Ah, poor Fiyena.
And I’ve been meaning to post this for AGES. I met Yi Wing at SPX last year, and then again at InterventionCon. He was charming and offered help throughout both weekends. And then, he gave me these, which i have treasured, and finaly, get to share with you. Thanks, Yi Weng! (oh, and you’ll also find them on the Fan Art page)
Not a lot going on in my world right now, just more buried in work. I keep wanting to find time to read LeyLines and Valkyrie Squadron, but keep not finding a free moment. So, check them out for me. Let me know. (although I have just begun reading the Brilliant Marsheila Rockwell‘s “Shard Axe” since the sequel of “Skein of Shadows” is about to come out).
Oh, and I’m listening to some Tamora Pierce novels I hadn’t read/listened to yet (I’ve read a lot, but she’s written so many!), since I’ll be getting to meet her (in fact, paneling with her) at the upcoming Minneapolis Convergence Con. Really looking forward to that, I’ve often cited her “Trickster Series” as a favorite of mine, and which was part of inspiring my comic “Vava” (along with Chagall)
And I’ll end this blog with this: a very nice shout-out from the folks over at Oscar Mike Media Podcast. Kevin gave a fair rundown (and thumbs up) of the story of Spacetrawler at about time: 46:30. Check it out!
Oh, and Happy memorial Day. One of those days which seems odd to say “happy” in front of, as it’s a very sad day. My heart goes out to the soldiers who fought, but not the politicians who waged.
Cheers! -Christopher
Having some minor technical difficulties today. The site is back up, with any luck the “comments” will be back soon.
Hey, you have one more week to see my show which I have hanging in Fuel Coffee in Wallingford! It’s this show.
If you missed it, I did a fill-in strip for Dresden Codak, check it out.
Ah, the world. Alan Rickman in slo-mo (awesome, but needs a soundtrack), Giant turtles (commentary on how all giants fall eventually?), SpaceX first commercial space flight delayed until Tuesday (bummer, but as my friend Fred put it, “Better headline than Ignoring ‘Faulty’ Pressure Sensors, SpaceX mashes Button to Silence Critics–Falcon 9/Dragon Confetti Strained Out of Bay…“)
I did a fill-in guest strip for Dresden Codak! Read it! Wait, no, read my damn blog first. :)
All is fine in the world. I am getting into the final stretch of packaging the Kickstarter orders, and books have been shipped to TopatoCo so that they should be available their soon too.
I must be feeling a bit more on top of things, because I’ve begun Twittering again after hardly doing so since about November. Feel free to follow my insightful pithy commentary on cookies and the like over there, I’m chris__baldwin (that’s a double-underscore)
Oh, and have I mentioned that I have a show hanging in Fuel Coffee in Wallingford? Because I do. it’s this show.
So, I did a guest strip for the brilliant Aaron Diaz for his comic DRESDEN CODAK! It was lots of fun, and I very unabashedly wore my love for Mary Shelley on my sleeve.
Remember Rikshaw Boans? Yes, we’ve begun book #3 of 3, so all of Chekov’s guns from book #1 and #2 will now begin to haunt you. :)
Ah, back in the saddle. Traveling is great, meeting you all is great, but it’s such a good feeling to be catching up again.
Now that Spacetralwer book#2 finally arrived, I’ve been working all week on packaging and shipping them, over half are out already. The PDF is almost done, will have it out shortly! I’m a one man show, so have patience! <3
Oh, and if you want to order one? Book #2 should be available at the TopatoCo store in the next week or two!
Also, while in Toronto, I hung out with Don (of Road Apples Almanac) and Brian, and one night for a writing/drawing/goofing-off exercise/game/diversion we drew three comics, each writing and drawing one panel of each. Don posted them over on his site (below the comic in the blog).
And also also also Jason Clarke did an awesome re-draw of the book #2 cover. Drew Struzan eat your heart out! You can also find this picture along with other guest art pieces on the Spacetrawler “fan art” page.
Phew. Arrived home today and am totally and utterly beat. Up at 4 which is 1 here. Travel days can be so long sometimes.
But I look forward to getting back on top of things. Books in the mail hopefully all this week, and the full comic back in full-color glory on Monday.
And now I get to sleeeeeppp…..
—–And as it says above the strip, repeated here…——
The same thing as with Monday’, I am posting the abbreviated versions of the strip this week for now.
The final-with-color versions will go up in the next few weeks, but in the meantime I will just plow on with the strip uninterrupted, and will let you know when I have the finals for these posted.
Book #2 (and related items) should be in the mail this week or early-next.
///EDIT/// I finally got the colors done on this one. Here is the previous version I posted, if any of you are curious.
TCAF was the bomb. What a good time. I think my favorite part was that it was in a library and free. So it just felt very open and friendly.
And the time in Toronto, I was entertained and shown around and taken care of by Brian and Don (of the lovely comic Road Apples Almanac). Good company.
—-and just to repeat what I wrote above—-
So…. I was hoping the spacetrawler book #2 would arrive in early-mid april, but they arrived right as I hit these two comic conventions, and so it’s been a bit of a cluter-f*@$Â Â keeping on top of it all.
And so with all that, I didn’t have enough time between Stumptown and TCAF to draw Monday’s and Wednesday’s strips. So I am posting abbreviated versions for now.
The final-with-color versions will go up in the next few weeks, but in the meantime I will just plow on with the strip uninterrupted, and will let you know when I have the finals for these posted.
Book #2 (and related items) should be in the mail this week or early-next.
This weekend, I’ll be at TCAF in Toronto (tabling with TopatoCo)! And it’s free to get in! Come! Seriously.
It doesn’t look like you’re taking that seriously. But do.
Insanely, I arrived home from Portland late Sunday night, and am leaving for Toronto Wednesday Morning. Brief times calls for brief blogs.
At Stumptown I got a copy of Modest Medusa. it was somewhat on my radar, but finally reading it was awesome. Oh, and Jake’s splendid company too, and fed me Chocodiles.
