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November MUSIC COLUMN: Thanksgiving!

This month being American Thanksgiving, I thought it would be appropriate to share the musical things I'm thankful for. Here we go! For starters, I'm thankful for good headphones! Most people these days seem to be using either stock Apple earbuds (ugh) or Beats, and they don't know what they're missing. If you're into music at all, you owe it to yourself to save up for a decent pair of cans. I'm partial to Sennheiser- their HD280s are the best headphones you can buy for the money in my opinion,...

October 2014 Patreon supported

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October Music Column: SPOOPY MUSIC

Halloween is right around the corner, so I thought I'd list some of my favorite SPOOKY MUSIC for you to check out! First up is Andy Stott. His albums We Stay Together and Luxury Problems sound like David Lynch soundtracking a basement rave- all eerie synths, industrial noises, and sinister beats. There are moments of beauty hidden in these tracks, but the overall gloom is the perfect soundtrack to a moonless October night. On the more metallic end of the spectrum, we have Deathspell Omega's ex...

Song Of The Month, November

Seven string stuff this time!

September 2014 Patreon supported

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September Sneak Peek: Another Alice Page!

Here's next Tuesday's Alice Grove page early! WOO

September MUSIC ARTICLE: What I've Been Listening To Lately

No specific theme for this month's MUSIC ARTICLE, just a quick rundown of a couple albums I've been enjoying lately. Number one on the list is "Syro," the new Aphex Twin album. It's an absolutely fantastic album and a wonderful return from an extended hiatus for Richard D. James. What strikes me most about it is the way the songs shift and morph within themselves- so much electronic music is about repetition, but there's very little of that on Syro. The sound quality is impeccable, and if you'v...

August Song Of The Month!

Wooo more 8 stringy goodness

August 2014 Patreon supported

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August New Comic Sneak Preview: The Creative Process

The launch of the new comic is coming faster than I expected. This isn't a surprise- time has a way of getting ahead of you, and I've been busy with a lot of stuff lately. Most of my anxiety about the new strip (OH GOD I'M LAUNCHING MY FIRST REAL NEW THING IN LIKE 10 YEARS OH GOD) has been replaced with a quiet anticipation. This, in turn, will be replaced with an increasing preoccupation with actual production in september. I have to build a website! And get a domain name! And sort out hosting...

July 2014 Patreon supported

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August Song of the Month: Coprolalia

This month's song is a seriously heavy 8-string Deathmole jam. I hope you enjoy it!

July Sneak Peek: Thumbnails!

A while back I roughed out the first five pages of the new comic, so I thought that would be cool to share with you guys! My hand is on the last one because SPOILERS. The pacing on it is a little slow, so I may condense things down a bit, or change everything entirely. I don't know yet! The plan is to start Actually Drawing The Damn Thing by the end of this month and through August, with a proper launch sometime in September or October. Hopefully everything will go according to plan!

MUSIC ARTICLE- Summer Jams

We've hit the peak of summer, and I feel like now would be a good time to discuss my favorite summertime music. These songs and albums evoke sunny days, humid nights, trips to the beach, and all that other stuff I associate with the warmest time of year. Probably my number one summer album is "Since I Left You" by The Avalanches. It's a classic in its own right, but there's something about its combination of eclectic samples, tropicalia-meets-Miami-club beats, and overall cohesion- it's as much...

Thanks, everybody!

As a thank you for your generosity in June, here's tomorrow's comic a day early. :)

June 2014 Patreon supported

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Cast poster is finished! These will go on sale as soon as Topatoco makes 'em!

Poster Progress!

This will go a lot faster once I get everyone in the front inked.

New Poster!

Sneak peek at a poster design I just started. This sucker's gonna be 18x24 and will take approximately 9000 hours to ink and color.

$7,000! Wow!

Here's a present for you guys. :)

INSERT WORKING TITLE HERE- Progress Report #1

NEVERMIND I NEED A NEW TITLE These progress reports will most likely take different forms depending on what I've spent that month working on- whether it's general concepts, character design, website work, etc. They're not going to contain anything I think would spoil the comic for folks, but I do hope to provide an interesting look behind the scenes as I develop this idea. The idea itself came to me on a long, solitary drive a couple years ago. Over the course of about two hours I figured out ...

QC Book 1 PDF!

Here you go, everybody! Enjoy. :)

Shelby Hates Crows

As promised, here is a video of Shelby harassing one of the neighborhood crows. I have no idea why she does this. Bonus cameo by Roswell.

Thanks again.

I've been reading the kind messages y'all have been posting here and I am really touched. Thank you, thank you so much for your support. It really means the world to me. :')

This months' song!

Hey dudes and ladies, here's this month's song! A fast-paced Deathmøle number.

MUSIC ARTICLE: What I'm Listening To Now

I've been listening to a lot of techno lately. I listen to a ton of electronic music in general, but not all of it falls under what is rigorously defined as “techno” (and that definition is a lot like pornography- you may not be able to describe it, but you know it when you see/hear it). Two techo records in particular have really caught my attention in the past couple weeks, so I thought I’d share them with you. They’re Sandwell District’s final album “Feed Forward” and Kangding ...

Oh man oh man oh man

I am pretty excited about this you guys! PRETTY. EXCITED.

May 2014 Patreon supported

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