Author: Skulldog

Well, new pages are starting again, sort of.

At the moment I’m trapped in a week of moving into a new home, which means my life is in boxes. I have Monday’s page semi ready, but can’t finish up at the moment. So, fair warning it may be late, probably Tuesday evening.

Alright, just a head’s up that next weekend there will be no updates, as I’ll be out of town, and then moving into a brand new home.

Donations made during the down time will go toward that next update. See everyone again on Thanksgiving.

Rocked a good weekend out of town, and back to the comic grind. I’m doing a three page update this weekend to make up for not having time to do a page for last weekend.

My other past time the last week as been soap making. It was probably a poor idea to start with my favorite smell in the world: Coffee.

You can grab some too, and make my work room stop smelling so damn good.

Well long story short, I was out of town last weekend, got home later than planned due to a delayed flight, and only had two days to get ready for leaving again in a few hours.

And. I haven’t even gotten to the pencils for a new page.

I feel bad, since I also received some donations while I was gone, which would have tipped the donation bar into a two page update this weekend. I just didn’t have a free moment to do a page.

I’ll pus that into a three page update for the first weekend in November, deal? We cool.

Go enjoy some Halloween candy in my giant void like absence.

Just a head’s up that I will be out of town over next weekend. Consider it an early Christmas trip to visit my parents. I have one page ready to auto post, but I will not have a Monday update for the weekend.

I’ve also added three more pages to project revamp.

Finished up another five pages of project revamp, so you can enjoy up to page 38 in all it’s less blurry glory. That  puts me just shy of halfway, and with the work I’ll be doing next week, we should hit the official midpoint fairly soon.

I’ve also brought back the donation bar of official fun goals. This time for the magical week and half I’ll be away from my computer.

No Monday update, I just ended up blasted from the concert and 24 hour back to back party hour. Hours.

But, if you need a comic fix, you can check out the 24hour comic I did over Saturday: 24 Hour comic.

Alright, I’ve set Saturday’s page to post automagically, since I’m not too sure how late I’ll be home to do it myself.

Me, I’ll be in Boston for this : http://www.roger-waters.com/

This is a bit of a ‘Bucket list’ item for me, and it happened to fall over my boyfriend’s birthday.

Then after I feel like I can die happen, I have to get up, make some coffee and start on a 24 hour comic. Since I won’t be able to make it out to any local ones being held, I’m holding one on my own time. Starting roughly noon EST on the 2nd, I’ll be starting. I’ve made a little chat room for anyone that wants to join in and try to stay awake for 24 hours along with me. http://theskulldog.com/blah/blab.php

Still hoping I can get a Monday update done as well.

Finished up the mini comic ‘Pass and Fail’, you can go read it now over here: https://paperfangs.com/brink/?cat=28

Next weekend will be a standard two page update, as I want to create some pages to cover the weekend afterward. The October 1st weekend is a bit crazy for me. First I’ll be seeing Roger Waters in concert, then the following day I’ll be holding a 24 hour day.

I’m also hoping to get a special donor only wallpaper done, so people have something throw their precious dollars at while I’m not working on extra pages.

Alright, the pencils for the two page side story are up as a vote incentive. I am coloring them as I type this, multitasking I know. I’m hoping to have one of them done over the weekend.

I would say both will be done, but..we’re having another three page update to the main story this weekend.  Doing a Friday/Saturday/Monday goal.

Next week I’m taking a break, so I can finish the mini comic, the next page of City full of Things, and revamp more pages for printing.

Speaking of that, I’ve just updated pages 21-27 with the new versions. Let’s see if I can blast through that and have the first book ready for sale by Christmas.

Alright, Sunday’s page is all geared up to post automagically while I’m out of town. If for some reason it doesn’t auto-post, which has happened before, I should be home at some point on Sunday evening to fix it.

As an added bonus, you might also note that I’ve given the first 20 pages of the comic a little face lift. Every page in that group has it’s wonky text and speech bubbles replaced, and a few pages even got a little artistic updating.

Why do this? I think it’s high time I actually got together the early story into a dead tree format. When i sat down to start formatting it for Ka-Blam’s specifications, I really noticed how horrid the early pages are, and I couldn’t live with myself if I offered them as is.

I need some input from the readers on what size/price point you’d rather have in a paperback edition. Right now I’m wavering between the first volume being either the first three chapters, or the first five.

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Right now the only concern I have with having the first volume be all five chapters, is that I don’t know the final page count for the comic, and as such, wouldn’t want to end up vastly different sized volumes in the end.

First I must lament that it seems I will NEVER find a Donation plugin for WordPress that works %100 of the time.  I’ve been manually adding donations here.

Anyway, the point of this off time post is that both my incentive bars are full. Yeah!

Thanks to the support of viewers, everyone gets a bonus page for this weekend’s update. Look forward to a Saturday/Sunday/Monday update path. However, since I’ll be out of town for a bit of the weekend, I won’t be able to start on the side comic right away, and will have to wait until next week to get them colored.

New donation goals will go up once I make good on what’s owed now. I have a cute wallpaper in mind to give out as an extra bonus to donors for the next goal.

And hey, entertain me with questions. I made a Fromspring ages ago. Ask deep serious art questions, ask silly innate stuff. Or since I’m hardcore, you can even ask scary anonymous questions too.

Been awhile since I’ve done such a long stretch of pages without any snags, delays or conventions getting in the way, hasn’t it?

Well, come October there is some potential weekend killing trips. I’ll try to gets some backlog ready for those.

In the mean time, if you’re craving more comics, you can take a little wander over to my secondary story I’ve started posting:

Updating monthly, with 21 pages already online.