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Your hub for comics, Gutter Thoughts insights, and Stoic-inspired tools to fuel your storytelling and creative resilience.

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Gutter Thoughts 033: Changes Coming to The Stoic Creative in 2026

The Stoic Quote of the Week

“If it pleases the gods, so be it. They may well kill me, but they can’t hurt me.”

—Plato


Hey there!

The end of 2025 brought more change than I expected. The kind that forces you to reassess w...

5 months ago
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Gutter Thoughts 032: How to promote yourself without losing your soul, according to Seneca

The Stoic Quote of the Week

“I am writing this,’ he says, ‘not for the eyes of the many, but for yours alone: for each of us is audience enough for the other.”

-Seneca quoting Epicurus


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I’ve been reading Seneca...

7 months ago
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Gutter Thoughts 031: Why Consistency Is About Process, Not Quantity.

The Stoic Quote of the Week

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”

-Aristotle


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Consistency isn’t about quantity. It’s about sticking to a process that leads to quality.

I...

8 months ago
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Gutter Thoughts 030: How To Stay Creative With a Stressful 9 to 5

The Stoic Quote of the Week

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks.”

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.61

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8 months ago
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Gutter Thoughts 029: Three Reasons Black and White Comics Make You a Better Artist.

The Stoic Quote of the Week

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

— Seneca, On The Shortness of Life


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Here’s a confession: I used to hate coloring my comics (and I still...

8 months ago

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