Yes, I know I missed the update this week. There are two reasons for this the first being because I am an idiot, I drew the pencil three times without saving the file… and naturally windows decided to do some updates over night and reboot… so bye bye pencils. I am working on the comic and it should be posted on monday.

The other reason that I missed the update is I have been working on the Connecticut Renaissance Faire map. For those that don’t know about this faire I will include this blurb that was written by Captain Redbeard (cause I am to darn lazy to write about it myself  )

Every weekend and Columbus Day from September 27 to October 19, 2008, the Connecticut Renaissance Faire will take visitors back to a simpler time of long ago.

It is easy to see why the faire has become a family tradition as bright banners and colorful costumes accent the beautiful outdoor fall landscape. Jousting knights, fair maidens, madrigal singers, and over 60 hours of live, themed entertainment fill the streets and stages with non-stop entertainment.

History repeats itself September 27, 28 and October 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20. You missed the Renaissance once - don’t miss it again!

This is an awesome Ren Faire and I highly recommend you go! Heck ya have to at least see the map, which by the way is in full color! And no it is not to scale!   

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Still working out the kinks in this video…

But I wanted to post it and I need to get to sleep now… maybe tomorrow it will make sense.

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So to go along with the anthropomorphic theme of the latest series of comics I present a new character Polly Amory. Perhaps we will see her in future, or perhaps not.

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I know some of you may have already seen this fun little gif showing the stages of creation on a typical comic, but here it is for those who may have missed it.

All my comics of late have been “pencilled” and “inked” in Sketchbook Pro. Then they are brought into Photoshop to be cleaned up and colored and lettered. Depending on the complexity of what I am drawing it can take a week to do a comic others are done in a few hours. Most of the time I know what is going to happen in any given comic (actually as of this posting I know what will happen over about the next 8 comics) on occasion I will just sit down and start drawing and see what comes out. Those comics tend to be a bit more fun to draw simply because I have know idea what I am even going to say in them. Well, that is a quick look into the twisted and dark regions of this cartoonist’s mind.

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Yes, this is another new version of comicpress… This change was motivated by a migration my host made to a new server, which seemingly did some weird stuff to the old database (like cause the site site to take about 30 seconds to load?!). After a lovely online chat with their tech support where the tech first told me that it must be my ISP, even though every other page I loaded opened fine and yes, I have cleared my cache, and then the tech proceeded to tell me that is was because there were too many images on the page. I explained to him that there were no more images on the page then there were yesterday before the migration. At this point I thanked him and told him to have a great day and that I would continue to research the problem on my own. So at this point since there was a new wordpress and a new comicpress out I decided to upgrade. Now low and behold the page loads fine now that it has a nice clean new database. Oh, how I love tech support.

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I have just completed this illustration:

Which I will be offering for a limited time only through my CafePress store. This your chance to help a starving webcartoonist… ok so maybe not starving but at least hungry.

Ok, now it’s time for a long complicated “Artist’s Statement” on the piece…

This piece is very simply about the different faces we wear throughout our lifetimes. As we walk down the path that is our life we chose to adopt a certain mask to show the world, for every path there is a different mask. And for some who walk more than one path they wear several interchangeable masks.

Ok so it wasn’t so long, but it was concise. Anyway go buy it now!!!

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Ok, well it looks like this new install of Comicpress is up and running, so far. It is mighty sweet, even without much fluff added to it. Basically I have tried to keep the look of the old Comicpress to help alleviate the confusion involved in a changed homepage. While it may not be very exciting it does do one thing rather well, it showcases the comic over all else, and let’s face that is why most of you folks come here.

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