I did some thinking the other day in an effort to quantify my goals for various projects and start breaking down a plan to complete these things in time. Like, I know that I have about two dozen stories I want to tell in various comics, but I keep thinking about their timelines in very nebulous ways, like ‘Yeah, in a couple years when Eye of the Vortex is done…’ or ‘After I finish this chapter, I want to work on this other project for a while…’ Sometime last week I sat down and started mapping out immediate goals for the rest of 2015, and this is what I came up with:

• Ellie Connelly and the Eye of the Vortex, chapters 4 and 5 (32 pages total, plus covers)
• War of the Worlds folios 1 and 2 (12 pages total)
• Unannounced Comic Project, chapter 1 (24 pages)

I felt like this is a pretty conservative estimate of what I would like to have finished by the end of the year. Like, this feels like progress to me. On the surface it doesn’t sound like much – three full chapters of comics, and a couple folios of illustrations – but at 68 full pages, that’s well more than a page a week, which means increasing my output considerably.

I may make things easier on myself by making the Unannounced Project a minicomic, which would mean the pages are only half the size of what I’m currently doing for Ellie, but that will also likely increase the page count a bit. And since I’m not sure if I’m going to like that format for the story, I’ll probably end up needing to draw some test pages to help me decide. I may also switch to a different unannounced project, which would change the target number of pages. Who knows?

All in all, it’s going to be a busy year for me, and there’s no time like the present to get going on it! I’m off work today, and my immediate goal is to finish the next War of the Worlds piece before I head to bed tonight. Look to my Patreon feed for process pics throughout the day!