It's been quiet...

Resting and re-calibrating

Hi there!

It’s been a few weeks since I last wrote something here on the ol’ stack of subs. I’m sure most folks are blissfully thankful that there’s been an absence of “Please back Buddy and Friend on Kickstarter” emails in their inbox. Believe me, I’m also blissfully thankful that I don’t have to send them anymore!

For those of you now tuning in, we did fund in the last 3 hours and Buddy and Friend #3 is happening which is a huge relief! It’s been really touching to see how much the indie comics community rallied together in the end to help this book happen and I feel really lucky to have such wonderful people in my corner.

That being said, if you missed the campaign, I’ve got a preorder store set up with digital books.

If you wanted physical books and missed out, those will be going up on my regular shop (https://msorcier.com/shop/) after the current Kickstarter campaign has been fulfilled, so sometime in January 2025. It feels like this year is already over, doesn’t it??

In not so great news, I got sick after this current Kickstarter campaign ended. I think I was sick for a lot of the duration of the campaign, but my brain was so laser focused that I was ignoring the symptoms and then everything finally really hit me the day after the campaign ended.

I came down with a pretty nasty sinus infection that I’m currently taking care of now and I also found out that a lot of my fatigue and burnout has been caused by anemia brought on by some other (manageable) health issues. Womp womp.

I always joke that I put my blood, sweat and tears into my work (especially blood) and I guess my body has taken that way too literally. In any case, I’m working on getting my precious red blood cells back and overall just getting myself back into fighting shape.

So what’s the plan moving forward? Because I never not have a plan. I’m always planning.

With Buddy and Friend #3 pretty much out of the way for the moment, until I get books in the mail to mail out to backers, I’m going to be spending the rest of the year finishing up some commissions and taking more commissions before 2024 officially ends. I’ll have more on that in next week’s newsletter.

As for next year, I’ll be launching a Kickstarter campaign for a deluxe hardcover artbook featuring my favorite drawings from 2020-2024. It’ll be about 100 pages, which will make things hard for me to decide because I think I’ve drawn way more than 100 things I like over the past four years. The book will include all the comic covers I’ve done for Sacrimony, Buddy and Friend and also other comics, things I’ve done for Patreon, my favorite sketches, promotional art and other categories I forgot existed.

The campaign will go live in early January and there will be more on that later on in the months to come. I just wanted to bring it up now because I’m very excited for this and I can’t not talk about it.

For the rest of 2025, I still want to find a way to put out at least 2 more issues of Sacrimony and another Buddy and Friend. If I pace myself properly, I think I can do it. This entire year, I’ve only had the time and energy to put out one issue of Sacrimony and one Buddy and Friend and I, honestly, haven’t felt like myself since last year. I don’t like it.

The plan is to have Sacrimony #8 ready to go in March and then I’ll know what I have to do from there.

But that’s next year me’s problem. In the meanwhile, I’m going to take this weekend to properly rest up and work on recovering.

I hope you have a great weekend and thanks so much for reading :)
-M