Back after a summer break!

Published: Wed, 08/18/21

Hey , hope this email finds you well. I'm back on email after a little break. After finishing off the Digitopia 3 Kickstarter, I was in desperate need of a break.

This was my fourth Kickstarter campaign, although I managed my time and energy better, I still was emotionally and physically drained at the end of the campaign.

Speaking with other comic book creators, it is perfectly normal to feel drained even after completing several Kickstarters - something I need to accept and get used to.

For me the key to keeping all this grinding and hustling sustainable is to build in downtime.

Balancing production and marketing

I ran production in parallel to the Kickstarter campaign. Carlos was producing the last few inks and Joaquin was preparing the first few pages of colours for review.

As a solopreneur It's really hard to separate out marketing and production, I'm sure they use different parts of the brain; for me, they require a different type of energy.

production and marketing - different parts of the brain

I can do production related tasks when I'm tired, but I struggle to do marketing when tired. Production comes naturally to me and I can do it far easier than marketing.

Digitopia 3 production update

So much has gone on since my last email

all the inks have been completed
all the colours have been completed
we finished all the lettering of the book
completed the front cover
written the extra articles for the Digital Deluxe version of the book

Here are some of the epic art that the team has done

What's left to do now

prepare the book for print
send the book to the printer
sign off the book - which means yet another spell check
prepare the digital versions of the book
record the book commentaries
print the book
send the books out

It's seems like a long list, but after having this twice before, I have learnt to allow time for this to happen, for most of it I am dependent on the supply chain to do their job.

Thanks and tell your friends too

I know I always say thank you for your support, it is true this is hard to do on my own, I really appreciate every click, every like, every share and every comment that the content gets.

As always tell your friends about the book and the blog - recommending your friends sign up is the best way for the audience to grow.

The best place to point your friends is to the sign up page where they'll get a free digital art book of Digitopia 1.0 and get to join the community.

Tell your friends about the Digital Preview now

Hope you're enjoying the content, stay safe and we'll speak again shortly.

Thanks

Farhan