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07.03.08

I apologize for the lack of comic this week, but the last week of my vacation wasn't so hot. Between the mild food poisoning, the delayed flights due to a strike in Frankfurt, the jet lag and the broiling heat I've come home to, I can't seem to get my brain in gear for the next page. Hopefully I'll feel better on the weekend.

05.21.08

Good lord, has it been a month already? I've been working like mad trying to get a buffer set up for my vacation in June. By the way -- I may not get automagic updates set up on this site in time for my vacation. If I don't, I suggest you check out the Gothbunnies Modern Tales site for June updates, since the MT updating scripts work.

Since I've been so stupidly busy, I didn't get a chance to link to The Webcomics Asylum again when Jack did an interview with me at the beginning of May. He and a few other people have set up a review site called Comic Fencing, where each comic gets reviewed by a bunch of people. It looks quite interesting!

04.23.08

Here's an awesome picture of the Policebunnies courtesy of 4LS. Not only is she a terrific artist, but her comic Kaspall is a great read, and has been one of my favourites for a while. If you're into long-form sci-fi-ish fantasy comics set in a well-thought-out world that have something more to offer than your usual collect-nine-heroes-and-five-doodads-to-save-the-world epic, I definitely recommend checking Kaspall out.

04.15.08

While Larch's stuntfrog is appearing in Gothbunnies this week, Larch is making a brief appearance over at Maskman. Well... at least his photo is. I imagine he had a quick drink backstage with the characters, took some photos and is now relaxing somewhere in Europe, drinking coffee out of tiny cups and making snarky blog posts.

Also, while I'm here, the Webcomic Asylum blog was nice enough to review Gothbunnies. Thanks a bunch!

04.09.08

First off, thanks bunches to Ada Z. for the newest fanart of Larch! Yay! Go check out her work, she does a bunch of cool stuff.

Next up, I've been tweaking the Skulking Ninja site for the past couple of weeks. I've collected some links to various comic-related crap I do under My Other Comics on the sidebar. Mostly because nobody can find everything otherwise. I've got my 24 Hour comic up there, as well as a link to my occasional journal comic and my aptly named Crummy Comics strip (also occasional). I do various things because I really need the variety to keep from going insane, in case you're wondering why I'm not working on Gothbunnies 12 hours a day 7 days a week.

04.01.08

Thanks to T-N-T for the linkage! I've got to update the "friends" section of my link page one of these years.

In other news, I'm updating the site a bit. I've added a story synopsis to the About page and changed the Archive so that the page links are loosely organized into chapters same as on the Modern Tales Gothbunnies page. I think it will make things easier to find.

I do listen to all the suggestions people make! It's just that my pace is glacial.

02.05.08

Phew. Okay! First off, thanks to Sophie of Macrat Love for the linkses -- if you like furry-style journal comics, go check hers out. It's cute and filled with rats, which are pretty darn nifty animals as far as I'm concerned.

Plug #2: Go read Saiko and Lavender. You're here, we both know you like or at least aren't against well-drawn B&W comics with funny animals and magic. Saiko and Lavender is a professionally-done manga-style webcomic about a magic shop owner and her super-fast rabbity assistant, and the crazy adventures they get into while trying to keep the shop open. There are tiny poisonous elephants, giant rampaging monsters, mouse-girls from outer space... really, you can't go wrong here.

And I'm not just plugging it because I won the Saiko & Lavender fanart contest. No, not me. I'm doing it because I feel horribly guilty about not linking to it before. I swear, there are glaciers that move faster than I do. And if you like the comic, she now has a book out that you can buy here.

In other other news, Friday was Hourly Comic Day and I participated. If you want to go back in time and stalk me virtually last Friday, I posted it to my occasional journal comic, Green Apple Pie. I put GAP on the sidebar because some people were interested.

01.16.08

So this strip marks the end of two years' worth of Gothbunnies pages. Not really a cause for too much celebration, given that I just celebrated 100 pages a month ago, but worth mentioning anyway.

01.01.08

Happy Gnu Year, everybody!

12.24.07

It was starting to look like I might have this week's comic finished in time for Wednesday, but an unexpected (if welcome) visit from family resulted in a weekend of frantic cleaning. With all the other family stuff going on today and tomorrow, there is no way I'll have a complete comic up by Wednesday.

So this week, I'm going to post page 100 piecemeal, as I finish. Just so you know I'm not a filthy slacker. Although I am a filthy slacker, really.

In other news, thanks go out to Tanya of Betapwned, who does weekly Wednesday Webcomic Weviews. She weviewed Gothbunnies last Wednesday, but I've been cooking and installing software all week, so it's taken me a few days to get around to saying thanks. Tanya is also co-host of the new webcomic podcast by name of The Webcomic Beacon, which is a fun listen, especially when you're at the computer doing comics.

Anyway -- have a happy holiday season everyone!

12.19.07

Welp, this is it! The hundredth page. Ring the bells and bring out the sacrificial carrots! We're going to party like it's page 99!

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Hmmm. Apparently the gods have chosen to reward my mighty effort by stealing my keys. Bugger all.

12.12.07

Next week Gothbunnies hits the 100-comic mark! Woo!

I'm not really sure what else to say. It's been a long haul, and there's plenty of hauling left to do. At this pace, a 200-page story will take four years. Anyone have a drawing robot they can sell me?

02.11.07

Thanks to Aarin of Aarin's Blog for the review! He gave me a bunch of good advice, which is why I've put up a small "about" page on the sidebar. I'm still working on all the other advice I've received from various reviewers and Something Awful people.

Apart from being a positive and useful review, this one also happened to be posted on my birthday, which was a nice coincidence.

In other news, I made a Hallowe'en pic this year!

Maybe next year I'll actually put one up in time for Hallowe'en.

24.10.07

Thanks to The Building and Holding Chaos for linking to me!

Also, if you're interested and haven't seen it yet, I did a very small 24-hour comic on Saturday. You can read it here.

09.10.07

Another thanks to Wolfman-Al of Air Patrol for his Sorrel picture!

26.09.07

There's an interview with me up on the Talkaboutcomics Blog as part of the new Modern Tales line-up. They will be doing interviews with the new MT comic creators all week, in case anyone's interested.

I'm also considering making up some t-shirts in the near future:

You can express interest in or disapproval of the design on my blog.

24.09.07

A few more thank-you-for-linkses go out to Code Name: Hunter and Air Patrol. Thanks guys!

Also, Damn Good Comics reviewed Gothbunnies last week. I'm a right sucker for review sites (even Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad), so it's always great to discover one I haven't already been following. Especially one that likes my work! Yay!

19.09.07

There's a new piece of Sorrel fanart in the art gallery thanks to Garudaserpent!

07.09.07

There will be a planned server outage this Monday, September 10th. It should last between 4-8 hours, starting around noon MST. This shouldn't affect next week's update.

And while I'm here... Gothbunnies has been accepted to Modern Tales. (Yaaay!) It will remain free, and I will be posting new updates both here and there. The archives will be available on both sites, once I'm done uploading.

28.08.07

A big thanks to Doc at the The Whiteboard for sending me some of his traffic (again!) and to Lucy of Kaspall, who is relatively unknown but shouldn't be.

If you're in the Edmonton area in mid-October, I'll apparently be at the Webcomics Panel at the Pure Speculation sci-fi convention. You can come by and fling small rodents at me if you're so inclined.

20.08.07

Hello from not-at-all-sunny Vancouver Island! I'm here one more day and then we're starting the Awful Drive of Pain back home. I've promised to take my turn at the wheel, so expect long flurries of loud swearing on the Coquihalla. I don't know whether I'll finish up page 83 by next week, but I should have SOMEthing to put up.

12.08.07

Okay -- as of tomorrow, I am on vacation. Here is my not-at-all secret plan for how updates are going to work: I will post page 81 tomorrow morning, because I have no idea if I'll be anywhere near the Internet on Wednesday. We tossed around the idea of going wardriving in Kamloops, but who knows what they do to wireless bandwidth leeches in BC. Maybe they chain them to loggers.

By next week I should have found myself an Internet cafe, and if I haven't then the in-laws probably have wireless up by now. And if they don't, their neighbours will. And if there is NO INTERNET on Vancouver Island AT ALL, then I'll have bigger problems than comic updates. So page 82 will be up sometime between Monday and Wednesday of next week.

Page 83 will depend entirely on whether I make it back alive. Wish us luck -- we're using our bike rack for the first time, and if my bike falls off I'm jumping after it.

11.08.07

The site move was going to wait until I came back from vacation, but this morning's webserver outage was the last straw. So...I've done the Internets equivalent of moving out of Dad's basement. I'm surprised and impressed at how little effort that took. Writing the script to change links in my archive was the hardest part. That and coughing up the cash to buy a domain and some bandwidth.

Anyway. Thanks to the The Noob for the plug! Y'all may (or may not) have slashdotted my old site, but it's all worked out for the best.

01.08.07

I will be going on vacation for a couple of weeks starting on August 12th. Right now it looks like I *might* finish up the comics for those weeks early enough to deploy them before I go, but there's always a possibility that mutant zucchinis break my arms and you'll get a crummy sketch instead, or a not-cleaned-up comic. (I desperately cling to the illusion that people care about the difference between cleaned-up comic and not-cleaned up comic...)

I haven't decided whether I'll just post everything on August 12th or take the time to cobble together a script to post them at the usual time.

11.07.07

I've finally put the comic link page back up (see "links" on the sidebar). Now you won't have to wade through my giant page o'bookmarks to find the comics.

14.06.07

I mades a link banner! You can use it to link to Gothbunnies.

I'll probably be interested in doing link exchanges once I switch my link page to link to a comics-only page.

13.06.07

Our systems are going to be undergoing maintenance from June 20-30, so the site may be down intermittently over that time period. There will be a full-scale shutdown on June 23rd as the servers get moved. Hopefully everything will go well. If not -- well, Gothbunnies lives on my work servers so I'll have plenty to panic about if things go pear-shaped.

01.06.07

Since I started doing comics again, I've started reading more comics too. Eventually it occurred to me to write down what I think of comics I actually read, so when I come back to them three years later I won't have to go through the archives again. And then I thought... "hey! That's kind of like *reviewing* comics. Except without any pretense to expertise or impartiality."

Anyway, I'll occasionally post some thoughts about comics I like here. The first one was Dominic Deegan, but it hardly needs a plug from me. So I'll start with Adagissimo, a journal comic I found on the Talkaboutcomics.com Blog.

This journal comic is quite new -- it only started on February 13th of this year. It's always a risk starting to read brand-new comics because most comics have a one-year life span. After about a year, the project isn't so shiny and new any more, one has realized that fame and fortune isn't about to knock on one's door, and other hobbies start to beckon. I'm hoping Adagissimo survives the transition, though, because it's pretty good. The art is decent -- it reminds me of the comics I used to do in University in terms of quality -- and the writing sometimes makes me laugh out loud. Which is more than I can say for most journal comics.

I think Rachael Scott pretty much had me with this strip. There's nothing better than to find some comic artist expressing your own opinions, but with funny words and decent pictures.

Anyway. I'm looking forward to reading more about Ms. Scott's comicky existence. I hope it continues.

14.05.07

Hey there! Gingerdead has been nice enough to link to Gothbunnies, and I enjoyed reading their archives, so I'm passing the favour on. It's a cute and morbid comic with a nice, clean style. I hesitate to mention Lenore, because that's the obvious comparison, but it's very much in the same vein (...ha ha. Please don't hit me.)

For obsure reasons (mostly to do with the crow on the sign), I liked this strip the best. But check out the archives -- there's some good strips there, worth having a look at if you like the cute gothy genre.

10.05.07

I've been trying out a few new things to see if I can finish the comic faster while keeping the art quality the same, or even improving it. My hiatus wasn't ALL about raiding Molten Core and Ahn'Qiraj. I did spend a significant portion of my time filling sketchbooks. Especially once tendonitis forced me to quit World of Warcraft. Now that I'm comicking (and Kung Fu-ing) again, though, I don't have the time or inclination to just sketch any more. A lot of what eats up my time is clean-up, which is tedious, boring, and doesn't make me a better artist.

Okay, so the all-digital strip was a bust. I can't spend the extra time on the computer because my back and wrists rebel. This time I tried to increase the size of the comic, to see if drawing larger meant that I could let a lot of the fiddly details go by without trying to make them all perfect.

I can now safely say that this has been an abject failure. If I am given more space, I will just obsessively fill it with more, smaller fiddly details. Also, I will misjudge how much space I have for word balloons and then will drive myself crazy trying to fit them in.

So I guess I'll keep drawing at the same size I've always been, and hopefully just get better at it. Or I'll train monkeys to do clean-up for me. Or I'll learn how to not be a giant nutball.

Sunday:

Neil: Have you finished the comic yet?
Me: Pfff! No. I spent half the evening putting texture on mushrooms. If I were an incarnation of something, I'd probably be Flora or Jack Frost. My obsessive attention to detail would serve me well when it came to painting autumn leaves or ferns on windows.
Neil: I probably wouldn't be anything that important. I'd be something like... the Bad Word Gnome.
Me:I can see that.
Neil: I'd hit people with my Cuss Sack, and then they would swear.
Me: Yeah, if you hit me with a sack full of stuff, I'm pretty sure I'd start swearing.

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