Oh gods, I'm out of buffer ('cause the last page of it went up this afternoon because I have no capability to tell what frimping day of the week it is these days). That means I have to finish one of my bajillion projects by Sunday....oh gods.

Been working on the pencils for the next few pages; have page 96 already inked and about half toned...it'd be completely toned except there were care-packages to send and photoshop hates me when I try and lay down my flats. Pages 97 and 98 are completely penciled, and page 99 is almost there.

It is REALLY surreal for me to know that by the end up September, should all go well, I'll finally be hitting 100 pages. I think I should throw a party.
You know.
( One with CAKE. )

Anyways, other than my school work, and my amateur photography skills (both featured above!), I've been hacking away little chunks of a commission. I'll give you a peek since I could use a bit of friendly critique 'cause this commissioner is 110% worth the perfection and since my blogs been kinda dead of late.

( squishy )



Oh. Yeah. and I TOTALLY burned the F*** out of my arm last week at school. Hurts like hell. At least I'm not so far delirious that I'm hurking anymore... 'cause, you know, you totally wanted to know that last part...

Emo journal was emo so I deleted it.
HAVE SOME GEORGIA.

First page of "Laundry" went up (the cover went up last week). If you can't already tell immediately by the ponytail that this is a story about Rebel Steve*, you should probably reread the archives. And I should probably update more regularly... But my buffer is built up enough to get me EXACTLY to my first official break from school, and I've been making small bits of headway now that I've finally got my computer issues sorted out**.

In the meantime, kick back and enjoy the Rebel Society. And feeds back please! Because we all know I'm a whore for it.

Run to bed

*Rebel Steve is Steve pre-current timeline. Signs of Rebel Steve include but are not limited to: Ponytail. Leather jacket. Cigarette. Steve breaking things. Steve breaking into things (by this usage of things, the author means buildings. Steve breaks a lot of things on a normal basis; it's an aspect of his character we have not yet seen because the author is a horrible f***king slack who can't-- has trouble balancing her school and work lives). Steve getting laid.

**Photoshop still hates me. Working on rectifying this.

Page 88 is up in all it's colorfulness for everyone to enjoy :3
Anyone have any thoughts? I know it took frimping forever to get through it, but does anyone have anything they wanna say/ask/know?

And on a somewhat unrelated note, classes start tomorrow omFGAJASWOIGHABBALAHHABBLAHA...

Life Spying Meme
Ask me to take pictures of any aspect of my life that you're interested in/curious about -- it can be anything from my favorite shirt to my dvds to my siblings roommates. Leave your requests as a comment to this entry, I'll snap the pictures and post them in the next post.

Took yesterday off to do schooly stuff.
And get fed by Aubryx. They're awesome people. I <3 them from the depths of mah tummeh, and that's love.

More Georgia-Georgia progress!

Hello, comic-thoughts/sketchblog. I think I'll use you today ^.^

So, yesterday I accomplished something. I finished the final page of chapter 2! Woohoo! It only took me...three...years...oh shush. The final page count was 62 pages--which is still pretty abysmal, but c'mon. Give me SOME credit. The next chapter SHOULD be done by the end of the year.
SHOULD. SHOULD.

COME ON PEOPLE THIS IS ME. SHOULD.

Unfortunately, chapter 2 is by NO MEANS done. I went back through the archives to make the final notes on all those little twitches I've been meaning to fix...there's two pages worth.

Some of those are pretty major--like the double spread on pages 40 and 41...I need to go back and tone that. *cry* Most of it's minor things, like "add smoke trail to steve and geo's cigs on page 61" or "change Roy's drunk-font on page 46". Little things...on probably about 40 pages DX

Oh well; I'll build my buffer up a bit more and tackle only a page or three of fixes a week.

Aaaaannnyways...here's the sketchy part of today's blog.

( Georgia-Georgia pin-up wallpaper! )

This may be my favorite face I have ever drawn, in and out of the comic. :3

Remember when I used to use this sketch blog? And would, you know, let you guys know about comic updates? I'm thinking I'm going to start doing that again.

Page 86 just went up. Read, enjoy, and drop me a comment on your thoughts.

Commissions are open.

I'll probably post something here in the next few days.
Probably.
if i remember...

Carry on.

Still without intarwebs at the apartment; currently writing this at my school while I dink around waiting for my fafsa to get verified. Been working on the backlog as well as a commission and some original stuff. This whole no-intarwebs thing is killing me. Especially since, as of writing this, I'm still unemployed.

But that SHOULD change tomorrow afternoon.
Until then, keep your fingers crossed for me :)

Posted early because my friends are throwing me a going-away party tonight, and I'll be too drunk tonight, and too hungover tomorrow, to remember and/or care. I plan on curling up in a laundry room tomorrow and dying.

Anyways, as I've said before, I'm moving. In seven friggin' days. I have to be completely packed by Thursday afternoon. Oh god. But yeah. Comic's going on hiatus until I'm moved in (I swear to god, I'mma actually unpack evrehthing for once) and employed. Because I don't make money off the comic. Maybe in August if I get a table at Kumoricon I can say otherwise, but yeah. Right now? I makes nothing. Which means the job hunt's got priority *coughandpaintingmyroomcough*

SO. I'll be rebuilding my buffer during April, but aside from sketches and previews of chapter 3, you won't be getting much from me. If anyone's willing, guest comics and fanart will much loved. Depending on how the next few weeks go, I may or may not bump updates to twice a week for a while when I get back.

Anyways, watch this space for news and for those little teasers I mentioned, and if anyone's got the time or the drive, I'll happily accept guest comics ^.^

Wish me luck with the packing darlin's.

Firstly: when I can get my computer to remember and understand the fact that it has 4 gigs of RAM, and after restarting it with nothing but trillian and photoshop open, using the paintbucket ONCE does not render it RAM'ed out (I can't even SAVE *cry*), the page will be up. I am a VERY unhappy viking about this. Trust me.

SECONDLY! I'm moving! In 10 days. To an apartment up 'round portland that the mistress and the knight found. I must SHARE the awesomeness of this apartment:

3 bedrooms, 1.5 bath (the half bath is in the master bedroom and I pulled the litterbox trump card to get it ^.^), huge living room, porch, private 2nd floor entrance, access to the complex pool, and a maximum 2 block walk to the transit center.

On top of that, we'll have brand new:
-countertops
-carpet
-heating
-electrics
-water
-appliances! (hooray stove NO ONE ELSE HAS FUCKED WITH XD--going into baking I COULD NOT ask for more *happy dance*)
-doors

The only thing that can make this better? Can we paint the walls?
YES, BIATCH, WE CAN XD !!! They actually provide the paint and supplies free of charge at move out to paint the walls back ^.^

I will have to post pictures of this apartment when I get up there on the 4th, and prolly afterwards when I'm unpacked (and my room's painted!). I know I always say that and I haven't since I lived in the dorms...but I mean it this time, dammit. I mean, I'mma be unemployed for a few weeks with an apartment I can PAINT and no intarwebs. And my camera.

Of course, after learning I have an address again and won't be homeless...now I'm sick. I can't say it's my sinuses anymore. Maybe this means I won't be sick on the 3rd when we're packing the truck?

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Oh god, I move in 10 days and I have so much packing to do yet DX

Second update of the year!
Sadly, this is a record >.<

Page!
Y'all know the drill :3

PS! Contests! Remembers them!

So last week I was still sick. Among many various other reasons. So there wasn't a page.
But there will be one tomorrow. (Today?...late today.)

It'd be done already, but I had to prove that the cake wasn't a lie.

Doodles and bonus comic tomorrow too :3

Okay...crisis averted and page posted up at the site.

March 9th marks the 4th aniversary of MagNorth going live, and despite the low page count, 4 years is the longest amount of time I've ever invested into a project without getting bored and wandering off (despite popular belief, I just get busy with that whole "life" thing rather than lazy). So, to commemorate, I'm throwing a kind of 'birthday bash' around here.

The first contest is fanart. Anyone who sends in fanart will be entered to win the original line art and a full color print of a long-over-due illustration of something secret :3 All I can say about it, is that it has stolen way too many hours of my life. Everyone who participates will receive a desktop wallpaper of the same illustration for their efforts. Judging will be done by myself and a few friends who don't know they've been voluntold yet. Submissions are due March 6th.

The second contest is a simple character poll. Simply email me with the name of your favorite character (runbyhugging@DELETE_THIS_BITgmail.com). Feel free to babble about said character of your choosing. The character with the most votes will be featured in a pinup or wallpaper. As added incentive, the reader who sends me the most awesome reason why X should win, gets a little somethin' somethin' as well, regardless of if that character wins. Any character you've seen in the comic is up for grabs (IE, anyone voting "Deb" before she appears in page 78 forfeit's their vote), regardless of if
they even have a name yet--just make sure I can find them in the archive and make sure I know who you're talking about. Because I'm painfully aware the cast page is out of date, you can find a nearly
complete cast list here. You only get one vote, and voting ends on March 7th.

Finally, Gods willing, chapter 2 will be wrapping up in the next 2 months. This means, that in the beginning of April, I'll be running a guest-strip-a-paloza. I'm moving in late May, and while I have a
completed (ie, it's already finished) sidestory to run while that's going on, I don't have enough pages to get me all the way through the packing and unpacking before I can get into chapter 3. So if anyone's
willing to send in a guest strip for the month of April, I'll love you double.

That's about it. I go to bed now, you go read comic :3

....so scared right now. I was right at the end--RIGHT AT THE BLOODY END--of page 76. All I had left was to text and bubble! The whole thing was colored and purtiful!

And...photoshop crashed when I tried to save.

And...I have no idea when the last time I saved was o.o

Shit.
SHIT SHIT SHIT.'




FUCK! GODDAMN FUCKERS !#&@(!!!
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UGH.
Okay, back to work.

So, I won't be doing Christmas cards this year, even though I REEEEEEEEEAAAAAAALLLLLLY wanted to. I might be able to pull it out of my bum in time for a Christmas day illustration if I bust my ass, but I'd really rather work on pages. I'm only 9 PAGES away from the end of chapter 2 guys, I NEED TO FINISH IT NAOUGH!

Gugh. By the way, a page went up last night. The amount of time that this page sat on my harddrive missing only the text (all 6 bubbles XP) is ludicrous. Depression is a crippling thing, my friends. Depression multiplied by exhaustion is even worse. Depression divided by the square root of awesome friends is more bearable.

I love my friends XD They put up with sooooo much from me, and all I have to do is pay them in cookies ^.^
And hugs. But I'm not entirely sure many of my friends enjoy the random glomps and clingings... ¬.¬

Anyways, the next page should be up sometime around Christmas. I've got all but 3 panels inked. And those three panels will go quickly; I <3 drawing angry people.

...are starting at all your local retail outlets.
I've decided to torture myself even more this year and do Christmas cards again despite not having much free time already.

Anybody want one? If I don't appear at your house on a regular basis, I probably don't remember/know where you live, so leave your real name and address in the comments. They're screened so they're only for me to see :)


ALSO! IF YOU WERE THINKING OF BUYING A COMMISSION AS GIFT FOR ANYONE, YOU NEED TO CONTACT ME BY THANKSGIVING DAY. I WORK TWO RETAIL JOBS. IT'S CHRISTMAS. ANYTHING AFTER THANKSGIVING, I CAN'T PROMISE WILL BE DONE IN TIME TO PRINT AND MAIL.

Roy and Rissa are literally my favorite part about this page (you know, the overly late one? I had layout issues...serious ones. But the inks are finally done!)




What the hell is it with me and this damned flashback and loving my little uber-deformed characters in the background? R&R are all tiny and shit in the posting size of the page, it's ridiculous!

So page 72 is up.
And in color.
Why? Because I randomly channeled my high school pep-band days and drew two of my little crowd-ppl holding sexamaphone-esc shapes setting a third crowd-person-with-a-flute-shaped-stick's hair on fire. Which was always what Steve-Roy and I wanted to do to the flutist who sat in front of us. Even though you can't see it in the scaled down version of the page.....



Yeah. I was totally a band nerd in high school. Concert and pep band in my underclassman years, and jazz band (which was really more swing and big band) for all four. I should note I was and will ALWAYS BE the ONLY 4 year MHS jazz band member. BWAHAHAHAHA.


Also, somewhere in this country is a small backwater mountain town that does indeed have a Turkey Testicle Festival. I don't know where it is, and I have never been to it, but it does exist, and if you want to know where and what it is, track down my kmart and get the co-worker who grew up there to tell you :P


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And yes Tim. That censored bubble does indeed belong to your character.
(sketches coming soon)