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All hands

by root on February 9, 2012 at 12:00 am
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Time to meet the crew! Hower, your enthusiasm is so irritating. Calm down.

FC’s done and my convention plate is clear until May, which means that I should be better about posting for the next few months, but with the comic being updated apparently once every other month now, you folks probably know better than to believe a single word I say about regular updates. But this page, like the previous set, was batched with the next one, which I’ll post next Thursday. I really wanna go biweekly but for the moment I think I am going to do two pages a week and post only one a week until I get a bit of a buffer established.

I plan on livestreaming on Monday from 7:30am to 4:00pm, with an hour break from 12:00-1:00pm to work on the next few pages. If I am not streaming at that time, by all means, yell at me. But I figure now that I’ve committed to it publicly I’ll feel a more pressing obligation to show up.

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Also, I’m taking a bunch of conbadge commissions this week. If you are a furry you know what a conbadge is, but if you are not, it’s a 3×4″ ID tag with your name and a bit of art on it. In the furry world, usually this is a way to identify yourself as a character of your own invention, but there’s nothing saying I can’t draw basically whatever you want (or whatever I want) on a slip of paper this size and stick it in a badge sleeve. They’re $40 each and that includes the cost of shipping within the continental US. If you want yours before FWA, I’ll need to hear from you by the 15th, and I will absolutely draw it on theme for you (Moulin Rouge, or so I am told)! Drop me a line if you want one.

Anyway. See you cats next week probably!

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The weather outside is frightful

by root on December 21, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Posted In: Blog, News and Updates

You guys have probably picked up on this already but there isn’t going to be much happening as far as comic goes this week, and probably not next week either. Hella busy stressing out about holidays, sorry!

I’ll still have an open thread over the Christmas weekend so that you can yell at me if you wanna, though.

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Open Thread 12/16/11: I am reconsidering commissions

by root on December 16, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Posted In: Blog, News and Updates

Do you remember how I disabled comments ages ago? Probably not, because I removed comments long before this comic had any kind of a readership. But now I want to try a thing; and that thing? Is comments.

Rather than have comments on individual comics, though, I am going to steal a page from some of the blogs I read and have an Open Thread party, wherein we can all talk about whatever, whether it’s the comic, or what your holiday plans are, or anything else.

I’ll tell you what I want to talk about, though, is commissions: I had a very interesting conversation with the Blotch duo the other day wherein they told me that if I wanted to make any kind of a decent living on my artwork, I need to stop taking them. And it makes sense: I spend so much time trying to get commissions done in order to make ends meet that I have no time at all to work on the comic, which is what is largely responsible for most of the interest in my work these days. So that’s something for me to think about.

I don’t think I’m ready to stop doing them completely, and certainly I am going to complete my existing queue, but I think that going forward, any commissioned work I take will have to be done with the understanding that I intend to sell prints of that work, and will be selected according to its viability for print sales. (And on the subject of print sales, it certainly wouldn’t hurt if I spent a bit more time preparing the ridiculous backlog of work I’ve completed over the last few months for printing so that I can make them available.)

I do have a bunch of ideas (like, a whole bunch) for themed collections and illustrated stories, and single pieces I’ve been wanting to do, which I just couldn’t budget the time for. The idea of stopping work on something that’s paid for up front to focus on stuff that might sell in the future is kind of scary to me, and honestly I expect I’m going to have to find a nine-to-five again until I figure out exactly how this is all going to work, but it’s been my experience that when I work from my own imagination and draw to my own tastes, that’s the stuff that always winds up resonating with other people. And for that reason, I am optimistic!

Anyway. That’s what’s going on with me. What’s going on with you? Do you guys want some possible worldbuildy spoilers about what’s going on with this boat? Because I am prepared to dish. Comments are open until Sunday night; I’ll try to be as active with the responses as possible!

└ Tags: commissions, merch, open thread, portfolios
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So, those originals

by root on December 13, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Posted In: Blog, News and Updates

They’re in the store now. I also went through all the other originals I still had on hand and added them to the store, as well. So if you were holding out for any of the one-offs, there’s a big ol’ pile of them up for grabs!

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All the cookies, all yours

by root on October 12, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Posted In: News and Updates

I know two blog posts in a day is a bit of a feast after the famine, but I felt that I should call your attention to the Firefox Has Crashed original, which is now up for sale.

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Knocking out the cobwebs

by root on October 12, 2011 at 8:11 am
Posted In: News and Updates

Looks like updating all of my comicpress/wordpress installations destroyed my layout again! Give me a little bit of time to fix it.

Also, I dropped a few of the comics (the tiny striped cat, The Season of Sharing, Someone Paid Me A Compliment, and Make A Go) from the continuity, either because I am shelving the story or because I am not particularly fond of them, and they’ll be moved to Extras in another week or two. And I updated the Twitter link to actually point to my twitter feed again.

Finally, I’ve been putting some of the illustration work that I’ve been doing during the hiatus up for sale as prints in the store, and will be continuing to add more prints and probably comic originals in the coming days and weeks. Buying stuff from the store is what makes the comic go, and more prints sold means less time I have to spend on commissioned artwork to make rent.

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