When life gives you lemons…

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

When life gives you absurdity, make cartoons.

Going to be taking a little break from the data design and Canva blog posts for a little while. Not saying I won’t come back to it, but I think the universe is telling me I need to be a cartoonist right now.

I’ll still be sending newsletters. And I’ll still be leading twice a month data design support club sessions.

I’ve quietly relaunched the FreshSpectrum Comics page.

My goal is to backfill with my archives, but it will take some time. In the meantime, I’m going to try for 5 comics a week. If I’m not data design blogging too, it’s a lot more realistic.

I’ve restructured my Patreon page.

I was sick last week and had one of those “What if” moments. What if I actually tried being a cartoonist for real? It doesn’t have to be my main job (seriously, hire me for some consulting) but what if I made it my side job?

So for the next several months I’m going to give it an honest to goodness try. So if you like my stuff, and want to see more of it, support me on Patreon.

I’ve made Data Design Support Club cheaper.

I’ll be honest. I’m not very good at running a data design training company. Ann and Stephanie are much better at it than I. I spend a lot of time (and money) on upkeep but am rarely focused enough to make it work financially.

I like coaching and mentoring and want to keep doing that. But I think perhaps I need a different model that requires less financial/technical upkeep.

So I’m just going to bring everything over to Patreon, where I won’t have the same administrative upkeep costs. We’ll still meet twice a month over Zoom. But now it’s going to drop to $15/month and include a bunch of benefits I give my cartoon patrons.

Any questions?

I’m still working on some additional stuff, but for the moment that’s it!

Any thoughts?