Many of you have been very generous and I am quite thankful for all the readers out there who enjoy “Ralf the Destroyer”. I am especially glad when I am able to meet some of you at conventions and I always enjoy the heart and wit of the comments that appear on this site.
I have received some curiosity about the updates and the state of the website so I thought I’d let everyone know where I am and what my plans are. While I had hoped to be further along on certain “non-Ralf” projects, life has simply thrown me a few sneaky curve balls (such as suddenly having to move my family to a new home). This on top of a few rather large projects has seriously impaired my scheduling of Ralf strips.
I thought lowering Ralf to a once a week update would be easier to meet, but I have really had my hands full. Now what I know is this, before October is over one very large deadline (a 48 pg graphic novel for “Graphic Classics”) will be done and met. After that I am very confident that I will be back to scheduling Ralf to Monday-Wednesday-Friday.
As for the site, I am trying to obtain some professional help to create a child theme and update my ComicPress site. I know certain buttons have never worked quite right, so I’m hoping I can fix some things with a newer version of ComicPress or possibly Easel. I am also looking into adding an “Extra Content” portion of the site which would showcase a full color long form comic which would update weekly and would reveal much more of the mythology and dig into Ralf’s past.
Last but not least, I will also be setting up some appointments to meet with comics editors to see if self syndication will be an avenue worth pursuing. What all of this means is I am ramping up for what I hope will be a big year (2012) for Ralf the Destroyer… but it has nothing to do with the Mayan Calender.
Please let me know what your thoughts are, I would love some feed back from you the readers.
Scott Lincoln
Hey, life happens to us all.
The comic’s pretty funny. I’ll be waiting for it to start up again.
Thanks for commenting and for reading Kulian! I’ll still be trying to get a strip a week up, but I wanted to let everyone know I wasn’t quitting if I happened to miss one. 😉
Glad you are still with us. I really admire all the webcomic artists & writers I follow for keeping going and having real lives! Am happy to wait for Ralf to pick up again – at least he can’t blow us all up in the meantime 😉
I promise Ralf has no secret agendas in play between publish dates 😀
Man I will miss this strip while it is on hiatus. Great art, great story line. I know you wanted some feed back. I say burn you bridges! To heck with other projects! Keep Ralf going! Keep ME happy. Seriously though good luck to you and I will await Ralf’s return!
On more serious note how about a weekly status update from you where things are at and how they are going from the professional standpoint?
From a professional standpoint, the conventions wrought a great deal of positive feed back. The most asked question was “which newspapers is it in?”.
I have submitted to every major syndicate and talked with a few very prominent editors. The consensus is that it’s professional, funny and well drawn… but they won’t take it because it’s about an alien.
Towards the end of October I will be investigating self syndication. If I could generate enough revenue from it, Ralf would be published daily with full color Sundays and a Full color long form page published weekly.