(when questions get frequently asked ill make an FAQ but for now this is just info about stuff)
hey, this is the official earth 2068 tumblr blog! if you dont know what im talking about, you can read the comic from the beginning here:
https://www.earth2068.com/comic/01_000
earth 2068 is a sci-fi comedy webcomic with an almost-entirely trans cast created by me, quark! feel free to send asks about it, or follow this blog for links to updates and behind-the-scenes stuff. i also have a twitter account for the same purpose!
for anyone interested in hanging out with other people who read the comic, theres a discord fan server that im on sometimes, and you can join that here!
ill update this post as needed, but thats all for now.
So it turns out earth 2068 has had such an impact on me its started seeping into my art… had to rework a character when I realised “That is literally Winona White”
the TLDR of this is that im taking a break. i dont know when ill be back. i have 2 pages up on patreon that arent on the main site yet, so im letting the main site catch up, but when it does, the comic will stop updating until i come back.
more talking under the cut:
i try to be real with everyone about what im dealing with, because i prefer being vulnerable with my work. but honestly, ive been hiding more than id admit to for a long time, and i wanna come clean about it.
working on this comic has been taking up more and more of my brain recently, and not in a way that makes me happy or excited the way it used to. there was a time when i was extremely passionate about earth 2068, when it was the only thing i wanted to work on, i loved the characters so much and would write scripts years ahead of what i was drawing. the chapter 6 script, what ive been drawing for the past two-ish months, was first written while i was drawing chapter 1.
and one thing i knew going into this was that i did NOT want to EVER cancel it or go on an indefinite hiatus like ive seen so many webcomics do. i saw it as learning from the "mistakes" of artists before me, as if they'd done something wrong that i could do better.
so i drew this comic for 4 years. and the better i got at drawing and writing, the less i loved working on the comic.
there were so many times when working on the comic was a completely joyless endeavor, when i felt utterly hollow, sitting at my desk, drawing for hours, pushing myself through it because i hated the idea of stopping. because that was "failing" i guess. if i stopped id hate myself for it, so i just hated myself while drawing instead. and because i did that, i lost a ton of time i could have spent working on stuff i was actually, really passionate about.
eventually, i thought working on the comic could just be an "idle" thing i did on the side while working on other stuff. turns out i definitely cannot do that.
so, um... yeah, the trains stopping here for now. its disappointing to me that im stopping it here specifically, in the middle of the second act of chapter 6. i hoped i could make it til the end of the chapter, go out on a high note and take a break somewhere more normal. but thinking about drawing the next page makes me want to crumple myself into a paper ball. so it has to stop here.
thank you for being passionate about earth 2068, even when i couldnt be. its honestly the best part of having spent all this time making the comic.
hopefully, taking this break will let me feel excited about the comic again. ill let you know :]
ive had a really hectic weekend and i couldn't draw last night since im at a different house and forgot my tablet pen lol, so im delaying the next update til thursday. for everyone reading on earth2068.com or comicfury for free, i technically do have the next two pages done (theyre up on patreon for just $5/month!) but the point of the patreon is to let my supporters read pages early so it kinda defeats the purpose if i use that buffer. this is just simpler across the board. thanks for understanding! see you on thursday!
