Hi pals! I just tallied up all of the Cassidy: Biggest Monster, Smallest Planet pages that I’ve drawn this year (starting in June). Including the rest of this story and supplemental pages that I’ve been working on in the background, I’m at 100 pages. Want to take a dip inside the kind of math I am constantly doing in my head? HERE WE GOOOOO…
If I end the year at 100 pages, that’s 100 pages in 213 days, or just over half a page per day. Or about three and a half pages per week for 30 weeks. At a steady pace, I could feasibly draw 182 pages per year. If I broke these comics down into 64-page books, which is pretty common for middle grade graphic chapter books, with a bit more pep in my step, I could put out 3 Cassidy books per year. Is my food dehydrator still on? It was at 130 for eight hours, and it was around 10 o’clock when I started it. It’s 11 steps from my desk to the restroom, and 22 steps from my desk to the kitchen, so a 3x increased water intake will compound my daily steps by approximately—
Whoops. Kinda spun off there. Um… 3 books per year? Will I? I mean, I don’t see the demand at this very moment that would deem that level of dedication, you know, practical. But I could definitely see putting out one longer book (100-150 pages), or maybe one long book and a couple of minis, in a year. Why not? I mean, I also need to, you know, work on other things.
Of course, this is all based on me doing this on my own. If a publisher wanted to partner up, the numbers and pace would be different. But for now… if you’ve been reading these comics, or even if you’re brand new here, what do you reckon is an ideal format for a printed Cassidy: Biggest Monster, Smallest Planet? 32-page floppies? 64-page graphic chapter books? 128-page thick bois (official industry term)? Imagine it in your hands, or in the hands of a kid you know. What seems right? Hmmm…
Oh! Sorry! Did you want to see this week’s continuation of Terrible Lie? Here you go! Ooooooh, grayscale flashback!
So these are Floots. I came up with them this summer when I was on a trip to Spain with my partner. In a middle-of-the-night jetlagged frenzy, I turned on the TV and found a 24/7 Smurfs channel. I was glued to the screen for hours. I knew I needed my own Smurfs. Or, really, my own Snorks. So there you have it.
Prolly gonna go back and make them look shinier/wetter. Next week, we’ll see them a bit more floopy and jelly-like.
Thanks for reading! Tell your pals.
64 page books sounds fun! Congrats on cracking 100 pages, and thanks for sharing them with us. It was fun to visit this world every week or two