Yes, I’m going to use the H word. Cooties, and pretty much all my tooning except for the paying gig, will be taking a small hiatus of 2-3 weeks. However, I have some great news to go along with that: as of September, I will have a schedule change at my day job to where I will be working 4 10-hour days, Tues-Fri. On Mondays, I will have a designated chunk of time that I can actually “go to work” at my drawing table. I will be able to treat the cartooning as a job (in letter if not in spirit), and have scheduled drawing time, instead of stealing it from my sleep time as I’ve been doing for so long. As of that point I foresee regular updating with no more flakiness on my part.

In the meantime, if any of my readers who are fellow webcomickers would like to throw some guest art my way, I wouldn’t be disagreeable to posting it. I know with school starting it’s not the best time in the world, though. We’ll get through the drawing drought together, I promise…

I apologize for the once-a-week only updates recently. I’ve been working more, and yesterday was my 10th wedding anniversary; no way I was gonna be drawing comics, sorry. I will try and get two updates in this week, though, but no promises.

I would really hate to have to go back to updating weekly, but right now I don’t see my time getting any freer. I’ll keep you all posted.

Hey, did you all know that, although Cooties only updates twice a week, you can get a daily dose of cartoonation from me five days a week? It’s true, and for free, too! Cooties updates here on Tuesdays and Fridays; you can also check out my blog on Mondays and Wednesdays. Mondays I will post a Classic Cartoonista toon or calendar toon, or some other blog-exclusive goodness; and Wednesdays you can check out the weekly editorial cartoon I do for the Davis County Clipper, a local Utah newspaper. On Thursdays you can check out my brand new strip Dadmocracy; it’s more a of a typical gag-a-day newspaper style strip, not story-based like Cooties. I hope you’ll give them all a look!

Hey, everyone! It’s good to be at the new site as a member of SpiderForest! It was put together by Kez of War of Winds; so give her a hand. So far the community has been extremely welcoming and helpful; I’m looking forward to being part of the collective, and working to make Cooties even better!

All of the extra bells and whistles aren’t set up yet, but give us time. Anyone new to the strip can still take a look at the old New Readers page.