I didn’t have time to finish a full new comic page this week (mostly due to being out of town for the holidays), but I wanted to have something new and cute to put up for all ya today.
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She’s going to have that kitten task at least halfway completed after volunteering at the city pound on January 2nd.
There’s no way Turpentine doesn’t like Krampus at least a little. Her commitment to No Christmas Songs is just that universal.
If you’ve got seasonal celebrations going on this week, I hope they are the greatest. I just arrived at my parents’ place for Christmas — going from a pretty mild climate to the kind of terrifying frostworld where going outdoors is a hazard. The indoors is nice, though. Festive.
I think I really just find something hilarious about Christmas.
I actually have a couple of BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS TODAY:
I’ve wanted to do this forever, and I’ve decided that it’s happening over the next few months. I want to have this tangible object exist, and I want other people to be able to have copies, and something just snapped recently and made me feel like it’s now or never, and I have to take this on as a crazy project. I can do this, and I’m pretty confident that I can make it a hell of a sweet book that’s worth owning — I’m a graphic designer with background & training in this stuff. I’m thinking it’s going to collect all the pages up until a certain point (probably 120-ish), and include some neat extras, too. This will also be the moment where all the other little print stuff I’ve been talking about but haven’t done yet, like stickers, goes into production. I’m determined that the book’s going to be a nice print run, not print-on-demand, so it’s pretty likely there’ll be a Kickstarter or similar to help fund that in like a pre-order sort of way — and I’ll load it up with fun reward swag.
With these books, according to my schemin’ & plannin’! If you’re in or near Vancouver and into comix, mark your calendar and come say hi.
I’ve actually got a third comics-related Upcoming Thing Of Interest, too, but I think I’m going to save it for now. All of this is going to be a lot of work, and it’s daunting, and sort of terrifying, but I am so excited. I’ll keep you updated. Thank you, all of you, for all the encouragement you’ve given me over the years.
Aww! Well, congrats, Zero!
A three-fer! This isn’t really catching up with the mailbag – not by a long shot. There are still questions in the pile that I think probably have a good Mailbag Comic in ’em but it hasn’t clicked for me yet…and others (and good ones, too!) that will, sadly, never get a Mailbag Answer because they’re on topics that I’ve got other future comixplans for addressing, or just wouldn’t work for some reason or another.
I’ve always considered these things to have no statute of limitations or queue. All three of these came in pretty long ago, and happened to be the ones that fell into place with this thematic relationship between ’em – and it could have just as easily included something just freshly submitted. So, what I’m sayin’ is: don’t hesitate to throw some new ones onto that mailpile.