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| Happiness is a long straw | May 31, 2019 8:36 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:I wouldn't be able to keep working on A* without the wonderful support of the readers who are supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. You can help out too for as little as $1 a month, which may not sound like much but it makes a big difference to me! Thank you very much to everyone who is doing that. : D
At higher levels of support I will even be able to send you uniquely A* rewards each and every month; for instance, here's an ink sketch I got to send to a reader for their support in a recent-ish month:
Thanks everyone for reading the comic! I hope you have a cool weekend. : )
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| Joe Kubert used the same brush I do : ) | May 30, 2019 9:55 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's a pretty cool video interview with veteran comic artist Joe Kubert, discussing making comics and how he got started at the age of 12, in 1939.
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| Blocks and lines | May 29, 2019 10:16 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Trying to get that loose and flowing silhouette line—which seems to take me a fair amount of limbering up—but also to have it defined by solid blocks of color as well as lines; so, putting blocks of color in around it, then supplementing with lines where needed.
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| One day left in A* page 34:33 art auction! | May 28, 2019 7:56 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Just one day left in the special A* archive art sale auction for the watercolor painting I made for A* episode 34, page 33!
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| Long weekend, also an art sale! | May 24, 2019 10:46 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:I'll be off enjoying the Memorial Day holiday on Monday! If you need to kill some time over the long A* weekend, you could check out the special A* original art archive sale I'm running right here on eBay for the 16" x 6.75" original watercolor painting I made for episode 34, page 33—Selenis looking daggers over her shoulder from the bed of a dark space station prison cell! The auction starts at just $16.99 and runs through Wednesday. : ) Who could turn down this face?
Still need more? You could also check out the rest of the A* original art I'm selling on eBay—the pieces behind this week's brand new pages! (I don't always have special sales of my favorite unsold pieces from the archives, but the latest week's worth of pages are always up on the block there. : )
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| Cookie monsters | May 23, 2019 10:35 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Spent the evening a-fussin' and a-feudin' with Firefox. Time to go sign back in to all my web sites again! ^_^
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| A* Wednesday original art archive sale! | May 22, 2019 9:04 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Hey it's Wednesday so let's pick out another of my favorite remaining pages of A* original art and put it on sale for a week starting at just $16.99 instead of its usual old boring $50. This week's 16" x 6.75" watercolor piece is the art I made for A* ep 34, pg 33, in which a very irritated Selenis scowls from the cell in which she was impounded in a distant space station. The auction is right here on eBay with hi-res images; here's a small preview:
This scene has some of the darkest backgrounds I've done, and somehow they managed to fit together here around the figure, in nice bold colors, in what I think is one of the better layouts and poses I've managed, and all with a rough, direct simplicity that I wish I could pull off every time. I do remember the pose taking a heck of a lot of erasing to get down. ^_^
Well, I hope some of you like it as much as I do. Thanks for checking it out! : D The sale runs for just one week, remember! And if that one doesn't *quite* get you, well, the latest week's worth of brand new A* watercolor pages are also available at that same first-week-only starting sale price, all under my eBay listings.
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| Nuclear test waste dumped in Pacific crater | May 21, 2019 8:37 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:The Washington Post: 2.58 million cubic feet of contaminated soil from 1940s and '50s nuclear bomb tests was dumped in a crater on a Pacific island, covered with a concrete lid, and left there since 1980, unlabelled and unguarded, with seawater free to seep in through the dirt floor of the crater.
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| A* episode 36 e-book now available | May 20, 2019 8:51 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Episode 36 of the comic wrapped up last week, and over the weekend I got it put together in downloadable e-book form, which you can find over on the episodes & e-books page. (Patreon supporters at the e-book level and higher will be receiving the download link for their complimentary copy at the beginning of next month. : )
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| If a tiny plan goes awry it isn't so bad | May 17, 2019 9:58 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Running late here at the end of the week (paintings don't always go the way you planned them—but I guess it would be boring if they did!) so I'll just say thank you very much for reading! See you Monday. : )
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| Not C books or D books | May 16, 2019 7:30 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:I'll be working on putting together the episode 36 e-book this weekend. A* Patreon campaign supporters at the e-book and higher levels will have their complimentary e-book download link emailed to them at the start of next month. : )
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| China says rover finds lunar mantle rocks | May 15, 2019 8:15 PM PDT | url |
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Added 2 new A* pages:A new BBC article reports that China says their Chang'e-4 lunar rover, exploring the relatively unexplored far side of the moon, has found rocks from the Moon's mantle—that's the layer beneath the crust—on the surface in the Moon's vast South Pole Aitken Basin, a crater that "covers nearly a quarter of the Moon's circumference," and is thought to have been caused by the tremendous impact of a 170km asteroid at least 3.9 billion years ago.
Theory has said an impact of that scale could have smashed all the way through the moon's crust to the mantle, and this could be the first confirmation of that. The mission's initial scan of the rocks claims to have found them to differ significantly from typical lunar surface rocks, with a chemical profile fitting what scientists think lunar mantle rocks could have; if these are indeed pieces of the lunar mantle, they "could now help scientists understand the chemical and mineralogical composition of the mantle, which could shed light on the origins and evolution of the Moon itself."
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| End of episode 36! A* phase 3 tomorrow! | May 14, 2019 9:16 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:And that's the end of episode 36! Which means tomorrow we gotta start episode 37, with a different sort of Selenis, and no moon base to call home. Whither will we wander? Well we'll get right into that starting tomorrow. : )
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| Flowing mohawk and eyeshadow | May 13, 2019 8:26 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's an ink sketch I got to send to a reader for supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign : ) :
Thanks everyone for reading and supporting the comic! : D
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| Give 'em the ol' lopsided eye | May 10, 2019 8:27 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign : ) :
You can help me with A* for as little as $1 a month through Patreon. I do this comic full time and Patreon is the closest thing I have to a steady source of income, so I owe a great deal of thanks to everyone pitching in there! Thank you! You make this comic possible! : D
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| How to use up an eraser | May 09, 2019 11:36 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Spent way too long drawing this page. Sometimes letting go is hard. : P
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| Thanks for the bids! | May 08, 2019 8:21 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Thanks to everyone who checked out this past week's special Wednesday A* archive art sale auction!
If you missed it, or might be interested in a different scene, the watercolor paintings behind the latest five or so A* pages are always up for auction in my eBay listings, starting at that same low $16.99 price, so keep that in mind if a new A* page comes along that speaks to you. : )
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| Last day in Selenis' close-up special auction | May 07, 2019 9:02 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Just one day left in the special A* art archive auction sale for the close-up 16"x6.75" watercolor art of Selenis in the warm and cozy cockpit of her ship early in episode 34 (page 7):
Original art in my archive (pieces more than a week old) usually goes for a flat $50, but in these once-in-a-blue-Wednesday auctions I pick remaining ones I particularly like and put them up for auction starting at just $16.99. One day left on this one!
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| Space suit miniskirts | May 06, 2019 7:59 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign : ) :
That was drawn at the beginning of January (I'm a little behind on showing you sketches I've sent = o), when we were still in episode 35—so Selenis' armored space suit featured here in episode 36 hadn't appeared yet; I use these supporter sketches for working out costume ideas sometimes (sometimes just for getting wild ones I know won't work out of my system : D). : ) Thanks everyone for these opportunities. : )
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| Holding everything together (it's a sketch) | May 03, 2019 9:05 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:There's a Wednesday A* art archive special sale going on now: until next Wednesday, the 16"x6.75" original watercolor illustration made for A* ep 34 pg 7—a rosy Selenis close-up—is on sale starting at just $16.99 on eBay!
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^ Sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. : ) Thanks everyone for your support!
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| John Hersey's Hiroshima | May 02, 2019 8:44 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Hiroshima is journalist John Hersey's groundbreaking nonfiction account of six survivors of the atomic bomb; it took up an entire issue of The New Yorker in 1946.
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| It's a Wednesday A* art archive special sale! | May 01, 2019 8:41 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:I mentioned yesterday I wanted to bring back the Wednesday A* art archive sales I ran a year or two back, and wouldn't you know, today is a Wednesday! So let's dig out a piece I like that somehow survived its initial offering, and offer it at that special initial bid sale price of just $16.99 (as opposed to its usual archive price of $50): this week it's the 16" x 6.75" original watercolor art I made for A* episode 34, page 7, with Selenis in her ship's cockpit, turning down an offer to visit a nearby space station. You can check out a hi-res scan of the art in the eBay auction listing; here's a small preview photo in the usual weird bluish lighting I use just for photos at my drawing table : P:
Here's the link to the page in the story. I often can't get two eyes to look better than just one eye, and this is one . p of those, but I think I pulled it off reasonably stylishly here, and the facial features that did make it are some of the sharpest I've ever managed. Also, this was one of my more successful uses of an initial wet-on-wet-paper application of paint, creating that sort of soft focus magenta effect around her head.
The auction runs for a week, and I hope you'll check it out if any of this interests you. And if that one doesn't get you, well, my eBay listings also always include the most recent week's worth of brand new A* original art pages, so maybe one of those will catch your fancy—and like this week's special sale page, new pages also always go up for a week at the low $16.99 starting bid price.
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