Happy Monday, everybody. Things are going to be different around here. I retired on Tuesday, July 20 after 48 years with my employer. Yep. I’m that old. To celebrate, I drew a cartoon of me, my wife, and several of my friends and colleagues. I’m the guy in the red Hawaiian shirt. Kathy is next to me, holding our cat, Lucky. This cartoon is the “personal project” I mentioned a few weeks ago. It was quite an undertaking but a labor of love, nonetheless. If you want to see the whole picture, it is in the “Gallery.” Just click the link near the top of the page.
I’m still adjusting to retirement but I’m planning on returning to a weekly update schedule. Another thing that is happening is I have migrated from Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to Affinity Designer and Photo. This is also a good time to try to freshen up the look of the comic. Now I’ll have more time to spend on the comic and I hope to improve the look and feel.
I’m very excited to have reached this point in my life and I want to thank each and everyone of my readers for your interest the comic. You have made drawing Danielle Dark a lot of fun and I really appreciate your comments. I’m looking forward to continuing Danielle’s story for many years to come. I hope you continue with me.
Many, many thanks for coming along for the ride. Let’s continue down the road, shall we?
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Enjoy retirement! btw, you posted this twice.
Congratulations on Retirement Jay! I hope you enjoy the extra time to be with your family and work on the projects you want to work on.
Congratulations! I hope you enjoy your retirement. With weekly updates I know I will.
Aehoyn: Thanks for the kind words and thanks for letting me know I posted twice. Oops.
Curtis: Thanks. It’s going to take some time getting used to not being on someone else’s clock.
Darwin; Many thanks. I’m like a kid in a candy store. So much more free time!
Congratulations! I hope you find the balance you need to have a wonderful retirement.
Michell: Retirement is an adjustment, for sure. Thanks for the encouragement.
Congrats! Hope you enjoy the heck out of retirement
And thanks again for including me in your awesome crew (Godzilla Rules!).
Jess: It was my pleasure. I just HAD to include you in the Godzilla costume. The drawing would have been “hoo hum” without that extra touch.
Congrats on voluntary retirement.
Is that Kilroy there in the bottom left? I didn’t know he was here too!
Dragonrider: Thanks. It’s going to be nice to not have to squeeze so much into the weekends.
Garanhir: The character in the lower left is Filmore. He, CW and Rufus the dog, are characters I created for news letters at my former job. You can see the whole retirement picture in the Gallery. See the link at the top left of the page.