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07-01-2026 Back to action

I’m back from my holiday. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to write the planned review of the year before the break.

2024 ended with me feeling like I hadn’t achieved anything. My limited time and productivity had to be used for unplanned tasks.

At first, it seemed that things weren’t going to work out as desired in 2025 either. But then: the wind changes and you (almost) don’t notice it. At second glance.

I still have many ‘legacy issues’ to deal with, but I have finally tackled the ‘Inside the Age of Sail’ section on Nauticalfiction. This was prompted by a frustrating experience with AI illustration. It had become clear that the AI was unable to produce acceptable line drawings of ships. So, I finally sat down and got to work myself, and by the end of the year, I had finished the section on the Royal Navy’s rating system.

In terms of storytelling, I at least began writing a seafaring tale set in a role-playing universe. I didn’t get any further because, after a break of almost ten years, I wanted to honour another voyage with a diary. The plan was to create a work alongside my other projects. The result is a book project in disguise, with 70 A4 pages of script so far – and I still have to write about two days. 😉

I also intend to sell a comic book collection. Work on this came to a standstill during my ‘chaotic autumn’ of 2024, too. I am also making small steps here.

I completed another illustration for Inside Age of Sail shortly before the turn of the year. The ship sloop of the Non-Rates will be added to the galleries shortly.

Motti/Murmeli made it into the top 20 most viewed comics over the New Year. “Dracula Version Motti” was in ninth place this morning.

How well the new year gets off to a start depends on how quickly I find my groove again.

And here are the current hits:

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