Exciting Update: "Then This Happened..." Year 6 Ebook Collection Coming Soon!

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Arranging the webcomic book in Google docs

I've been working on a new collected ebook for my Then This Happened... Webcomic diary series on Amazon.

For those who might be new here, "Then This Happened..." started back in May 2017.

The first year of the comic was about us dealing with the news that my wife had breast cancer.

This is the first webcomic I drew in 2017

Page 2 of my webcomic in 2017

My art style has evolved over the years, and so has our lives. And I'm so grateful for all of you who've been there along the way.

Like in previous years, in this upcoming eBook, I'm compiling all the comics from May 2022 to April 2023 into a collected edition.

The easy part, of course, is putting all the comic image pages together.

The not-so-easy part for me is always the cover and bio page. I'm currently brainstorming some ideas for that.

While finalizing the cover art and bio, I'll also be tackling the meta information for the Kindle store. But that's a whole other battle.

Stay tuned for more updates. and in the meantime, you can check out the first book on Amazon to see how it all started when my wife found out she had breast cancer.

Check out the first book!

Then This Happened... A Diary About Breast Cancer on Amazon

To Do: Multitasking My Business, Music, and Comics

Sometimes balancing my multiple projects can often feel like an overwhelming task. I sit and think out loud about the tasks I need to juggle this week from my vintage reselling business, my band, and my webcomic series. In this video vlog, I begin the week by prioritizing tasks and setting goals. I'm going to mark them as I go along. ✅ = Done ⏲ = Still waiting Vintage reselling business - The Pop Culture Roadshow With a vintage reselling business to run, the first order of business is to pack orders from weekend sales on platforms like eBay and Mercari. As I pack these items I need to record a 'What Sold' video for my Pop Culture roadshow YouTube channel , turning the task into video content. ✅ Pack orders ✅ List new items I got from estate sales (See my latest eBay store listings here ) ⛔ Create a new "What sold" video for my YouTube page (Recorded not edited - Laptop upgrade issues) Band - Lorenzo's Music I've also got a new song out this month so I nee

Artwork for the original Candy Land game by Milton Bradley from 1955.

I have a vintage Candy Land game from 1955 by Milton Bradley and I was about to sell it so I thought I would add it to my personal art history course concept I've been doing . I'm going to try and see if I can find out how this game was created, designed and why? Here is what I found out about this game https://candy-land.fandom.com/wiki/Candy_Land_Wiki Candy Land is a board game about children exploring a world made out of candy and other sweets that originally came out in 1949. In every version of the game, there are a group of children that go through Candy Land. In the earliest versions of the game, it was a realistically drawn boy and girl. Drawing of the Candy Land kids I did on my phone ☝ https://board-games-galore.fandom.com/wiki/Candy_Land The game was designed in 1948 by Eleanor Abbott , while she was recovering from polio in San Diego, California. It's rumored that Eleanor also did the original artwork but I didn't find anything that

A quick peek behind-the-scenes of a new webcomic series. Coming soon!

I've recently paused my usual diary comic to dedicate my attention to an exciting new project—a fiction webcomic series featuring two characters that may be familiar to my long-time followers. These characters, Bobert and the Monster have made appearances on my website before , and now they're taking center stage. I'm working diligently with the hope of launching the series shortly. In the meantime, I'd like to share this behind-the-scenes video of the drawing process for one of the upcoming pages. Stay tuned for more updates as I bring this creative vision to life.

New song! Variation witch

Keeping up with my plan to release new music every month. This time around I venture into the punk blues realm. Sort of a mixture of The Black Keys and The Eels . This is a song called "Variation witch" by my band Lorenzo's Music . The cover art is actually an antique top that I have in my collection. What I liked about it was the striped disc kind of like something in a Tim Burton film.

Tom Ray

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