Just a quick update for y’all- just in case you haven’t noticed, I’ve updated the site design slightly, but on the back-end it was a lot due to my upgraded to the new version of ComicPress, which, after having gotten over the frightening “THIS IS DIFFERENT! OH NOES!” phase, was so easy a caveman cartoonist could alter it! I still will probably be fiddling with it a bit.

Sorry for those of you who caught the site “with its pants down”- ie, when the categories were still being re-sorted! Oops!

Well folks, as the more astute of you may have been able to tell, I’ve been absent for a few weeks from this thing we call a webcomic.

It’s been a culmination of stress, stress relief, possible jobs, and insurance companies screwing me over that’s kept me away. But mostly here I want to focus on the possible job that may keep me away from doing my comic as I wish. Although I can’t go into it in full I am trying to work out a deal in which I’ll be doing illustration work for a book. Hate to sound all “hush-hush” and stuff, but I was told to be, but the fact is I don’t know how well the comic will fare while I’m trying to illustrate a book over the summer. As with most webcomics, this webcomic is a labor of love, something I do for little to no money, and in the end, things that will land me with money to spend on things like food and stuff will have to take front place in my workload. I’m sure we understand this.

Still, I have to say I’m a little regretful of this, as I was really getting into the heat of the story and have major plans for the next coming storylines. But the world revolves around money, alas. And drawing for a job sure beats working at McDonald’s.

Secondly- don’t beat me if this is too silly a question- I have a problem in my house. I have too much art. Way too much art. While some I have to send to the people who own the characters or are just stuck with me because they are fanart, I have currently 121 comic strips in my possession. The later 63 of these are actually done on regular 8.5″ x 11″ cardstock, at a 2 x 2 orientation. The ones before that were done on sketchpaper, landscape orientation, but still usually 2 x 2 panels. Not all of them are lookers, a lot of them look rather different from the originals, even taking into account add the text and balloons digitally. But, they are all here, and they are taking up a massive amount of space in my art file.

So. I bet you know what I am going to ask. Is there any possible interest in the buying of originals? I have tried selling originals of my other artwork sketches, but perhaps the original artwork for my comics will have more appeal? I will always scan the originals so you can see what they really look like before I cut them apart in Photoshop so you can see what it actually looks like.

Cameo strips are off limits, obviously. Those are gifts to those who were cameoed in them.

I feel this question is silly considering what a small fanbase I have, but it doesn’t hurt to ask, right?

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, I keep high-resolution copies of the completed strips, and have them backed up several places. The completed strips are what matter to me, as I learned with Anxiety Cafe- a comic is really no good if you don’t remember what words were supposed to go there.

That’s it for now. In the immortal words of Bill and Ted:
Stay excellent to each other!

First off, don’t argue with me over the spelling of “April Fool’s”. “April Fools’” just looks silly to me. ;-9 I know a lot of people hate this holiday, but considering I started out online in the webcomics community where the day meant comic swaps and such, I never really had a bad perception of it until I discovered LiveJournal pranks. Oh, goody.

Besides it being April Fool’s Day, checkitout! I have a guest comic up on Count Your Sheep, where Lillian is lovingly described as a robotic pigeon! I like to keep track of all the bird species that Lillian has been compared to (although “insect” has popped up, too) for good insult material, and chicken has popped up the most, but I considering I once compared Lillian to a mourning dove, he’s got it just about right!

Also, enjoy a little side doodle of Ship and Lillian. Ship doesn’t seem to be enjoying the fact that he’s being described just as a source of sweaters by a robotic pigeon.

EDIT: My upgrade to WordPress 2.5 seems to have messed up ComicPress’ archive system, which is already being worked on by the good people who bring us Comic Press. I don’t want to downgrade temporarily them upgrade both WordPress THEN ComicPress, so I’m leaving it as is for now. Sorry.