Third time is the charm!

 

The spine is right on this third test copy of Paper Doll Veronika Part I - Forest, so I have placed the order for all the backer copies!

Announcing a new print shop!

Society6 kicked me off, along with hundreds of other artists, so I made a new print shop on Redbubble, and so far I like the look of it much better, especially the stickers!

  

Expect many more stickers of animal characters! Also on its way is more of my religious art. 

Luckily I had already gotten all the prints for the Paper Doll Veronika Part I - Forest book backers, except one who wanted, instead of a paper print,a discount on a canvas print; but that should be fine, if not better, on Redbubble.

One thing is, per their rules, I had to mark any pictures clearly featuring Sibyl's rifle as mature content. So that's what that's about: it's a gun.

Please check it out!

Paper Doll Veronika book second test!

 

The second version test copy of the Paper Doll Veronika Part I - Forest printed book has arrived! The title on the cover looks better, and...

The new version is on top.

The spine is better, but still not quite right. I'm going to have to make further adjustments and try again.

Sorry for making everyone wait, but I think you'll agree, this must not have such a glaring imperfection. One thing is, the more individual copies I have to order as opposed to bulk, the greater the shipping cost, and I did undershoot the shipping as well as the print costs in the crowdfund prices. Now, all backers will get all their rewards, that I promise, but it may take more time to get money to cover all the shipping.

If you'd like to help make that happen faster, please consider joining the Paper Doll Veronika Paper Doll Club if you have not. It's six dollars a month and there's simply bushels of bonus material for club members, too!

Christmas of Fire II complete on Arktoons

 

Chapter 14 of Part III of Paper Doll Veronika finishes on Arktoons! 

The latest episode is here.

The series is here.

So you can see, the comic will resume in April: Friday the 11th on my site and Palm Sunday the 13th on Arktoons.

You can also read it on my own website. (I recommend my site for PC and Arktoons for mobile.)

Support the comic and get special bonuses here!

Why did the road cross the chicken?

 

Because it was an Av-hen-ue!

A card for my nephew, a connoisseur of chicken-cross-the-road jokes. In all honesty, more about the illustration than the punchline. 

Paper Doll Veronika first book first test!

 The test copy of the printed book of Paper Doll Veronika Part I - Forest has arrived!

There is a little problem that will require adjustment:

So I will have to fix the spine and order another test copy before making the big order, but that should only take a couple weeks, while if there had been format problems with the interior, it would have taken months to redo. The interior looks absolutely great!

I can't wait to get this into everyone's hands!

Two opposite sketches

I've been cleaning up some in my studio, and here are some sketches which I'm not going to finish but I thought were worth sharing, especially because of their cultural contrast:

 

This one is of characters created by Rawle Nyanzi. Some years ago, he had an idea of book reviews done through very short fiction: these girls belong to an interdimensional religious order dedicated to fighting evil; they would travel into the worlds of the books being reviewed to aid the heroes thereof. I thought it a fun idea, but sadly I can't find the original posts nor do I remember the characters' names.

Nyanzi is a champion of independent fiction against woke corporatism, though efforts such as these reviews and also Brand Zero, dedicated to not giving money or publicity through discussion or even criticism of corporate IPs that are infected with SJWism. "Don't give money to people who hate you." 

The second sketch is from something quite the opposite:

Gravity Falls-- I enjoyed this show quite a bit; the environments were lavishly wondrous and evocative, it was very funny and did a great job of building suspense. But it was definitely made by those "people who hate you", West-coast progressives who are likely to think everyone who voted for President Trump should be imprisoned or worse and that the source of all evil is straight white Christian males.

And this did hobble it, story-wise. The scene I was sketching is the "zodiac" moment, when twelve characters are revealed to have been destined via mysterious symbols, recurring throughout the series, to harness a power to defeat the monstrous villain. They join hands--and are instantly thwarted, rendering the whole setup pointless, in an example of typical "subversion of expectations" i.e. kneecapping your own dramatic momentum. While not at first glance connected to any social justice issue, this is something woke stories love to do. Cf. Disney Star Wars, Homestuck, etc.

There was also an out-of-nowhere, out-of-place in a children's show, too vitriolic to be funny, attack on Game and pickup artists, and the entire show was from an overwhelmingly Gamma male feminist perspective-- self-aware at times, which does make for good comedy, but never transcended.

So while I don't follow Brand Zero, I certainly have no regrets about leaving this sketch unfinished.