Scanned Originals: Milk & Cheese in "No Feelings" (1995) (Patreon)

As promised, here's the scanned originals to the Milk & Cheese "No Feelings' comic. Selling this one was bittersweet because it's dedicated to Sarah and she always wanted us to hold onto these pages. On the other hand, we turned them into funds during a rough time, and that's not something to be unhappy about. I can make more M&C pages -- and hope to -- but it's not like when I sold off my Dan Clowes page, which still weighs heavily on my nerd heart. We do what we have to, we do what we can. I'd rather sell my art than dive into NFTs or work on soulless crap I have no interest in. And to be honest, we never thought we'd have a big hardcover M&C collection. Once the comics get a nice collection like that, the art feels less precious. While it would be nice to hold onto most of my originals, the fact is almost every cartoonist I know needs to sell their originals to supplement their career.  A rarified relative few can afford to hold onto their pages, and I know of a few that were fortunate enough to be in a situation where money has never been much of a worry, even before they got into comics. The fact that I can turn ink and paper into money still amazes me to this day.  Especially since I've raised my prices on some stuff over the years, things I used to sell far too cheaply. Art is a process, commerce is as well, when it's not a gauntlet.

Also. Selling off a bunch of the old makes me want to bring in the new. I've always wanted to bring M&C back for a few more pages (at least) but it's becoming something I think about a lot. When I think about something a lot it usually means it's something I want to do. I'm looking forward to doing something with the little creeps after such a long hibernation. I miss seeing them do things, if that makes any sense. I know what the first comic will be (90% sure), but I don't have a schedule for working on it right now. After we know more about our future and I catch up on what I owe people I can dive in and set some pages up to start off. Things are just really messy here, or I guess messier. Sarah had an idea on doing something to send out to folks here and that's been shelved because of everything that's happened. Hopefully we can revive that and get back to designing shirts for our Teepublic site soon and all that. Fingers crossed on so many things right now.