Thank you all for the kind comments and emails I’ve received over the past few weeks. There’s been some great encouragement, as well as some very understanding webcomic fans. For everyone who is a fan of the comic, and everyone who has checked on the site in the last few weeks, I apologize, for the nature of my previous post.
The fact is that we’ve had a lot of fun publishing this webcomic, but it hasn’t been cheap to do so. On top of hosting fees, and our attempts at advertising, it has been a huge drain on our already limited free time. Recently we’ve been busier than ever, and keeping up with our relationship, our friends, our jobs, and our other hobbies was simply overwhelming when we added in the workload of this webcomic. For everyone that has a full-time job and full-time life and still manages to keep up with a webcomic: I salute you.
It hurts us to say that we’re not going to keep this going. Lindsey and I are both people that hate giving up, and really hate letting people down, so this wasn’t an easy decision for us. The fact is that we’re still not sure if this is really the end. Lindsey has suggested changing the format to a more manageable three-panel strip, or possibly having a looser update schedule, but honestly how things have been the last two or three weeks we couldn’t have updated even if the strips were smaller.
Until further notice, the comic is on an indefinite hiatus. Right now I can’t say whether or not there will be another update, but again: thank you for your support.
Do what it takes to keep your RL going. We’ll miss you ITMT, but that’s more important than we broke people are.
I enjoy Bowl, but not so much it would justify damaging your other relationships! I’ll keep checking the RSS feed, waiting to see if free time again appears for you. Thanks for sharing when you can.
I completely understand, and thankful for the update here in your blog. I will happily keep the link in my bookmarks, and hope that sometime, maybe soon maybe later, there will be a new comic.
I also hope that r/l treats you well. it’s a hard time right now for many.
LOVE THE COMIC!! <3 <3 <3
We appreciate the response! Please know that we would never pressure you to update on a regular basis. Most of the web comics I read are not updated regularly anyway. My own son even has a web comic (“Dementia of Magic”) that gets updated…maybe…once every three or four weeks. Everyone has a real life. Enjoy yours! We’ll check periodically for updates. But your real life is most important! Do what you can, and we’ll still be here!
Happy Thanksgiving!!