There’s nothing like a week in which you find yourself running searches on “European conifer species” and “historical menarche” for the same project. Nothing like it at all.
Next page: will be in the glorious new year of 2010! Shiny.
I’ll see if I don’t have a good summary to what turned out to be a rather tumultuous year for yours truly (professionally speaking; personally it’s been rather kind).
But really, I’m more excited about everything I’d like to attempt in the new year. That’s the way it should be! Stay tuned for new and exciting nonsense.
A little bit late, but better than never! It’s rather hard to draw Ariana smiling.
I’ve had A Trying Week between some runaway freelance work and putting all the orders I can into the mail before Christmas hits. Tomorrow’s probably your last day to order something from me and have it turn up in time (barring USPS complication, mind you), so go nuts.
Thanks all of you who’ve bought something from me! That money goes directly into the Keep Dylan From Starving fund these days, and it’s a pleasure to send nonsense out into the world.
Oh, little Ariana. You are going to be making that face a whole bunch more as time goes on. And so will I if I have to draw too many more pages of grass. (I’m kidding, it’s actually kind of a relief to do something loose; it’s just a pain to ink all those blades.)
And hey check it out, kids, if you order a copy of Bite Me! between now and Christmas you get a free drawing inside. If you order the fancy package that already includes a drawing, well! In addition to a drawing of one of the main characters you ALSO will get the complimentary addition of a chicken looking on at them. I know how to bring it.
And now we’re back to full story pages; a piece from the past. Woo, even a few weeks off and I feel rusty! Soon enough we’ll get back into the present day (well, present day circa September, 1768…) and see what Luther’s up to.
Meanwhile, in case you missed it this past weekend, Erika Moen and I, under the supervision of Bill Mudron and Katie Lane, recorded two solid hours of talk about comics, working as a freelancer, and several other topics beside! I’m editing the podcast version, but you can also view the video Ustream version right here on Erika’s channel. Plenty of questions answered about Family Man!
If you check in here but once a week, please also make sure to keep an eye on this journal or my Twitter feed as I sell off original watercolors (every day possible this month!) to raise money for Heifer International.
And lastly, on the afternoon of the 5th I’ll be at the Legends of Webcomics open house here in Portland with Meredith Gran, Aaron Diaz, that jerk Erika again, and Luke Mahan, selling all sorts of fun and exciting things and, surely, being delightful. Details here!
Change your links, everybody! Family Man now lives on one single website, and that’s http://www.lutherlevy.com. It’ll update there every week, and all the notes and extra features you have come to love (or merely tolerate) live there with it, along with many new bells and whistles and an all-over shinyness.
And a new chapter is off and running, with yet more exciting bunny imagery. Sorry, bunnies of the world; it’s nothing personal.
Happy Thanksgiving to all those of you in the U.S. of A! Now go play.
