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10/20/09
Well. It's...late OCtober. Like, been a year since I officially went on leave, I think? I had hoped I would not be taking a year off comics. How do women work and have babies? Oh, the mysteries.
I've been wanting to get this announcement up since August. Where the time went, I do not know. Well, I do sort of. I just didn't anticipate how hard it was going to be to get back into the swing of work. Which...was dumb of me because I spent a year working on Ambition before I was ready for the initial launch. Which, oh hey, we're coming up on the fourth anniversary - January 8th. In my perfect world, we'd be relaunching about that time. In the real world, I don't think there's any way that's going to happen. We upgraded to CS3 this summer, and while it's an amazing program, some of the differences from 5.5 to CS3 are a hinderance in that...well, some of the major tools I used to create shading in 5.5 do not exist or do not do the same thing in CS3. So, at this point, I'm trying to work out how to color the pages (and in a timely fashion!) all over again. Frustration. I'm also working to upgrade overall page quality yaddayadda technical shtuff. Suffice it to say that I worked all the way into Chapter 2 with a 4.4 gb harddrive machine, and the compensations I made show whenever I consider printing. My new machine isn't top quality by any stretch of the imagination, but at least it can handle printing quality work. I suppose I should say now that we're currently considering a print option for Ambition. Probably Lulu. An "if you want, you order" sort of deal. The comic, of course, will continue to be free online.
I'll probably have another announcement about the Anniversary contests and other things next month. And, as always, you can e-mail me with questions or to join the "We're Finally Back" mailing list.
7/25/09
Like it says, you can find us at Connecticon next weekend. And you can buy that image up there as a print, too.
As for the comic, we'll start putting effort to get it back underway and updating after he convention. The to-do list to get it up and running again is as long as my leg and Luth'rai is managing a stageplay in August, so I'm not about to make time estimates. Although I will say that Benny's suposed to start daycare in September.
Hope to see you at CTcon!
10/20/09
Hey, an update for all your crazy folk who still check us out! And by "crazy" I really mean "totally awesome."
Work is slowly progressing. Flat-colouring bores me to tears, but I've livened it up with the audio book of Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series. (And if anyone knows of any good audio books they like, feel free to drop me a line- I've got a lot more colouring than just one book can cover.) Alternately, if there's anyone who'd consider lending a hand with the oodles of flat-colouring in return for our undying love and gratitude (because we have no money), our ears, arms and .psd files are wide open. Wide. Open. I'm assuming people know that our emails are listed under the "About Us" section, and if you didn't- well, you do now.
I'm also suffering from one of those nasty and tenacious colds that are flying around and love to linger. This is my third week of a mildly runny nose and coughing up a lung. I even caved and went to Price Chopper the other night at 2:30 a.m. to buy some Robitussin so I could sleep and not throw up because I was coughing so hard. And I don't often voluntarily take medicine. Naturally, the proto-human (otherwise known as "The Baby") finds my racking cough hilarious and even mimics me from time to time. And yesterday Sly and I both felt so lousy that we just chilled on the couch and watched the first two discs of season one of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse series. ...I think that was more TV time than I get in a month.
I have a lung to finish hacking up.
Stay healthy, folks. Later~
3/15/09
Aw man... Sly already made an Ides of March reference, which means I can't. Phooey.
Anyhow, a big "thank you" to everyone who entered our contest this year. It's really amazing to have people still willing to put in the time like that for a comic that hasn't updated for... yeah.
Work and school continue to dominate my time. Or try to. I fight them every step of the way. This past week has actually been spring break for me, though it hasn't been all that great because I still have work- and a lot of it. Sly and I have both joined the local dojo. So every Thursday evening we each don a glaringly white gi and belt, my mom comes over to babysit, and we toddle off for a couple hours to come limping home. It's great.
I hope spring is treating everyone all right. It's still fairly tentative around here, but it's working on it- slowly but surely.
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