Five Glasses of Absinthe

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 like Digger or Girl 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.

Since the sex scene goes up tomorrow, I finally got off my butt and put a big ol’ “ADULTS ONLY!” page at the front of the site. The RSS and LJ feeds should keep working just fine, but if you read Absinthe by hitting a bookmark you might want to update it.

Also, there were some issues with the test print of the book, so I’m doing a second test print. It should be ready soon.

We’re almost done with the first chapter. There’ll be a hiatus while we work on the second one; we hope you’ll come back for it! And tell your friends.