Here’s the TL;DR – I am ARG now updates Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the next little bit.
This is hard for me to explain, but I’ll do my best.
For reasons outside of the comic, I feel like I’ve been rushing the creative process. Making 5 comics a week is fun and I truly love the pace my schedule creates. But recently, with all the work needed for the book, the preparation needed for upcoming conventions, getting a store ready, a whole whack of personal and professional things and not too mention just trying to have a life, I feel it’s started to negatively impact the comic.
I strive to always make the best comic I can and release it on time. So far I’ve been really successful with this schedule. Rarely am I late and I’ve never missed an update. But recently, I don’t feel as if I’m putting out the best I can do and I hate that feeling.
When you’ve got a lot on your plate everything gets less attention than it deserves. That just won’t do for me. I’ve taken a hard look at what needs to be accomplished in the coming months and what is suffering right now and I’ve come to a decision.
I’ve decided that I’m going to be updating I am ARG Monday, Wednesday, Friday for a bit.
This is a doable schedule. This will allow me the time to complete everything and bring you quality content that I am happy to post. It’s the breathing room I need before going full bore again.
I want to stress that this is not a permanent thing. I will be going back to a full 5day weekday schedule once I get through all this.
I apologize to those readers that read I am ARG every morning. I love knowing that for a lot of you, I am a daily stop in your webcomic reading routine. I promise you this is temporary and I am ARG will return to the 5 day a week comic you’ve come to know and love over the last year.
I appreciate your patience and support.
Thank
-Andrew Gregoire
Thanks for all your updates man, you’ve been working hard for a while now. I wish you luck with your new schedule. We’ll enjoy whatever you put out for sure (:
Every day, just after midnight, I AM ARG is the first of my daily webcomic chain to update and usually the one that makes me laugh the most. If you need to take personal time to sort your business, you’ll hear no complaints from those of us who adore the comic – take care of yourself first and foremost, man. The rest will follow.
Although I totally get that you expect this to be temporary, if you are so successful that you don’t have time for five a week from here on out, we won’t go anywhere 🙂
Keep any pace that you feel like man, I’m just glad that you continue to churn out comics. Lots of webcomics falter after the first year or so and just die.
After the last year of hard ass work you deserve to ease up a bit. As a loyal argonaut i have the utmost faith in your creative process.
thanks for your great work, even do i wil miss a daily dose of I AM ARG, we fully understand that you need to ease up a bit, we wil stil be here
Between your love life, your work life, your home life and everything else that goes on around you, you do need to take a step back to recover. Scott (yeah, I am a fan of Nerf This, too) and Joenis (ditto LAWLS) have had to do the same, and we still are loyal followers of their work too.
It’s hard not to be when they’ve done everything short of learning foreign languages simply to apologise to their fans. You run a great comic, and if you need to ease the workload to keep it being great, so be it.
I knew your supply of dick jokes would dry out eventually! Let that well recover a bit. Anyway, I know you are doing the best someone can do, so keep it on! Good luck living this stuff they call “life”, I wouldn’t know anything about it anyway.
I love your comic, but this is a slippery slope you are starting to embark on, first it starts off with slightly less updates, then it starts to be only one update a week and then soon, no updates for months at a time. I’ve seen it happen countless times to some of my favorite comics.
You’re a fantastic webcomic artist and we appreciate all the work you put into giving us a laugh every day. There’s no way that we can be anything but supportive of you and your endeavors. Good luck and I look forward to seeing the day when you can proudly say you’ve beaten back the invading Oakvillians and won the war against their terror with the dick joke reserves you’ve stored from cutting back on updates and that there will be daily updates for all victorious comrades everywhere!