Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!

As 2009 went right on by, we want to welcome in 2010 in what we're hoping will be an awesome year!

We hope that everyone out there has already set some goals for the year and we thought we'd share some of our broader goals:

-Curating a successful gallery show
-Commercial success at all craft/anime/comic festivals (especially at APE)
-Being able to live off the money we make from our art
-Drawing/Painting every day
-Posting at least one new item in our Etsy shop per week
-Each of us publishing our own art books
-One new comic each
-Bad Date Zine 3!

We're definitely working (a bit late, however) on our own "annual review" of sorts to really go through and figure out a definite action plan for 2010. Monkey got the idea from Chris Guillerbeau, the man behind the Art of Non-Conformity. You can even download his template that he uses for his Annual Review here.

What goals have you set for 2010?

Happy Holidays!

So we don't know about you, but over at the Monkey + Seal studio things are a bit hectic preparing for the madness that is December 25th.

Anyhoo, Monkey and Seal are going to take a little bit of a break from posting on the bloggy. We need to take a bit of time for ourselves and to get ramped up for all the new goodness that we have planned for 2010. We'll be back Monday January 4th with our usual MWFSa posting schedule!

Thanks again for all your support and we hope to bring you bigger and better events, art, products, and blog posts in the New Year!

Cheers,
Monkey + Seal (Rick & Eve)

PS - Don't forget to mark your calendars for the Animation On Display expo on January 30-31! We'll be in the artists' alley!