Page 19
Juan is dealing with his old friend's transformation rather well.
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Page 18
I had originally wanted Huckleberry to be blue, but the colorist liked brown and I decided it was better that way after all.
Page 17
Diana is still bugged by the cartoon character's large knockers. She's torn between being offended and being attracted to them.
Page 16
This cartoon-character within a cartoon thing isn't new but it's a fun way of getting through some exposition. In the fifth panel I dropped in the image of Mars from the cover of QV Vol2. I hope no one minds.
Page 15
I probably could have come up with a better way to show the 3D holographic interface Diana's using. But I think this works.
Page 14.
Introducing Angela Martinéz. We'll be seeing more of her, although probably not in the way you're thinking. But maybe yes.
Books for Patrons going out soon
It's taken me a bit long to get all my ducks lined up for sending out the $5/$30+ patrons' copies of QUANTUM VIBE: ASSIMULATION but I have everything I need now and they'll be going out over the coming week.
To clarify: If you've been backing me at least the $5 level for at least six months as of January 2018, I'll send you a signed copy of the aforementioned volume.
I also owe some $20/$120 patrons the ink-paper drawings. For you, please let me know what character you'd like me to...
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Page 9
A breakfast news cast. Does this only offer another glimpse of life in the City or will we see some of these characters later in the story? Hmmm.
Page 8
Diana negotiates a raise for herself and goes out to celebrate. Some Coneheads take notice. (At the ink stage I put some of Diana into the last panel because it seemed to work better.)
Page 7
Juan thought Diana was going to blow the deal. Instead she negotiated a better one.
QV 6 page 6
So yeah, I'm switching to numbering by volume page. Fortunately I have a spreadsheet for tracking this stuff.
QV6 strips 7-8
I'm wondering if I should just start numbering these as pages, as they will appear in the collected volume. The strip numbers I use for each volume don't conform to the update numbers on the web page, which counts all the way back to the first strip of the first volume, including all the fillers. In which case, this is Page 5 of the volume.
Strips 5-6
It's all fun and games until Alyss Roaz shows up.
Strips 4-5
I wanted to estblish some of "mundane life" in Bubbleopolis in these early installments, but not take to long to get the plot going.
Strips 2-3
When I first typed "Républicains por la Démocratie" into my plot outline, I mispelled "pour." But I didn't see the error and it got copied into several instances of this finding their way into the artwork.
My excuse is I've been looking at a lot of Spanish and Portuguese verbiage and they use "por." So sue me.
QV6 strips 1-2
For this new volume, the format of how we split the pages up into strips changes somewhat. Now, it's three four-panel strips spread across two pages. So, the first four panels of this page are Strip 1. The last two panels on this page, and the first two on the next, are Strip 2. The last four panels of the next page are Strip 3. Etc.
Keeping track of stuff like this is how I test how quickly I'm going senile.
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2017-12-14 23:22:17 +0000 UTC
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GOOD NEWS for Patrons
Patreon has announced they will NOT implement the change in how they charge their fees, which they had announced last week. Both creators and patrons made their irritation known and whaddaya know ... Patreon listened and apologized.
So, those of you who have edited their pledges in response to the first announcement, may wish to reverse those changes.
The not-so-good news is now I have to individually contact everyone who stopped pledging altogether and ask them to come back. Oh well...<...
2017-12-14 00:44:21 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon billing change
I just received an email telling me that Patreon is changing who will be charged processing fees and the change will take place December 18th so it will affect the way all of you are charged at the end of this month.
I'm assuming they did this because account holders complained they couldn't predict the processing fees for the pledges and Patreon claims that they have polled users to confirm that patrons are predominantly happy to see the creator receive more money but I know othe...
2017-12-07 13:35:52 +0000 UTC View PostQUANTUM VIBE RESUMES MONDAY
Just a heads-up for all my lovely Patrons, QUANTUM VIBE: Château Périlieu starts its run on Monday!
I'm changing the format and schedule a bit. Since my donation levels have not been sufficient to keep me working on this strip full-time, I'm going to a limited schedule: Each installment will be four panels, updated Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If I can get the total donations level up to $2500 per month, I can go back to working full-time. Meanwhile I'll be driving for Lyft part-time s...
Strip 300
And the story ends with a bit of an artistic flourish.
Strips 298-299
Eithne explains her decision. Is she being coerced? Is she freely choosing her course? Something to ponder.
Strips 296-297
The denouement, in which I try to tie up all the loose ends.
Strip 295
Yes, obviously a rip-off of Monty Python's Black Knight sequence, but I think my twist at the end justifies it.
Strips 293-294
The inks for these strips were done on multiple layers for ease of administering background colors and patterns in Photoshop.
Strips 291-292
With all the mentions of Murphy's "Berserker Mode" you know we had to show it at some point. I guess you could call it "Checkov's Berserker Mode."
