Dead Winter

Comic 05/16/12

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Comic 05/10/12

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Comic 05/05/12

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Comic 04/27/12

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500

News Post 04/27/12

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500

So I guess I forgot this weekend is MoCCA in NYC! Whoops! I'm going to be there at table E8 with books, charms, prints and a test run of fifteen 18x24" Three Color Critters posters (Based on this blog I've been working on http://3colorcritters.tumblr.com/) If you're in New York City come to the 69th Armory on Lexington Ave and say hello! I'll be in the middle of the whole con hall, literally.

Comic 04/21/12

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500

News Post 04/21/12

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Sorry about the one-update weeks lately, I have been having a bit of a rough time with some things. I will try to get two up for next week. Thanks for your patience.

Comic 04/14/12

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500

News Post 04/08/12

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Happy Easter and Happy Passover to you! I am happy to say that after a good deal of trial and error I added a new donation wallpaper to the donate page!! If you've enjoyed the comic and you'd like to help support it, any amount is greatly appreciated, especially after winter heating bills take their toll. Anything from a penny onward gets you access to the new wallpaper, and I've kept the older wallpaper up in case someone in the future wants to download it. I would like to do more wallpaper art more often, so if that's something people enjoy I'll add more donation incentives in the future!

And, just for fun, I uploaded my previous two attempts at wallpaper art, just to chronicle my thought pattern. For the first attempt I wanted to do a no-outline landscape painting, something colorful and depthy without being specific to anything in the comic. The composition was boring and the contrast made for a crummy desktop background, and since I couldn't get colors right I hated it midway through and tried another idea. So I made my second attempt and went a little more conceptual and Monday-centric. Lighter, less stark contrast everywhere, it could work as a background. I was going to play with color in the values of the grey, but when I tested the technique I had in mind out it was all too white and the meticulous detail modeling all the bullets started bugging me too, and I started hating this one as well. I have a hard drive full of half-finished projects like this, where I either lose interest in a project or try fresh from a different approach. So finally I made my third attempt at donation wallpaper as something both subtle enough value-wise to be a desktop background, colorful enough to be interesting and dynamic enough in composition to not be stiff, static and boring. I drew a little from my limited-palette art Tumblr and just built it out of yellow, purple and blue, and using a limited palette I finally got something I was happy with!

That's a little more insight into my artistic process and how I think about a piece, following up the previous post showing how I actually put a comic together. My apologies if it's all a bit long-winded but I guess some people like to hear the goings-on behind the scenes making art, and I'm more than happy to share. Thanks for reading, and thank you for your kindness and support!

Comic 04/06/12

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Comic 04/01/12

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500

News Post 04/01/12

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Hey so while I was making this page I decided NOT to document my comic-making process in an hour-by-hour animated .gif, with some extra frames just to show process transitions, so you could see how I go about making a page of comics between updates...

April Fools! Ha ha, I totally got you! I really did make a comic-process .gif, you can watch this page unfold before your eyes:

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Comic 03/28/12

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500

News Post 03/23/12

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500

I've been thinking about this all through February because I was going to make a note of it but I've been so busy with things I completely forgot: last Tuesday (the 13th) was Dead Winter's 5th birthday. Five years of making comics. That's not something I could manage without the support and encouragement of the people who read the comic, so I want to offer you a heartfelt thanks for your patronage.

Comic 03/23/12

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500