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…“)
This panel may be my favorite so far. I can just hear Nogg, sounding maybe like Animal from the muppets, in my head.
The Kickstarter campaign for Spacetrawler book 2 pre-orders RAGES ON. Join the forces of good. Support happiness. You have one week left.
You can’t see much of the Mihrrgoot ship in today’s strip, but you will see more of it. And I’m pretty pleased with how it came out.
If you want to make wild mass guesses on the plot of Spacetrawler, someone posted a theory over on TVTropes.
There’s a video up of a panel I did with Tony DiGerolama(of Superfrat and a writer for the Simpsons) at InterventionCon in the DC area in the autumn of last year. The panel goes a bit smoother after about 5 minutes when I realized what panel I was on (“Getting Paid To Do What You Already Love”).
The jerk we all know and love, just not in “that” way, Tom Walker got a nice mention over at 1o9 of “Eight Sexy Webcomics” for his (NSFW) SS Myra.
Oh, and I have a comic in the current MAD Magazine. Check it out at your local library or newsstand!
Did I mention the Spacetrawler Kickstarter campaign? Of course I did.
Happy Day After Valentines Day! (umm)
Bit of a cliffhanger today, sorry to make you all wait ’til next week! :)
Thank you all so much for funding the printing of Book 2 through my Kickstarter campaign! As you may know, I have reached my goal, but you can still place pre-orders or support my work (you can have your name or face in the actual comic even!) there until the 27th! All extra proceeds will go to paying off the loans from printing book 1 and to the re-printing of Little Dee.
I think there is other news and links, but I’ve been working non-stop and my head is spinning. Just to thank you all again. This all is such a relief. Of course, Tom Walker has a new (NSFW) SS Myra posted.
I am raising money to print book 2 through the website Kickstarter by way of pre-orders and other incentives. Help me reach my goal of $7,000!
Thank you. And thanks for all the links and retweets for this campaign. You’re all the best!
-Christopher
And, “phew!” Today’s strip was a strip and a half. In case you can’t keep track of all who is in today’s strip, follow the handy tags below the blog.
Oh, and Tom Walker has posted a new SS Myra.
Remember Yuri’s remote control. (Also here)
Well, I was planning on making Yuri blue, mixing Flineous (she she recently killed) and Kali the Hindu goddess of power. I was even going to post a venn diagram of Kali, Flineous, and a housecat with Yuri being where they all overlap. BUT, I couldn’t make it work without her looking like Neytiri the blue Pandorian from the movie “Avatar” (or Zhaan from “Farscape” if you’d rather). After much fussing and fidgeting and playing with various hues I decided on her new color scheme. Not what I had planned, but I am very pleased with it nonetheless.
Oh, and Dustin is back. You’d be amazed how many times I count the humans in each strip as I draw them (I know there’s SIX! SIX humas!) and then make sure I know where each character is. So easy to forget.
Let’s see… a few links. Tom Walker posted a new SS Myra, of course. And I received the amazing collection of Dicebox in the mail this week (with my own short comic of the charcaters in it), and am champing the bit to read it. Erika Moen and Jeff Parker finished their 102 page webcomic “Bucko” which is a very fun read (and they’re having a store sale to celebrate).
Thank you all who meandered over to my store at TopatoCo. I appreciate the support from you all, the readers of Spacetrawler. Truly, thank you.
All is well here. Started writing a novella this week. That was unexpected. But mostly I’m just trying to keep up on all my projects and exceed my own writing and drawing expectations for them, as well as provide emotional support for my sweetie who’s a few weeks from finishing Grad school. Overall, my head has been a bit fuzzy between the ears when I look up from my desk. A bit punchy.
In case any of you had difficulty imaging Chuck Norris threatening you by saying, “butter pats,” here you go.
Lastly, I thought I’d talk about the whole death thing briefly.
First off, for anyone wondering: Flineous is dead. Just like Growp is dead, and Dal. This is no Baloo the bear situation. If I go down some road later which brings characters back to life in some sci-fi way, that’s something else entirely. But he’s dead. If you need a moral: torturing people is not cool, and you may face retribution.
Why kill characters? It seems somewhat taboo to do so, possibly because of our culture demanding writers to leave avenues open for writing sequels. But I wrote it this way because it was how I thought the story should be written. It’s a complex story, and I feel these deaths both define the world they are in as well as who they are as people. And also, know that I don’t take any of these deaths lightly, even if it seems frivolous. When it gets made into an awesome SciFi channel series, they can have the characters live in that version as long as they want.
Now, more importantly, it’s time for a cup of hot chocolate.
Oh, and Tom Walker tells me to remind you a new SS Myra is up and it’s DEFINITELY Not Safe For Work (NSFW). But here’s the link.
In the vein of Black Friday and Small-Business Saturday, today is “Cyber Monday.” Did you know?
Well, for any gifts you need, why not do it here and support one of your favorite strips at the same time?!
Spacetrawler book#1 would be great for anyone who ever liked star-trek, star wars, or British Humor, or something. The Little Dee books (what few are left) are all-ages, and perfect for kids or those with more gentle ears. And the Bruno books (what few are left) would be apropos for any teen-to-twenty-something depressed overthinking people you have in your life.
For the rest, T-shirts and mugs.
best, -Christopher
Whatta week. Work work work. Started developing three new projects (with a list of others in the sidelines). Think I might take this week to really lay out the entire rest of the story for Spacetrawler, as it seems to have gelled finally pretty well in my head.
I always did another walk for an Farm Sanctuary, got down to Olympia and had some good talks with my friend Dan and Keylee. Designed some posters for Occupy Seattle Animal Rights & Environmentalism Work Group. Good times.
Thanks to Peggy for the very sweet shout-out over at Decrypting Rita.
Hey, I’m going to be interviewed on the Moonhawk Studios podcast Wednesday around 7:45 pm PST (it’s listed as 7:00, but ignore that). You can listen and sign in and ask questions in the chat room. I give my characters (and thus: you) no mercy, and now’s your chance to give ME none.
There’s another old MAD job I did on their Idiotical blog, check it out.
And although an invisibility cloak and time travel* are perhaps quite a distance in the future, is levitation? Where are my Quantumlock shoes?!! Want!
*Yes, several theories have already come out postulating why the neutrino experiment may be wrong.
