Date: 2009-07-01 23:32 Subject: wait... does this spoil the ending for you? Security: Public Tags: !, you'll probably want to buy one

Sorry about breaking your feed, here.

Announced today. Maybe you'd be interested to know that I've been awarded a grant from the Xeric Foundation to help me publish my comic strip, !
Pretty exciting news, for me. I join some good company in the current batch of recipients, as well as the former recipients (who include some of my favorite cartoonists)
I don't have many details just yet. I've got my printer lined up, and yes, it will be printed as one long strip (somewhere around 35 feet long) and look something like this:

(one of the mock ups I made as part of my Xeric application)

I'll have more details, of course, as I get closer to solicitation.

Anyway, I've taken down the archive I kept up as I was posting the rough draft here. It'll be back soon enough, but all re-drawn and stuff. Up top of this post is my original sketch of the story, which took about 45 minutes to draw and defined probably the next following two years of my comics making life.

Congrats to the other Xeric recipients. I'm looking forward to your books.
Special thanks to Alexander Danner who nudged me to apply for the grant in the first place.

And thank you guys for reading.

Date: 2009-01-20 17:37 Subject: ! - the end Security: Public Tags: !

Pages fifty-two and fifty-three finish this story off. I hope the finish does not disappoint.
For better or worse, it's all over!

For those of you who are interested, there is a print version of ! is in the works. It may take some time though. I have many, many revisions to make to the comic and have yet to work out the particulars of publication (I'd really like one long accordion fold if I can manage it). All of this has to take the backburner to my next project too. I've been leaving Alexander hanging for too long now.

It'll happen eventually, though. And at least now you can read the whole story.

Thanks for reading!

Date: 2009-01-15 21:57 Subject: ! - page fifty-one Security: Public Tags: !

The story so far.

Date: 2009-01-13 18:15 Subject: ! - page fifty Security: Public Tags: !

I had to sit and think about how to draw that stairwell there.
Sit.

And think...


That's ridiculous!

The story so far.

Date: 2009-01-09 14:38 Subject: ! - page forty-nine Security: Public Tags: !

LiveJournal still here? Guess I'll post another page.

If you've been with this blog a while, this should start to look kinda familiar.
Remember?

Date: 2009-01-07 16:29 Subject: ! - page forty-eight Security: Public Tags: !

(The story so far...)

Date: 2009-01-05 16:15 Subject: ! - page forty-seven Security: Public Tags: !

Okay, at this point I can say with relative certainty that there are only six more pages left to go.
(The story so far...)

Date: 2009-01-02 15:21 Subject: ! - page forty-six Security: Public Tags: !

New year, new page. Ho-hum...

(The story so far...)

Date: 2008-12-31 18:31 Subject: ! - page forty-five Security: Public Tags: !

Only hours left to go, one more page for 2008. This thing should finish up sometime in 2009.
Hope everybody out there has a great New Year!

(The stroy so far...)

Date: 2008-12-29 14:56 Subject: ! - page forty-four Security: Public Tags: !

Derik Badman had some kind words for this blog posted over this past holiday weekend (words specifically on the diary comics, which I have not posted as of late. Whatever...) so I drew him into this scene. That's what flattery'll get ya! See if you can spot him.

Christmas was a lot of work for me but I should be able to get back to finishing this story up now. Here's the whole thing so far...