Goodbye To the Circus...

...we hope you enjoyed the show.


Trust me to quote an Aqua song :P



But yes, my little reprobates, I am putting Flying Biscuits Syndrome on an indefinite hiatus.

The main reason I make this comic is because it is a catharsis for me. That's how it started out in the beginning, I never thought it would become popular within my group of friends nor when I started putting it online that people from all over the world would read it. Thank goodness for Twitter, eh? Lately, I have been struggling what I can draw and write about as a lot of it is very ad-hoc, there's no schedule to follow because this is not what I am trying to do as a full-time job. Very much a spur of the moment schedule. This means that a lot of time can pass before I post an update, also I may have good intentions about a particular subject, but it doesn't always go how I planned. I am sure that this happens to a lot of artists who make comics full-time. Take my post about coming out as pansexual, after talking with some people I realised that it could potentially offend those who identify as bi; again not my intention.

Maybe that's it, I'm not an artist, I am not particularly well-read or nerdy for that matter, and sometimes when I want to post about a particular subject, given my political background, I feel that I just cannot convey eloquently noelr clearly what I want to say. To say the least, it depresses me sometimes. I've put unrealistic expectations on myself when it's not necessary; this is only a bit of fun. So, I've decided to come back to this at a later time. I have a list of posts I want to do and maybe I might fall into a better habit when I come back. Maybe even create a dedicated Facebook page. There are also some personal matters I need to work through before I come back to Flying Biscuits.

Thank you for liking my little drawings, they are a minuscule, aren't they?

Don't forget to take care of each other, there's a lot of shit happening in the world.

'Till the next time!

-JFS

Update on the posting

Hi Everyone!


I just want to let you know that there will be a hiatus on the posting of strips. This is due to the fact that I have decided to modify the ones I will be uploading to here as I change the names of the characters to save identity (those who requested it).

Sorry about this, but enjoy number 13 in the meantime :)

But why "Flying Biscuits"?

One evening, a bunch of friends and myself were playing the Eye Toy for PS2. One of our favourite minigames was the Kung Foo Minigame. As you can see from the video you needed to defend from various ninjas and other..weird things.

From about 2:30 in the video, you can see one of the enemies throwing, what looks like a rice bowl at you. We didn't quite realise they were rice bowls as we have had a little bit to drink and one of my friends yelled out, "look out for the flying biscuits!".

So years later when I started drawing my cartoons, the name stuck and the rest is history :)




So, in reality the origin of the name isn't all that interesting. But it does make me want some biscuits and a cuppa.