Sorry for not bliz­zog­ging last week! It was a busy time, what with Christ­mas and New Year’s and all. At any rate, I do hope you had an enjoy­able hol­i­day season. We at Chronil­log­i­cal (all two of us) wish you the very best for 2009!

Anyway, down to busi­ness. Since we’ve been doing this comick­ing thing for a while now, it’s prob­a­bly about time John and I for­mally intro­duce our­selves to you, our dear read­ers. I mean, there was that inter­view over at ComixTalk, but it’s not quite the same as having the infor­ma­tion avail­able on your own site. And there’s stuff they didn’t ask us about. And maybe some of you didn’t read the inter­view because it was too long or too far away (click­ing a link can be hard work!) or you just didn’t really care all that much. Though I guess if you didn’t care enough to read the inter­view then, you prob­a­bly don’t care enough to read this post now.

Look, WHAT­EVER. I’ll try to be brief:

John and I are col­lege stu­dents, both of us seniors at our respec­tive insti­tu­tions of higher learn­ing. John majors in clas­sics, I in com­puter science.

Chronil­log­i­cal is a nation-​spanning affair at the moment—John takes res­i­dence in Los Ange­les while I live near Boston. Our center of mass has stayed rel­a­tively stable over the years, how­ever, as both of us grew up in the mid­west, in the north­ern sub­urbs of Chicago. ‘Twas an idyl­lic child­hood, spent amongst the pleas­ant oaks and quaint foliage of sub­ur­bia—wholly and pro­foundly unre­mark­able in pretty much every con­ceiv­able way.

With regard to the comic, John does all of the draw­ing while I stick to the writ­ing. But John also helps with the writ­ing. So really, it could be said that John works a lot more on the comic than I do. It could be said—but it isn’t. Or at least, I don’t hear it when it is said. When­ever John brings up the matter, I stick my fin­gers in my ears and begin to shout very loudly. An effec­tive tactic, let me tell you.

I also do most of the web stuff for the site, which helps even out the bal­ance of work a bit. But not by much.

As for the future, nei­ther John nor I really know what we want to do or where we want to go. Only one thing is cer­tain: as long as we are still eating, breath­ing, able-​bodied, living, and loving (and have func­tion­ing inter­net con­nec­tions), we will be updat­ing Chronil­log­i­cal to its com­ple­tion.¹

To finish things off I’ll throw in a couple of oblig­a­tory social net­work­ing links, if you’re so inclined. First are the Face­book pro­files: here’s mine, here’s John’s. Also, we’ve got Twit­ter accounts goin’ on here for me and like­wise here for John. Annnnd… actu­ally, I think that’s it.

¹The impli­ca­tion that Chronil­log­i­cal will even­tu­ally reach its com­ple­tion is not unin­ten­tional. Unlike many web­comics out there, John and I do have an end planned for the strip. But it will not be for many years, and you will be fore­warned. I promise it will be very gentle and taste­fully done. Also, even after Chronil­log­i­cal fin­ishes, John and I fully intend to con­tinue comick­ing. We have ideas, are filled with ideas, so many ideas—a couple of them even good ones.