On Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 I turned 33 years old. It is my birthday week, and I am enjoying everyday of it. I am also trying to take this opportunity to look back on the year that I have had and be grateful for all of the wonderful things that have happened to me.

The first being, I got to spend way more time with my family this year than I have since the pandemic. They came out to LA in June and we had a wonderful week together, and then I went back to Massachusetts after attending FanExpo Boston and a great three weeks spending time with them, being home for my brother’s birthday, and seeing a lot of the friends that I grew up with that I’m still lucky to have in my life. That was extremely cool. I hope to spend more time with my family and friends (in Masschusetts, LA, across this great nation of ours, and even the greater globe) in the year ahead, I have been focusing on work and I don’t plan on breaking that focus, but…I think spending more time with the people I love will only my drive to succeed in life stronger.

I also say that because this also the first year in my life I am not having a birthday party, which I know sounds a little weird, but I am big birthday person. I like pausing and celebrating with people you love that I made it another year. This year because my birthday was on a Tuesday and LA Comic Con is this weekend ahead, I could not organize a party, so I am hoping the year ahead is kind of a party rich with friendship, love, and maybe cake? Age 33 the time for cake? Let me know, friends!

This is primarily a Newsletter about my career and while I have expressed before, I am not writing anything right now, I am waiting to hear back about a variety of pitches, I would be a real jackass if I did not let you know that I have exceeded the expectations I had for myself this year, by a pretty big margin. This time last year I was hired to four/contribute to four comic books, which was a large improvement over the zero I contributed to the year before. This year I calculated and I have written/contributed to 16 comic books. I quadrupled my output, and I worked for five different publishers on those comics, so I expanded the amount of publishers I worked as well. That’s awesome, man, and I don’t stop to say that enough. I do not know if I will be capable of quadrupling that number for the year ahead, 64 is a lot, but…I can certainly make a run at doubling the amount. 32 would be nice.

“Excuse me, Dave…I follow this Newsletter and all your tomfoolery, I have only seen eleven comics spread across four publishers from you in the past year!”

Oh that’s interesting…huh…I am either bad at math (which I historically am) or I might have something or somethings coming up in the year ahead that I already wrote at some point. I guess we’ll see!

Thank you all for your love and support this year, we also have had an a subscriber increase of 20% on the Newsletter. We are still a little ways away from the subscriber goal I had for the year, but we will see how many people at LA Comic Con I can get to subscribe to this madness…Speaking of which!

This weekend! Friday September 26th through Sunday September 28th come on down to the LA Comic Con. Specifically, come down to Artist Alley table E-12 which is where I will be stationed with my convention partner, fellow comic writer, and Eisner-Award winner Chris Robinson! We will have so many comic books for you to get, you can bring us comics we have worked on to sign, and you can just delight in how awesome we are as company and conversationalists.

It’s going to be awesome!

As my last convention for 2025 I want to do it up big, and I think we will!

I’ll let you know next week how LA Comic Con Went.

Until then?

Stay safe!

—Dave Wielgosz