Added 3 new A* pages:

• A* Episode 9, Page 28
• A* Episode 9, Page 29
• A* Episode 9, Page 30

Ever wonder if Mar has trouble seeing around his nose?

Added another piece to the episode 9 gallery:



'T'will be kept in the gallery, here. Just a super-quick sketch I did late last night along with a bunch of awfuller ones, trying to get some spontaneity back; it's easy to get bogged down on some of these drawings, and when I slow down with lasso drawing, sometimes it just starts to get icky. I was even thinking maybe I should go with brush drawing like all these super smooth other comics I see these days, but then I tried some brush drawing and realized I'm pretty hopeless at duplicating the A* look with it--too impatient. ;)

Also I'm still trying to figure out what length Selenis' Lode crew-cut should have grown out to by now.

Added 3 new A* pages:

• A* Episode 9, Page 31
• A* Episode 9, Page 32
• A* Episode 9, Page 33

Oops! Just one more page to go on this lengthy talking start to the episode, buuut if you've been paying attention you can probably guess what the end of Mar's line here is going to be. ;)

So anyway once that's done all the pieces--hm except one but you'll see that one soon--will have been set in motion for the final few acts of Vero's story, which will reach its senses-shattering conclusion in A* episode 10!

Added 4 new A* pages:

• A* Episode 9, Page 34
• A* Episode 9, Page 35
• A* Episode 9, Page 36
• A* Episode 9, Page 37

Whee! This head trip stuff is more fun to draw than Mar talking in a box, whew.

In addition to doing a new page for my fairy tale comic, The Princess and the Giant, over the weekend, I also finally got around to making some updated--or at least more updated--A* banners:







These are kept on the the icons page along with a few older banners and lots of icons and stuff.

Added 3 new A* pages:

• A* Episode 9, Page 38
• A* Episode 9, Page 39
• A* Episode 9, Page 40

Frank Frazetta passed away a couple days ago. His art is a real inspiration to me, and if you don't know what it is then do some clicking and find out!

Added 4 new A* pages:

• A* Episode 9, Page 41
• A* Episode 9, Page 42
• A* Episode 9, Page 43
• A* Episode 9, Page 44

Attack of the socially awkward perspective! :o

Figured I'd put Selenis' lines in gray to help distinguish them in dialogue with Vero, like I did with Niels' last episode.

Added 3 new A* pages:

• A* Episode 9, Page 45
• A* Episode 9, Page 46
• A* Episode 9, Page 47

*Manfully resists urge to make crude "Hopefully it wasn't Space Herpes" joke*

*Because that would be tacky.*

Added 2 new A* pages:

• A* Episode 9, Page 48
• A* Episode 9, Page 49

Ooh one of these relatively unproductive Fridays! Booo. Hm also I'll have to be out most of Monday, so while I think I will sneak in a page or two, it'll be early or--more likely--quite late.

But hey if you need something else to do, why not check out my silly weekdaily adventure comic, Sketchy, which just went over 100 comics. Yes! You are attracted to biggish numbers. Yes!

Added 2 new A* pages:

• A* Episode 9, Page 50
• A* Episode 9, Page 51

I stuck a somewhat larger version of Vero's gauntlet from that last one into the gallery; you can get to it by clicking this just slightly larger version:



Part of why I only got a couple comics done today was 'cause I was helping my dad mat some A* prints, which we're gonna take to a local shop tomorrow, where they're going to have them for sale. Dad's really gung-ho on this, and he even put my mom to work on fixing the prints into the mats, so for a while there it was a real family assembly line. :o Anyway that's going to take some of my time tomorrow, so it'll probably be another short comic day, but I'll at least let you know where in Seattle you'll be able to go to get some nice matted A* prints, and even greeting cards.

Added 2 new A* pages:

• A* Episode 9, Page 52
• A* Episode 9, Page 53

Oh there goes Vero speaking in Morse code again. =p

Today my dad and I took artwork from my comics--matted A* prints and One off and -word- greeting cards--to a coffee house in downtown Seattle, where they should be on sale starting tomorrow. The coffee shop is Local Color, and it's in a pretty sweet location, right on Pike Place, across the street from the main and somewhat famous Pike Place Market; if you've been to the Market you probably walked right past it. It's a couple blocks north of that piroshky joint everyone likes (line out the door, even on a blustery day like today), for instance; in fact I even found a photo, facing south, with Local Color's street sign in it on the piroshky place's site (the piroshky place is a block or two further south from the photo location). Ooh and say also right on that street is the very first Starbucks shop, which I hadn't realized was there, but apparently it has been, at least since 1976 (it started at a different location in '71)--today it was packed with tourists taking pictures from every angle. Weird.

Hey I'm digressing! So if you happen to wander into Local Color, be nice and buy a cookie or coffee or something, then keep wandering, past the cash register, toward the back, and on the left you'll find some racks with art prints in them, and if you hunt around in there you should find some A* ones. Woo! They're pretty much identical to what you'd get if you used the "buy as signed print" link next to any A* art on this site, except that the ones at Local Color are a) all fancy matted and ready for framing, b) slightly more expensive (probably well worth it for the matting though), and c) not signed (only the ones you order off the web site are signed :D).

So that was fun. This is all thanks to my dad, who's decided to spend his retirement taking my comic artwork around to coffee houses, apparently. :) And also apparently at this very moment you can also find One Off and -word- cards of mine in Seattle University's book store, and eh under glass table tops in some small U-District coffee house whose name seems to have evaded all the emails my dad has sent me about it...hm so keep your eyes open for those and let me know if you find them. :D

Added 3 new A* pages:

• A* Episode 9, Page 54
• A* Episode 9, Page 55
• A* Episode 9, Page 56

Shouldn't dangle fingers over buttons like that, could be dangerous!