Drawing-hand update, continued: The good news, I've found, is that after some initial tests with the iPad iteration of Clip Studio Paint, the apparently now-permanent pressure sensitivity pain issue in my index fingertip doesn't seem to be especially triggered by use of the Apple Pencil. Yay! So, "going digital" might well be a viable approach for comics projects down the road; howeva, that hope for the future is of little relevance to the current analog-media grind of finishing up Empowered vol. 12. (Oh, well.)

Today’s Patreon update: In an attempt to scratch out more worktime to complete the long-gestating Empowered vol. 12, I've switched over to a Monday/ Wednesday/ Friday Patreon posting schedule that won't feature the fixed content format I previously used. However, my vast archive of years of Patreon posts—extensive Empowered previews, vintage con sketches, work stages on covers, "damsel in distress" commissions, life drawings & much, much more—remains available for Patrons' perusal.