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.
Oh, and Tom Walker has a new (NSFW) SS Myra up. Guess you should read that too. If you haven’t got anything better to do.
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.
Tom posted a new (NSFW) SS Myra. Whee.
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.
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*@$ 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.
That Dimitri, he’s an awfully nice guy. If curious, Seledka is a Russian fish dish, it seems usually mackerel or herring, and usually accompanied by vodka.
Been in Vancouver BC all weekend babysitting my nephew, and seeing my brother and his wife, as well as visiting other friends. Such a good time, and the weather was so fortunately mostly nice. Ah, the Pacific NW.
We had No-Bull intentions
And I will be at the science fiction convention “Norwescon” in the Dealers Room all weekend (Thur-Sun), in Seatac WA, so stop by! (sadly, no Book #2 yet, I won’t have it for another couple weeks). And on Thursday and Saturday go-to-guy/author/madman Daniel Wolff will be at my table too! The hours are Thursday 4-8, Friday 11-6, Saturday 11-6, and Sunday 11-4.
I must admit, it was fun drawing Mars.
Ooh! More fan art (I don’t know why this always tickles me so much). Emma did a drawing of Qwahntoo. Picture below (and also on the “fan art” page). Thanks, Emma!
Speaking of other people’s work, Tom Walker has posted a new (NSFW) SS Myra. The bastard.
In Seattle this weekend? I’ll be at the Emerald City Comic Con, tabling at the TopatoCo Island. I WON’T have anything new, I’m afraid. Book 2 is still at the printer. But I’ll have book #1 and the Little Dee books.
All is well. The postcards were printed and arrived and look really good. The proofs for both Spacetrawler and the Little Dee reprints are hurtling towards me as we speak. Dan and I met to plan to take over the world, still some logistics to work out. No racquetball (Kim was sick). So, overall, just plugging away.
In Seattle this weekend? I’ll be at the Emerald City Comic Con, tabling at the TopatoCo Island. I WON’T have anything new, I’m afraid. Book 2 is still at the printer. But I’ll have book #1 and the Little Dee books.
The original artwork for the Spacetrawler strip “Emily” is framed and hanging from today (March 26th) through sometime in April in the Ida Green Gallery, Austin College, Sherman, TX. The show is “Everything Old is New Again” put on by the The Ghost Town Arts Collective. Sadly I won’t get to see the show myself, so have a gander for me.
Angela Melick of the webcomic “Wasted Talent” has her new book “Welcome to The Real World” up for sale. Yay!
This panel may be my favorite so far. I can just hear Nogg, sounding maybe like Animal from the muppets, in my head.
