This page took so long to color it was pretty unbelievable. I still can’t figure out why it took so long, and I even skipped a step which I will clandestinely refrain from revealing.

Anyway, I’m sunburned and I’m going to bed.

-C

Plus, two-panel sketch from Friday’s comic is up under the voting button. As usual, you guys continue to surprise me with your kindness in voting.

Thanks!!

-C

Okay I do love painting this scene, and will probably drag it on and on and onnnnnnnn. My apologies in advance, for this chapter is going to end up being very exceedingly unreasonably long and horrible.

Other than that I don’t have a lot to say, except that’s a portrait of me on the left hugging my tablet pen. May we never part again.

Thanks for reading!

Still enjoying the comments, naturally.

By the way, if I don’t answer a question, that means answering would mean spoilers, and I am decidedly anti-spoiler.

-C

Incentive for Tuesday’s comic is up, two rough panels as usual.

Okay, I spent like 2386 hours painting this one. Not that I didn’t have fun doing it, but I couldn’t make myself stop messing with details. Just one more shade on Zedwig’s coat! Just one more highlight! Just one more! Addiction hurts, people. I guess the first step is admitting I have a problem.

By the by, thanks for all the votes and comments! If you have an in-depth technical question about anything in Lint, feel free to ask. Instead of being one of those people who dislikes nitpicky questions, I love them and will probably give you a lot longer and more detailed answer than you actually want. To the point of ad nauseam, even, so don’t worry that you might be annoying me with questions, for the only way you could annoy me with questions is to not ask any ever.

I know there was something of actual significance I wanted to write here, but it seems I’ve forgotten it. Maybe later!

-C

… page is up. I’m struggling with this page. Struggling!! It’s driving me bananas. Anyway, enjoy a painting of Zedwig. Thanks for voting!

-C

Ah, yes; Fang and Zedwig. I haven’t been looking forward to this conversation or anything. Especially not since the majority of the book I’ve been writing has been almost solely about them. No, I could care less. Plus: I have the best hobby in the world.

It’s sort of taking me a bump or two to remember how to make comics, since I haven’t actually put out a page for nearly a month, but I’m feeling a little more comfortable with it. One of the hardest things, I find, is switching between the freedom that writing narrative gives me and the strictly to-the-point that comic script-writing requires. Suffice it to say, even though I’ve written most of this chapter script twice, some parts three times, I still want to change things and it’s kicking me in the face. Still, though, I’m enjoying it most thoroughly.

Thanks for reading, and for voting! I’ll have up the incentive either tonight or tomorrow night for Friday’s comic.

Je crois en toi?

-C

Tee hee hee! I actually got butterflies when I posted this page, for reasons unknown to me, except the fact that I’m absolutely delighted to be getting on with the story and, well, it’s really really really fun.

Thanks for reading!!

New vote incentive coming right up of the first two panels of next Tuesday’s page.

-C

P.S. - I’m updating early today because I want to see Iron Man tonight instead of making comics. Can you blame me?

EDIT: Unbelievably, I misspelled “Schlöffel”on the tombstone initially. I think I need to go nap for about a week.

Enjoy this self portrait of me sobbing upon a doubtless bewildered state of Utah upon my return from TN. Not that TN isn’t great and all, but there’s no place like home. Look, I even drew Delicate Arch in a somewhat Moab-ish type direction! Yes, I know it looks like a rainbow, instead.

So anyway, everyone give Luprand a tremendous round of applause for his kindness and generosity in allowing me to put up his comic these past few weeks! He is the funny. On Friday I’m going to take it from the archives for continuity’s sake, but it can be read and enjoyed again and again here. Also read his webcomic here!

Much to report, but not really: I’ve been creatively stifled for two weeks and am about to lose my mind, but fortunately I did have a sketchbook and occasionally got away to write. Not often, though, which makes me want to kick a brick wall. Here are a few sketches:  Al’bert and the Wiz, Zedwig and Fang agaaain, some people you don’t know but you will know, and Al’bert and Alice.

Also, the new vote incentive is up, and it’s a verrry rough preview of the Chapter 13 Title page which I have changed like three or four times. I’m still not even totally sure this is the one I’ll use, but I think it is!

Lastly, for all you BYU-faces, I’m going to be accompanying an excellllent pair of vocalists during the Thursday afternoon session of the BYU Women’s Conference on May 1st in the Marriot Center, so if any of you are around or watching it on TV, don’t laugh me to scorn when I manage to fall off the piano bench and knock everyone over somehow, and also feel free to say hi.

-C

This page has wildly different art from the
others. That is because it was done by Andrew Aedo,
whose other spectacular artwork can be found at
http://aedo-sama.deviantart.com.