Looks like LJ syndication is broken again. Best get back to posting these, then!

Soooo I came down with an illness yesterday, most likely a cold 'cause it didn't knock me out too much. I don't think it was that Swine Flu we're all hearing about, although I hear the Swine Flu can be pretty mild too.

Also, I almost lost a lot of work in Photoshop, due to be what appeared to be some random memory problems. This right on the heels of a hard drive crash, replacement, and total reinstallation... it made me a little fed up so I decided to just replace the entire computer. I thought about doing the usual thing and ordering a new motherboard, processor, and memory chips from NewEgg, then transferring the drives, video card, etc over. Then I decided to forego that plan and just run to Frys and buy a Mac.

Soooooooooo... I switched from Windows to Mac yesterday. Most of the comic above was drawn on the new machine.

I may be able to squeeze another comic out this week, but all the aforementioned family business is coming up quickly. I'll be gone on the 1st and back on the 6th.

That about covers everything.

Girlypost

Something about the way I draw melee attacks is a bit off these days, which is a pity 'cause I know I knew how to do it right before.

I said it before and I'll say it again, I hate it when I have it and then lose it. If every art technique I ever learned stuck with me forever, I'd be the best artist in the world.

Livejournal Syndication isn't working consistently anymore. When I realized this, I made a post on Twitter which said "Why again, did Six Apart sell LJ to a country that learned about the internet
only a couple years ago?"... which probably wasn't a terribly sensitive thing to say.

I'm just joking around... Obviously Russians have known what the internet was for a while. They've been using it to spam and send viruses and generally annoy the shit out of us for years now!

Ohhhh but seriously, Russia sucks.

I enjoy drawing all three of these girls.

Some of you may have noticed that there hasn't been a whole lot of variety from me lately. No one-off comics, no pinups, no Doctor V, no porn comics at all... It's pretty much just been Girly for several months now. I'm still deciding if I should be concerned about this... For cartoonists, keeping things varied does help keep the pistons firing, but I do enjoy myself when working on this comic.

I think what it comes down to is that I'm in ending mode, and it's hard to think about anything but finishing this. Once it's done, THEN it's time to go hog wild on 10000 other projects, but for now, I need to finish this, and finish it good.

Oh, by the way, Girly's ending. This shouldn't really be news to anyone, but I never did literally say it out loud right in the open. #750 wil be the last one, give or take a few, and I'm aiming at around February, though I should note that earlier this year I was aiming for November, soooo...

Sorry to sound kinda dry and nonchalant about this, but I don't want to go saying it'll be awesome or terrible or LIKE NOTHING YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE or anything that will create certain expectations. This is an ending, and in the process, it will end. You will possibly enjoy it.

GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS

Bad news first: My Grandpa on mom's side of the family, the one who didn't die last year, is probably going to die this year, pretty soon.
The good news is my sister's getting married in a couple weeks!

Thus, I'll be out of town for family matters a couple times over the next few weeks.

So the comic will update a little sporadically.

Except it's already updating sporadically.

My computer's still running like shit. But not so much that I couldn't crank out a comic in Photoshop today. Strangely enough, my computer ran like nothing was wrong at all the whole time I was drawing the comic, and only started grinding to a halt toward the end when I resized it for the web and uploaded it. Is this a memory or pagefile problem maybe?

Here's the comic in question:


You may have noticed that I pretty much draw nothing but Girly these days. What's that about!

I may try more things with this computer. It'd be nice if it'd just hold together for one more month, since I was considering jumping to Windows 7 anyway. If it is indeed an Explorer problem, then upgrading the OS will fix it, I'm assuming.

CROSSPOSTIN!


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