With this comic, you have to start from the bottom, and work your way up through hard work and a determination to succeed.

I’m ten letters away from completing Q is for Quarantine (of course, then comes putting everything together into an actual book), which has been two-and-a-half-years in the making. I started this project for myself, to keep myself amused while struggling with long covid in March 2020, and I’m finishing it for myself. I have so many projects from 2020 left undone, that finally completing one will be a relief, and a real accomplishment. But I also realize that its subject has long since turned it into a “pandemic souvenir” (yikes–what an idea!) rather than an observation of current events, and its completion is relevant only to me. Kindly, and unlike in the comic, no one has actually said this to me! Even if they had, I’m still having fun, and am happy to complete this project entirely for my own satisfaction. But I decided to put a sarcastic, pessimistic spin on the feeling, and created this demotivational poster-style comic.

Climb every mountain….