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Monday. July 26, 2021

artdude2002 on July 26, 2021

Happy Monday, everybody. Things are going to be different around here. I retired on Tuesday, July 20 after 48 years with my employer. Yep. I’m that old. To celebrate, I drew a cartoon of me, my wife, and several of my friends and colleagues. I’m the guy in the red Hawaiian shirt. Kathy is next to me, holding our cat, Lucky. This cartoon is the “personal project” I mentioned a few weeks ago. It was quite an undertaking but a labor of love, nonetheless. If you want to see the whole picture, here is the link to the gallery on the Danielle Dark website.

http://www.danielledark.com/blogdd/?page_id=416

I’m still adjusting to retirement but I’m planning on returning to a weekly update schedule. Another thing that is happening is I have migrated from Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to Affinity Designer and Photo. This is also a good time to try to freshen up the look of the comic. Now I’ll have more time to spend on the comic and I hope to improve the look and feel.

I’m very excited to have reached this point in my life and I want to thank each and everyone of my readers for your interest the comic. You have made drawing Danielle Dark a lot of fun and I really appreciate your comments. I’m looking forward to continuing Danielle’s story for many years to come. I hope you continue with me.

Many, many thanks for coming along for the ride. Let’s continue down the road, shall we?

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PaulEberhardt at 8:30AM, July 31, 2021

Happy retirement! What a cool way to say 'farewell' to the gang at work. :)

artdude2002 at 12:43PM, Aug. 1, 2021

Thanks, Paul. It was a labor of love. The added bonus is I have all the photos I took for reference of everyone in the cartoon. They will be cherished parts of my scrapbook. I was lucky to work with so many great people.

duckbert at 8:06PM, July 26, 2021

Now things start to get really busy and hard work :) Oh, teeny nitpick 'colleagues' -> 'former colleagues'

artdude2002 at 12:40PM, Aug. 1, 2021

You're right about the hard work. I've been catching up on things around the house I never had time for. But as far as former colleagues is concerned, I wrote that before I actually retired. Should have proofread it better before I posted. Oops.

man in black at 6:44PM, July 26, 2021

Enjoy the retirement

artdude2002 at 12:38PM, Aug. 1, 2021

Thanks, man in black. If I don't enjoy retirement, it's my own fault. :)

Jamie59 at 4:25PM, July 26, 2021

Good luck on the retirement. I'm at 43 years so you have got a few on me.

artdude2002 at 12:37PM, Aug. 1, 2021

Thanks. 48 years seems like a long time, but it went by so quickly. I hope the next several years goes slowly.

mks_monsters at 3:43PM, July 26, 2021

This is awesome!

artdude2002 at 12:36PM, Aug. 1, 2021

Many Thanks, oks.