“I think I’ll take up doodling as a hobby.”

I said that to Sandra twenty-six years ago, in March of 2000. Less than four months later I’d launched Schlock Mercenary online. My writing decent, if perhaps a bit dad-jokey. My art was really, really rough¹.

We’re doing a book about this.

You can back the project over on Kickstarter. If we hit our $30k stretch goal (not far off right now, it’s pretty likely we’ll get there) then the book will grow from 32 pages to 80 pages.

As of this writing we have just over two weeks remaining in the project. Click the link to get all the details, and to see some sample pages.

Sandra is in charge of this, because I dislike my early art enough to not want to touch it. I’m spending my time right now working on the bonus stories² for book 20, and that Kickstarter project won’t launch until I’ve made a lot more progress on them.

For right now, though, you can help us a lot by backing Doodling as a Hobby: The Retrospective Sketchbook of an Accidental Career. My art and writing have come a long way since March of 2000, but one thing that has remained constant—and constantly amazing—is the support and generosity of you fine folks who followed me on the trip.

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¹ I’ve often said that the only way for my early art to suck any harder would be for us to raise atmospheric pressure.
² Yes, that’s “stories,” plural.