How do you build momentum as a cartoonist — and what happens when you lose it?

Brad and Dave examine momentum across every part of a creative career: Generating ideas, maintaining a productive workflow, growing an audience, and building a sustainable business. They discuss why progress can feel imperceptibly slow at first, how consistent work eventually begins producing its own energy, and why returning after a break can feel like starting a stalled train.

Then, a listener asks how cartoonists should transition between scenes, chapters, and storylines in a collected book. Brad and Dave compare their very different approaches, debate whether a completely blank page is ever justified, and explain how multiple purpose-driven read-throughs can reveal problems with pacing, continuity, page turns, and transitions.

Also: Skunk Watch 2026 continues, Dave considers surrendering his backyard, and Professor Dr. Reginald Wigglesby reveals the completely reliable history behind Little Orphan Annie’s pupil-less eyes.

ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW…

• What “momentum” means in a creative career
• Why momentum takes longer to build than most cartoonists expect
• Creative momentum and generating new ideas
• Using an assembly-line workflow to work faster and better
• Repurposing one comic for websites, social media, books, merchandise, and more
• Building business momentum through Patreon, Kickstarter, and audience trust
• Why old business models can survive on momentum—even after they stop making sense
• Recovering after a creative pause
• Transitioning between scenes, chapters, and storylines
• Splash pages, title pages, narration boxes—and the dreaded blank page
• Conducting separate read-throughs for dialogue, art, pacing, continuity, and page turns
• Reviewing a book in print, on desktop, and on a small screen
• Skunk Watch 2026
• Prof. Wigglesby, The Histories of Sequential Art: Little Orphan Annie’s eyes