I was inspired by all of the kind words of the commenters recently, and dredged up some energy to get this page put together.
I’m still out here, but I’ve had a few shakeups. I hadn’t been feeling well for a while after the last page, and I’m pretty sure it was because my right kidney wasn’t functioning properly. I found out I was right at the end of May, when I was hammered with a massive kidney stone attack that put me in the hospital for the better part of a week. If you haven’t had a kidney stone, you don’t want one. It was the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my life, including the pain from my neck. They got me stable, but determined that the 1.5cm stone wasn’t going to pass on its own, so the doctor had to go after it with a laser and chop it up. That, and all of the recovery, took all of June’s energy.
Then, in August, came the laser surgery on my eyes for the incipient glaucoma that was starting to rear its ugly head. That took a few more weeks — first a consultation, then one eye, then the other. I had reasonable energy, but my eyes hurt from having little holes zapped in the iris to prevent pressure buildup. The right eye still aches a little, but I think it actually improved my vision. The creeping glaucoma was causing very slight blurring, which seems to be gone now.
I’ve had three kicks in the pants in the past few days to get the comic back on track. First, the Collective of Heroes, in which I was an honor roll member, restructured their site. I got a very nice email saying that since my comic wasn’t updating regularly, they had to take me off the honor roll. Of course, if I get back to updating, they’ll put me back on, so I thanked them politely and pounded my forehead on the table for a while. Second, I got some wonderful comments from some very dedicated fans, who sent me good energy and thoughts. I’m pretty sure that good energy made the difference. Third, and probably the saddest for me was that I missed Jenny Everywhere Day! Arrrrgh…
*Sigh…* Let’s see if I can take a stab at getting this comic back on track.
Hope that you can get back on track, and glad to read that most of your health issues are getting cleared up.
And thanks for letting folks know! Webcomics have a history of vanishing a way, never really being resolved.
The Auld Grump
Hi Gwendolyn, hope that you’ve been feeling better. Your comic is not forgotten. Here’s a little piece of art I did based on your Jenny Everywhere Star: http://cosmicbeholder.tumblr.com/post/87416014686/my-rendition-of-jenny-everywhere-star-from
I’m feeling better in some ways, not so much in others. Doing the comic takes a lot of very fine motor function, and while it’s LESS difficult than typing a lot, it still takes a toll. Maybe I’m getting worse, or maybe I’m getting old, but it’s harder to do that fine stuff without pain. I’ll figure something out eventually. I still have stories to tell, and still want to tell them.
Hi, I like your comic (just finished the archive), and just tried to add its RSS feed to my reader. But unfortunately the RSS (or rather the HTML in the description) is malformed: There are un-escaped quotation marks in HTML attributes, like this: title=””Jenny-Who-Is-Many” — I like that.” – The inner quotes should be escaped as ", or the outer ones replaced by ‘.
Thanks for telling me, but I don’t create the RSS, it’s done automatically by the template. Eventually, I’ll get around to redoing the site with Easel or something, and eventually I’ll get back to posting new pages. For now, I just don’t have the energy.
I just recently rediscovered your webpage, & I’m so sorry to see that more than 7 years have passed since your last posting.
🙁
I’m sure that I’m far from alone in hoping that you find a way to overcome your obstacles, & make your way back to the storytelling that you’ve done so well.
D’OH!!!?!
TYPO_ALERT:
I hadn’t realized that I was reading the comments in reverse, & that it’s been **5** years, not 7.
#Sorry_About_That_Chief
so is this comic updating?