While I’m trying to find ways to keep making comics, and a living from making them, I’m trying a new comic.
It’s in the same timeline/city as the reboot of Zombie Roomie. The cast is made up of legacy timeline characters and/or their multiversal variants. Since it’s a spin-off from ZR, I’m willing to include someone like George, John, Lyn, Zoey, etc., if the situation warrants it.
Zombie Roomie is almost sixteen years old. There are still readers, but I can’t get new ones. I know there’s a lot of that tied to hiatuses, etc., but in the way I do comics and the change in advertising/social media/everything since the comic was initially grown– I just don’t know how to get new readers to an older, story based comic strip. Even Maho Noir struggles to get an audience. Sites like Reddit don’t want to have to do homework to enjoy an update.
I can’t change the way I do Zombie Roomie, in my head overnight, to do what I’m doing with Club Pink Taco. It would be ‘wrong’ for the characters and disrespectful to them to gut their story from the updates. Club Pink Taco is much more episodic and you can dip in and just enjoy what’s presented that day without needing to know the characters and their troubles.
Plus, I’m doing a NSFW bonus panel for every strip– that would undercut any story I’m trying to tell in Zombie Roomie… so until I’m ready to get back to ZR, I’m pausing it while I try to survive on Club Pink Taco.
