I’ve been in a weird place for a long time.

When I started this comic site back in 2015, I was just starting out in transition and making a fresh new beginning in life. I was going through a lot of big life changes and dealing with some heavy emotions, and the way I worked through those feelings was making comics.

But once I got a bit of a following online, I suddenly was under a whole new level of scrutiny, and I no longer felt like I could actually work through my stuff in the same way I used to. Combine that with increasing political ennui as a result of seeing the worst people continue to gain traction in society despite all the work done by people like myself pointing out their hypocrisy and how they were harming others, as well as discouragement by the increasing enshitification of social media platforms for independent creators, I just didn’t feel like making comics mattered anymore.

Ever since around 2020 I’ve been in varying degrees of burnout. Finishing my horror story, She Never Came Out, and then my other non-horror graphic novel, Coming Out Again, shortly after, burned me out. But it wasn’t until I tried to do the follow-up to SNCO, The Urban Animal, that I got REALLY burned out, and just stopped drawing comics with any kind of regularity. You can maybe see from the content of those horror stories where my head was at. I still did quite a bit in those years, but I wasn’t the same me I used to be. I didn’t believe in myself or my art in the way I used to.

I also had some physical health issues in that time that I will talk about in a future post.

I’ve been working at all kinds of odd activities – from acting, to voiceover, to teaching karate, and running community programs in my local area. I have tried to be more open to doing a wide variety of things in the past few years. I needed to gain perspective on what mattered to me and why I do what I do.

And what I’ve learned is that making art and comics is my life.

It’s who I am.

I’ve never stopped drawing and creating in all this time, but I’ve posted extremely little of what I’ve created. I am deeply grateful for all of the people who have stuck by me and who continued to follow and support me, despite my lack of public activity.

Moving forward, I am going to be posting more. Maybe social media is a lost cause, who knows? But what I do know is that I still have my very own website where I can post basically whatever I want without fear of an algorithm crushing me. I’ll still put things on social media, but I want this currently long-neglected website to be where you can best find all things Bria. I have new comics coming, I have new art projects in development. My art is looking better than ever and I feel stronger and more vibrant than I have in years.

One new place you can follow me for updates is my BlueSky, which I made a while back but haven’t done anything with until now.

If you would like to support my work and keep me focused on making art to share, please consider supporting me on Patreon, or you can purchase one of my new coloring books, “Ultimate Dinosaur Coloring and Slayer Maidens.

(I have new coloring books in the works among my upcoming projects 😉 )

Expect more frequent updates, by all means watch my social media channels, but also maybe consider getting out of the social media sphere and spend more time on some good old fashioned websites!