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New page for you!

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The plot has thickened, and now it will BOIL!

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MoCCA is this weekend! I don't know where I'll be but I'll be somewhere. I will have all issues of Tear-Stained Makeup 1-7, (didn't quite get done with 8) Carl's Large Story 1-5, and the Carl collection.

ALSO debuting this weekend is AWESOME 2: AWESOMER THE INDIE SPINNER RACK ANTHOLOGY from Top Shelf. It has a brand new CARL STORY! Here, for the first time, is a preview panel! Go visit the Top Shelf and ISR tables!



ALSO Kevin Church and Benjamin Birdie are putting out the first collection of their webcomic, THE RACK! I did a pinup for it! Go visit their table!

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Because of honymoon's I will post another page on friday. Then nothing for two weeks. Then two pages the week of May 18th. There will be internet where I'm going but I'm not planning on remembering to do anything.

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Sorry it took so long for me to update today. No excuses! This is the beginning of Chapter 6!

I have a drawing up today on Robert Goodin's Covered Blog. Check it out!

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This be the END of chapter 5!!!!

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So! In briefest news, I lost my job! Can't say I didn't see it coming. It won't really make a difference as far as scheduling here goes. I've got a lot of stuff going on so I won't be posting more just yet.

But hey! It's never been a better time to order a SHOUTOUT!! I gots the time and I could use laundry money. Dirt cheap! 5 for black and white 10 for color! Craziness.

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150. Is that a milestone? Y not.

I've been re-upping Tear-Stained Makeup online for the interested.

Chapters 1-4 are up.

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Getting fairly close to the end of Chapter 5!

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It's never too soon to pimp this!



There's an ALL NEW Carl story in it!

Pre-order it here or here!

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EXTREME SPLASH! Check out those crotches!

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BAM! Yes.

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JAILED AND PINSTRIPED!!! I'm amidst some fun little side-drawing projects now for breaks. Which is good because my allergies are killing me and I'm being lazy. More info on fun sides later!

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TUESDAY=NEW PAGE!!!

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There is little I love more then drawing Carl or L'rac attempting to sit down. HAHAH.

Justin gave me a buncha Kane comics by Paul Grist. I recommend! The man can cartoon for serious.

Some may notice the header change on Carl. I'm attempting to make things a bit more unified amongst all my sites, Justin's sites, and the Cliff-Face sites. 2009 is the year of more web unity! Needless to say I have more work to do. I'm looking at a revamped approach to putting Tear-Stained Makeup online. Third times the charm I guess.

Oh, I made a bit of a change on the SHOUTOUTS!! page. Color shoutouts now available! I'll pimp this more at some point I'm sure. Take advantage now before I decide it's a terrible idea!

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LEAGUES!

Now for NOT CARL NEWS!

I've started laying out Tear-Stained Makeup #8! I'm not sure what I'll do when I'm done.
I might soldier forth and finish laying out the rest of the story. Or not. It just feels good to work on it again! I'm also unsure as to what the fate of the book will be. I'm considering web-releasing the rest of it until its finished. Save a tree and burn your eyes!

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Woot! That Mort Gage is the evils! Way more the evils than Ozymandias!

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Delayed for Big O related Inaugural Fever!

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Ha. Sometimes I'm not even sure if Carl is joking. I think he is in that last panel, but you know, that guy is terrible at comedy!

So we are nearly half way through the month and I am thrilled. I've changed my procedures and its made me very productive! When I started CLS I had the first fifty or so pages laid out almost exactly as they are here, the rest outlined. After I drew those I started making very loose layouts about 6 or seven pages in advance which devolved into almost no layouts. This is what I've been doing lately and it has been crazy stress. Everytime I finish a page I'm in the wilderness and end up doing a lot of staring. So this month I started working on eight pages simultaneously, no layouts, as a modest goal for the month ( I usually can do ten to twelve if I'm doing nothing else which is rare, but this year I plan on being Carl focused). Anyway its almost halfway through the month and I'll be done in about two days!

Remarkable. It's kind of a combination of my old way of working and how I've been doing things more recently.

I used to draw everything, then ink everything, then letter everything, up until I laid out the beginning of CLS. It was then I decided I wanted to do one page at a time, to avoid going months without inking, and I figured my pages would benefit from lettering first. So it became, light drawing, lettering, finished drawing, inking, then the next page. This was ok as long as I had detailed layouts. Problem is my layouts have been devolving lately. Truth is I kinda hate doing them. So now I'm trying to draw everything like the old way, but only for a chunk of pages. It's a small enough set that I can bounce around from page to page, doing whatever I feel without hitting any snags. A little inking here, a little lettering here, it's the new style! This makes for a lot less staring at the page. If there's something I can't figure out I move on. Less frustration, less procrastinating, less fear.

On another note I've been taking a buddy's advice and doing my best to free myself of any goal other then finishing the book. I haven't been all that interested in promoting it or even doing long posts like this. But I want to thank everyone who does come here, I plan on putting some secret contests up soon for the faithful! Ya'll are crazy. If I get ahead of myself the schedule may increase at some point. We will see!

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I hope everyone had a good start to the race that is 2009. I started it learning how to crochet! Check out Boscoe! Eventually I'll make a Carl one, perhaps.