Onto The March
Hey Friends, how’s it going?
Thanks to lots of good rest and careful thought, I’ve got the groundwork for a really good schedule and plan for the winter season of 2026! It’s become abundantly clear that Twitch is an integral part of my content delivery, so even while I’m working on comics pages and projects I want to maintain a regular stream schedule that aligns with my availability to work. This seasonal plan will carry that through the first three months of the year, January to March, and should cover all the content in the works, and help keep me accountable to delivering that work on time every time. Let’s start!
January
This is an Espermarch month. As mentioned in the yearly plan, we’re starting Espermarch #2 in the first week of January. But it occurred to me that I was shifting too quickly during that first week to a book of the Four when what I should do is maintain focus on what I started. Big lesson learned from last year is that I shift around way too much, and that contributes to stress, poor delivery, and late projects. So the whole month of January is devoted to Espermarch #2! Each week will be the development of a new scene from issue 2, building on what I already know I can do. The idea is to keep pushing on the given work, maintain project clarity and focus, and keep myself as stress-free as possible!
We’re wrapping up One Act issue 1. This remake plan was what broke me last season, so a lot of the structure that I’m doing now is to ensure I can get through this, too. This is not only what happens when I take on too much, but also when “too much” has no space to breathe and develop. Thankfully, since most of that book is finished outright, I can spend a couple of days just working the final stages of coloring and flatting, and calling it done on the cover.
Publish and wrap up Espermarch #1. The plan is for all the pages to be done and scheduled to post on the site, so that I have a big chunk of stress off my plate, but also to begin putting the book together for a full print and digital release to come later in the year. That will only happen once all the pages are posted and published, and the best way to get that started and plan that out is to do this work now.
February
February is a month for The Four. This is the month where I’ll work on the first scenes of the issue 1s for Nightingales, Warsaints, Hedge Kingdom, and Black Crown. Week 1 is Nightingales, Week 2 is Warsaints, Week 3 is Hedge Kingdom, and Week 4 is Black Crown. You’ll see this show up in the schedules as they post
Also, can we talk about how I want to mix up these books a little more? When I started laying down the groundwork for these books, a central idea I keep coming back to was that they should follow in a chronological order according to the world. That would put Black Crown first because it’s on an antecedent world, then Hedge Kingdom because it’s in a “historic” world, then Nightingales (modern world) and finally Warsaints (future world). I dropped that when I thought I was just going to work on Nightingales, but I guess the thought has hit me again. Now they’re in birth-order of the Children. Still thinking on this…
One Act #2 gets a rework. Like in January, I’m rolling my sleeves up for a One Act rework, this time it’s issue 2. I have a small idea of what I want to rework for this book this month, but I don’t expect it’ll get a full remake the same way that issue 1 did. If it does come to that, I’m at least making sure that my weekends can contain it and that I don’t have to push it off for another month. In fact, I should at least get some thoughts down now while it’s still January so I know what I want to change.
March
March is an Espermarch month. This month will be working on scenes 3 and 4 for issue 2, in the same way January was for scenes 1 and 2.
Starting One Act #3. The original work for One Act #3 never got past the scripting and layout page, so I am starting closer to ground 0 than the other two. There is a really great cover I was putting together that overwhelmed me at the time, but I’m a much stronger artist now, so it shouldn’t be so bad. But I was really ambitious. As for the interior pages, well that’s where the fresh script work needs to come in. This is basically a brand new, 16-page work and I want to really put some good energy into this since it will be a first (and hopefully only) make of this book.
Time Off
Going to SPACE! During the last weekend of March, there is the Small and Alternative Press Comics Expo (SPACE) that I want to attend. I have missed this show so many times in the past but this year I’m actually making the plans to attend, at least as a convention goer rather than an exhibitor. While exhibition will have to be something for 2027, when I have more physical than digital work to share, I’ll at least get to meet other local creators
Other Schedule Notes
Stream schedule goes up every Thursday at 12p ET. I got myself into the habit of posting the streaming schedule two weeks ahead in Discord, on Twitch, and finally drafting it up on Facebook. I’m holding to that because it was kinda working, when I remembered to do it. Giving structure to it, you can catch the new schedule every Thursday at 12p ET, two weeks prior. For instance, when I post the stream schedule on the Thursday the 22nd, it will be for the week of February 1. This way, if anything comes up and I want to do something other than gaming on a Sunday, or something other than working on pages on a Tuesday, it’ll be baked into the schedule and give me some flexibility with what I share.
We do other things during the week! There will be other activities scheduled throughout the season that are outside of the scope of comics work, like game days and music streams. What you can expect here is that, unless scheduled otherwise, every Sunday is a game day, and every other Saturday is a music practice stream. These will all be scheduled accordingly so you’ll know when to tune in!
What about Pencil, Ink, and Brush? I know I mentioned in the annual plan a return to this. It’s better that I keep looking at my schedule for the best time to bring this back rather than try to squeeze it in where it doesn’t make sense. I’m mentioning it here so that I don’t lose track because maybe I can make it fit my already very full schedule in a way that’s less about doing something new and more about just turning the camera on. But I envision a year of productivity that doesn’t exhaust me or make me tap out.
All of this planning and scheduling and structuring is about maintaining momentum on the projects and work that is important to me. Again, I want to keep myself outwardly accountable to what I’m doing and give you a better understanding of where we’re going and how we’re getting there. This year, we are establishing structure and living there for growth.
Originally, I was going to just lump everything onto my weekly schedule and bounce from one thing to the next like I always do. I’m glad I changed that plan because it surely would have meant very little would have gotten finished, and the goal this year is to finish projects. I’m going to continue to iron out the rest of the year and at the start of every season, I’ll publish a new post to give you the heads up on what we’re doing in those next three months. At the end of the year, we’ll do a proper year-end review and see how well we did.
Thanks for reading!