Been thinking a lot about this newsletter over the past week. I worry that it's started to become a bit too much of just a commercial for all my upcoming work, and not much else. While, sharing stuff about upcoming projects is important, and obviously I need to promote my comics where I can as an independent creator, I also want this newsletter to be more than that.I've been pretty shy about interacting with readers and fans over that past couple of years. But I feel like I am missing an opportunity to have a more meaningful relationship with the people who read and support my work.This newsletter has a response section where you can leave comments and questions. So, starting with the next newsletter, I'll choose a question or two and try my best to answer it honestly and as best I can. This can be a good chance to talk more about my process, my career, or pretty much anything you want to talk about.My hope is that it will make this newsletter something a bit richer and more interesting for you and for me. So fire away with the questions. I can't promise I will have time to answer all of them, but I will do my best to pick a couple each week.​It has been a disjointed couple of weeks for me, work-wise. I have been scrambling to get a bunch of bits and pieces done, as well as write the first script for the next main Black Hammer series. One of these bits and pieces was a new cover painting for an upcoming ROYAL CITY collection...Drawing the Pike family as teenagers again was really bittersweet for me. Of all the books I have done, this one feels like a failure of sorts. I had huge ambitions for the Royal City series. I wanted it to be a place where I could tell all sorts of stories and a place that I could return to throughout my career, and check in on the characters at different points in their lives. But the truth is, the schedule of trying to write, draw and watercolor paint a monthly comic myself, while also writing all my other series for other artists, was just too much. I can do a lot, but doing that really pushed me to exhaustion and I had to wrap up Royal City sooner than I wanted just to keep my sanity.In hindsight, I should have gotten someone else to color Royal City, like I did when I did Sweet Tooth, or I should have done it all in a more limited color palette. The difference of not having to color the pages myself after inking them, would have been huge, and would probably have allowed me to keep going longer.