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Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

By Karl @cartoonistdiary
Parting is such sweet sorrow
Sometimes you just have to let go. And this week I learned all about that.
I have been planning for the new year, cartoon and publishing wise, and had what I thought was the whole package sown up. How wrong I was.
I have been drawing, redrawing, writing, drafting and formatting Pixy Wood in one shape or form for over thirty years. I have tried it as a comic strip, a single panel feature, greeting cards, children's books and most recently a webcomic.
Parting is such sweet sorrowBut every time some new wall just plonks itself unceremoniously in front of me with out any warning and says
'Hey, I'm a wall and there ain't no getting around me.'
The final straw was when I announced on Facelessbook that I was about to launch the strip in the new year---with what I thought was a bit of forward marketing--- but someone hot footed it over to GoDaddy and registered pixywood.com as a way of ripping my dreams to shreds.
How do I know they did this? Simple. The day before I marketed it, it wasn't taken and when I went to find out what the new site was I was re-directed to GoDaddy where they informed me that an unnamed broker had just purchased it but was
willing to sell me the name for around £1,000.00.
Way to go GoDaddy.
So I am giving formal notice that as of today I will be quitting my attempts at a Pixy Wood webcomic. I have other plans for it instead and will, of course keep you all informed. Just not on Facelessbook, where a greedy broker can cash in on my creativity again.
But that aside, here's the three pages I had completed before the broker put his capitalistic brick wall in front of me.
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