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Set to Sea p. 2

on June 18, 2009

I’ll be posting these Mondays and Fridays from hereon, but I’m heading off to Heroes Con later today, so here you go.

I got some links from the Comics Reporter and The Beat yesterday, that was nice. If you’re wondering what the scheme is here, Set to Sea is a “one panel at a time” comic I started running back in, like, 2006? 2005? I got about halfway through, and then I petered out on posting it for many moons. But while I wasn’t posting, I kept it on the backburner and thrashed it out into a complete story, thumbnailed it, and realized I wanted to change some things about the beginning. Nothing too major, mostly dialogue, adding a couple extra panels, some minor edits. I’m in the middle of inking the last 1/3rd of the story or thereabouts, and I thought it would be slightly better to reset back to the beginning rather than try and shuffle the changes in retroactively. I’m going to run it now on a biweekly schedule until it’s done – panel 134. If you started reading it back in the day, sorry about the reruns (and the George Lucas-style retconning), but stick around for the new stuff!

If you read all that, help yourself to a cookie.

So yeah, Heroes Con! I’ll be at table 537 in the Indie Island, nearby my pals Joey Weiser and Stephen Floyd. I’ll have 33 Beasties and some other minis, stop on by.

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Plush!

on June 17, 2009

You might have seen this if you were going through our million wedding photos (and why wouldn’t you!) but I never properly mentioned it! As a wedding present our friend, the talented Michele Chidester, made me this soft sculpture/stuffed version of one of my monster sketches!

Awesome, no? He’s sort of a companion to the “Rat Seller” she made for Eleanor a while ago, and now they hang out together on the futon.

I’ll be bringing him up to Heroes Con with me, so keep your eye out!

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33 Beasties

on June 16, 2009

I’ve been making a little mini collecting all of the monster sketches I’ve posted up in the last couple months! It’s called 33 Beasties, and here’s the cover:

I’ll have it at Heroes Con, coming up this weekend in Charlotte, NC. I’ll be somewhere in the “Indie Island” section, so stop by and say hi. If you want the mini but can’t make it to the con, I’ve been working on revamping and relaunching the Little House site – it’ll go up for sale there… as soon as I get it done!

I was reading some sort of “how to draw” book a couple weeks ago that asserted that left-handed artists tend to depict their characters facing to the left, and right-handers to the right. While assembling this mini, I’ve realized it’s totally true! At least in my case.