Cory Allan

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on December 6, 2018 and modified on December 6, 2018.
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I’ve been on a hiatus since Halloween – it’s good to be back but I’m still in the throes of a tough time. I got lucky with my last apartment, or maybe it’s just way worse than it was five years ago, but man oh man I can’t find an affordable place to live to save my live. And we’re not even looking for cheap. There’s a housing shortage out here, I think, and hopefully having good credit and a long-term job is enough to eventually qualify for something.

Also, my student loans are almost paid off! I’m sure I’ll make a comic about that at some point. It’s been a long time coming.

Coming up, too, of course, are the holidays, so I’m trying to get prepared for those, too!

AND, my job just shuffled me around to a new project, so I get to relearn everything I was working on for the next four months.

What I’m saying is, life’s tough right now, but I’m trying to get by.

Thanks for reading and watching. Take care!

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on October 29, 2018
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I’ve never been “promoted” before! I’m new to the working world, though, what being a recent college grad, so I guess I’ve never been a lot of things, before.

it’s been a little tough creating “insightful” comics and I know that’s not necessary for Cory Allan strips but it’s something I strive to do so I’m still practicing transitioning back and forth between those kinds of comics and these kinds of journal comics where they’re a little more direct and literal. also, my living situation makes it difficult to create, sometimes, but you knew that, already.

I’m working a lot on Jack of AllTrades. I like Chapter 3 a lot. I’ll probably have it done closer to the end of November, so it’s fall-themed and that’ll still be appropriate (I hope). Pumpkins!

Gonna try to keep updating this week. More stuff like this. Thanks for following along!

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on October 24, 2018
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I’m breaking in my tablet skills to try and wrap up chapter 3 of JOAT, so this strip’s wholly digital, baybeeee!! I’ve got like a week to make an entire chapter of a comic. I dunno if I can do it since there are still pages I haven’t even scanned yet, but I’m’a give it the ol’ college try. It’ll probably be colored like this only with more color palettes. One thing I like about JOAT is its color. I wanna make sure I give it some attention again.

Be on the lookout. I have to wake up at 6 so that’s all for tonight. Maybe I’ll upload some classic comics I’ve forgotten about tomorrow? Stay tuned~

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on October 21, 2018
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hey I’ve got more work to do tonight before I’m gonna be ready for work tomorrow so I’m gonna keep this brief but if there is something that you do where you occasionally need to create your own selfish motivation to keep doing it, don’t feel guilty! we all gotta find inspiration somewhere. sometimes, it’s shallow. oh well!

goodnight! monday!

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on October 18, 2018
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So this is why there was no update yesterday!—I slept until 3018. I don’t take naps often enough to be “good” at them, so when I take them, I wind up just sleeping way too much.

Believe it or not, this comic took some workshopping to get right. The scan looked like this:

Kinda messy. The roughs are usually very close to the end result, so comics like these kinda start like a chunk of marble and need to be chipped away at.

Did you know to hover over images to see them? That’s so they don’t distract from the comic when you read it. Seems to work okay, yeah? Unless you’re on mobile. Sorry if you’re on mobile.

More notes and stuff soon!

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on October 17, 2018 and modified on October 17, 2018.
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I don’t mean to stereotype, but people from my Marketing department are weirder than the engineers, and those guys are supposed to be the nerds, so… not really sure what’s going on.

idk, there’s something off about money people? Just wanted to make a vignette about that, I guess.

More tomorrow, thanks for reading!

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on October 16, 2018 and modified on October 16, 2018.
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This is kinda an addendum to the storyline; I really appreciated how the comic forced me to think “bigger” than myself when I was dealing with the plot. It really did help me put things into perspective and also helped me deal with emotions I didn’t really have words for. I could write words for them, but I hope the way the storyline turned out left you with them, unsaid.

It’s Tuesday! I am feeling the love from all y’all reading and supporting my work. Following along. I love it. Thank you!

More soon – hopefully something a little more fun than CANCER COMICS. Bye.

PS. Betcha didn’t notice that panels 2 and 3 are drawn with a different pen than panel 1. The reason? I can’t find my pen!

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on October 15, 2018
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OK I’ve put some thought into it and I think I’m gonna end this storyline here. Goin’ with my gut! I may write an addendum, but for now, I like that I kinda ended with a “feeling good” vibe. There’s a lot more I could say, a lot of ways I could go, but I reread the chapter and I think I’m going to keep it simple, here. Cancer is hard and weird. There are no right answers.

Anyway, this is Monday’s update, so I guess I need to make ANOTHER comic for TONIGHT?? Man, being a diligent artist is so lame. All my friends are probably out seeing movies and here I am drawing when I get home from work.

More tonight, hopefully!

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on October 12, 2018
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OK so I still made a comic but I wanna put a little extra time into the final strip of the Feeling Good storyline, y’know?

I’ll have more stuff soon, of course. It’s Friday! Goodnight!

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