I know two blog posts in a day is a bit of a feast after the famine, but I felt that I should call your attention to the Firefox Has Crashed original, which is now up for sale.
Looks like updating all of my comicpress/wordpress installations destroyed my layout again! Give me a little bit of time to fix it.
Also, I dropped a few of the comics (the tiny striped cat, The Season of Sharing, Someone Paid Me A Compliment, and Make A Go) from the continuity, either because I am shelving the story or because I am not particularly fond of them, and they’ll be moved to Extras in another week or two. And I updated the Twitter link to actually point to my twitter feed again.
Finally, I’ve been putting some of the illustration work that I’ve been doing during the hiatus up for sale as prints in the store, and will be continuing to add more prints and probably comic originals in the coming days and weeks. Buying stuff from the store is what makes the comic go, and more prints sold means less time I have to spend on commissioned artwork to make rent.
I see the dwindling hits this comic is getting daily and I want to let you know before you all go away for good that I’m still working on the new story, which is called The Way Back and is going to be about a little opossum who is trying to take a nap. There’s going to be about 120+ pages of it, you had better believe that I can write that much about naps. I’ve studied naps extensively. I have hands-on experience.
However, I don’t know exactly when it will be written to the point where I’m ready to plow ahead with updates. Right now the biggest barrier to progress there is (as ever) financial: where I thought that my convention schedule would go a long way toward getting the rent paid, they wound up just sort of being speedbumps in the calendar (with the exception of Fanime which was wonderful, and I think some of you who are here now found me there; though all the money made at that con was lost on Califur expenses). Artwork is my only source of income, and I’ve been cranking through commissions to make sure rent gets paid.
So I haven’t been posting much because I’m honestly kind of ashamed and embarassed by how little I have to show for the last six weeks, and my inclination is to hide until I have something awesome to post. You guys might send me angry emails wondering where your comics and postcards are at*, but my landlady will send us eviction notices** and sallie mae will send me to collections, so the more terrifying potential consequences are being dealt with first.
*Though you haven’t (yet), and god bless you.
**She won’t, actually. Our landlady is very patient and is a sweetheart and we’re lucky to have her.
Hi guys! June has been kind of nutty for me and if you’re still hanging around waiting for the next update, I appreciate you. Also if you found your way here after the Firefox comic got reposted to Reddit for like the dozenth time this last weekend, I am currently in the process of appreciating you. If you found us at Califur or Fanime, I also appreciate you, and if you are going to be at Westercon this coming weekend, you can believe that I absolutely look forward to appreciating you at the appointed and perfectly appropriate time.
Here is some content for you that is not necessarily comic, but definitely comic-related:
My homeslice Morris Stegosaurus did a performance of his poetry not long ago, which included a projected visual component and he posted a video of said performance to the youtubes. It includes The Puppy who would be Pope at about 12:47, and there is also a piece that includes Tod Wills‘ artwork that I have yet to view because I am either: 1.) busy or 2.) inconsiderate, take your pick.
Also, last weekend I was a guest along with Bugbyte and Jillyfoo on The Webcomics Beacon Bacon podcast, wherein we discussed watercolor and its application in comics. If you are interested in hearing me say ‘uhm’ probably like a million times, or you would like some sort of conclusive evidence as to my gender, or you are actually possibly genuinely interested in hearing us discuss process, it is 90 minutes of nerdery for you to listen to.
Unrelated to anything, I spent half of last week in Portland to be in my highschool bff’s bridal party, so there is a possibility that there will be pictures of me somewhere on the Internet in a tie. It was a Star Trek themed wedding, and it was quite probably the classiest Trek-themed wedding I’ve ever been party to. Or partied at.
New comic is cooking. Postcards are pending. Things are moving a little bit slower than I’d like because monies didn’t rain down at the last two cons like I was hoping they would and had to recover lost ground in a commission marathon. Sit tight!
Gonna try to get two pages done for you this week, but I am not good for getting anything done at the moment. Now’s a good time to become acquainted with how to subscribe to rss feeds if you get tired of checking back and not seeing new comics.
