I’m off to the other side of the country, this weekend, for Vancouver Fan Expo! It’s the first time I’ve been to this show and I’m getting a chance to catch up with some friends I haven’t seen in ages. Looking forward to it enormously! If you’re going to be there, please, come by and say hello!
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I’ve always said that I know the best people, here’s yet another example.
One of my ol’ college pals, (ol’ college, that is, not ol’ person) Jared, is working on his own mobile-platform game. Traditionally hand-drawn and animated!
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He and his crew have started a Kickstarter campaign to get the project fully off the ground. For anyone unfamiliar with Kickstarter, it’s a crowd-funding site. Pledge whatever you want and if the goal amount isn’t reached, the money is never collected from you. When you have a sec, please go take a look at the site and if you can, pledge them a few bucks to help hit their financial goal, and/or share this link and help get the word out .
Thanks!
A few months back, my friend Brian told me that he’s wrapping up his long-running webcomic, The Princess Planet. As sad as I am to hear it, I’m delighted to have the opportunity to contribute this guest strip to such a fantastic archives of comics.
If you’re not reading Princess Planet yet, go now and get started. (Seriously, go, I’ll wait…) It’s a well drawn and really funny strip. Brian is the crown prince of puns, if ever there was one, an absolute punisher! (See what I did there?) And I really adore Princess Christi. Actually, I kinda want to grow up to be her. She’s a smart, adventurous, sweet natured, fun character in rocket boots. (Suck on that, Ariel!)
It helps to start at the beginning, there are some nice chunks of story and running gags that you won’t want to miss. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have and join me in wishing Brian success in his new projects!
I’m not sure why, but the original rough from the second panel of yesterday’s comic amuses me more than the rest of the finished comic put together. I guess, sometimes the diamond is the rough, itself.
Being able to show this kind of stuff is one of the reasons I love doing webcomics so much. 
As of today, I’ve re-opened the commissions page of the Promises Shop.
Last year I started taking commissions for custom yoga mats (first mentioned here: link). I’ve done a bunch of them but always almost always forget to take pictures before I send them off to their new homes.
The pink mat, pictured below is the latest one and I’ve discovered fabric markers so I’ve started taking orders for coordinating towels too. The markers are really a lot of fun and I’m pretty pleased with how this first towel came out, (and I’m happy to say, the client was too!)
Cherry blossoms have gotten really popular, I seem to be drawing a lot of them lately.
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