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Kris — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:59:25 +0000

Oh hello there! I’ve just (mostly) finished transitioning the site to run on ComicPress. It was running on a heavily-edited set of Movable Type templates before, which worked well enough, I guess, but WordPress/ComicPress has some serious advantages for dealing with webcomics. So: defeat admitted, lesson learned.

There will definitely be more tinkering, so don’t be too surprised if the site looks weird over the next few days. I need to add an archive page and get the theme looking 100% to my satisfaction.

I would also like to encourage my readers to take note of the new location of the RSS feed, clickable at the top or bottom of the page. The old atom.xml file used by Movable Type is gone now. Another side-effect of the software transition: though I was able to transfer the old blog posts, all the comments on the old site were lost. Luckily there weren’t all that many.

Lemon Demon – “Eighth Wonder”

Kris — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:50:46 +0000

Hey, look! Neil Cicierega, a famous man of the Internet, has written a song about Gef, the talking mongoose. He has not appeared in the comic yet, but Gef is going to be a major supporting character in Dalton.

Just Call Me Procrastination Jones

Kris — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:57:08 +0000

So I finally got page 3 up and live. Wow, how long as that been taped to my desk? I need to do better about this. I am going to aim for at least once a month. If I do better than that, it’s gravy.

I apologize to my readers and visitors; I am the least punctual webcomic artist on the Internet.

I’ve been busy over the last few months, though–holidays, personal turmoil, etc. Stuff that’s hard to control and tends to put a damper on really sitting down and working. That’s my official excuse for being so utterly M.I.A. But I am also a Captain McLazyshorts, and that is completely my fault.

I would also like to do some paintings and side-comics and that sort of thing, so I may be M.I.A. some more, because I am terrible and love disappointing people.

Love,
Kris

Lost Sketch

Kris — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:57:33 +0000

I was digging through an old scrapbook and came across this bristol board with an old sketch of Dalton on it:

Judging from the dates of the last stuff thrown into the scrapbook and the style of the drawing, I’m guessing it’s from 2005 or maybe even 2004, early in Dalton’s development as a character. Since I drew it on bristol board, I clearly intended to finish, ink, and probably watercolor it like a Victorian children’s book illustration. In fact, I think within the character’s “canon,” that’s what this was intended to be: a scene from a picture book he appeared in.

Page Three Progress

Kris — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:55 +0000

A month later, and still no better on my part. These have been busy times, plagued with things like illness and travel and illness during travel. Terrible excuses, I know, and more terrible excuses are coming your way: namely that I’m participating in National Novel Writing Month this year and consequently already tiring days become even more tiring, and thus are my creative impulses exhausted.

I know you all have lost hope in me. I am deeply ashamed. As a consolation, here is a sneak peek of page 3:

Sorry About the Delay

Kris — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:57:40 +0000

I have the next few pages planned and in various stages of production, but I’ve been working on a little programming project I hope to have done and ready for release in the next week or so. I’ve also been sleep-all-day sick for the last three days. Is it swine flu? WHO KNOWS, but I’m mostly over it now.

Anyway, keep watching. We’re not dead. Once this other project is out of the way, I’ll be back on the (comics-drawing) horse.

Hey Guys

Kris — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:46:02 +0000

Guess what? I finally got around to working on this comic. There might be (read: are) some kinks to work out with the site navigation and archive systems, and I’ll try to improve those as we go along. I can’t fix anything until I have some comics up, though. Priorities!

Updates will be pretty sporadic until I really get into my groove, so I strongly suggest using the RSS feed for the comic. Put it in your Google Reader or your Firefox or your Safari or whatever you use to read feeds. Marvel at the convenience of it! Imagine: COMICS, delivered to YOUR COMPUTER in the PRIVACY OF YOUR OWN HOME, for FREE.

The blog feed will be restricted to tidbits, footnotes, commentary, announcements, that sort of thing.

Please enjoy my first real foray into the world of making comics all by myself. By all means, let me know if you like them!