How to Keep a Comic Current

I can't lie, keeping a comic up to date is probably one the most difficult tasks as a freelance comic artist. You can clearly see what I'm going through. When you have either a job, relationship, children, bills, difficult people in your life, club associations, family matters, work out routine...you see where I'm going with this? Now, I'm not saying to use this as an excuse, far from it. I just want to point out the hurdles you will have to face to keep your comic going.

My solution is preproduction. Meaning, set up all your short stories up first, then figure out how many panels will be needed for each individual story. Write in all the dialogue from the characters of your story within the panels you have made to estimate the placement of each character of where they talk within each panel. Hopefully you already have [several] stories made up so you can have a lot of preproduction panels to do for each individual comic. Next, quickly sketch out the background, characters, special effect drawings as needed in whatever order you prefer. Now all you have to do is ink the comic out and color it with a computer or use traditional media.

Remember, you should have [several] comics already set up BEFORE you start inking! All you have to do is make the time and you're up and running.

You might fall off from time to time but above all else: NEVER GIVE UP! KEEP GOING!