Don't be a Donkus!

In terms of our numbers, I'd have thought I would have been able to improve them month by month. When you take several steps back in terms of progress, it sometimes means you have to stop drinking gin and acknowledge the fact that you've been selfish with your time. It's easy to say I've quite a few pots stirring, but it's not like I have a monopoly on being "too busy". 

Long to short, I started grad school a month ago, and have also tried to counter-balance my basal state of anxiety with a load of exercise and broccoli. During the interval, I decided on my own that the comic was fine for a few weeks and concentrated on my own projects. I'm mentioning this because this is the equivalency of ignoring your day job and expecting to get paid. This webcomic more or less should be my second job, and letting it sit can potentially result in a marked drop in progress. 

Otherwise, we're at our 25th page and it is a'looking great! This comic isn't slowing down, and we haven't even scratched the surface. THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP IT!...sorry

After Music

Kablaaah!

I wanted a grabby introduction that would properly convey my excitement. Very recently, an old friend of our's, Bob Merkl, composed two songs that were inspired by our webcomic. What? The tracks themselves are pretty wonderful, but it's even more insane and humbling to know that we can act as a source of inspiration for anything. I've known Bob since I was twelve years old and he was in a band with my older brother. I looked up to all of those guys, as most younger brothers tend to, so this whole experience is kind of weird for me!

Check out both songs, After and Bird Lady. Also, Bob is an amazing musician, so check out his other work at soundcloud.com/bobmerkl.

How Not to Add Dialogue Good

This is how to bother your artist friend

Hey team!

So we're past 20 pages! Crazy! How did it get to this point!? I blame my parents, honestly, but we never imagined our first chapter would be as many pages as it's turning out to be. In the end it doesn't' really matter, it's just insane to think of how much story there is to tell. And what do you need to tell that story? DIAL LOGS!

We sometimes have an issue with fitting in character dialogue, especially when it is from a script that I wrote long before the page was drawn. Having a panel full of text isn't very aesthetically pleasing, and it can block out too much of the background and confuse the position and placement of the speaker. Simultaneously, it's easy to be precious about what you've written. I'm breaking a habit of trying to fit in the sentence exactly as it was written, and getting better at sizing up how much text can actually fit within a panel.