Awesome fanart this week, thanks to Iz Elliot! I think this makes Bracken one of the most drawn characters so far. Sucks for you, other characters. Anyway, I’m super behind with all my emails and junk so if you’ve sent me something in the last wee while I’m probably trying to think up a response right now. Sorry. D:

In my furious haze over the lost work on last week’s page, I forgot to mention that the gallery is now, finally, in operation. There’s a decent spread of some of the art I’ve done for Red Moon Rising over the last few years, plus all the various fanart I’ve been sent. If your fanart’s not there it’s not because I hate you, it’s simply a cack-handed oversight on my part. Email me with it or leave a comment with a link here and I’ll have it posted ASAP. :)

Sorry this is late, people following me on twitter will have seen the minor breakdown I had when I lost all of the inking for this page when Manga Studio crashed. A livestream with lots of terrible music (mostly the Pokémon theme on a loop) ensued while I redid everything. Thanks to everyone who showed up, you made the whole thing slightly (slightly) less terrible.

This was on top of the sketch taking 9 hours to draw somehow which is longer than the whole page usually takes, so I think this might actually be the most time-consuming page I’ve ever posted. I’m thinking something like 25 hours for this? Absolutely ridiculous. Ugh. ugh ugh ugh

I mean… hooray, 250 pages! \o/

I’ve set up a old vote incentive archive, as per requests. The Extras link at the top of the page is now a dropdown, for future reference. Next up, an actual gallery with pictures and stuff in it! And then a new vote incentive, hopefully.

Hey, it’s a jolly Christmas update! Normally I post filler, but that’s usually because I’m thoroughly unprepared for being away from my drawing station for the week around Christmas. This time however, I thought ahead and drew the page… beforehand? I believe it’s called… a buffer?? Anyway, hope everyone had a nice Christmas and is having a lovely boxing day.

Also, I really appreciate all the donations. :) Definitely got enough to cover a heater, and the rest will be going towards food and thick socks and other boring yet important things. I’ll be adding a permanent donation button (tip jar? there seems to be some debate) to the sidebar as soon as I can draw up a wee graphic for it.

On a related note, I want to start making a concerted effort to upgrade the site, so! If you’ve got anything that you want changed or added to the site, let me know in the comments below. I’ll start chipping away at stuff over new year. I realise not many people will be reading the bottom of this big boring news post right around Christmas, but if you are that just means you’re hardcore and have a better opinion than everyone else. Pipe up!

The comic’s always going to remain free to read online for as long as I can afford the hosting, so no one should feel obliged to chuck money my way. I really just appreciate having people reading and commenting. You guys are the best. :)

Finally, I keep forgetting to post this because I’m an awful person, but an old friend of mine did some fanart for my birthday (nearly a month ago, I suck) and it is super neat. Thanks, Craig. :D

My back is sore.

As promised, new vote incentive, and it’s the much in-demand sketch of Galak with his hair tied back. You strange people.

It’s gotten SUPER cold here. I just know the Canadians/Russians/Scandinavians/etc. in the audience are rolling their eyes right about now, but my flat is very poorly heated so you can just all go roll your eyes right into a volcano. It started snowing this evening, so I’ve been forced to move my entire desktop set up (multiple monitors, office chair and all) into our living room because my room is too cold to inhabit now. It was either this or no new pages ’til spring, so…

It’s working out well so far, except it’s made me painfully aware of how much awful wrestling my flatmates watch. It is so terrible. So terrible! Oh my god. It is awful.

I feel like I should start a separate blog for whatever ailment I happen to have contracted this week, since clearly this is a thing now. This week it was just a shitty cold, but it crashed in on my birthday which I think is probably illegal? And makes it ten billion times worse, statistically, empirically.

Also, for the person on formspring who really wanted to see a picture of Galak with his hair tied back, sorry that this isn’t happening this week, but it will be next week’s vote incentive. Instead I’m going back to bed. It’s probably better in your imagination anyway.