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Holding Chaos started out as a novel. It was accepted by a couple of small publishers. I chose one, and chose poorly. The publisher went out of business before the ink on the contract was dry. Discouraged, I tried turning the novel into a graphic novel, the result being Holding Chaos. At long last, ...

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My comic is [urban] fantasy and most of the main characters aren't human. The setting, however, is modern day Albuquerque, which is a racially diverse place. So many of the secondary (human) characters are Hispanic or Native American. I don't do this to make any kind of statement or to add a token c...

Just wanted to note that I'm getting that same J-List ad(s) on my (Web-14) comic as well. It looks like some versions of the ad are sort of innocuous, advertising T-shirts and whatnot, while others are going for the full-on naughty, hentai and such. But since the J-List does sell a lot of adult merc...

The first page, i.e., chapter cover, of Chapter Six is rather lazy. Especially since dragons are so easy to draw, and that's all the page consists of. But, I've had a busy week, so it was a relief not to fuss with perspective and hard-to-draw things like...people. I hate orange, though. And because ...

Speaking of manga, <a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-11/ff_manga" target="_blank">Wired magazine had a couple of articles about manga</a> (an anime) in a recent issue. The crux of the main article was how manga was on the decline in Japan and how the Japanese manga industry was...

Whew. So I made it to Chapter Six. (Actually, Chapter Five is a combination or what was originally Chapter Four and Seven. Chapter Six had a point of view change and I decided to work the information in...somewhere else.) Chapter Six, Something for the Resume, will see Regan learning about the conse...

Yup. Monday would be the day when I get the most traffic. I don't have an update schedule, as it were. I just post a page whenever I get done. I do, however, try to not go more than seven days without an update. My comic's not great, but I think the fact that I've just kept plugging along, without a...

11 October 2007
This is nearly the end of this chapter. I think I can finish it in about two or three pages.

Lex really has Regan's number though.

Lex and Talis, when out in public, use magical glamours to appear human. So a trip to the local ice cream shop is possible.

I'm currently more than a little intrigued by <a href="http://shadowgirlscomic.com/index.php" target="blank">Shadowgirls</a>. Updates daily.

I mean really, the Wheel of Time story is interesting, but the chicks in those stories all need to be smacked. Hard I quit reading Wheel of Time when I started thinking horrible, misogynistic thoughts like, "Yo! Someone needs to take that bitch out back and beat the shit out of her. " Goodkind's bo...

Escushion wrote:That's how I am with A Song of Ice and Fire, lego. I hope that gets finished...

Well, as my grandmother might say, "He ain't no spring chicken." Given the rate at which he's publishing--glacial--and Martin's not exactly youthful age, I have my doubts A Song of Ice and Fire will be finished.

14 September 2007 Got this page up in the nick of time. A little sloppy with the shading, but the hubby and I have an art show this weekend. I still need to do a bunch more welding and metal work. Anyhow, there are two kinds of vampires--Lesser and Greater. Regan's friends and family fall into the ...

"Pet" Peeve: Unleashed dogs in parks and other public places, excluding dog parks and other places where off-leash is legal, of course. Typical scenario: I'm out for a walk with the family, including my dog who is, as per local law and common sense, on a leash. Up ahead, I see Idiot Dog Owner (IDO) ...

My mom, single mom extraordinaire, somehow scrounged up the money for riding lessons and a real horse for me. So My Little Ponies seem rather pointless, when I had a real animal to pretty up. I'm still a horse owner (or rather, owned by a horse) and I still spend time making him "purty." (He's an Ar...

<a href="http://platinumgrit.com/">http://platinumgrit.com/</a> So nice you had to say it twice, thrice...? Heh. Oh, lawd, I lurves Trudy Cooper. The woman is a master of facial expression and pretty much all else. Hmm, Barb Jacobs of Talismen and Xylia, Humbug of Tales of Pylea, the artist of Lack...

I work in color because I suck at color. I prefer my earlier gray scale pages, but I figure I can't get any better at color if I don't give it a try.

I am currently intrigued by <a href="http://kaspall.xepher.net/current.html" target="_blank">Kaspall</a> Check it out.

Talis is a pacifist, meaning, for the most part, he always turns the other cheek, as it were. That doesn't mean, however, that he lacks defensive abilities, particularly magic. After all, he helped Regan cheat her way through magic school and was himself a star pupil. Nowadays, he has "a problem" an...

Ohemgee wrote:The banner *is* actually the navigation bar, and clicking on the characters brings you to the archives, cast, and 'about'. I was wondering if it was too unclear, but I will label those now.

Ah, I see. Yeah...seeing as how I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, that's way too subtle for me.