Lo…. and also…. behold. A new YAFGC strip.

I see from the comments that I have been missed. And I have also missed all of you. I can offer an explanation if it matters.

I find that as I get older, ADD makes me more anxious about things in general. I let things slide a time or two and suddenly it’s a year later. My kids are growing up. My oldest has been accepted into university and is learning to drive! I have and still love YAFGC dearly.

I currently have been ‘between contracts’, the industry seems to have dried up spectacularly, at least at all the places I’ve tried to find employment, and I’ve been working at a university bookstore as a cashier these past months. I got involved on the side with a group of people who are trying to publish a Superhero RPG and are commissioning me to do their illustrations for them. So I’ve been playing around with new styles and types of art. Many times I’ve pulled out the ole’ YAFGC panels and looked at them and a sort of panic consumed me and I quickly put it aside again… Oh, I’ve drawn the characters in my sketchbook and added to my chronicled history of the world… but to engage the characters and actually continue the story filled me with fear for some reason.

But I powered through and forced myself to finish the next strip. And then the next one. And soon I felt the flow and the characters called out to me again and I embraced them. Albeit new ones for the moment, Katherine-Louise and her mother Philippa. Glon hasn’t spoken to me in a while (I think he’s pissed at me) nor Bob or Gren or Chimera… but I’m reaching out to them. And now, to you.

I’m here. I’m still here. And I have at least 4 more strips to continue the story that I’ll try to publish. Problem is the site is decaying and it doesn’t do all the cool things it used to. I need to find some time to chat with Dreamhost and get all my codes in again. If I had LOTS of time, I’d love to download a new WordPress template and rebuild YAFGC – sorry Our World- from the ground up. But that’s daunting. And right now I’ve only got the courage to draw out this story.

I’m sorry I left and abandoned you all like that. I can’t say it won’t happen again. But I’m drawing again. I really enjoyed drawing these last few strips. And I still have lots of plans for these characters and this world.

I hope there’s still a few of you out there.

-Rich “Beholder King” Morris