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01/01/12 Kppfing Hotel Basement

by Christopher on January 1, 2012 at 9:00 pm
01/01/12 Kppfing Hotel Basement

A night of Bach and Mendelssohn to ring in the New Years (thank goodness for pay-what-you-can events). I must say, I’m used to either drunken parties or just spending the night at home wondering if it’s worth waiting up until midnight — this was a surprisingly nice change.

More and more I’ve been reading longer works either on the computer (which I don’t enjoy doing if it’s of any length) or printing out things to read. I’ve been writing (and re-reading) more prose in general, illustrating more prose work that others write, and have become friends with more writers and have old friends who have been doing more writing. Therefore I’m debating a b&w Kindle touch. Is it Time? Any thoughts?

So, as you may or may not have noticed, it’s 2012. What does that mean to me right now.

A couple weeks ago I had a “eureka” writing moment, mostly having to do with the plotting of a story (finally being able to answer my own questions I’ve been asking myself for twenty years), and so I anticipate this year will be a very different (and perhaps very active) year for writing. So far the eureka moment has sustained itself and has not so far revealed itself to be just a I-thought-that-was-a-eureka-moment-but-in-practice-it-really-wasn’t. Happiness for that.

Spacetrawler book 2 will wrap up in February, and Spacetrawler-the-project will end (with book 3) probably in the beginning of 2013, so essentially (in my mind) I’ll be finishing Spacetrawler up this year — which means it will be an intense couple of months plotting book 3 (as book 2 wraps up), and then an intense year writing and drawing it. And it feels somewhat momentous, it’s been an exciting world to create and it’s a project I’m proud of and a project people really enjoy, which makes me happy.

This ALSO means that I have to be ready to start whatever webcomic I do next AFTER Spacetrawler, and I’m already on my 3rd or 4th partly-developed idea, not sure which dark horse will pull ahead, but it’s a fun exploration which I’ll be fiddling with throughout 2012.

Anyhow, thank you all for the support and for enjoying my work. I”m thinking this year will be great, and hope it is for you too.

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12/28/11 Shuar’s Love

by Christopher on December 27, 2011 at 9:00 pm
12/28/11 Shuar’s Love

Have a wee bit of a headache (understatement). I think I might lie down rather than blogging.

Tom Walker has a new SS Myra up, of course.

Have I said recently that you all are awesome? You all are awesome.

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11/23/11 Dimitri’s Conscience

by Christopher on November 22, 2011 at 9:00 pm
11/23/11 Dimitri’s Conscience

Just so you know, Spacetrawler is not now some dark grim comic. It has always had that element as a part of it, and this is just a period where the dark flows up a bit. Just wait, an ebb will come.

Shaenon Garrity (who created Narbonic, and is half the brilliant duo behind Skinhorse) wrote a review of my so-far-lifetime body of work over at The Comics Journal. And I’ve had a lot of reviews written about me, but this one really touched me. I thought it was really thoughtful about my work as a whole, and the underlying themes.

Also, despite Tom Walker DEFINITELY not blackmailing me to do so, I should mention SS Myra (NSFW) has it’s weekly strip up as usual.

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11/21/11 A Short Engagement

by Christopher on November 20, 2011 at 9:00 pm
11/21/11 A Short Engagement

Got a new wallpaper for ya, from Russia with Love “these lips don’t come with a safety, baby. (donate ANY amount and you will be forwarded to the URL for this wallpaper, or view the thumbnails of the other Spacetrawler wallpapers)


Thanks so much for the love, for both the 200th strip and the big reveal last Wednesday. The “worst atrocity imaginable,” like the Omelas, wild-eyed socialism, and from twitter: Living ships have been one of my “fav scifi tropes since Farscape.

Thank you all (I mean that, btw. I love those comments. And all the comments people left below the strip. I’m not being snarky).

In the vein of love sharing: my friend Rosey has her 2012 calendar of lovely drawings up for sale, and my friend Ashley J Barnard’s new novel (last in the trilogy) “Night of the Fox” is now out. Check ‘em out!

For just coolness, here are some awesome collages by Beth Hoeckel (several are sort-of sci-fi themed). And there’s a pretty nice (although NSFW) collection of women in Sci-Fi over at tumblr: Space Bitches — some racy some not.

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10/17/11 Karaoke Lover

by Christopher on October 16, 2011 at 9:00 pm
10/17/11 Karaoke Lover

What a computer nightmare I set myself up to this weekend. But… perhaps wiping my HD didn’t show full insight into the tools I had available. Anyhow, a foolish waste of time. Thanks to Mike for saving my butt.

Aside from that, not much to blog about. Really enjoyed all your replies to the last strip, more specifically — about making bread and chocolate. The flavor of the bread I made is all good, and the consistency is nice to each but a bit crumbly. I might try more gluten, soak my whole grains a bit first, and then knead it a bit longer. I’m still fiddling with the chocolates. My sweetie makes almond milk from scratch, and so we have lots of leftover almond pulp. I’m currently trying to make a sort-of vegan almond pulp toffee, then dipped in chocolate. Fun to play.

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09/14/11 Dimitri Checks In

by Christopher on September 13, 2011 at 9:00 pm
09/14/11 Dimitri Checks In

Okay, I am barely keeping one foot ahead of my strip schedule. Go team tired! Thanks to Renaissance Dork for the shout-out.

And HEY, Friday, Saturday and Sunday I’ll be in the DC/Rockville area at

InterventionCon

Stop by. Say Hello. Buy books. Bring books to buy. See me on panels:

  • Friday at 8:00 “Getting Paid To Do What You Already Love: Working With Companies” along with David Reddick & Tony DiGerolamo.
  • Saturday at 3:00 “Back in my day: The webcomic veterans panel” along with Shaenon Garrity, Jennie Breeden & Bill Holbrook.
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09/12/11 Dimitri’s Trust

by Christopher on September 11, 2011 at 9:00 pm
09/12/11 Dimitri’s Trust

SPX was a grand time. Ahhhh! And now I’m on the late bus back to my brother’s. Zoom! Blogging from the bus — so, a con report will have to wait until wednesday’s strip.

And I won’t be in Seattle for it, but the 17th is the annual “Pigs For Peace” walk at Greenlake, and my sweetie Beth is walking, so please donate, and know a donation for her walking is like for me walking (only I’m only there in spirit). They’re an organization who takes care of potbelly pigs (among other animals) who were pets and were poorly treated or not wanted, and so now they have a good home.

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08/15/11 Planet Carpsellon

by Christopher on August 14, 2011 at 9:00 pm
08/15/11 Planet Carpsellon

A good weekend of enjoying beautiful weather. Beth and I canoed around Boston Harbor (in Olympia, WA, not in Massachusetts). And I just saw a small production of “Pirates of Penzance” at the Greenlake Bathhouse, put on by a middle-school aged cast, which was delightful.

A few thanks for Spacetrawler shout-outs… Don Ahe of the awesome webcomic “Road Apples Almanac” wrote a blurb about Spacetrawler about a year ago HERE, Lys wrote a blurb about Spacetrawler about a half a year ago HERE, and Mark Grealish wrote a blurb about Spacetrawler about a year ago HERE. On a related topic, let me know if you write a review of Spacetrawler anywhere, I’m (usually) happy to link to it, but often am never (or very belatedly) even aware of it.

In other “news,” I just finished reading Zach Weiner’s  first collection of strips “Save Yourself, Mammal!” from his comic strip SMBC. Awesome work, Zach! Check it out. (You may remember I did some art fill-in for the comic “Snowflakes” he writes for.)

Also, Scott Kurtz of PVP along with Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade, creators of two of the largest online webcomics, are co-creating a new comic called Tales From The Trenches. I’ll be curious to see how that goes. :)

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08/03/11 Dal’s Sad Story

by Christopher on August 2, 2011 at 9:00 pm
08/03/11 Dal’s Sad Story

As you can see above, I’ll be in Albuquerque this weekend at the SciFi Expo. (along with Cordelia from Buffy, Chekov from Star Trek, and Darth Maul from Star Wars, among others.) So come on by and say hello. :)

THE SHIRTS: I only received a couple more orders for the shirt. But I’m going to go ahead and print it, but I will ONLY be printing what shirts are ordered (since there’s simply not demand enough to keep back-stock). So, if you want a Purfin-M32, ORDER-IT-TODAY (Wednesday). I’ll be putting in the print order tomorrow, and that’ll be it!

In news, there’s a nice article on Webcomics in the Boston Globe today, featuring Topatoco‘s very own Jeffrey Rowland, plus Jeph Jacques, Richard Stevens, Andrew Hussie, Michael Terracciano, and KC Green.

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07/25/10 Dimitri Operates

by Christopher on July 24, 2011 at 9:00 pm
07/25/10 Dimitri Operates

“Purfin M-32″ – and – “Pierrot, Defender of Awesome!“*

There are a multitude of styles and sizes during the pre-order week, so order one now! I will probably order some for having in stock, but likely only one style of the many, and only limited sizes.

So yes, I read through all the feedback on the Purfin shirt, and am coming back with you in force. Both designs feature 4 colors screenprinted art on a solid-color shirt background (in other words, this it NOT an iron-on).

Enjoy! -Christopher

PURFIN M-32 (From this strip)

This shirt is no longer for sale

*if either shirt does not reach 20 sales in a week or so, I will cancel it and refund all payments for that shirt.

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