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!