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New Creator Journal podcast eppisode - robots, notebooks, and Kairos

This week in my patron exclusive Creator Journal podcast: How drawing robots rekindled my artistic spirit, the unexpected benefits of bullet journaling, and a fresh take on time management. Become a member to join me on the journey of trying to create meaningful comics.

Matthew Bogart

10 Jul 2025 — 1 min read

Photo by Ben Szymanski / Unsplash

An Honest Update on Incredible Doom Vol. 3

If you've been waiting for new pages of Incredible Doom Vol. 3, you've been waiting for a while. I owe you an explanation—and an apology for not posting this sooner.

Hand-lettered text with visible Fountain asterisks (*NO!* ***IMPOSSIBLE!***). Green arrows mark asterisks, red arrows mark capital I's.

I built a robot to fix my comic lettering.

I write my comics in Fountain, but pasting into Clip Studio brings all the markdown with it—asterisks, underscores, everything. Plus there's this comic lettering convention about uppercase vs lowercase I that I was fixing manually. So I built a macro that handles both. Free download.

A person sits at a cluttered table, leaning over a laptop with a hand on their forehead. Papers and books surround them as daylight streams through windows behind.

The last attempt looks like the others.

Two years of rewrites, failed attempts, and starting over. Then a few adjustments that didn't feel different from any others.

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Blogroll - What happened to Incredible Doom Vol. 3?

An Honest Update on Incredible Doom Vol. 3

I built a robot to fix my comic lettering.

The last attempt looks like the others.