I am not stopping the updates, but I’ll have to scale back the effort put into pages for a while because of issues with my hand. For the foreseeable future, Alfie pages will be uploaded in a sketch format.

You can expect two more pages next week, just don’t expect them to be quite finished.

I’ve already posted about my issues on Patreon, but that’s for members only, so I’ll repost the relevant passage here:

“Between the holidays and the New Year’s, I managed to severely overwork my hand.

I thought that I’d learned how to deal with my hand issues, but it seems that I was wrong. It looks like I still have a lot to learn: mainly, how to slow down.

I am slowly getting my hand back into working condition. Right now, I can handle about an hour and a half of drawing each day, which is a big step down from my average of five to six hours before.

I’m going to have to slow down for the foreseeable future. It’s something that I should have done last year, but I just didn’t want to.”

I thought an hour and a half each day would be enough to keep Alfie updated, but I can tell that I won’t be able to make it. Over the last week, I started pushing myself again just to finish this page on time, and that’s the exact opposite of what I am trying to do.

I really don’t want to stop the uploads right now, this close to the end, so I am opting to lessen the time spent on each page. Once my hand is better, I will go back and add color to the pages.

If you’d rather read the end of this story with the level of quality you’re used to, just come back in a year. It should all be finished. Probably. Hopefully.