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[scarfman]

[I drafted this entry Saturday night (before there was the cartoon to link to) and accidentally saved it as "friends only" when I meant to keep it as "private" till now. Sorry for any confusion for anyone who saw it the few hours it was up then.]

The script for this cartoon had two endings. I even drew the other one a week ago, that's how much I’ve been flipflopping on this. But now I believe my days of drawing a cartoon every day are over; and I'm not willing to do AKOTAS on a lesser schedule.

I first started drafting this script the day before Thanksgiving, a few days after running that mid-November pledge. That was the same day my wife most recently went to the ER (see the Creative Process of 11/29/13). I note this because I want to emphasize that the October essay in this space, claiming no intent to bring AKOTAS to a close, predates by about a month the exterior factors that have been the last straw that brought me to this decision. I did mean what I said in October at the time. But since then I turned 54 and, well, you've read the highlights of the rest over the course of Creative Process. At this writing we're not certain what income my wife can still bring in and I may end up, though perhaps only temporarily, with an actual second part-time job.

There will be about six more AKOTAS cartoons, proper cartoons (unless there are also some fillers, an undeniable possibility), wrapping up the major story arcs and the new slayer story arc, derived from preexisting scripts some of which predate the AKOTAS debut.

Sorry about the mess.