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OH NO YOU DI'INT!!! D:

I reckon I have 6 pages of issue 3 to go now. Aiming to have them finished before ECCC (March 4-6), not that it matters a whole heck of a lot, I suppose... :p

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I've just finished page 75 and I'm probably only about 10-15 pages away from finishing issue 3. So let's see about clearing through this enormous buffer of pages I've built up.

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About time for new pages, innit?

And for the record, these are two of my favourite pages ever.

The art show can safely be considered a success, since I sold about 8 pieces and 3 of those were to people I barely know. (Because you know what they say...if the only people buying your stuff are family and friends, it's time to think about a career change!)

That's also not counting all the books & prints I sold. (the print being the "Dance Party In Hell" image below) There are still lots of prints left (for the paltry sum of 10 Canadian dollars), so if you'd like one, go see Theo at Unreal City in downtown Saskatoon.

If you don't live in Saskatoon but you still want one, email me and I'll see what I can do to hook you up.

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Issue 3 is now progressing much faster than I expected, SOOOO...let's begin.

It'll have some coloured bits as a storytelling device. I'm going to regret doing that once I go to have this printed, I'm sure. :p

Also a splash page.

I don't care for this all that much, but a friend told me she wanted it on a shirt. I'll definitely keep that in mind if I ever re-draw it. XD

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These are the last three pages of book 2. Although I'm about 4 pages in on book 3, I'll still take a break from posting for a little while. Hope you've enjoyed book 2. I love you all, thanks for your support.

I will be doing an art show/book launch at Unreal City on January 15th - more news on that as it develops. In addition to the art & books, I found a button maker machine buried in my closet at my parents' house and I'd like to make some buttons to sell at this thing. If anyone out there has any suggestions for LSA button designs, I'd love to hear them. :)

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Has this ever happened to anyone? No?

Well, never mind then.

Hmm, I just realized that the layout of page 47 is pretty confusing. The way I've drawn it makes it looks like you're supposed to read those three/four bottom panels clockwise, but that's incorrect. D'oh!! :X

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This conversation is getting rude.

But you know, if anything, for a couple of teenage boys it's nowhere NEAR rude enough. :X *sigh*

A number of people have asked me where I had my books printed, so I'll remind you again...it was Lulu.com, the go-to place for many webcomic artists. Very pricey though. I've gotten in touch with a local printing place about my next print run but after almost a month I've still heard nothing about the status of my order. I'm not impressed. Should've just used Lulu again, I guess.

I also had my business cards printed through http://www.vistaprint.com and that was fairly inexpensive. Plus they throw in cool stuff for a couple extra bucks, like a metal business card holder or stickers with your design printed on them.

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OK, I guess I have enough of a buffer to post a few more pages. As usual, I don't even know if this sequence works or if it's just totally pointless. You guys need to tell me if it doesn't work, 'kay? :p

Page 42 & book 2 cover

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ain't that somethin!

Once again, go here to see the cover without Blogger JPEG artifacts.

Book 2 is so close to being done - just got one more page to finish and then a back cover to draw. Onwards to book 3 - where the actual craziness begins!

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Oh Jeremy, stop being such a freakin' jerk.

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Yep yep.

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NEEEEEW PAGES AT LAST, YESSSS

Page 34 continues on from my based-on-a-true-story sequence. Yes, sometimes the conversations I overheard in computer class were racist. I hope it's obvious that these inappropriate comments do not reflect MY views. :0

Page 35 begins a new sequence that...well, isn't really based on a true story. It's just supposed to show Jeremy acting like a typical sullen teenager and his dad reacting to this. You'll see.

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Based on a true story. In grade 11 I was in a rather disorganized computing class just like this one, where the teacher hardly ever seemed to be around - giving a group of my fellow students a license to have loud, irritating and offensive conversations much like this. (Embarrassingly, it also gave ME a license to waste plenty of time online, mostly on Audiogalaxy and the Pitchforkmedia forums - aka "Pitchforkmedia Smackdown" or "PFMS" - that's what Jeremy's reading in the first panel. Ha ha. ha. I still came out with a 90-something in the class.) No one else in the class seemed to care about this. Maybe that says more about me and my inability to ignore static...

Anyhow, one day I made the mistake of telling these people to shut up, and then they began bullying me. For the remainder of the term I sat in the cornermost cubicle in the classroom, as Jeremy is doing here, just to hide from them.

I've opened up the comments field to anonymous users, which means any & all visitors to my blog can now comment! Try it out, won't you please? ;p

I'm also still trying to figure out how to install WordPress & its respective webcomic updater plugin to my website, but until then, I've added "next" & "previous" links to each blog post here, which should make the comic much easier to read. Enjoy!!

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Hi-ho, folks! I'm going to be away for a couple of weeks - tomorrow I'm traveling from Bournemouth up to Scotland with my auntie. It's going to be amazing and I'm really excited. I thought it would be best to post some new pages before I leave!

Below those we have a business card I just made for myself, rehashing one of the drawings from page 31. Since I work in so many different styles, I had trouble finding an image that best represented what I do - I thought this worked quite nicely. Now I just need to figure out how to get rid of 250 of the blasted things! ;p

Chapter 2 Splash Page

The splash page to chapter 2, which I coloured out of extreme boredom. It's supposed to be about lacking identity, and feeling disconnected...or maybe I just really like drawing fake collages. The background is loosely based on a schematic diagram of a CB radio.

I'm feeling really discouraged lately, since nobody seems to be reading this comic...I know I need to make a proper website for it, since it's kinda difficult to read the way it's set up on this blog - despite my best efforts. I don't want to put you off by talking about this too much, though...I gotta stay positive...

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I...I CAN'T hold off any longer. Here are some new pages.


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PLEASE tell me if these make any sense at all, any feedback is seriously appreciated!!

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What, you've never found subliminal messages in your cereal before? ;p

This is the end of chapter 1, by the way...it might be quite a while before I add any new pages. Still working the kinks out of chapter 2's (partial) script. I PROMISE you I will do it though, no matter how long it takes. I'll post some more sketches later on to prove I'm still working.
Here's the revised splash page that I forgot to upload earlier.

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More dry brushing. That's Jeremy's friend Keith smooching Erin. Because apparently it wasn't enough to show Jeremy frozen AND impaled on tree branches. (???) JEEZ, Elaine. D: (This is still the dream sequence, of course)

From this page we can also deduce that Keith probably plays hockey and smokes a lot of weed.

I just ordered some new brushes, because all of mine are pretty much shot. I've read that it's normal for a brush to only last about 20 comic pages, which is kind of depressing considering how expensive they are. Oh well. :p

However, I did order the cheaper W&N "Sceptre Gold II" sable/synthetic blend brushes. I must be the only person on earth who prefers these to the ridiculously overpriced Kolinsky Series 7 sables. I find the Kolinsky much too stiff, with too much of a point on it. I'm sure I'm boring you to tears talking endlessly about brushes, so I'll end this here... :p

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I tried some new things on these pages, namely dry brushing and extreme foreshortening - well, maybe "new" isn't the right word - I practice foreshortening sketches almost every time I sit down to sketch, you just never get to see any of them because they aren't very good. :p I don't know how the dry brushing is going to turn out in the printed version, but it seems to have scanned all right, so I'm not concerned.

I'm going to start drawing the second chapter of the story within the next few days. Also I suppose I'd better write up another one of those learning log posts soon-ish.