by Mad Nellie | Dec 10, 2024 | The Blacksleeves - Updates
A comic. A car accident. A neck injury. A breakup. A promo trailer. A mystery illness. A thousand doctor’s appointments. A string of (crippling) depressive episodes. What do all these things have in common? Me, right now. I’m not saying this for sympathy points. But...
by Mad Nellie | Sep 22, 2024 | The Blacksleeves - Updates
September 2024 – Project Hiatus TL;DR – The Blacksleeves will be going on a 12-month hiatus because of reasons. I’ve been agonizing over the decision since August. I realize it’s insanely early days, with only four issues out. Compared to the overall projected...
by Mad Nellie | Jul 2, 2024 | The Blacksleeves - Updates
Issue 2 goes live in 5 days, and yet I already feel like this project has been published for years. That’s really only half-true, because this project has been published for nearly a decade… but all inside my head. I have a long-term plan for this project that I...
by Mad Nellie | Jun 1, 2024 | The Blacksleeves - Updates
And now it’s done. Issue 1 is finally out there for the world to see. To enjoy, to cherish, to mock, to criticize… not that the prospect of any of that is going to stop me. Quite a few firsts have happened today. First day of Pride Month (!!), the first of many issues...
by Mad Nellie | May 3, 2024 | The Blacksleeves - Updates
At this point, I am nearly halfway through Issue 3. Boy do I wish I could work faster. Even with Midjourney assistance on the backgrounds, I feel like production is sluggish at best. Then again… it is just me after all. Either way, we’re truckin’ along. And...
by Mad Nellie | Apr 5, 2024 | The Blacksleeves - Updates
Sighhhhhh. Social media. My art Instagram is almost 10 years old. I was never an avid user but I posted and grew a smallish following that I was content with. This was long before the “high quality content” days of social media. This was back when you could post...