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[[File:acdc 7224 2 4312 8945.jpg|link=J.J. Abrams|frame|[[Sarcasm Mode|Just a little busy]].]]
{{quote|'''Interviewer''': ''I want to tell everybody out there, for the record, no new [[Dream Theater|Mike]] [[Liquid Tension Experiment|Portnoy]] [[Avenged Sevenfold|projects]] were started during the making of this interview''.
'''Portnoy''': ''I’m actually not so sure about that''.|[http://metalholic.co/mike-portnoy-exclusive-getting-mobbed-up-and-taking-a-flying-leap/ Metalholic.com Q&A]}}▼
'''Portnoy''': ''I’m actually not so sure about that''.
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Sometimes a creator becomes extremely popular, and thus extremely in demand. Or perhaps he becomes so enamored of his own abilities that he believes everyone wants to see the results of every idea he has. Or maybe it's just his natural state, who knows?
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Not to be confused with the band ''[[ACDC]]''.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* [[CLAMP]] is this trope incarnate. Not only do they have two current manga, but also four 'incomplete' series. This doesn't include the character designing for [[Anime]] and books, nor articles and short-stories for various magazines.
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* [[Naoko Takeuchi]] had enough of this when she was pouring all her attention into writing ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', making ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]'' take far too long to complete.
* For 27 years, [[Rumiko Takahashi]] was working on at least two manga series regularly (3 from 1984–86) as well as producing one-shot "Rumic Theatre" comics.
* Im Dal Young is currently{{when}} working on several projects at once, some with irregular schedules and at least one on hiatus.
* ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' is in a unique position in that its creator can suffer ADCD with it alone. Different arcs are published simultaneously and in different magazines; this can get confusing when reading the magazines as the events don't properly get put in order until the official volumes are released. The Emerald arc was put onto hiatus for a whole year, the Platinum arc went through a major [[Schedule Slip]], and the HGSS arc was horribly rushed. On the plus side, Kusaka Hidenori is allowed to make [[Orwellian Retcon|major revisions in the official volume releases]], smoothing out quite a lot of continuity kinks and expanding the plots as he does so.
** Hidenori himself notes this and wonders if anybody, much less kids, can keep up with his stories in the magazines releases.
* [[Miyabi Fujieda]] finished two
* Masaki Tsuzuki, the creator of ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' franchise, has been accused of this trope on an entirely different level: each season so far has [[Genre Shift|fallen into a different genre]], with the creator changing story gears literally on the flight before the old genre has been fully explored.
* Noboyuki Fukumoto, creator of ''[[Akagi]]'' and ''[[Kaiji]]'', suffers from this heavily. He's been writing and drawing Akagi since 92, Kaiji since 96, and all the while he worked on other, fairly major works, at least one of which went on indefinite hiatus without being completed. Currently{{when}} he's working on three separate manga.
* Kazuya Minekura, the creator of [[Saiyuki]], Saiyuki Gaiden, Saiyuki Ibun, [[Wild Adaptor]], Executive committee, [[Bus Gamer]], and more, tends to juggle a few projects at once. This often ends in works being put on hiatus, though everything is on hiatus right now due to her health, unfortunately. (Note that the only finished work in the above list is Saiyuki Gaiden, which unsurprisingly judging by its name, is the prequel to Saiyuki).
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* [[Rob Liefeld]] seemed to love creating new series, then forget about them partway through. Also he was very prone to [[Schedule Slip]] on the titles he ''did'' continue.
* J. Scott Campbell's schedule seems to be comparable to Tectonic Plate Shifts. He loves getting work, or setting the foundations for new interesting stories (like say.... "Wildsiderz" for example)... and then NEVER FOLLOWING THROUGH. Either suffering from [[Schedule Slip]] or just pure laziness. He was tapped to do the artwork for a then upcoming "[[Spider-Man]]" story in 2006... we've YET to see this come to pass five years later. His greatest claim to fame was "[[Danger Girl]]", (which itself suffered from ridiculously long delays, imagine that) which he created in the late 90's and seems to still be riding off the success of, despite the fact that he hasn't worked on it in almost TEN YEARS.
* Jason Aaron in last years was working on several [[Wolverine]] comics, ''[[Ghost Rider]]'', ''[[Scalped]]'' and ''[[Hellblazer]]'' while working on miniseries and giving guest
* [[Scott Snyder]] is an example that somehow manages to keep his quality up despite his work load. Hitting it big with ''[[American Vampire]]'', he soon penned a highly acclaimed run on ''[[Batman|Detective Comics]]'' and a mini-series, ''Gates Of Gotham'', before the DC relaunch. Now, he's the writer for both the ''Batman'' and ''[[Swamp Thing]]'' monthlies where he's coordinating events shared with other books (Swamp Thing is with Animal Man, and the ''Night of the Owls'' event in the Bat-Books), in addition to ''American Vampire''.
== Fan
* Inevitably the [[Better Than Canon|good]] writers you actually ''like'' will become so prolific and excited about their amazing ideas that they start four or five different projects and never finish more than one. Which really blows when a [[Dead Fic]] winds up happening after a bloody horrible cliffhanger.
**
** [[Shadow Crystal Mage]] also falls into this, having fifty-six stories, only sixteen of which are labeled as finished, and of the remaining forty, thirty have been updated over the past year.
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1545579/NeonZangetsu NeonZangetsu] is quite possibly the king of this trope, having currently{{when}} 197 stories, few, if any of which are finished, or have more than a couple of chapters.
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/~ayamacchiato Aya Macchiato] tends to suffer from this. Primarily writing for the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fandom, she is known for creating [[So Cool Its Awesome|some of the best]] [[The Dark Side|dark!Harry]] fanfics on the web... but she sometimes gets distracted by the next [[Plot Bunny]] that comes by, so partially because of this trope, pretty much anything and/or everything she writes tends to inevitably be dropped and get turned into a [[Dead Fic]].
** As of the start of 2022, Bob Schroeck is working on three different stories in his ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' series, contributes to two [[Shared Universe]]s, and maintains [https://web.archive.org/web/20170301050231/http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/directory a fanfic discussion forum]. In his spare time, he also works as [[User:Looney Toons|an admin]] on [[All The Tropes]].
** [https://www.fanfiction.net/u/8886156/mp3-1415player mp3.1415player], probably best known as the author of ''[[Taylor Varga]]'', has as of early 2024 at least half a dozen very good, very ''large'' fics -- mostly ''[[Worm]]'' crossovers -- in some state of incompletion. None are [[Dead Fic]]s, but he takes so long to get back to some that you start to wonder.
== Film ==
* As noted, [[Joss Whedon]] with his projects for ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'' and ''The Cabin In The Woods''.
** And then he did a secret modern-day adaptation of ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' immediately after finishing ''Avengers''... y'know, for kicks.
* Joel and Ethan Coen frequently have more than one film in various stages of production at a time. For example, ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'' and ''[[Burn After Reading]]'' were written at the same time (on alternating days, in fact), and shot more or less back to back. Not that this was a bad thing, in this case. ''Hail Caesar'' and ''The Yiddish Policeman's Union'' are currently{{when}} in some stage of production.
* Guillermo Del Toro gave up on directing ''[[The Hobbit]]'' (he'll probably just co-write) because he is involved in way too many things, with his schedule filled up until '''2017'''. Among the projects are a new ''[[Frankenstein]]'', a remake of ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'', adaptations of ''[[At the Mountains of Madness]]'', ''[[Disney Theme Parks|The Haunted Mansion]]'', and ''[[Drood (novel)|Drood]]'', and a third ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'' (and that's just the ones he'll direct!).
* [[Ridley Scott]] is attached to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111122053211/http://www.movieline.com/2009/10/know-your-ridley-scott-projects-that-will-probably-never-happen.php at least 9 projects] at the moment (''[[Prometheus]]'' was released in 2012 , and an adaptation of ''[[The Forever War]]'' is certain to occur). And the man's 73 years old!
* Did [[Jim Henson]] ever sleep? In the early eighties (just to take one example), he was simultaneously making ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]'' and ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' (both of which he directed and starred in), developing ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'', and still somehow finding the time to tape segments for ''[[Sesame Street]]''.
** Jim Henson is most likely an aversion, while the man did an ungoldy amount of work in a very short time he almost always finished what he started. [[Author Existence Failure|Only his death]] left projects undone.
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* [[Ironic Echo Cut|As noted]], [[Joss Whedon]]. Besides running ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel]]'' at the same time, had various other pokers in the fire, including trying to start up ''[[Firefly]]''. He's still working on getting a few series started, as well as writing and co-writing multiple comics, both in the Buffyverse and for Marvel.
* Bobby Flay has multiple shows on [[Food Network]]. He also regularly guest-stars on other Food Network shows. He's also constantly opening new restaurants. He's also the food correspondent on the ''CBS Early Morning Show''. When he finds time to sleep is anyone's guess... perhaps he simply draws his power from the rage of the semi-inexplicable [[Hatedom]] he's acquired.
* [[J.J. Abrams]] is often referenced as an example of a producer who comes up with some of the best ideas for projects, regardless of what medium it's in... and then skipping out soon after it airs to try his hand at something new. Abrams started ''[[Lost]]'' while ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' was still running. He co-produced the short-lived series ''What About Brian'' and directed ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)||Mission Impossible]] III'' while still on ''Lost''. The year after that, he worked on multiple projects at once, including ''[[Cloverfield]]'', ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' and ''[[Fringe]]''. At any one time, he's helming both a film and television series, and often has multiple works listed on his IMDB page.
* While it probably will never be authoritatively confirmed or denied, some theorize that HBO ended ''[[Deadwood]]'' not so much because they ''wanted'' to cancel the show, but because creator David Milch got bored with it. Under this theory, Milch instead wanted to do his pet project, the [[Messianic Archetype|"Surfing Jesus"]] drama ''John From Cincinnati'', also for HBO, and the network decided that it would be better to let Milch create a new hit show than continue ''Deadwood'' if his heart wasn't in it. (The "new hit show" part didn't work out so well. ''John'' was canceled the day after the last episode of the first season aired.)
* Before J.J. Abrams, there was Glen A. Larson - he often had multiple shows on air in the '70s and '80s (most notably with ''[[The Fall Guy (TV series)|The Fall Guy]]'' and ''[[Knight Rider]]'' running concurrently in the 1980s), but he generally left his shows early on to launch new projects, [[Quincy|not always of his own volition]].
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* [[Mike Patton]] is best known for fronting [[Faith No More]], but also started Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Peeping Tom, Tomahawk, Moonraker, and probably several other bands. Aside from all those, he frequently works with John Zorn, has recorded numerous one-off collaborations with various others, and occasionally releases albums under his own name, to say nothing of the countless guest appearances for artists all across the musical spectrum. (He also provided the snarls for both the Anger Sphere in [[Portal (series)|Portal]] and [[Left 4 Dead]]'s zombies, but that probably didn't take too much time...)
** He also did voice work for the [[The Darkness]] and [[Bionic Commando]], and scored the second Crank film and the short film A Perfect Place.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100213103022/http://www.ayreon.com/ Arjen Anthony Lucassen], best known as the man behind Ayreon, takes part in a great many musical projects that all coincide in some way, either in similar style or playing one another's songs when in concert. The last two Ayreon albums have had four year gaps between them and the previous one.
* An old joke on metal message boards was that if [[Pantera|Phil Anselmo]] announces a new project, someone would usually reply "Can't wait for the first and final album!"
* Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Moonface, Swan Lake, Frog Eyes, and Fifths of Seven.
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** [[Tool]]: the longest runner, founded 1990, most recent album in 2006, and a new one reportedly in the works.
** [[A Perfect Circle]]: founded 1999 together with Billy Howerdel, most recent album 2003 or 2004 depending on whether you count eMOTIVE, and a new album ''also'' reportedly being written
** Puscifer: founded 2003,
** Tapeworm: with Trent Reznor of [[Nine Inch Nails]] and Danny Lohner of NIN and A Perfect Circle. Disbanded in 2004 without releasing an album.
* Dante DeCaro has been solo, with Johnny and the Moon, in [[Hot Hot Heat]] and a member of Wolf Parade, among other projects.
* Jon Foreman from Switchfoot is currently{{when}} juggling his role as lead singer/songwriter for the band with the side project Fiction Family, and at some point in between all that, he founded time to release four EPs as a solo artist. The two year-period between late 2007 and late 2009 saw the release of at least fifty songs between these three projects.
* Les Claypool of Primus moonlights in Oysterhead (with [[Phish]] guitarist Trey Anastasio and drummer Stewart Copeland of [[The Police]]), Les Claypool's Holy Mackerel, ''drums'' in the fictionalized jam band Electric Apricot and does solo albums. He also formed Sausage and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains (with guitarist [[Buckethead]], keyboardist Bernie Worrell of [[George Clinton|Parliament-Funkadelic]] and drummer Brain), and occasionally produces acts. As if all of this wasn't enough, he shows up as a session musician on about ten albums a year, often uncredited.
* Ashley Monroe. She's a solo artist. Now she's working with the Raconteurs. Now she's writing songs for other people. Now she's in the Pistol Annies with [[Miranda Lambert]] and Angaleena Presley. Make up your mind!
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* [[Valve]] didn't formerly provide the page picture for nothing: For the past few years they've been so busy churning out offshoot projects like ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' and ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'', along with their own full-length sequels and commercial releases of past game mods like ''[[Counter-Strike]]'', ''Day of Defeat'', ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' and ''[[Defense of the Ancients|DotA 2]]'', that their [[Half-Life (series)|original flagship franchise]] hasn't seen a new release in over four years, with ''Half-Life 2: Episode 3'' being seemingly eternally stuck in [[Vaporware|Valve-time limbo]] (a term taken right out of Blizzard's lexicon, coined for their own "when it's done" release schedule).
* It was actually this reason that the ''[[Loom (video game)|Loom]]'' series was unfinished.
** It was more to do with the fact people had lost interest in making serious games because they weren't as funny as the other things [[
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* [http://www.starshipmoonhawk.com/ Michael Prokop's] main project is his magnum opus, ''Starship Moonhawk'', which at one point had two spin-offs (''Cosmic Feline'' and ''Space Destroyer Hunter'') and a planned roleplay forum, all of which save said main comic got canned or put on the backburner. That freed him up to work on his adult comics, ''Peppermint Saga'' (and its non-canon spin-off, ''Blue-Grey Rhapsody'') and ''Ship in a Bottle''. He also does website work for ''Salient Caligation'', has one called ''The Lavenders'' in the works and does commissioned pieces. Combined with retcons, a slight attitude and just plain old bad luck, it can feel very rare to see anything of his updated consistently for more than a month.
* Furry/Manga artist Gillpanda suffers from this trope, he has more than 15 mangas/doujinshis (plus other projects) and none of them was finished (commissions doesn't count). His more recently project "Affinity" probably will get canceled or put in [[Development Hell]] after the Vol. 2, but, after all... [[There Is Always Hope]].
* Randy Milholland. The ''[[Something
* Despite having an already tremendously [[Schedule Slip|behind schedule]] main comic in ''[[VG Cats]]'', Scott Ramsoomair also has a ''[[Pokémon]]'' comic and does the official ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' webcomic. ... Neither of which seem to be updating much.
* [http://www.krisstraub.com Kris Straub], man. Just Kris Straub. In addition to various musical side projects, one-offs for posters and t-shirts, being one of the four Webcomics Weekly panelists, and sometimes having a day job...
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** One of those "other artists", Alan Solivan, aka Mr. O.M.A, is also a victim of ADCD—one look at his atrociously long [http://bignasty4life.deviantart.com/journal/8633735/ to-do list] makes that pretty evident, and the work just keeps piling on.
** ''That's My Sonic'' was really the only project he ever properly saw to the end; he managed to find exactly the right audience for a project he found to be tremendous fun. My theory is that the ADCD he's been experiencing since then, including attempting to revive TMS at least once, has been his attempt to find a project that has the same combination of being fun for him and beloved by all that TMS brought him.
** It seems that his new{{when}} webcomic GG-Guys has somewhat cured him of this, as now his only projects are that, Wha-Chow (a podcast), and the occasional script to give to someone else.
** There was also a chatroom Psyguy "ran" about a decade ago - ''Psycho's [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] Chat'', hosted on beseen. He eventually abandoned it completely, and let it sit unmanaged to the day beseen shut down. Currently{{when}} unknown if this was due to other projects, or simply becoming disillusioned as to how great it was to have his own Sonic the Hedgehog chatroom.
*
** Though ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' and ''[[Mezzacotta]]'' are work of DMM and his friends, and he's only coordinator in ''Infinity on 30 Credits a Day'', which actually are worked on by other collaborators.
** Mezzacotta doesn't require much work, it's largely automated.
*** That still depends on which of the comics you're talking about (''[[Mezzacotta]]'' is
** ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]''
* [http://shivae.net/ Shivae Studios]. Four actively running, another five on planned hiatus, and some cycling in and out.
** Shivae Studios is the home of [[The Cyantian Chronicles]], [[Alien Dice]], and ''many'' more.
* [[Invoked]] when the ''[[Machine of Death]]'' project was [https://web.archive.org/web/20150511222758/http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=148785#148785 first proposed]:
{{quote|Do it, [[Dinosaur Comics|Ryan]]. Do it! Abandon all your [http://www.qwantz.com/apologies/ other projects] and write this anthology!}}
* Owen Dunne of ''[[You Damn Kid]]'' fame at one point had five simultaneous comics, only two of which ever saw an ending.
* Andy Weir juggled ''[[Casey and Andy]]'' with a side project, Cheshire Crossing. At the time of this entry, the former reached its conclusion (at strip #666). One storyline of CC seems to be complete but ended on a [[Sequel Hook]].
* For a time, artist Jin Wicked attempted to keep two webcomics, ''Crap I Drew On My Lunchbreak'' and ''Asylum on 5th Street'' going simultaneously while also doing commissions and other work. It eventually led to a literal [[Creator Breakdown]]. Both these strips are now ended (and in the case of ''Asylum'', the archives completely purged).
* Isabel Marks
* [[Brian Clevinger]]: He's been working on ''[[8-
** Now he's finished 8-Bit. But the number of projects is still huge (the <s>two</s> three webcomics and ''Atomic Robo'', <s>a comic</s> comics for Marvel...).
* [[Magiversity|Benny Reyes]] has this problem, his comics include ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130402174114/http://www.drunkduck.com/Magiversity/ Magiversity]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822094236/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Lost_Battle_Fortress/index.php Zephyr The Lost Battle Fortress]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822095557/http://www.drunkduck.com/Hypershooter/index.php Hypershooter]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130107020657/http://www.drunkduck.com/Astronomalies/ Astronomolies]'', & the adult comics ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070503165235/http://www.drunkduck.com/Pr0nCrest/index.php Pr0nCrest]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071021052006/http://www.drunkduck.com/B4_Pr0nCrest/index.php B4 Pr0nCrest]'', ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Sexy_Bouncin_Oppai_Troopers/index.php Sexy Bouncin' Oppai Troopers]''{{Dead link}} & the collaborative effort ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Pr0nCrest_AltAgain/index.php Pr0nCrest Alt-Again]''{{Dead link}} & he has plans for, at least, one other comic.
* J. X. Gans has ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822095546/http://www.drunkduck.com/GansWorks/index.php GansWorks]'' (which shows off a number of aborted comics), ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822095627/http://www.drunkduck.com/PostHuman/index.php PostHuman]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822085857/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Bees_Knees/index.php The Bees Knees]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100925072253/http://www.drunkduck.com/PowerTrip/index.php Power Trip]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822093709/http://www.drunkduck.com/Misfits_of_Mischief/index.php Misfits Of Mischief]'' the adult comic ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Stella_and_Celeste/index.php Stella & Celeste]''{{Dead link}} as well as a couple of accounts he created, then deleted.
* Keith Alan Morgan created ''[[The KAMics]]'' to get around his problem of writing & drawing the same characters over & over & over again & allowing him to bounce from series to series while still (mostly) keeping to his update schedule.
* [http://www.instantclassic.net/ Brian Carroll] of ''[[Instant Classic]]'' fame usually has eight or so projects going at once (which he regularly makes fun of using the marquee on his site). Past projects have included a comic called Trumpet Airlines that only featured three or so strips, GRAMPAA (a site against the MPAA), Studio Litchfield (a spinoff of ''[[Instant Classic]]''), The Millatreuese Project (a series of short quick one-person films), and several independent film ventures. Currently{{when}} he's producing ''[[Instant Classic]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20080908114453/http://www.genrezvous.com/ Genrezvous Point], the Instant Classic Editorial, The Rapscallions (a reboot of his earlier comic [https://web.archive.org/web/20100709213456/http://www.instantclassic.net/pirates/ Pirates]), a journal comic called [https://web.archive.org/web/20100821081959/http://www.lobsterback.com/fstopblues/ F-Stop Blues], and a feature film. At least Carroll acknowledges it.
* Bill Holbrook manages to keep three comics (''[[Kevin and Kell]]'', ''Safe Havens'', and ''On the Fastrack'') going simultaneously, the latter two being syndicated. Unusually for this trope, he seems nearly immune to [[Schedule Slip]].
** As these comics are all newspaper-style, it could be argued that the art, at least, is less time-consuming than it might otherwise be; each strip consists of a few panels, often using talking heads, simple/reused poses, and other shortcuts, and someone else does the coloring. On the other hand, a comic must be written before it can be drawn, and the time involved in conceiving, writing, and polishing the scripts for so many comics per week is considerable; Holbrook estimates that the writing accounts for three-quarters of his workload.
* A common criticism of Piro of [[Megatokyo]] fame—he might be too busy to update his "[[Megatokyo|day job]]" more than [[Schedule Slip|2-3 times a month]], he might not have time to work on the cast page, he might miss so many deadlines that he's quite literally helped put one manga publisher out of business... but he has time to go to every anime convention in the US, spend 6–8 hours on a "[[Filler Strip|dead piro day]]" strip here or there or post blog rants about his favorite anime, anime merch, and MMORPGs.
* David Herbert is not only the writer of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130914230208/http://www.livingwithinsanity.com/index
** He just released a new webcomic, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190717190935/http://www.tnemrot.com/ Tnemrot], and another print comic, [
** And he just started a [http://www.lancescomicworld.com/profiles/blogs/jump-on-witchblade-origins review column]{{Dead link}} that's going to update twice weekly. ''And'' he's still updating everything with regularity.
* Bobby Crosby has a good half-dozen webcomics unfinished, each of which see maybe three updates in a year. These updates seem to coincide him trying to push the story to a movie or media publisher; one gets the impression they're little more than vehicles for a screenwriting career he can't seem to get off the ground. One especially cynical may wonder if his inability to keep any of his web-works on a consistent schedule might be negatively affecting these attempts.
* Nepath, creator of webcomics [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719030615/http://www.drunkduck.com/Energize/ Energize] – he's currently{{when}} working on Energize, it's spin-off [https://web.archive.org/web/20120413203514/http://www.drunkduck.com/
* While not to extreme, humon [
* ''[[City of Reality]]'' author Ian Sampson confessed to it [http://cityofreality.com/2010/11/01/08-07-thefutureagain/ here]{{Dead link}}, after a long bout with [[Schedule Slip]].
* Zoe Kirk-Robinson, of ''[[The Life of Nob T. Mouse]]'' (runs Monday to Friday), ''[[All Over the House]]'' (runs Monday to Friday), ''[[The Webcomic Builder]]'' (supposedly runs Mon-Wed-Fri), ''[[The Webcomics Company]]'' podcast (fortnightly), ''[[Ink Proof Cannon]]'' (apparently going to run Monday to Friday) and a vlog (supposed to update Mon-Wed-Fri). Oh and she's studying for a law degree, too.
* [http://adis.keenspot.com/ Adrian Ramos] (most often known as "Adis"). As of this writing, he is writing and drawing four webcomics at once -- ''[[Count Your Sheep]], The Wisdom Of Moo, No Room For Magic,'' and ''My T-Shirt Fairy Tale''. Unfortunately, between these comics and [[Real Life]] commitments, any attempts at a regular schedule are quickly discarded, and the best way to follow his stuff is to just check in occasionally and hope for the best. Fortunately, his best strip (''[[Count Your Sheep]]'') usually gets updated once or twice a week... but many fans still wish he wouldn't spread himself so thin.
* David Willis is currently{{when}} running ''[[Dumbing of Age]]'' (a full-color, 5-updates-per-week comic) and ''[[Shortpacked]]'' (a ''huge'' full-color, 5-updates-per-week comic) simultaneously, while also spewing blog posts and comments on his own comics, and presumably also maintaining his time machine.
* ''[[Sandra and Woo]]'''s site now hosts a second webcomic, ''Gaia'', which has the same main writer and artists.
== Web Original ==
* [[Little Kuriboh]], creator of [[The Abridged Series]] genre, also has a webcomic that updates sporadically and two other ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' spinoffs, regularly flies off to conventions all over the US and his native UK, and is a stage actor.
** He now also has a videoblog. So far, he's recorded a dramatic reading of a Sonic fanfic with fellow Abridgers, and several prank calls in his characters.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140414223314/http://andrewdickman.deviantart.com/art/If-I-could-tell-a-story-10165465 Andrew Dickman.]
* [[Running Gag|As noted]], [[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|Joss Whedon]].
* Arguably, Chris Bores, aka [[The Irate Gamer]]. His review series has recently gotten stagnant (a new review was once released, ''three months'' after the last one). He also focuses on two other projects: ''Haunted Investigators'' and ''Chris and Scottie Roadtrip''.
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* Ross Scott of ''Accursed Farms'' fame. Not perhaps, because he has so many irons in the fire, but because he's working in a medium that requires an unholy amount of time and effort. (And he presumably has a day job as well.) Fans of ''[[Freeman's Mind]]'' who have been waiting a long time for the next installment to come out can't help but tap their feet and check their watches while they watch the Progress Chart for ''Civil Protection'' slowly inch towards completion at a glacial pace. (Again, it's a work-heavy, time-heavy medium...)
* Shadyvox has shown shades of this. With [[Yugioh GX Abridged]] slowing down to a crawl, he's made two other Abridge series... none of which made it past the pilot so far.
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