Five Glasses of Absinthe

I’ve been meaning to mention this here for a few months but have been pretty busy: Absinthe’s status has been downgraded from “cancelled forever due to breakup” to “on hiatus while I do a solo comic and a costumed striptease”.

No, seriously, I’m taking this burlesque dance class that will see me dressing up in a blinky GLaDOS costume and wiggling my ass and tits in the middle of August! And I’m also working on a comic about a robot that I’m updating fairly regularly.

Absinthe may be back sometime this fall, but I’m not making any promises yet.

I just broke up with Nick for the second time in four months. I really have no idea if I’m ever going to be in the kind of relationship where I’m comfortable collaborating with him ever again.

I originally said “hey let’s do a comic together” to try and cheer him up and make him feel good about his creative skills. It was fun. I would never have gotten through more than a couple of pages without him to help; his plotting and dialogue is worlds better than mine. We made a pretty good creative team.

Hopefully what I learnt working with him will make it easier to do solo projects in the future. Right now I don’t fucking know at all. I just know that I can’t see myself carrying this on without him.

If there’s any interest I might write up a brief synopsis of what we had planned for the remaining four chapters. It hurts a hell of a lot to cancel this; I had a great time drawing it, and I hope you folks had a great time reading what got made.

Some email pointed me in the direction of the ‘other’ category of a new award. Absinthe is up for a ‘Rose and Bay’ award, which is about recognizing projects that connect the viewers/patrons (you!) directly with the creators (me and Nick!).

I’m not sure our little dirty comic has much of a chance against juggernaughts likeDigger orGirl Genius… but on the other hand, holy fuck, it’s pretty awesome to be on the same list as a comic done by someone I’ve been trying to draw like on and off since I was twelve.

Anyway! Vote for Absinthe if you wanna. And while we’re talking about awards, I might as well mention that the Ursa Majors are open for nominations too.

I am now three thumbnails away from having all of Chapter 2 planned out! Which means that I can start drawing and Illustratoring. I’m hoping to have things ready to roll again sometime near the end of February. Keep us in your feed reader, we’ll be back!

In the meantime, have a look at this cool drawing of Absinthe in space [NSFW] that Farore did back at Rainfurrest.

Also: I sold the last of my stock of Book 1 at Further Confusion! I’m ordering a new pile, and we’ll be able to sell some signed copies over the net once they get in.

I’d just like to say thanks to everyone who came to my table at Rainfurrest and bought a copy of the Absinthe book, or my other stuff!

I will be at Foolscap next weekend. If they have an Artist’s Alley I may snag a table; I’m not sure. After that, I will be back in Boston, and we will be able to ship out signed copies of the book to those of you who’d like one and couldn’t get to Seattle…

The book is here, and it looks awesome!

It’s seventeen bucks plus shipping. Lulu’s having a promotion right now: use the coupon code “LULUBOOK” to get 10% off until the end of the month.

If you want a signed copy, you can get one at Rainfurrest later this month – or you can get one afterwards. Email me and we’ll get you set up.