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What's Currently In My Future
🕑 Added 2024-05-16 19:26:03 +0000 UTCI guess nobody's asking this directly but I might as well address it because people just do not understand My Process. What I Am Planning To Do:
Comics:
I'm still planning on continuing The Witch of Kurikuto for the time being. I am hoping that I'll be able to finish it without taking a break; I already have a preliminary draft, I know where it goes, I know where it ends, and like most of my projects it's gonna bloat out of control when I really sit down to think about what the audience needs.
That said, I have other stories that I'd very much like to finish before people forget about them entirely. I have more A&H Club, more Campus Avenue, more Hayven Celestia ideas, more Housepets. I cannot do all of this myself.
I am very strongly considering hiring more people to just Do Comics for me. Maybe an extra page per week, maybe more maybe less, the problem being I have a minimum threshold for quality and I have no idea how to go about actually finding it. There are many, many cool artists out there but I don't know which ones can actually work at my rate (speed AND price) for the duration of a project (which can take upwards of a year) or how to replace them when they're done.
Stories:
You know I have Pit Fighters, Farm Life, and multiple Hayven Celestia things just sitting and waiting to be finished. I know. But prose stories take a lot of time and I can get discouraged very quickly because I can spend so much time on it, only to undo all the work I'd just done. So even if I'm enthused to do more on a project, I can't make many promises until I have both time and space to sit down and think about it, and even then I can only work on one at a time.
What I know FOR SURE: Chain Unbroken is going to get top priority once the dev edits come back. Then, line editing is going to start. Chain Unbroken gets priority. THEN, I'm considering launching a new anthology.
"Why make more work for yourself" because I loved the anthology and I wanna do another.
But it's going to be a minimum eight months until the anthology starts to bear fruit, so there's room there to pick a writing project and Do It. I'm strongly leaning Pit Fighters. I can't account for my brain's decisions, or speedbumps along the way that might slow things down or change priorities.
The Next Big Project:
Final Days of the White Flower II has eaten up a lot of my priority time the last several years, and now that it's almost done, there's the next overarching thing I need to start thinking about, which is making a game.
We've already made headway into a project in the Ani-droids universe. I'm contributing to this because there's a ton about game design I still don't know and need to learn. It's a slow process and I need to devote more time to it. So, once the novel trilogy is done, that's going to be a significant point of my focus.
But in the background I'm wanting to work up to Dogmen. I will start dabbling at the script and ideas. I don't know how long it will take. I just know what I want it to look like and I will eventually be pouring a lot of effort into it. But of course, as evidenced above, I have so many things I want to make.
Between all of this, I'm considering getting a real company name beyond Rick Griffin Studios to encompass this, esp if I want to include the work of others. I've been thinking about Too Many Worlds.
Other things in the pipeline: Housepets Omnibus. It honestly SHOULDN'T take that long to put together; this is a project that, for at least the first volume, I could do in under a week if all my ducks line up in a row. Tentatively "sometime" this summer.
Comments
Kujiiro
Too Many Worlds is certainly a fitting phrase. Lord have mercy, you have an astounding amount of projects in the pipeline. How you juggle it all as it is now is wild, I can definitely see why you'd want some hired assistance. Godspeed to you.
Arid
That's an amazing amount of work!! Your books and comics have been really fantastic. Thanks for all the wonderful art!
Burgafrickle
Thank you.
Kia Vaderkit
You could just stick with Rick Griffin Studios. Worked for disney.
Tiberium
Love your stories!
Simone Parker
Such a rich plan!
Jonathan
Epic!
Mystikade
I love your passion for all your projects And I have been loving your recent work so much! I can't wait to see your journey forward and what's to come 💙
Dhaka Yeena
How exciting!!!
Diego P
Very exciting news!
Chrysalis
Thank you for keeping us updated! I would be eager to see more of literally everything on this list - whatever you're most interested in working on, in whatever form, I'm on board.
Stoker Bramwell
If there's a name that could encompass the sheer breadth of ideas you have, it would be "Too Many Worlds"
Arty Harty
It will be fascinating to have more hands on your comics. I wish I can be one of them some day
Endagger
What did you mean in the penultimate paragraph? to create a studio and include the work of others.
Othello
I’m definitely in favor of more Pit Fighters.
