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howdy! i am hoping i'll be updating again without these large pauses! my new series will be sporadic with updates at first, but i'm aiming hopefully for a sunday or thursday update day!
i also have another web comic i want to work on but I dont have a date for when I think I'll be starting to post that! lot to work on before drawing the pages but I do want to get the first chapter up and running this year!
that is my new year's resolution: Get one of my story-based web comics up and running before 2024! here's to hoping!
and thanks again to everyone who has stuck around despite my radio silence!
i also have another web comic i want to work on but I dont have a date for when I think I'll be starting to post that! lot to work on before drawing the pages but I do want to get the first chapter up and running this year!
that is my new year's resolution: Get one of my story-based web comics up and running before 2024! here's to hoping!
and thanks again to everyone who has stuck around despite my radio silence!
ONE YEAR LATER...
It's really been a whole year since my last update.
2020 (like for most of us) was an absolutely horrible year for me, and 2021 has been difficult as well. I've learned to accept my father's death due to COVID-19, and a lot of other things have sort of sprung up.
I went back to my old job that I got laid off of, but just about three weeks ago I quit because it was ruining both my mental health and my physical health do to stress. As it stands, I did attempt to stick out the last two weeks, but my final week they scheduled me more hours than I had allowed on my availability, and the job had become significantly more toxic since returning. I've never up and quit a job like I did before, but it was the better choice for my mental health.
In the mean time, I've done some pet sitting when I can, trying to finish up some old commissions to reopen them again proper, and mostly, I've been roleplaying and drawing for myself again to cope with how chaotic the last year and a half has been.
I desperately want to go back to making comics again. I have a new tablet, a new set up, and a couple ideas I want to go back to and rework, and since I'm back to being unemployed, I wanna just go back and focus on art while I try to find a job on campus or get something going with my commissions.
Also, the end of last year, I kinda realized I am not in fact aromantic or asexual. Lot of resurfaced trauma came forward, especially at the very end of January, and as such, I have come to realize I'm a nonbinary lesbian! So, with that said, "Life and Times of a Himbo" will now be placed as complete, as I do not want to just delete it, but I won't be updating it anymore.
I will, however, hopefully, be setting up a new lil journal comic series to get back into the swing of making comics. I want to aim for biweekly, but it'll most likely be a "when I have the energy and motivation for it" update schedule.
Thanks for sticking around guys. I appreciate it so much.
It's really been a whole year since my last update.
2020 (like for most of us) was an absolutely horrible year for me, and 2021 has been difficult as well. I've learned to accept my father's death due to COVID-19, and a lot of other things have sort of sprung up.
I went back to my old job that I got laid off of, but just about three weeks ago I quit because it was ruining both my mental health and my physical health do to stress. As it stands, I did attempt to stick out the last two weeks, but my final week they scheduled me more hours than I had allowed on my availability, and the job had become significantly more toxic since returning. I've never up and quit a job like I did before, but it was the better choice for my mental health.
In the mean time, I've done some pet sitting when I can, trying to finish up some old commissions to reopen them again proper, and mostly, I've been roleplaying and drawing for myself again to cope with how chaotic the last year and a half has been.
I desperately want to go back to making comics again. I have a new tablet, a new set up, and a couple ideas I want to go back to and rework, and since I'm back to being unemployed, I wanna just go back and focus on art while I try to find a job on campus or get something going with my commissions.
Also, the end of last year, I kinda realized I am not in fact aromantic or asexual. Lot of resurfaced trauma came forward, especially at the very end of January, and as such, I have come to realize I'm a nonbinary lesbian! So, with that said, "Life and Times of a Himbo" will now be placed as complete, as I do not want to just delete it, but I won't be updating it anymore.
I will, however, hopefully, be setting up a new lil journal comic series to get back into the swing of making comics. I want to aim for biweekly, but it'll most likely be a "when I have the energy and motivation for it" update schedule.
Thanks for sticking around guys. I appreciate it so much.
tw: family death, COVID-19
There's been radio silence here and it's been because May 8th my dad died. It hit my family hard. My mom is currently the only one making any income since I was laid off a week before he died, and school was literally ending that week.
Things have been weird- mostly brain stuff. Grief is weird and my brain has been really foggy, and for a while, I didn't feel very up to doing much. My dad meant a lot to me.
It's been three months since he died. We got to do his last wish which was scattering his ashes in the ocean.
On top of being laid off and losing my dad, I made a big oopsie on my mental health and thought "oh! i'll take summer classes to keep my mind off everything!" which ended up making me more stressed 'cause I didn't give myself. Any time to really grieve without also worrying "oh yeah i have an essay due and a power point and also a video edit haha oops" so yeah.
I've been doing other stuff like participating in Art Fight, as well as working on setting up another webcomic. I've written 5 episodes worth of a script, and have thumbnailed two episodes. It's made me feel at home again, if that makes sense? I needed a break, but I think the break has been long enough.
As it is, Life and Times of a Himbo will be taken off hiatus soon, though updates will be sporadic since I do want that to be a destress/warm up comic so I can put all my energy into this webcomic I've been working on (story-wise) since around high school, and I've finally gotten to having a basic overview of the story as a whole.
To everyone who's stuck around, I really appreciate it! I hope you guys have been staying safe, and hopefully haven't had the same experiences during this on-going pandemic as my family has. Please social distance, if you have to go to work, make sure you keep your mask on, wash your hands, and try to limit going out as much as you can!
-Benzy
There's been radio silence here and it's been because May 8th my dad died. It hit my family hard. My mom is currently the only one making any income since I was laid off a week before he died, and school was literally ending that week.
Things have been weird- mostly brain stuff. Grief is weird and my brain has been really foggy, and for a while, I didn't feel very up to doing much. My dad meant a lot to me.
It's been three months since he died. We got to do his last wish which was scattering his ashes in the ocean.
On top of being laid off and losing my dad, I made a big oopsie on my mental health and thought "oh! i'll take summer classes to keep my mind off everything!" which ended up making me more stressed 'cause I didn't give myself. Any time to really grieve without also worrying "oh yeah i have an essay due and a power point and also a video edit haha oops" so yeah.
I've been doing other stuff like participating in Art Fight, as well as working on setting up another webcomic. I've written 5 episodes worth of a script, and have thumbnailed two episodes. It's made me feel at home again, if that makes sense? I needed a break, but I think the break has been long enough.
As it is, Life and Times of a Himbo will be taken off hiatus soon, though updates will be sporadic since I do want that to be a destress/warm up comic so I can put all my energy into this webcomic I've been working on (story-wise) since around high school, and I've finally gotten to having a basic overview of the story as a whole.
To everyone who's stuck around, I really appreciate it! I hope you guys have been staying safe, and hopefully haven't had the same experiences during this on-going pandemic as my family has. Please social distance, if you have to go to work, make sure you keep your mask on, wash your hands, and try to limit going out as much as you can!
-Benzy
So I'll be putting Life and Times of a Himbo on an indefinite hiatus. Until we get a sort of "final" outcome for my dad's status since he's been in the hospital for a little over two weeks now, I will be putting this on hold. It's mainly to not stress myself over updates while I'm already stressed about if my dad is going to come back home alive or not.
Hope you guys understand.
Stay safe, and take care of yourselves .
-Benzy
Hope you guys understand.
Stay safe, and take care of yourselves .
-Benzy
It's totally cool! My mom is the same way- take all the time you need
I won't get too into it, but "Life and Times of a Himbo" will not have an update this week. I'm currently dealing with some scary things in my personal life that I won't go into details about on this platform right now. I'm hoping to get back to updating next week, but this week I would prefer not stressing over an update. It has been a very stressful, emotional weekend.
Update:
It's very much like me to go without any notice. I whole heartedly mean this when I say it: that is changing.
At the very least, I'll be more on top of SAYING that I'll be going MIA. 2019 has been a lot of ups and downs, and I'm still not totally sure if I can say it was a TOTALLY good year, but definitely one involving a lot of growth in many aspects of me as a person.
That said, "Smoll Boy Days" will now be called "Life and Times of a Himbo" 'cause that's sort of where my life has been going. Not sure if that's an upgrade from a "smoll boy" but it definitely fits better for me as a person. That said, aside from life taking a hard toll on me, I hit a real bad way when it came to letting my ADHD and hyperfixating on fandom stuff and RP really get in the way of running my life rather than be hobbies. That all said, I desperately want to focus more on my own stuff, and I've been doing a bit better. At the very least, I haven't been so focused on RP and fanart comes when I feel like it, rather than feeling like I have to draw it or I'll Die.
So yes! Updates will be coming again, though the day will be moved to Mondays as that is my Definite day off from my part time job. I currently have something scheduled to post the coming Monday, so stay tuned!
I hope you've all been doing well this past 2019! And I'm so thankful to the lot of you that have still stuck around despite my radio silence!
-Ben / Iaconic
It's very much like me to go without any notice. I whole heartedly mean this when I say it: that is changing.
At the very least, I'll be more on top of SAYING that I'll be going MIA. 2019 has been a lot of ups and downs, and I'm still not totally sure if I can say it was a TOTALLY good year, but definitely one involving a lot of growth in many aspects of me as a person.
That said, "Smoll Boy Days" will now be called "Life and Times of a Himbo" 'cause that's sort of where my life has been going. Not sure if that's an upgrade from a "smoll boy" but it definitely fits better for me as a person. That said, aside from life taking a hard toll on me, I hit a real bad way when it came to letting my ADHD and hyperfixating on fandom stuff and RP really get in the way of running my life rather than be hobbies. That all said, I desperately want to focus more on my own stuff, and I've been doing a bit better. At the very least, I haven't been so focused on RP and fanart comes when I feel like it, rather than feeling like I have to draw it or I'll Die.
So yes! Updates will be coming again, though the day will be moved to Mondays as that is my Definite day off from my part time job. I currently have something scheduled to post the coming Monday, so stay tuned!
I hope you've all been doing well this past 2019! And I'm so thankful to the lot of you that have still stuck around despite my radio silence!
-Ben / Iaconic
Overdue Update:
Yes I am alive, and I do plan on updating more often. 2016 and the beginning of 2017 haven't been great for my mental health, and while I am now medicated for my anxiety, I have other health issues, as well as the fact that my family is coming to very hard times with money.
However, I plan on continuing making comics, but somewhere along the line, I'm also hoping to set up a patreon so I have more motivation to keep my comics up and running and hopefully this'll be more reasons to update more than just once a year.
To everyone who has stuck along with me for so long despite no updates, I wanna say thank you so much! I know most of you follow my Smoll Boy Days web comic, but I'm planning on updating Gem Heroes as well! I'll try to post another update within the next few weeks, but I just wanted to let you all know what has sorta been going on and to apologize for the long, unannounced hiatus.
Yes I am alive, and I do plan on updating more often. 2016 and the beginning of 2017 haven't been great for my mental health, and while I am now medicated for my anxiety, I have other health issues, as well as the fact that my family is coming to very hard times with money.
However, I plan on continuing making comics, but somewhere along the line, I'm also hoping to set up a patreon so I have more motivation to keep my comics up and running and hopefully this'll be more reasons to update more than just once a year.
To everyone who has stuck along with me for so long despite no updates, I wanna say thank you so much! I know most of you follow my Smoll Boy Days web comic, but I'm planning on updating Gem Heroes as well! I'll try to post another update within the next few weeks, but I just wanted to let you all know what has sorta been going on and to apologize for the long, unannounced hiatus.
Your health always comes first, so by all means feel free to take things slow.
Still, glad to hear you're still into comics! Best wishes to you and your family! :)
Still, glad to hear you're still into comics! Best wishes to you and your family! :)
Hello again everyone! Once again, sorry for the silence. I've been working things out for my mental health, and while things aren't perfect, they've gotten better. I'm still trying to look for a therapist, but for the most part, I'm feeling back up to updating! As I stated previously, they'll be a bit more sporadic, but I'm aiming for at least updating one a week!
And also! Now that I've figured some things out, I've decided to monetize Smoll Boy Days! So it'd be great if you guys have any ad blockers to turn them off should you read that comic!
Anyway, I've still been updating my art blog, but yes! I'll be doing my best to update Smoll Boy Days a bit more! Thank you everyone so much for being so patient! I wish you all the best of days!
And also! Now that I've figured some things out, I've decided to monetize Smoll Boy Days! So it'd be great if you guys have any ad blockers to turn them off should you read that comic!
Anyway, I've still been updating my art blog, but yes! I'll be doing my best to update Smoll Boy Days a bit more! Thank you everyone so much for being so patient! I wish you all the best of days!
Good to hear you're doing better. Hope the trend continues.
Looking forward to the new episodes. :)
Looking forward to the new episodes. :)
Hey guys! Sorry for all the inactivity and worrying anyone! I should be getting in touch with a therapist in a few weeks, but I've been sort of feeling better! So updates for both my comics should be coming within the next couple months (well the journal comic probably earlier the other comic is the one that'll be a month or so!)
Thanks for holding out on me despite my sudden disappearance! I hope you're all doing wonderfully!
Thanks for holding out on me despite my sudden disappearance! I hope you're all doing wonderfully!
We're doing good Benzy, we're all more concerned about you. I hope you feel better, and I'm glad you're going to a therapist instead of taking those dumb anti-depression pills. Talking to someone about your problems work better than taking pills.
Good to hear you're feeling better!
I'm sorry everything is a mess right now- if you get a notification again for a new series, it's just me hecking up over here sorry again!
Shhhhhh It's ok
