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Schedule Change

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So if you read my last news post, you’ll know that I’ve been working like crazy lately on uh. A lot of things. This is still the case.

I wanted to have Follower live and updating last fall (oops) and due to my real job, I fell way behind on making pages for it. I’m currently working to catch up on them, which will hopefully be a bit quicker and easier when my shiny new tablet arrives sometime next week (?) to replace my 10-year-old Wacom. She lived a good life and traveled basically everywhere with me, which is certainly a testament to how sturdy the old Graphires were, but I’m starting to feel the strain in my wrist from working so much on such a small device. Doing Messenger on paper has basically spoiled me, since I’m free to draw big sweeping lines without worrying about an edge. After some research I decided to invest in one of these 10×6″ Huion tablets. Word is they perform just as well as some of the more recent Intuos tablets (which are kinda spendy if you have a budget of essentially nothing like me) and are nearly double the size of my current device, so it seems worth a shot. I’ll definitely be posting up with some kind of review once I get it, but I have pretty high hopes for it.

Now that I’ve gotten waaay off topic, basically, I’m planning to only post new Messenger pages on Saturdays until I get Follower launched. How long will this be? Probably a month or two on the short side, maybe a bit longer. The bonus is, once it’s started, I’ll have nearly a year’s worth of buffer pages for Follower which will leave me free to work on the next issue and new Messenger pages at the same time.

tl;dr Messenger is now updating only on Saturdays for a while, Follower is coming (hopefully) sooner than never.

Thanks for reading! And don’t forget to vote for Messenger to follow the new short story I’ve been posting!

Burnt to a Crisp

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Hey readers~ I hate making these types of posts, but I need to take this week off from Messenger. I know that as a comic reader, I like knowing when and why these things are happening to comics I enjoy reading, so here are the details:

I work full-time as a graphic designer, and my real job has been throwing crazy extra hours at me lately. This has made it nearly impossible to keep on top of Messenger, and any buffer I do come up with is used up instantly. So, I’m going to take this week “off” officially while I work on getting a buffer put back together again. I am burnt out tired all the time lately, and what I really need is time to make comics I am happy with and feel good about posting, rather than burning through them as quickly as I can just to get them done.

In the meantime, though, please enjoy a short fan-comic made by Pompolic of Lunavis! “Indulj Harder” is a 3-part comic done in the same style as Half Life 2: Full Life Consequences. (No, it’s not supposed to make sense. Even if you’ve played HL2.) I originally planned on running these pages in between chapters 11 and 12, but it seems I need them right now. So, many thanks to Pomp, and INDULJ HARDER!

I will hopefully be able to utilize this week and the few days off I get for Thanksgiving this weekend to buffer out the rest of the chapter, as well as getting Follower rolling at last. The Follower prologue will continue throughout this week as normal.

Thanks again for your continued patience, and thanks for reading! ♥

A little bit for would-be webcomickers

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So I received an email from a reader and soon-to-be comic maker recently, which got me thinking about how I got into making comics and if I had any advice for would-be comickers, what would it be? It was interesting to think about while I put together a response, so I thought it might be useful to add some of that information here, too. I’m hardly an expert at anything involved here, but I find it interesting sometimes to read about how others work, and if someone can get some use out of what I have to say, all the better.

I originally got into comics because my friends were doing it (PEER PRESSURE!) and kind of got hooked on the process. I’ve gone through a zillion different changes in the way I do things over the past eight years (!) I’ve been making Messenger. There are a few areas that stand out as major “learning points” for me as I’ve gone along:
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