Morning all! Darc here. With Issue 9 due to arrive in a few weeks and a con coming up, I’ve been thinking about our current inventory.

Since Issues 1-7 are collected in the A Political Spell trade, we won’t be reprinting them. (Issue 8 hasn’t reached the end of its run yet, so we’ll be keeping that in print for a bit.) In other words, once the copies we have on hand are gone, they’re gone for good. While there are 41 copies of Issue 7 left, only 8 copies of Issue 1 remain. So, if there’s an issue you’re missing, now’s a good time to pick it up.

And yes, the floppy versions of Issues 1-4 are printed in color.

I still have a business card, order forms, promotional materials, and a new banner to make before the con coming up. So much to do. It’s exciting running a small business at times. But, for now, it’s back to inking for me. After all, these comics don’t create themselves. Later and thanks for reading!

“A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.”
– Edward William Bok

Popping in quick with a little drawing tip… when illustrating a character who’s walking, pay attention to how you position their arms and legs.

It’s not unusual to see artist just starting out drawing the arm and leg of the same side in the same movement. What do I mean? I mean the right arm+right leg are shown moving forward while left arm+left leg are pushed back. While the body can move in this manner, it’s a little awkward. Try it. You have to think and concentrate to do it. You’ll also notice that your hips pivot sharper and your knees are a little more straight and locked. You also don’t tend to move as quickly.

For a more fluid walk cycle, try drawing the opposite limbs moving together… right arm+left leg forward while the left arm+right leg are pushed back. This allows your hips to rock in a comfortable, half-circle motion, your balance/posture to be maintained, and speed to be achieved.

For additional emphasis, try adding a little swing to the shoulders and (especially for women) the hips. Enjoy!

“Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, you tell me what you know.”
– Groucho Marx

Hey all! Just a quick post outlining some of the things that have been happening over the last few days.

The RSS feed is now working again. Matt and I noticed this morning that the feed hasn’t been doing its job for the past week or so. Sorry about that. It’s all fixed and should be running along smoothly now. If you ever notice that the feed is not working properly, please drop us an email and we’ll fix it right away. Clickthulu, the program running the ‘Hunter’ website, is still new and under production, so things happen now and then. Thanks, guys!

As I mentioned a few days ago, the data has all been recovered and we’re getting back on track. Supporters, your updates will resume this Monday (Feb 8th). Thanks everyone for sticking with us over the last two weeks! You guys have been awesome!

And, finally, the pre-order for “The Incident” is now available. With the base-under-tone color version, the tone version, and the sketches of each page it comes out be a 73 page PDF. It’s still being drawn so please remember, this is a pre-order. The PDF will be sent out via email once the issue is finished. This may take a bit, since I’ll be working on the regular pages as well.

And, I believe that’s all for now. Thanks again, guys, and take care!

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Confucius