Your humble artist fell off the thrice-weekly schedule, and even the sketch-of-the-day updates, because of intense work on a new Great Big Project. All those pages and character designs from Big Project have to be put to some sort of use, and it's such an easy step from the genteel plantations of the south to the humid jungles of South America—just add more water and alligators and/or crocodiles. So those pages are being recycled into a completely genteel story about a young lady explorer of the alternate-steampunk 19th century travelling through monster-infested swampland who encounters a hidden tribe of love-starved octopus-men, as one does. True romance ensues.

Click on the image to see a mock-up of the back cover, with descriptive copy, proposed illustration, content warning, Surgeon General's notice, and an octopus in a squid suit.

The book will be 796 pages with a print size of 1-1/2x2 inches, and the word balloons will only be readable through a jeweller's loupe. Please be sure to donate to production costs on Kickstarter, where the target goal is $300,000, so that I can get this finished in a week or so and get back to the Romans after the holidays.

By popular request (well, a couple of requests), a close up on that coin Felix keeps on his personal altar.

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Actually, that's not very close up now that I see it on screen. Hmm.

Well, they'll get back to fleeing from the doomed city day after tomorrow, then.

The new comic is only partially inked, but I wanted to get something posted today and try to establish at least the pretense of a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule :P Check back during the day tomorrow if you'd rather wait to see it finished.

UPDATE: It's pretty much inked now. I'll also add it to this entry later on, but it's posted at the link above :)

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I'm not as happy with this art as I'd like to be...but, let us carry on!

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This post brought to you by insomnia.

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I struggled with script, pencils, inks, lettering, the browser, and uploading this one—oddly, with everything but the scanner.

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There are some sketches of the day for March 8, 10, and 11 over on the website, too.

Proper footwear is essential. ( Read more... )

Oh, and here's another comic. Two days in a row to make up for the long gap. ( Read more... )

I did not work on, think about, or complain about the day job this weekend. Although I'm kinda sorta terrified of how much work will be waiting on Monday, I did get a comic done. Day job just has to wait its turn.

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The next comic has been delayed by both work craziness and trying to remember how to draw this character. I'm going to finish a comic for today if I have to glue myself to this seat and not move for 12 hours.