This time around I think I'll do little bike related watercolors as incentives. Oh, and I've got orange bracelets ordered to send out to everyone that makes a pledge!
Oh, should probably mention that chapter sixteen is running up on ModernTales right now. It will finish up around March 23 and then we'll be onto seventeen. Then there is a bit more stuff after that.
In the "real" world. I'm busy getting a bit more blubbery. Slowly working on the last five pages of PTD. Randomly scanning and deleting my pages.
I think I've finally decided to just dump more money into a final print run of 250 offset copies of all three PTD books and be done with it. They'll most likely sit around for a while, but in case they don't and you want to be one of the first to know when it is available, send me your email address. I'm not making a "subscription-list" or anything. Just a list of people that I will send one email to when I have a comic available. That's it. I guess there is a difference.
Oh. Staple! was fun. New Orleans is coming up way too soon. I'm about to buy a ticket to the Stumptown area for that even though I don't appear to have a table yet...maybe I'll just wander around. I did see my name on the list for SPX peoples. So there is that.
Sorry for the limited amount of effort and time put into this post. No pictures, no updates, nothing.
I did want to post for those that don't follow twitter or facebook or whatever else you use...those that lurk the website waiting for info and those that only read livejournal (are there any of those?)
The entirety of Punish the Dead, chapter 14 is up free for the rest of the week. Go read some stuff in the middle of some other stuff. I think it's a strong chapter. It can be read on its own too. Every plate, every chapter, each book can all be read on their own. They are all just ingredients to a whole. I don't know if that helps with any understanding, but maybe it'll help even if you can't see it all at once.
A rough first draft of the cover for the new book. How's it look? I think it fits in with the other two.
I'm currently playing with my new scanner and contemplating a new computer or at least some more hard drives. I've definitely run out of space. Painting work on the last dozen pages has slowed to a halt, almost. Instead of 3-6 pages in a weekend I've managed maybe one recently. I've got a couple of panels & pages to redo from scratch. I'll be moved out of my studio by the end of the year (if you were ever planning to visit). It's cold as heck right now (it actually snowed in Houston on Friday) and I stayed at home this weekend. Plus day-job work hours of been kind nuts. Maybe next week will be better.
Should I offer pre-orders even though I don't know how/when I'm going to get it printed? Maybe I'll just make about 40 of them, based on my average number of online readers. I've also got some older back issues that I should put up for sale again...
Still working towards the end of Punish the Dead. I'm about half-way through the last binder, about 25 plates left to ink and color. It'll probably take another four-six weekends I guess. Depending on how much I get sidetracked by life.
Please get caught up online with the first chapter for free at Modern Tales. When you're done with that you can read along in your own copies (if you're lucky enough to have one of these rare items) or contribute a couple of bucks to read the other chapters online.
Regular updates are ongoing, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday until it finishes up sometime in June 2010. Tell your friends.
And, for something different, a play-list of twenty albums that are currently getting me through the day, in no particular order, except TV On The Radio...that one has been on constant repeat since I bought it.
TV On The Radio - Dear Science Isis - Wavering Radiant Converge - Axe to Fall Bloc Party - Intimacy Eels - Hombre Lobo The Swell Season - Strict Joy Joe Henry - Blood From Stars MGMT - Oracular Spectacular White Lies - To Lose My Life Old Man Gloom - Christmas The Morning After Girls - Alone The Killers - Day & Age Living Things - Habeas Corpus Ray LaMontagne - Gossip in the Grain Regina Spektor - Far Iron and Wine - Around the Well Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes Andrew Bird - Noble Beast Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Starting to scan the 48 pages of the previous book. Scanner is kind of old, but the captures seem ok enough. The camera picks up more detail and subtlety, but distorts the edges and picks up lighting on the paper texture, which wouldn't be to usable for print.
I haven't poked around on ModernTales.com in forever, but I think I'll just put the final book up there, a page-a-day, Monday through Friday. If I start it for next Monday (October 26th), it'll finish a 19 week run sometime early March, just in time for Staple and New Orleans. I was told that it never got read over at MT (unlike Death Swamp), but maybe this last push will ignite some interest.
Punish the Dead [2004-06-14 to 2010-06-??]
[edit: went with continuing 3-days a week for longevity, book will still hopefully be done for March *fingers crossed*]
