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Cupid’s Mission 2 of 3

August 17, 2010 | No Comments
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Ever-increasing beasts

Apparently the local wildlife can sense that this house is about to be uninhabited and are eager to take over, because we have been discovering increasingly larger critters in here. The carpenter ants are long-time residents, but lately we’ve had more & weirder bugs, culminating in the earwig I found under my pillow. (note: earwigs do not belong under my pillow!) Then we discovered a bold little mouse living in our kitchen. Most recently, my housemate found a snake in her wall (it had gotten stuck to some plastic covering a hole). If only we could direct the snake to the mouse! Anyway, it’s a good thing we’re leaving soon, because clearly this process will end in coyote, bear, and moose roaming the house.

Today I noticed a spider drop down from my desk to the floor. Fine enough, but then a little later I suddenly noticed it on my keyboard, which I was using. I don’t know how it got there without me seeing it, but when I tried to shoo it off, it crawled under the keys! That’s a bad place for spiders! They could easily be killed by my typing, which night also break my keyboard, making all of us unhappy. I switched to the keyboard on my computer (I normally use an external one at home), and eventually the spider came out and I shooed it onto the floor.

July 28, 2010 | No Comments

Axe Cop guest strip

Oh boy, my Axe Cop guest strip is live!

July 23, 2010 | 3 Comments

Showing off my “chops”

If you don’t already know Axe Cop, I recommend you go read some because 1) it is awesome, and 2) I will have a guest strip there on Friday. Axe Cop is drawn by Ethan Nicolle, who translates his 6-year old brother’s stories into comics form.

July 21, 2010 | No Comments

CAKE TIME!

It’s time once more for my family to convince me to stay on planet Earth another year with a bribe of cake and song.

July 19, 2010 | No Comments

Fathertron

Whoops, no comic today, but here’s the Father’s Day card I made for my dad:

Comic tomorrow, OK?

June 21, 2010 | No Comments

Excuses, excuses

Sorry there was no new comic yesterday (or today, so far). I suddenly had an opportunity to submit a guest strip for a webcomic I like, so that took up the drawing time that would have gone into my own strip. I don’t know for sure if it’ll be used, but if so I’ll certainly post a link.

June 18, 2010 | No Comments

Square Dance #4

This issue of Square Dance contains:

-” Spinning World”: A winter’s worth of strips about time and culture: holidays known & unknown, plus “Great Moments in Nuclear History”.

- “Super Friendly Garlic”: The story of a very friendly bulb of garlic.

- “Winter in Headville”: A wordless doodly comic about the coldest season in a land where everyone is a head on little legs.

- Plus a bunch of miscellaneous silly strips.

…all behind a classic winter-themed cover.


5.5″ x 8.5″, 24 pgs $2.00  


June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment

Wild nights

Recently I’ve had a couple of nights where I returned home after dark to find no one else home, all the lights off, and fireflies blinking around in the darkness, and stood around for a while just enjoying it.

This past Saturday night, I stamped the covers of 165 copies of Play. Sunday I glued game booklets into 120 of them.

June 14, 2010 | No Comments

The New Setup

Oh boy oh boy, look at my new website setup! OK, it doesn’t look radically different from the old setup (which itself was pretty recent), but I’ve finally jumped on the “latest-comic-on-top, blog-on-bottom” bandwagon. I may actually post stuff to the blog now that it won’t push my comics down out of sight! All the comics are back up except the hourlies – I’ll get to them eventually. Other than that I have maybe a few minor style tweaks to fiddle with when I feel like it, and I’d like to spruce up the sidebar a bit, but I’m basically considering the renovation successfully completed. Yay!

I had been partway through converting my site to use Comicpress (got distracted by anthology production, touring, etc.), then the other day after recommending Daniel Merlin Goodbrey to someone, I went to look at his site. I was surprised to see he was using Comicpress, and thought he’d done a really nice job with it, until I saw his blog post that said he was actually using Webcomic (and it turns out he hadn’t customized the default theme all that much). I checked it out, it seemed a little easier to use & better suited to my needs, and here we are! I like it so far.

Notes on navigation: besides the obvious navigation links, you can click the comic to go forward (unless it’s the last one), and you can also navigate the comic with your arrow keys. How cool is that? Navigation works within each comic; to see other comics, go to the “Comics” page and click away! (One-off strips are pooled together).

Okay, boring website talk is over now! You can look forward to more comics, and a higher volume of blog posts – talk about value!

June 4, 2010 | No Comments

Under Renovation

Hi all, please excuse any excess wonkiness while I reconfigure my website to increase its fabulosity.

EDIT: The new setup required me to move my comic images around, so the main thing left to do (besides stray tweaks) is re-associate those files with their posts (and create posts for some of the older ones that used pages). This is fairly tedious, but I hope to finish by week’s end.

May 31, 2010 | No Comments
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