{"id":14241,"date":"2026-05-29T14:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/?p=14241"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:08:22","slug":"what-ive-been-up-to-so-far-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/29\/what-ive-been-up-to-so-far-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’ve been up to so far this year!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once again, I’ve left this site lie fallow for more than a year, even though I’ve had stuff to talk about.

Once the S\u00eean Kickstarter was fulfilled I really struggled to get going on the next comic project. I was dealing with recovering from an injury that affected my drawing hand and spending a lot of time puttering around the house and yard fixing and building and finishing older build projects. As the year wound down I was kind of stuck, both unable to decide which of 4 possible projects to work on and was really struggling to figure out how to break out of it and get going.

So, hoping it would help scrape the barnacles off and get the juices flowing to do something with an outside deadline, I sent out a bunch of cold emails with art samples to publishers looking for work.

And, much to my surprise someone called my bluff!

In March I drew my first story for the new EC Comics revival, a 10 pager coming out in Cruel Universe #11 (any week now).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a sample page of the art:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And, I turned in my second story yesterday. This one is an 8 pager for an upcoming issue of Cruel Kingdom, though I don’t know the issue # yet. I’ll post some art from that when the issue is closer to coming out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, I’ve left this site lie fallow for more than a year, even though I’ve had stuff to talk about. Once the S\u00eean Kickstarter was fulfilled I really struggled to get going on the next comic project. I was dealing with recovering from an injury that affected my drawing hand and spending a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8mGah-3HH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14247,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14241\/revisions\/14247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}