Comic for 26 January 2012

26 January 2012:

The page is up about a day later than I would have liked, sorry.  I've been working on a top secret project!  Not the new site menu secret, that's an old secret now.  I got a lot of secret projects, I'm starting 2012 off strong!  Well, maybe this one's not so secret if you're dialed into the right frequencies, but I had to settle a few things regardless.  The next page will be up Friday or Saturday, and the one after that Tuesday or Wednesday after. 

Thank you for reading this.

18 January 2012:

That's the last of the Intermission strips.  Chapter 13 will begin on Friday or Saturday, some time by the end of this week.  Thank you for reading.

Also, a lot of other cartoonists have a lot to say about an important thing today.  All I'll say is "hear them out".

11 January 2012:

Hi.  So I feel like I should point out the obvious: for the first time in five years the site's got a facelift!  Everything should work exactly the same, only the art is newer and brighter now.  The olf Forum button has been replaced with Extras, which will be a place for me to link all the other things I do on the Internet- Forums is in there now, as well as Formspring, deviantART and Twitter links. I'll be adding more things as I set them up, but they'll all be in there (I am going to make a dedicated Fanart Tumblr page, I have a bunch of it saved but I may have lost the credits to some so if you've ever done fanart shoot me an email and remind me who to credit it to!).  

The site's click boxes have moved a bit, so if you find the buttons aren't lining up with their correct links your browser has an older version of the CSS stylesheet cached.  You can either clear the cache or just wait a bit and it will cache itself, I think.

One other thing I need to change that I'll be changing is the Preorder button in the top right of the site.  I'll be making a more prominent one for now, but I am still taking preorders to cover the print cost for Book 2.  If you liked the first one the second one will be more of the same, if not better!

I hope you like the new site art, and thanks for sticking with me all the way into 2012! 

3 January 2012:

The second guest strip of the season is also the first guest strip of the new year, and it was so kindly drawn by the inimitable Sam Logan of Sam & Fuzzy fame!  I first met Sam outside a book store in western Massachusetts under a starlit sky, and he's one of the friendliest folk I've ever had the pleasure of talking to.  Thanks, Sam!

31 December 2011:

 A friend of mine asked about my painting process so I took one of my strips and split the lineart apart from the painting work behind it to show how much focus goes into lineart and how much goes into the tone, and I thought maybe it was interesting enough that someone else might want to see the page broken down like that, so here it is if you want to look, it's page 444.  Generally when you're working with both line and tone one element needs to be the strong foot forward and take center stage and the other has to play a background supporting role- complex inks and complex tones clash with one another and simple everything looks, well, simple.  If your inks are strong, apply simpler tones.  If your tones are strong, frame them with simpler inks, but don't do both at once!  My inkwork is very simple and I paint a lot of the background elements in directly, and even though I define shapes and forms with line I'll still make sure to paint in my hard and soft edges behind them.

Anyways, that's a little art shop talk newspost in case someone was interested in art shop talk.  Have a good new year!

30 December 2011:

The first guest strip of the season and the last comic of the year is also the first animated guest strip I've ever had!  It's by good ol' Kory Bing of Skin Deep, who is not only a good artist and a great friend, but a pretty fun Medic to Soldier around for!  Thanks, Kory!

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