Undisputed #2 is Almost Done

I work a day job, which I really enjoy. I work in the clinical department of a residential/educational program for boys with developmental delays and problematic sexual behavior. My primary job function is transportation. When one of our kids has a family visit, or a court appearance, or a program visit, it’s my job to make sure he gets there and back safely.

It used to leave a lot of free time in my working day. But my department has been going through some transitions. We’ve lost a bunch of therapists, and we’re onboarding a bunch of therapists, and everybody’s kind of seen some role changes. So now, in addition to transportation, I oversee a caseload of about 8 students.

With that, my workflow has changed. I used to do a lot of work on Undisputed at work. Now I kind of can’t. So I’m trying to find some time to get back to posting regularly, while we wait for art & lettering on the 2nd issue to wrap up.

I say that as an apology to those who are accustomed to a more regular posting schedule.

Anyway, I have some time today, and I wanted to get you caught up on what’s going on.

First, Francesco Iaquinta sent in the colors for page 19 (of 20) for issue 2. Next week we’ll get the final page. Then we’ll put all the pages and covers together and send them off to Marco Della Verde for lettering. While Francesco and Marco are doing all that, Christopher and I are getting ready to order the physical books, and preparing for fulfillment. Well, Christopher is getting ready to do fulfillment. He’s the one who will actually be taking care of all the shipments. I’m just doing my best to get him organized with names and addresses and what each of you are getting, and what not. All that means that Undisputed #2 should be ready to ship sometime in November.

After that, we’re going to take a little break. We got nowhere near breaking even on the Kickstarter campaign, so we need some time to rebuild the war chest. But issue 3, the final issue, is already written and ready to go as soon as the money is there to start making pages.

So, all that, I think, is good news. I’m figuring we’ll get to the issue 3 crowdfunding campaign sometime this summer, and have the issue delivered by the fall. So this time next year we’ll have the complete Undisputed story out and available for everyone to read.

Now, on to the not-as-good-news. I got a notification the other day that the crowdfunding campaign for an anthology I’m involved in was cancelled. The campaign for Sightings: A Bigfoot Comic Anthology was cancelled by Lonely Lemmings. The team realized that they were very unlikely to reach their funding goal. So instead of letting the campaign run and fail, they cancelled it, with the intention of building their own mailing list, and community, and trying it again in the near future.

If/when that book goes back on campaign, I will make sure to let you know.

That’s about all I’ve got for you now. But, I do appreciate all of you following along with our journey.