I have just finished migrating the entire archive from phpComics to ComicPress, an effort which in itself (and by virtue of the sheer number of filenames I had to alter by hand) should harbinger the startling new developments that quiver, even now, upon the electronic horizon.  For once I have decided to adopt the approach of Comic-Con, rather than the event itself, as an inspirational kick up the jacksy, and with some luck - and just a little bit of determination - this should pay dividends for us all in the very imminent future.

As JBJ would say: Keep the faith.

I just put quite a bit of work into writing an About page, so do check it out, if you feel so inclined. Only a few more days before things get underway here!

And we’re off!

Hope that wasn’t too anti-climactic. A longer-form story means that not every page will necessary have the punch of the original strip format, but hopefully you all will still enjoy what you are given. Needless to say, the new adventure (which, at least for the present, is codenamed Volume One) follows on directly from events in the strips.

As I mentioned in the About page, the prevailing posting schedule will be one page a week, posted every Friday. However, I hope to be producing pages at a faster rate than that, so when I feel I have a sufficient surplus to warrant such largess, there may well be mid-week postings. Stay tuned to this blog for news on that!

Two weeks in a row…that’s getting close to a Trend. Pretty soon we might even be dealing with a Tradition.

Sorry it was an hour later today. Coffee and a croissant beckoned. Hot Fuzz is awesome.

So week three and I already failed.  But maybe it’s good to get this out of the way early on.  No waiting for the inevitable first slip and such.  Now we can start waiting for the second!

…but it’s a double-page spread, so perhaps that makes it okay?  Regardless, this took me way longer to draw than I had anticipated.  Plus, it’s one of the more ambitious things to which I’ve ever put my hand, so give me a break, okay?  Of course, I also failed to anticipate that the current site design would have problems displaying a double-wide page.  I may get around to addressing that.  Later.

“I came up on books like Chaykin’s AMERICAN FLAGG! or you know, WATCHMEN. These comics refused passive consumption. I’m showing my art school here: I reject passive consumption. I reject the premise. I will have no passive consumers. Casanova will not stop and explain itself to you. It will not allow you to flip through it while you’re dropping a deuce and waiting for Batman to show up.” - Matt Fraction

New page coming soon.  Promise.

He’s in for a bit of a shock.

As usual, I’ve been making the mistake of reading really good comics work lately (particularly Mark Millar and JRJR’s Kick-Ass and Casanova: Gula by Matt Fraction and Fabio Moon), which causes me to reflect dimly upon my own project.  But then I remember that I’m doing this both to learn a few things and hopefully tell an entertaining story, and there’s still plenty of time in my life to work on meta-diagetic plot devices and the like.

Another page, one that took me longer than perhaps it should have.

For those of you who are interested in these kinds of things, I inked the fourth and fifth panels mostly using a brush, which is a new thing for me.  Reading stuff by Fabio Moon, Becky Cloonan, and Vasilis Lolos has finally got me interested in the possibilities contained within those fancy little bristles, so I got myself a Windsor Series 7 (surprisingly cheap on dickblick.com) and have started having a crack at that.  I am mostly happy with the results, though I believe I still have a lot of practicing to do.