I’m reticent to go into details of my plans for 2026 as I look back on my previous two New Year’s Eve messages. I’ll happily not mention 2024 again, and 2025 saw things get off to a great start before I fell ill for a while, just as I was beginning work on something. That, plus other not-so-great events in my personal life and then finally the brilliant addition to my home of Smudge the cat meant I was lucky to get the blog’s posts completed by the end of the year!
Regular readers (of which there are 70% more of you over last year!) will remember me announcing that something this year and calling it ‘Comics 80:99’ (and a “project” the year before, which was the same thing). While news about it has been none existent because of the above reasons, I can assure you work did commence. Now, I’m all geared up for 2026. Starting in January I’ll be posting regular updates on the blog, which will be additional motivation to get as much done as possible so I can report back to you all.
The OiNK Blog itself will be focussing on extra content next year too, the Aliens real time read through being the only one planned for 2026 save for the usual Christmas feast of annuals. However, don’t be expecting less posts, no, no! While cutting back on the read throughs for one year will help me focus on Comics 80:99, the amount of extra content for your favourite comics sections of the blog will more than make up for that.
So, 2026… A lot of content I’ve been eager to share with you for a long time. Comics 80:99 is going to be my first physical publication (aiming for early 2027). Personally, my closest friends have become my family this year and I can’t wait to see them much more. Smudge and I are also about to spend our first full year together, of course. I feel like I’m about to embark on a life-affirming year in many ways, so I’ll make a toast to 2026 and to all of you dear OiNK Blog readers.
Happy New Year everyone!
I wish you all happiness, fun,
kindness and togetherness.
May your 2026 be everything you hope for.
Now, I’m off to see what Jools Holland has in store to kick it off with.
OiNK Blog 
Good luck with the New Year celebrations. We have my 10 month old grandson sleeping over, so we’re hoping everything is nice and quiet. In addition, one of our dogs totally ignores the fireworks, but poor old Eddie is terribly frightened by the loud bangs & flashing lights in the sky so he needs some extra snuggles and reassurance (as well as a bit of medication from the vets).
Cheers,
Geoff
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