Eventually we’ll have kissing that does not involve Ariana holding an open flame. I just don’t know when that will be.
And, in “Dylan heartily welcomes the year 2008” news, hey you, Facebook users: the comic finally has a Page! Go there! Follow it!
FB for personal purposes drives me crazy, but so far it’s been good fun for comics purposes! Those of you who scorn blog accounts but are active on FB may now go crazy with the comments.
And, big news this week from not-Dylan sources: the first book of Dicebox, my good friend Jenn Manley Lee‘s sprawling urban/pagan social sci-fi epic graphic novel series in webcomic flavor (gasp for air here!) is available in book form for pre-order. Like me, Jenn has put up all kinds of crazy delightful extras to give readers even more reason fund the print run.
The book is going to be a gorgeous object, full-color, with 250+ pages of story and guest comics (including mine!). Get the hell out of here and go reserve yours. You won’t regret it.
Happy 2011, all! Welcome to the first update of the new year. I hope for oodles more.
Newly updated, along with this week’s page, is the Notes section. Notes are now up at pages 170-179. Dresses! Birds! Apostles! Tarot symbolism! Everything the crowd’s been hankering for.
I’m in the middle of a few deadlines, so I’ll be a little quiet online for the next couple of weeks, but I’m working to finally erect a passable Facebook page for those of you who don’t take your updates in Twitter or blog flavor. Check in next week for a URL!
Here’s your last page for 2010, all. I promise that 2011 will involve more kissing (in addition to historical architecture).
I’d like to thank all of you for being a bright light in a very challenging year. Your support made it possible for me to publish and sell Volume 1 – the most wonderful source of income I’ve yet come by – and your lovely letters, enthusiastic convention conversations, and wacky plot speculations have kept me afloat through many a tough moment in 2010.
I’ll have many more things for your entertainment and edification in the new year. Thank you for your hearts, brains, and eyeballs.
In the age of online personals and speed-dating, a secret library rendezvous sounds rather nice, doesn’t it?
December 17th is the last day to get Family Man for $5 off! I’m spending the day sending out orders, so if you get yours in before 5pm Pacific I will personally put it in the mail (Priority) by quitting time. You see the power you wield over me.
Next week Friday is, oh, hm, Christmas Eve. Ideally I’ll be able to get a page up, but holiday travel and the fact that nobody will be online to read it* might result in a super-special post-Christmas two-page update before the new year instead. You can keep up with Danse Macabre in the meantime. Holiday cheer for all types!
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*I know that all my non-Christmasing readers will be out watching Tron. No, no, don’t bother denying it. I won’t judge.
Now and then I have to implement a scene transition that, when read without the follow-up page, makes for a klunky reading experience. This is one of those weeks. However, there is a pleasant solution for this (general) problem, which is to read the comic in book form! There’s one week left on my $5 off of Family Man Vol. I deal, and juuuust enough time left to receive a package for the holidays.
I’ve also been drawing a series of modern tributes to the medieval Danse Macabre motif, the (very silly) original art for each of which is up in the Etsy store. A new death goes up each weekday until I run out of ideas! You can also see the whole set on Flickr by clicking the thumbnail of “The Fitness Enthusiast” below:
I’ll do a proper roundup in the blog when I tire out, but Flickr’s a good place to follow along from home.
There’s also some original Family Man art in the Periscope store which is looking for a kind and loving owner:
Because I don’t think I ever mentioned it here! Aren’t they cute, those kids. They’re so doomed.