Awesome, much!

where can i purchase this :o

:O awesome sause!!!

I can't wait for this to be completed!

looking great as always!

Nice

This is something i will deffinatly buy at EF !

The panel below the handshake amuses me. It just...does.
*Drag drag drag*

Its looking extremely promising <3

Tantalising as always.

Have you considered that posting all these dialogue-free pages is just begging for a Magic Roundabout style 'fill-in-the-blanks' contest?

EPICNESS AWESOMENESS GODNESS

...ehm

....i...love it

I will buy it...but i can't

Oops, someone died. :(

Can't wait to buy this!

Just wondering would I be able to buy this comic when its complete as I live in the UK? Thanks

That picture of Kenket working amidst aspen trees explain why they recur so frequently in your art!

The amount of work put into this is just astronomical and it shows! This looks amazing

Lookin' good. :) Quick question -- which comes first, the dialogue & narration, or the layout? Or both?

Well, the story and dialogue were written first, well before the first page was ever drawn. The layout was thumbnailed first to accommodate the flow of the dialogue and action from panel to panel.

Interesting. Okay, so, as you're writing the story and dialogue, do you have some concept of page separation in mind? Or cell separation? Or do you just write the dialogue as you would for any book, and then just mold the comic layout and images to match?

Reason I ask is I'm in the process of developing a short story & corresponding comic another artist will illustrate (dozen page sequence or so), and my "visions" of certain pages are vying for priority vs the flow of the prose. I don't know which to listen to first. ;) I'm sure these are questions better left to a panel or something, but this was a recent inspiration. Never thought I'd be working on such a project. Like, ever. But here I am, wheels revved, ready to engage, but not knowing what gear to start in. Or some analogy like that.

I wrote the story like a screenplay, then broke it down into comic pages based on the flow of the comic. Action-packed scenes need more panels per page to flow faster or show multiple rapid events, for instance. As I started thumb nailing pages, I adjusted things, either adding or subtracting panels or pages as the flow required.

Since the story is the key part of a comic, I personally try not to sacrifice story-telling or pacing for a layout. I've gone back and scrapped whole pages and redone them since--while they followed my initial layout design and worked stand alone--they just didn't work as part of the whole. Hope that helps!

Yep, helps a ton. :) It's kinda the direction I was headed, but I felt like someone was holding a sign over my head that said, "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG" and posting pictures of the resulting scene on some flash site somewhere. But now I realize the sign says, "ARE YOU INSANE?" ;) I just hope the result is nearly as good as it is in my head.

Looking forward to catching up on your work, and watching it unfold. Cheers!

the details..omg..so amazing! D: <3

*waggwaggwagg* Fantastic again Blotch! *hugs*

haha, you need to not release so many pages! I can practically lay out half the comic from all that you've posted XP

cool

Do you have a final page number count for the final product or will you not know that tell just before it goes to the printer?

First book looks like it'll be 98 pages. :]

WOW! That is quit impressive for a graphic novel. I look forward to getting it when it finally comes out.

Can't wait for this anymore! ^^

Can it be like pre-ordered or something? >..> And PLEASE tell me that you'll be able to ship to South Africa?

I am really anxious for this book to come out, Blotch!

all that darn monologue (balloons) gets in the way of all the great artwork in the same colors day after day.

The expression on the reindeer is just lovely in the fourth panel. It really stuck out to me. I saw a preview card for this in my roommates copy of Digger, Im seriously considering picking it up, your work is lovely and the wordless images of the story really make me want to know what's going on.

Lovely artwork as always! :D Also, the empty speech bubbles made me do weird things. <_<;

wow man, wonderful as always

Ahhh.....both southpaws. Very nice. (Heh! Or you drew it the other way around and later decided the mirror image fit the layout better)

Actually--the caribou was just shot in the right arm and had a bullet removed on the field, so he'd probably not be offering that one up. Pi's a righty. Oleg, the pig, is a lefty, tho. ;]

Shweeeeeet!