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Comic Report #95 - The Call
Hello! A new Friday is here and so I have a whole bunch of work report to write up for you. I ended up doing a -lot- of work this week, both for comics and games, so I'm gonna type up as much about that as I can. Firstly, though, I have a big plan for this weekend: poking through my site I found...
Comic Report #94.1 - All Wrapped Up
Hello! Here's the textless version of the new page. I'll keep this post brief so I can get it lettered and posted during these hours where everyone is awake.Going into this page the panel I felt I'd have the most trouble with was the mall interior shot, but I think it turned out pretty g...
Comic Report #94 - New Beginnings
Hello! Happy New Year. We made it to the end of 2021 and we're on the threshold of a fresh new start. This has been a very full and very busy year for the comic, particularly in the last third, so I was happy to enjoy some rest before the new year starts. I had intended to get this comic all-the...
Happy Holidays!
Hello! This week I had originally planned to have the sketch for the last intermission page up tonight, but it's the holidays and I've been working extra hard since September trying to get these scenes drawn in short order. I don't want to rush work or grind through Christmas so I'm ...
Comic Report #93.1 - Quick Introductions
Hello! Here is the textless version of the next page. This is probably a record for this blog for the fastest turnaround from a page being posted, a page sketch going up and the finished thing being posted. I was going to wait until Friday to post these but I'm pretty impatient and I'll be p...
Comic Report #93 - Party Crashers
Hello! Here is a rough block-in sketch of the next page, which I expect to have finished before next week. This is getting into a very fun part of this mini arc so I am genuinely excited to get these scenes down on paper and move forward. So anyways, about the new page!From the top, we move from the...
Comic Report #92.1 - Multipass
Hello! Here's the textless version of the next comic page for you. This will be going up tomorrow, so later tonight I'll be trying to pencil the next page to post on here for you as well. Inking this page has been a real challenge. I like to do these pages in black & white so I have somethin...
Comic Report #92 - Intermissions
This week's a fun week of stuff to share. I've got a new comic page sketched for you, but I also have a plan of action for the rest of December, but also I have some new gamedev stuff to share as well in another post after this.The first thing: my plans for December. This week I did planning...
Comic Report #91.3 - Finally Here
Here it is at last, the textless final page of the chapter. This one's been a bit harder for me for some reason so I'm happy to finally reach this point where I can breathe a little bit and let a complete chunk of story exist as-is. It feels good to hit this point, like if someone were to fi...
Comic Report #91.2 - Aaaalmost There
I'd hoped to have this page finished by today but it seems I just didn't have it in me. I've been pushing hard on work since August and I might just be a little bit tired, but I am excited to be very close to the end of this chapter. I have a three-page intermission run planned which I e...
Comic Report #91.1 - Closer
This has been something of a short week for me, since I needed to take care of some holiday things, but I did make a bit of progress on the next page. I'm aiming to get it finished before the end of November, but at the latest this page should be done by next Friday, so it's on track to be f...
Comic Report #91 - Closure
Hello again! I've got the start of another comic page to share with you today. This one is the last page of the chapter, which means there will be three intermission pages to follow it. The relationship thread between Lizzie and Alice has been a very long one, so it feels a bit odd to have it de...
Comic Report #90.1 - Here We Are
Hello again! I've got the textless version of this page ready for you. There's not a whole lot of text to type on this one but somehow I don't think it's the words people are anticipating about it. This is a Thursday night update so I'm not sure how much I can hammer out for a Fr...
Comic Report #90 - The Big One
So this week I got a bit further than just a sketch phase to share with you. This page is a particularly significant moment, which has been- God, it's been thirteen years in the making. One thing happens on this page but it's a big thing so I'm gonna spend today writing about the thought...
Comic Report #89.2 - Here We Are
Hello, I'm back again with the textless page as promised. I feel good about getting this page finished before midnight, or before the usual 4 or 5am posting time. There's not many more pages in this scene after this one but I feel like people will really like the ones coming up. I hope they ...
Comic Report #89.1 - Trick or Treat?
Hello again! I've got a fun progress report for you: this comic page should be ready probably between now and Halloween, so you'll for sure have a nice treat by Sunday. I honestly would have had it done today but my other gamedev job needed a bunch of work done so I had to spend some time ov...
Comic Report #89 - The Other Side
Hello again! This week I've got the beginning of the next page ready for you to look at. Fun story: last night I went to open this file and found it was corrupted! Oh no! Luckily now that I'm a Clip Studio Paint user a backup of a previous state of the file was saved automatically so I was a...
Comic Report #88.2 - The Moment of Truth
Hello! Here is the textless art for this next page for you! I was thinking I should do some write-up stuff for this but I got the dialogue specifics percolating in my head right now and I think this page in particular should speak for itself, so I'm just gonna go type that up for you.Thank you a...
Comic Report #88.1 - All Downhill From Here
Hello again! I made pretty good progress on the comic page this week. I was tied up with a multi-day jury duty summons this week so I lost a bit of work time I'd wanted to use on gamedev stuff, so for now this is going to be a comic-only week. The good news is I've gotten the whole page inke...
Comic Report #88 - Let It All Out
Hello again! Last time I said I was probably going to focus on gamedev stuff for this one day between the comic updating and now, and I did do that (so keep an eye out for the gamedev post to follow this one!), but I also had some time and I was like, you know what? Let's keep the momentum going...
Comic Report #87.2 - The Setup
Hello! Here's the textless version of the next page. I've been working hard to get these pages ready in a reasonable time, I hope you've been enjoying them!These pages have been taking me a bit longer than I anticipated. All these little background buildings have been a bit of a time hol...
Comic Report #87.1 - Big Leaps
Hello again! I've got a pretty large update since last week. I've been focusing exclusively on working on these comic pages to try to get this scene drawn in a relatively short amount of time. I'm planning to expand out into more gamedev work soon but after wrapping up the minicomic obli...
Comic Report #87 - Hardhat Zone
Hello again! This is a short week since the new comic page went up. I wanted to get this page all-the-way penciled for today but I took a day to just rest and then I focused on thumbnailing out the next few pages so I make sure I can pace it right. I have a partial construction of a page to share to...
Comic Report #86.2 - It's Time
Got the textless version of this page done for you. I really want to type up the dialogue here and just get this posted so I'm going to be uncharacteristically brief with this writeup. Here it goes:All these little buildings. I always forget how much work it takes to paint all these little build...
Comic Report #86.1 - Double Time
So this has been my first week in a fairly long time where I didn't have anything else to do except work on the main comic, so that's exactly what I did. Incidentally, after August's month of slow progress on a single page, I'm pleased to report that a week after posting the sketch p...
Comic Report #86 - Lunch Date
Coming off the conclusion of the 100 minicomic run, I feel a weight lifted off my shoulders. I don't have the additional project to budget my time with. And just in time, as we've finally arrived at a long-anticipated scene for many readers. Between finishing up the 100th mini and today I wa...
Dead Winter Minicomics Batch #40
Okay so here it is, with about 20 hours to spare before my deadline for this thing. Just like with the main comic I wanted to make minicomic #100 a bit special, but instead of animating it I made it 2x as long- two four-panel strips so if I ever print these up it could be split back into two pages, ...
Dead Winter Minicomics Batch #39
So funny story about this week's minibatch: I've actually burned through my entire buffer just as I got to the last week of this project. It worked out well, starting out with a 20-strip buffer meant I could post these without worrying too much about them during this month's work crunch....
Comic Report #85.4 - Finally Home
Thank you for your patience this month. The next textless finished page is finally here and ready to share! I just need to letter this and put it up on the site and a huge, tremendous weight will be lifted from my shoulders.As a little art topic to post about, there is a fun and very old oil paintin...
Comic Report #85.3 - One More For The Road
Slow but steady progress continues on this page as I round out my do-or-die hell month of gamedev tasks on another job. Thank you again for your patience during this time, once I am through these momentary hurdles I'll be able to put out main-comic pages much, much more frequently. I should have...
