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NEWS: First off, thank you Jkun of Crazy Sunshine, SO much for putting together this awesome strip on such short notice! He’s a funny dude, you should go check out his comic. The con this weekend was really draining so it was very much a relief to know that tomorrow I can actually relax because of Jkun here so that I can regain some energy before I absolutely die! Also, thank you to anyone who came to the show and traveled beyond that MASS OF WALL that blocked the booths visibility, I really appreciate your support! Sorry I don’t have more to say today.. I’m just beat… I need to go sleep for like ever right now.

See y’all Wednesday with a new comic and some updates on the book and such.

Sorry I wasn’t able to get a regular post done for Friday, Wondercon sorta just SNUCK UP ON ME! I’ll be exhibiting this year in small press at booth 18. This year WonderCon will be held in Anaheim, Ca.. instead of San Fransisco.. so if you live in the Anaheim area and want something to do this weekend come to the show and swing by my booth and say hi! I’ll be debuting a new shirt AND apron Saturday! So, you’ll be the first to see it.

For the rest of you, I have a guest thingy planned for Monday… cos I’ll be BEAT after the con is over… and the comic will resume on Wednesday! Hope to see some of you this weekend, other wise I’ll see every one back here Monday!

Get updates about the con via my twitter, I’ll try to take some pictures of some funny cosplayers and other awesome stuff as much as I can.

I stayed up all night last night making sure that everything with the book was completed and did a complete art overhaul on the books front and back cover. It’s crazy to see exactly how much I’ve grown artistically in the last year… especially just looking at the evolution OF the cover. The first version of this I had done nearly 8 months ago, then I decided to tweak it a few months back when I started working on finalizing the book… then when it came to really doing a full page layout design for the the whole thing.. I started to notice flaws and certain things that just weren’t working. It’s unfortunately that I had to dedicate an entire extra day to doing this layout BUT I feel it was worth it. Here’s a comparison between the 3:

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So, offically, the interior of the book itself has been sent to the printers as of just a few minutes ago! They told me the turn around time is pretty decent, so we should be expecting them here by mid/late March! So, if you were thinking about pre-ordering a book and haven’t yet, please do now! I’ll be sweetening up the deal and will be giving anyone who buys the book from now till official release a free sketch when it ships out. I’ll e-mail you guys individually about the sketch, sometime shortly after you pre-order. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! (I’ll change the cover art at Rush Haven this afternoon… since you know… it’s 3 versions out dated… either way, the cover seen above is what you’ll get when you order :])

Today, I’m gonna do a few final small tweaks to this cover layout that need to be done (I just got too tired to finish) and will send it to them tonight. Meaning full production of the book should start tomorrow! Friday there will FINALLY be a new comic. I’m sorry for the comic delays, I hope you all understand how important this book is to me, and how I needed to take a few days off to just finally get the damn thing done! See y’all Friday!

Reversed Psychology?

Thank you VERY MUCH Rickard for this AWESOME guest strip. I recently found Rickard’s comic, Two Guys and Guy, and instantly fell in love with his unique style. Not only is it extremely well drawn, it has a dark side to it that I love and is pretty damn funny! He also does a collabrative comic with a few of his friends called “League of Super Redundant Heroes,” which you should also check out. Anyways, thanks again Rickard for saving my butt while I work on the book! And for the rest of you, GOD COMMANDS YOU to go check out his comic and read his archive. ^_~

PS. It’s his birthday, you should wish him a happy day of barf!

NEWS:

I’M SO close to finishing LAWLS Vol. 1 I CAN FEEL IT! I’m so excited about having it done.. I’ve thrown in a few other extra’s I didn’t originally plan to put in.. which I hope you guys like/find fun. Tomorrow I should finalize everything with my printers (crosses fingers)! Pre-Order your copy today.

Hope ya’ll like cheesecake! As we all know by this point, my good friend Andrew Gregoire of I AM ARG, is a pervert. Doesn’t matter if its boys or girls, if he can make a sex joke, he’s sure to put a dick in it.

If you don’t know Andrew… click those links above, you’ll get familiar with him in no time. ^_~ Also, he did a guest for me last year.

NEWS:

As promised, on Wenesday’s Strip, here’s another sample of some of the art updates I’m doing for the book. Some of the changes are subtle, as you can see with Cadence in panel 1 but others are pretty big… like Joseph’s DERP EYES in panel 2. Again these changes are only gonna be made for the book, so if you’d to see the newly updated art and all the extras I’m including, make sure to pre-order your copy today!

The book is about 85% done I’d say… I’m still working on more extra content and finalizing the art updates, for instance…even on the sample above.. I’m not 100% done.. I’m still not happy with Cadence’s eye shape in panel 4. I just wanted to post something to show you guys as far as book progress goes but I hope to send this all to the printers by next week!

Also, final note, I’ve been working with my friend Ali to develop his own Trading Card Game, Destined Legends! You guys should check it out and watch this video he threw together of a “blind play test” we did with some people. You’ll notice I’m in it, I’m not playing, I’m just drawing sketches for you guys for pledging on Kickstarter.. but I stop to teach my girlfriend how to play. :]

See y’all Monday with one last guest strip from another AWESOME webcomic artists friend of mine, I’m confident you’ll love it as well.

Damn he’s clueless.

If you guys don’t know Ty Halley, you should. I really enjoy his style of art work; It sort of has that dark gothy feel that I love to see in art and comics, like a Jhonen Vasquez, but has a bit more of a personal feel to it. Also, here’s a little secret, a few strips back when Cadence was talking to the pretentious dude at the party, that was Ty. I was just giving him a hard time because Ty likes to write what he calls “essays” under his comics posing ideas for his readers to ponder upon.. but DOESN’T have a comment section for people to react and discuss this ideas with him! What a douche!

So check out his comic “The Secret Life of a Journal Comic,” friend him over at Tyland and maybe even check out his old comic “That’s Inhuman!” Thank you Ty for the awesome strip!

NEWS:

Have had another few sleepless nights recently trying my best to wrap up this book. All 125 of the comic pages are set up and ready to go… Though, I’m still making a few more art changes which I’ll share a few more on Friday’s post. Tonight I’m working on the the extra content section… character concepts, sketches etc. See ya Friday with a new comic!

Sorry that there is no comic today. I’ve been up all night the past few nights doing TONS of work on the book. I’m constantly blown away by how much goes into one of these things. I would have thought that just because I’ve already done the art files that slapping the book together would be a simple as can be… I was wrong. I’ve been doing print tests checking font sizes, positions of design elements, modifying colors to get ready for CMYK Printing and much more. I’m glad to say that I’ve made a good bit of progress… but I’m gonna need this next week or so to work on it to make sure its perfect. This Friday I will be posting a ALT comic that I wrote today and next week will be a mix of guest strips and ALT strips. Hopefully I wont need anymore time than that to finalize this book… but who knows, the world of print is a vast one.

Anyway, I wanted to share some samples with you guys so you can see a bit of what has gone into the book so far:

Above is an example the legal page, a nice little written foreword that I just received from scott yesterday (came out really nice, he said some stuff in it), a splash page and an example of what the comics/commentary will look like. The book at the moment is a little over 150pages.. I don’t have a final count JUST because I keep deciding to add little things into it.. for example, since I’ve been working ahead of time on the sketch rewards from kickstarter, I will be scanning some of my favorites and putting those in the book as well:

I’m a little behind on scanning the most recent ones that I’ve finished so far.. but if you wanna see the ones that I’ve scanned so far, check them out here. Finally here is a better example of exactly what I changed on the cover:

Since I first drew the cover, I’ve grown A LOT artistically and my eye for design has gotten a bit more sensitive to placement and color and such. After having a discussion with Joel on the topic of my cover, he pointed out that I didn’t put the title “L.A.W.L.S.” on it… and that I would regret that if I didn’t. After giving it some thought I gave in and agreed. I had to make some changes to color as well. The blue that I previously used was great for RGB (Compute screens and inkjet printers) but looked TERRIBLE when you’d print it out CMYK… it kept printing WAY darker than I had expected. Overall I’m happy that I made those changes… the test print I have on my desk looks really nice. Though.. even that picture is a bit dated. After inspecting it longer I decided to update the art again, give it a bit more of a “serious tone” if you look closer at the comparison picture above, you’ll see that I’ve made changes to Josephs eyes and Cadence and Autumns faces. They all look a bit more mature/serious… and Cadence looks a bit more feminine now.

Anyway, I need to get back to working on the book. I still have a pile of commentary to write out and tons of little tweaks I’d like to get done tonight…Plus, this next week I’m going to be flattening all the strips and saving them for CMYK and actually saving them out a bit bigger so the art looks bigger, since I recently realized I didn’t need AS big of a bleed area as I originally planned for… which should be an amazing fun adventure! ><

See you guys Friday with a new strip!

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Your body can only take so much battling, before you pass out.

News:

THIS IS THE LAST STRIP IN VOLUME 1! I’m SO HAPPY to finally have it done! I apologize for this strip going up so late today. Been really busy finalizing things for the book. I just got off the phone with the printers about an hour ago and think I’ve finally negotiated the prices on printing. I’d write more, but I’ve gotta get back to work… feel like I have SOOO MUCH MORE to do for the book.

Don’t forget to pre-order a copy!

Quick note: My friend Brian, the guy who runs InkOUTBREAK made a “thumb up” system he’s asked me help beta test it here. If you have an account with his site (which you should cos its an awesome site), bump up LAWLS by clicking the thumb below:

Thanks! See y’all Wednesday.

I don’t often derp, but when I do I herp when I derp.

NEWS:

ONE MORE STRIP TILL THE BOOK IS DONE! XD I’m really excited about this guys! Come Monday to see how this EXTREMELY LONG story arch comes to a close!

Also, Just a quick heads up, when this “chapter” is over my plan is to do the following:

I will be taking a short break from “story line” comics while I finalize the rest of the book. However, this does NOT mean the comic is going on hiatus, it simply means that I will be focusing more on the ALT Universe for a while. Also, I have a few guest strips lined up from a few comic artists I think you know/will enjoy! Finally, another thing I’m gonna be working on is a new shirt/apron design. If all goes well the book should be ready in my hands and ready to ship out to you guys by the end of February or early March… and the new shirt/apron sometime early February!

Anyway, Don’t forget pre-order your copy of the book here and I’ll see you guys back here Monday for a new strip!

And he thought POGs were useless.

NEWS:

Next week is officially the last week of what will go into the first L.A.W.L.S. book! I’m getting supper excited about it! If you haven’t pre-ordered a copy yet, you now can at the Rush Haven store!

See ya Monday!