About
I'm a medically handicapped blogger and freelance writer and my life is online. I've plotted to figure out how to support myself adequately given my constraints since before the dawn of time with zero forward progress that I can tell.
I have two sons who read a lot of comics, so a zillion years ago I discovered that while writing pays dirt, some webcomics actually support the authors. One of those is called Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques and it began as a hobby that he updated like twice a week and inadvertently became his full-time job when he got fired from whatever his probably lame day job had been and he began selling t-shirts on his comic.
Oh, hey, selling clothes! I like clothes and have dreamed for years of having my own clothing line! I shall have my own comic and sell clothes, like the world's highest paid webcomic artist! Only my OWN CLOTHING LINE, not just t-shirts!
I had a corporate job the first time I bought the domain name November West and was in a lot of pain and had no life because I was too sick to do anything other than my job and tend to my health, so I proceeded to rag on my job and then stopped because I needed my paycheck and figured this would be an excellent way to get fired.
The only comic I recall from that brief period was titled "I work for The Borganization" with a drawing of a boxy black building which both did and did not reflect real life. The building I worked in tended to look black but it was actually mirrored windows reflecting the sea of black asphalt parking lots surrounding it because most of it was one story tall, plus a two story addition where I worked.
The building next door where I typically ate lunch was like three stories tall and the EXACT SAME exterior. It reflected the sky and trees and looked like something magical and surreal.
Also, Borganization is a Star Trek reference. Probably not the right kind to be appealing to trekkies. Maybe it's just as well my original dystopian attempts at comicking were lost.
The name November West comes from telling someone I wanted to do a semi autobiographical comic with a character like Mae West, only not. So maybe Mae East. They suggested November West and I liked it.
I actually kept both names. Her maiden name is November Mae East and the plan was to do a comic called East Meets West about how I met my husband and I don't know that I want to talk about my ex and my marriage. This is supposed to be about MY life and my point of view and he's in the past. He doesn't matter.
So the initial comic was about me as a divorced single mom with a corporate job and she would wear a fantasy wardrobe of beautiful clothes that would become a REAL wardrobe for sale to my adoring fans because God knows asking for tips and Patreon support isn't lining my pockets.
After I lost the domain name November West, I began writing about the character as a child and somehow that comic survived and it's more upbeat. I had it set up under the name Lil November for a time then renamed it The Cute and the Dead and recently realized there's already a comic by that name which predates me coming up with that phrase independently and, lo and behold, the domain name November West was available.
So that in a nutshell is why I have a comic about a little girl named November Mae East titled November West. I have no idea how to transition that to her as an adult wearing gorgeous clothes YOU would want to buy.
TLDR: I overcomplicate the hell out of things. Me and "popular" don't jibe. Like all my projects, this one is doomed and explaining it probably amounts to digging my grave deeper.
18 November 2025
I have two sons who read a lot of comics, so a zillion years ago I discovered that while writing pays dirt, some webcomics actually support the authors. One of those is called Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques and it began as a hobby that he updated like twice a week and inadvertently became his full-time job when he got fired from whatever his probably lame day job had been and he began selling t-shirts on his comic.
Oh, hey, selling clothes! I like clothes and have dreamed for years of having my own clothing line! I shall have my own comic and sell clothes, like the world's highest paid webcomic artist! Only my OWN CLOTHING LINE, not just t-shirts!
I had a corporate job the first time I bought the domain name November West and was in a lot of pain and had no life because I was too sick to do anything other than my job and tend to my health, so I proceeded to rag on my job and then stopped because I needed my paycheck and figured this would be an excellent way to get fired.
The only comic I recall from that brief period was titled "I work for The Borganization" with a drawing of a boxy black building which both did and did not reflect real life. The building I worked in tended to look black but it was actually mirrored windows reflecting the sea of black asphalt parking lots surrounding it because most of it was one story tall, plus a two story addition where I worked.
The building next door where I typically ate lunch was like three stories tall and the EXACT SAME exterior. It reflected the sky and trees and looked like something magical and surreal.
Also, Borganization is a Star Trek reference. Probably not the right kind to be appealing to trekkies. Maybe it's just as well my original dystopian attempts at comicking were lost.
The name November West comes from telling someone I wanted to do a semi autobiographical comic with a character like Mae West, only not. So maybe Mae East. They suggested November West and I liked it.
I actually kept both names. Her maiden name is November Mae East and the plan was to do a comic called East Meets West about how I met my husband and I don't know that I want to talk about my ex and my marriage. This is supposed to be about MY life and my point of view and he's in the past. He doesn't matter.
So the initial comic was about me as a divorced single mom with a corporate job and she would wear a fantasy wardrobe of beautiful clothes that would become a REAL wardrobe for sale to my adoring fans because God knows asking for tips and Patreon support isn't lining my pockets.
After I lost the domain name November West, I began writing about the character as a child and somehow that comic survived and it's more upbeat. I had it set up under the name Lil November for a time then renamed it The Cute and the Dead and recently realized there's already a comic by that name which predates me coming up with that phrase independently and, lo and behold, the domain name November West was available.
So that in a nutshell is why I have a comic about a little girl named November Mae East titled November West. I have no idea how to transition that to her as an adult wearing gorgeous clothes YOU would want to buy.
TLDR: I overcomplicate the hell out of things. Me and "popular" don't jibe. Like all my projects, this one is doomed and explaining it probably amounts to digging my grave deeper.
18 November 2025