New art in the gallery!  I gave Tenla a bit of a reworking.  Realish braids!  Wearing clothes!  Weird eyeballs!

Also, a really nice looking tree, imo.

Oh yes oh yes and yay!  Let’s start the new year off on the right foot, shall we?

I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays!  We’re now back in full swing and with some degree of vengeance, because, in case you missed the nice giant new banner on top of the site, books are up for pre-order!

Books of what, you ask?

Well, these are the updated, cleaned up, printed, shiny versions of what launched last year as HP Redux, the new first chapter of the site, now recreated with smooth shades and a few abominable bits of line work and giant noses cleaned up or otherwise surgically fixed, plus a plethora of adorable little sketches, funny little comic strips, and a Q&A session with the cast, all crammed into 32 delicious pages of actual, tangible printed comic!  And if you order it before January 16th, your copy will be signed no matter what and come with at least one kinda cool little button you can stick on something of your choosing because ha ha free stuff!  Do go check it out!

There’s even a nice artist’s edition!  If you don’t plan to come buy crap from me in person come March, that’s your best way to get me to sketch in one of these for you!

The first 50 books going on sale are 1st editions and will be marked as such by yours truly, and will only be available via direct order from the site!  After the 16th, I’ll start setting up IndyPlanet orders for anyone where that might be the better situation for whatever reason to order from, but Artist Editions can only be gotten from said artist, so if you want that, you’ll have to order it from here! c:

I hope this is merely the first bit of excitement in the coming months~!  I have sorta plans!  And an artist’s alley table coming up in March!  And augh!

Hey, guys!  I’ve kinda been neglecting the site blog and I know most of you don’t follow my Twitter or G+ or the forums or whatever the heck else I’m on in this social network crazed world.  Here’s a quick run-down on what’s going on:

“SoT#1 First Edition On Sale in September!” is what I would love to say I could have said two months ago instead of sitting here now no longer hearing back from ComixPress in the usual timeframe and having spent an hour in the “Paid, Ready for Print” queue.  I’m rather annoyed by this (the September first edition notice is in the book itself, and at this point I can’t really change it.  So yeah!

Once the book’s proof is here and I hopefully this time don’t find it horrendous, I’ll open up pre-orders and hope to have a decent incentive for you guys to get on that and give me all of your precious money.

Regarding money, my tablet has been replaced and I’ve been dabbling about with HP-related art, among other things, and you can find most of that over on my Google+ presently.  Once I’m warmed up proper again, I’ll be trying to finalize the site redesign so we can get this done.  As for the next chapter, that’s somewhat started already, so hopefully once everything’s ready we can re-launch, more or less, on a high note and start moving forward again. c:

I believe that is all for hamster-related things.  You are now in the loop again!  Hooray!

Blerg and woot and wootblergs!  This is a mixed bag of news.  I shall start with the positives!

First of, I made the Weekly Top 5 on Newgrounds’ Audio Portal this week with the first song from my new project.  Said new project also has some pixel junk over on DeviantART.  These things are happening for a reason, I fear!  But are bringing good things my way.

The reason, unfortunately, is expensive to fix and hindering to getting anything done on here.  My tablet is broken.  LM’s tablet, my backup, is also basically broken.  I can’t find any sort of information regarding getting this thing sent off for repairs, either, and replacing it outright would run me 400 bucks.  Normally this would just be a bummer, but I’m down being able to take commissions due to this, and my car has about $800 of crap that needs doing to keep running, and I’ve got plans to move out of my parents’ place at long freaking last in the near future, which’ll run me about $500 up front and be an increase in rent and living expenses all around.  This is leaving out my dieing-rapidly TV I keep putting up with the fits of because I can’t afford to replace the thing, and don’t know if anyone repairs LCDs or what.  I’m not doing so hot on the dinero and thus can’t really replace the tablet.

And I kind of need that.  That’s what I draw the comic with, and I need it for any site redesigns unless I pull some crazy vectors out of my nethers.  I could go for a bamboo for present needs or something, I guess, but I kinda don’t know what to do!

But there are some minor things you can do to help me out!  I’m not going to point anyone right at the ol’ donate button (I wouldn’t mind people using this at all, mind), but rather I’m going to throw out some other acts you can do for me either right away or in the near future!

First off, get your friends all up in here.  The downtime is a good time to catch up to the plot, or even revisit old pages and refresh your perspective on things.  This gets more readers in here, and even for those of you who’ve been around ages, an archive binge or two tends to get my traffic looking a lot more appealing to advertisers and, minor though it is, that couple extra cents a day really starts to add up over time.  It also generally improves the quality of the ads that run so we’re more likely to get neat stuff, which in turn means the ads get more clicks, which in turn means even better ads.  This is of course assuming you guys are as curious as m about this sort of thing, I guess, but the point is that getting more people around doesn’t hurt anyone.

Second, I have the second proof of SoT#1 on it’s way!  Be on the lookout for that announcement that should be coming in the next couple weeks where I tell all of you how you can get your hands on a copy of your own!  In light of the present situation, I may move to offer a special package of some sort if I can work out the details and provide those willing to float the coin a manner in which to score a couple extra goodies.  We’ll see!

I’ll try and keep you guys posted on what all is going down with this!  It’s kinda a bum deal but I’m trying to get things worked out!  D:  Hopefully things get back on track soon and I can make all the Darin and Snowy fans happy with chapter 11.

Oh yes.  I just dropped that bomb.

Oh no, it’s a new game!

Created in 48 hours for the recent Ludum Dare 21 event, Lost World Lucy is the harrowing tale of a strange, legless girl shooting zombified pig heads that in turn fire little purple things at her.  Yeah, it makes as much sense as you think!

I hope to update this one in the future, but for now you can get your hands on it down below, or check out Erik doing his best not to die horribly (and actually doing a pretty good job of that):