Hello all, some minor bad news to share. StickLife will most likely be updated late this week, due to my lack of time to create a comic and my lack of internet access. Work has been crazy, and will probably continue to be that way for a while. I shall try my hardest to get a shiny new comic created tonight, however, I will not be able to upload it. I am in the process of finding a decent internet provider for my home, but it is ongoing. And my choice of local access has shut down for a few months, menaing I must drive 20 miles to the next town over to have any sort of reliable access at all. Unfortunately, I do not know when the next time is I will be able to do so, and therefore must warn our followers that more likely than not, the next comic will probably not be up tomorrow. I apologize for this, and will try to get a better creation/upload schedule in the future.
Thanks for your patience.
- Cassie
Surprise! Three new StickLife comics for your reading abhorrence - I mean, pleasure. I've gotten my uploading problem fixed sooner than anticipated, so I decided to upload all three since it's been over a year since the last new one. Updates will continue to be once a week on Wednesdays until I figure out how often I can realistically do it.
To every reader out there, I just have one thing to say:
StickLife is back!
Well, here we are once again. It seems I just can't stay away from this comic, albeit with long intervals. It's been almost three and a half years since StickLife was started, and for the last year or two, it has been much neglected. StickLife was my first comic, my first outlet for my writing other than my novels and poems. It's a wonderful break to try and do some comedy since my other works are much more serious in nature most of the time.
I aim to change that now. Yes, yes, I know I've said that a few times before, and it's been over a year since the last new comic. But my life has been changing a lot lately, some good, some bad. The fact that this comic is no longer a part of my life is definitely a bad change. I miss doing it too much to not return, it just means too much to me. Now, whether or not it will return to its former glory of three updates a week is, well, quite unlikely. While I really wish I could do that, I just don't have that kind of time in my life anymore. When the comic started, I was in high school and had all the time in the world after 4 PM. Now, I have a job, bills to pay and a girlfriend to occupy my time. I still love the world on the internet, but it is not as big a part of my life as it used to be. Plus, that might be a good thing. The three updates a week was fun, but a little too much. There were some days I just didn't feel like making a comic, or I had no good ideas for one. Early on, I did my best and made one anyway. But as time went by, I eventually just didn't if such a situation arose. I don't want to promise three updates a week and maybe only get one, or none at all. So, for now, I am only going to do one update a week, on Wednesdays. This may change if I feel I can handle more after a couple of weeks.
I have not yet talked to Tom about restarting StickLife. He and I still talk from time to time, but again, my life is more outwardly focused than just on the internet these days. I have sent him an email concerning the matter, and if I know him (which I really hope I do as long as we've been friends,) he'll be more than happy to get back on the wagon with me. Time shall tell I suppose.
At the moment, I do not have a reliable method of uploading comics, though I have three brand new ones made already. Therefore, there will not be a comic this week most likely, and the updates will start next Wednesday. I hope I can continue to bring the few readers we have a bit more entertainment. I cannot say how long StickLife will last, but I swear to do my best in keeping it around as long as possible. Thank you for your time.
- Cassie
Yes, that's right. After nearly 9 months of inactivity, there is a new StickLife up. Why? To be honest, I'm not entirely sure. It's not like I've completely forgotten about the comic, I still look back through all of them from time to time, and I must admit I miss it all. The thrice weekly updates, the actual making of the comic, the people who read it, all of it. But if you'll recall, a little more then a year ago I came down with a severe case of...well, I call it "comic's block", because I am a writer by nature, and I was still writing poems, stories and novels. But I just couldn't come up with anything for StickLife. I'm not sure to this day why that was. Today however, I was feeling espescially sentimental while browsing through the catalog. So I decided to fire up Paint and find my old bitmaps and templates, and see what I could do. And, well, #147 is what I came up with. I'm not entirely sure if I will continue to make more yet, but hopefully I will know for certain in the next week or so. Sorry it's been such a long wait...and more apolgies if this one comic doesn't reboot the strip. But I promise I will try. Stay tuned and see what happens. :)
- Cassie