Glad to help, man.
I can't recall ever seeing anything about this anywhere, but do you have a work studio in your home somewhere? Or do you instead have a separate out-of-home space that you use as one? Just curious, I guess.
If it's an in-home studio, I have another question. How does this work logistically within your home? Do you and Mrs. Jeph just use the room for any art and comic-related business, and avoid it otherwise?
I am mainly just curious, but another reason I ask is because I would like to eventually have an in-home studio myself for my music and I would like to know from somebody who has firsthand experience with making it work for them.
Right now we have a separate office space about three blocks away for our actual business stuff. That's where the comics get drawn and until we switched to Topatoco that's where the shirts got mailed out too. Since we switched to Topatoco, and since we're hoping to buy an actual house sometime this year, we're probably gonna get rid of the dedicated office space.
The trick I have found with in-home work spaces, and something I have seen duplicated in other dudes' home studios and such, is that you have to keep everything on a different level,
at the very least. You need a place you can retreat to when the work day is done, where your work stuff is not niggling at the back of your head "hey you should work on me some more." This varies from person to person, but the easiest solution I have seen is to just put your studio or whatever on the floor beneath where you actually live. Basements, etc.
I did an okay job separating work time from home time before we had a separate place, but that is possibly just because I am lazy and would rather not be working.
