As you may have noticed, the comic schedule has been a little erratic lately, and I would appologize and ask for your patience.

I am currently in the, quite long and involved, process of some major life changes, and am frequently bouncing back and forth between Canada and the U.S. in the process.

I am also reevaluating and reassessing my art and the  comic as a whole. I am, quite literally, spending twice the amount of time on each individual comic, and while the time invested has significantly increased, I also believe it shows in the art.

I have no intention of abandoning the comic, and it pains me when ever a comic is late, or worse yet, doesn’t go up at all.

So, I apologize and all I ask of you is your patience. I really do  appreciate every single person that reads and enjoys my work. I want to continue to improve and reward your time here.

josh

Was happy with this last panel and wished it was bigger. I figure no one would mind if I occasionally posted lager versions of comics. (Click for a larger version.)

UPDATE:

How about some wallpapers?

1280 x 1024

1920 x 1080

josh

So, once again, I return from a venture to the great white north.

Nova Scotia is so gorgeous because you have the ocean on one side, the bay on the other and a valley in the middle. There are amazing views almost whereever you go.

Katherine and Emily climbing the falls.

Katherine walking alone the dykes.

Curling up with “Im” for a little World Cup at the end of the night. And yes, his eyes are really that blue.

A birch lined boardwalk in New Brunswick.

More pics can be found on my flickr page.

josh

It’s more than a little amusing and coincidental that I would hit the three year mark of StrangeGods, so close to my 300th comic.

I think I produced 25 comics that first year after I began (counting from that May until the end of the calendar year.). I would update once a week, frequently missing them, whenever life got a little too in the way. At around the one year mark I took a break and subsequently re-attacked it, moving up to 2 comics a week. At my two year anniversary I again stepped it up, this time to three a week, where it has stayed.

And now, after three years and 300 comics, I want nothing more than to keep doing this as long as I can. My goal is to bump it up to five updates a week, but rather than increase my output this year again, I decided to focus instead on increasing their individual quality.

I’m in it for the long haul, so at the end of another year, I will reevaluate and decide if it’s time to add more per week.

In the meanwhile, I want to thank everyone who reads this comic, everyone who re-tweets it, and even the people who only remember it once every couple of months and stop by to check it out. Thank you all so much. It’s chiche, but knowing people enjoy it is all the motivation to keep cranking them out.

josh

Three years ago today I decided to start doing a (then) weekly comic and posting it online as an artistic side project. The comics were created at 72 dpi and posted to a blogspot account with the obvious intent that nothing would ever come of them. I literally knew almost nothing about webcomics or their larger community.

Wow.