets a surprise.
Today I decided I NEEDED to do an awkward-looking pen drawing of myself (while looking in the mirror) with no facial expression. Man, it’s been ages since I inked anything non-digitally.
New Band Vs. Band page today! This one’s kind of a momentarily-less-jokey sequel to one of my personal favorite ones ever.
New Band Vs. Band today, with a preview panel that I reallllly like out of context.
Honey Hart, with rainbow and SKY CATS, why not! I sketched this tonight at the Cloudscape Comics clubhouse, and decided to give it some inks and colors when I got home.
Ramblings: Sometimes (like this week) I have moments where I get super discouraged and depressed about my comix — like, comix are basically the love of my life, but I’m never, ever going to be as good as I want to be, and maybe my best stuff ever that I’m proudest of, future included, won’t ever be successful in any kind of objective terms.
When I get into this kind of black hole, I think it’s productive to think about my actual motivations for doing Band Vs. Band. On the most fundamental level, it’s about: 1) Doing something I enjoy, and embracing the hell out of stuff I love in cheerful defiance of any idea that I shouldn’t love it because it’s too femmy/trashy/tacky/insubstantial/whatever-fake-idea, 2) Having characters and a world that I love spending time with, and 3) Doing something interesting with the visuals and the style and the tone where it honestly feels like nobody else does it quite the same way.
I think I’m doing these things, and that makes me feel good about it overall and want to keep pushing myself to improve. Thank you to all of you who read it and comment and like and etcetera, by the way - you’re consistently awesome and I love ya.
MEANWHILE.
It’s been canon in my mind for quite a while that these two get along great.
