So we’re all moved in… not quite unpacked yet, but moved in. I’d continue unpacking, but I must leave tomorrow for a wedding. We’ll be gone for a week. I’ll try to do some sketches on our trip for you to all see. Hopefully everything will settle down soon and my comic schedule can get back to normal.  

In the meantime, enjoy this fish.

When I started drawing this thing I call a comic, I was on a little iBook that had a 10 GB hard drive and about 512 MB of RAM using a student version of Photoshop 7. For the past three years, I’ve been using a PowerMac G5 with 512 MB of RAM, still using a student version of Photoshop 7. In the next week or so, I will be the excited recipient of 4 Gigs of RAM to add to this machine, and the Adobe CS3 Design Standard Suite to help me learn so much more about comics and graphic design. 

 Things are beginning to happen. It’s kind of exciting.

Work has been stupidly hectic lately. With people deciding they need lots of jewelry and jewelry related services and us being short staffed, I’ve been pretty overworked. This hasn’t left much time for comics, as you could probably tell. So, short term solution, I’m going to switch to the black and white bristol board comics for a while. They take a lot less time to do than the digital comics, and dang but don’t I have fun doing them. Also, I can work on them practically anywhere!

So, Monday you’ll get another sketch from Ubercon, and Wednesday will be a new Assembly Required. Also, my leftover merchandise from Ubercon is now up for grabs on my Etsy store. Ordering straight from me guarantees a sketch in the front cover. Get them while you can! I’m not sure when I’ll have the scratch to place another order for backlog.

The comic will be posted this evening. It is nearly finished, like 90% complete… I am spending my day at an InDesign seminar, learning hard core awesome things to make me better at being awesome. 

Update: InDesign Seminar was a blast! Here’s your comic! Wheeeee!

A while ago I decided to put together a book of some of my work to take with me to conventions. Well, Lee and I are going to Ubercon next weekend, and I have something. I have something for you! If you click on the image above, it will take you to a preview of TEASE, a little full color comp of the latest Random Assembly comics and weird little illustrations I do occasionally. I will have a stack of these at Ubercon, so if you’re in the area you can grab one from me there. I might even draw in it for you if you ask me nicely. The leftover books from the con will go up on Etsy, and since they will be here with me, they will come with a personalized drawing on the inside cover… but you’ll have to wait two weeks for those, ok?

I will be doing a proper book with all new, never before seen content in short story form (rather than one-liner comic form) soon in the future, and when that’s all good and ready you can expect another post about it here. In the meantime, enjoy my first experience with Lulu and have a little bit of Random Assembly on your bookshelf.