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This had to be one of the hardest decisions we've had to make, even harder for Michelle. The decision was made a few weeks ago, but finding the words to explain it has been difficult. The short story is: Effective immidiately the Renegade storyline is coming to a premature end.
The frank reason is that continuing with the story no longer aligns with our goals. Our basic belief is to achieve maximum creativity one needs to be free to put all their energy into a project. Some days you can work a full time job and come home to put in a few more hours on a side project, but other days no amount of pep talk can inspire you to be creative at that point. In order to make this the main project that would mean having no more "day job" distraction.
In many ways we consider Renegade, Kit's Story, and especially Taka's Story to be successes. We have hundreds of people who visit every week and that's a great feeling. We are constantly learning and improving and even having fun. However, where success has been lacking is progressing towards being able to do comics full time. In terms of financial success Renegade has been a big loser. I don't mean to make it about "the money", but it sure is hard to live without it.
Because connecting with you, our audience, has been such a big part of what makes comics fun for us it makes it doubly difficult to make a decision that will probably disappoint quite a few of you. We're disappointed too and the decision wasn't terribly easy to make, but our goal is a good one and if we succeed it will lead to even better things.
So Renegade is going into a dusty closet somewhere. We currently have no plans to pick it back up, but who knows what the future holds. For now it is back to the drawing board to try and get re-inspired.
Rest assured, we do have plans (and you may have seen snippets of them on Tumblr & Twitter). We do hope you'll be around to check them out. Follow us on any of our social media streams to stay up to date!
  • Mood: Remorse
  • Listening to: Japanese Music
  • Reading: Comics
  • Watching: Anime and Kdrama
  • Playing: Minecraft
  • Drinking: H2O

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Michelle Van Zandt
Artist | Professional | Varied
United States
My name is Michelle Van Zandt. I'm 35 years old and live in Florida in the United States of America. I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. As I got older the frequency dropped drastically and I was like a kid again, relearning everything. Art is like any skill, if you don't practice it, you soon lose it.

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Current Residence: Florida - Where the tropix begin
deviantWEAR sizing preference: X-Large most likely. I've lost weight, but not opai!
Favourite genre of music: I have eclectic taste
Favourite style of art: I am eclectic, anthro, manga, cartoonish, pencil, then the rest. :D
Operating System: OSX & Win7
MP3 player of choice: iPhone/iTunes
Favourite cartoon character: Stitch, 90's TMNT
Personal Quote: I smile because I don't know what the hell is going on.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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*MichiTheThird Apr 6, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! And congrats on the marriage~!! :heart:
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Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday and so much more on this day!
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=Ghostdoe Apr 6, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Happy Birthday!

I hope you had a spectacular day today! Hopefully a fun one, too! With lots of cake and many presents! Have a great today as you deserve it!
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