This should answer – or start to answer – some of the questions last week might have presented. And next week will help even more. And by the time this chapter ends, you will have more questions than ever.
Now, since it is quarter to 2 in the morning, I am going to go the heck to bed. And I will see you all in the morning. The real morning. Not this silly pre-dawn business that I’ve been seeing too much of lately.
Well, I could’ve sworn up and down that I was going to miss Wednesday again, but apparently the update elves were on my side this time.
Does everybody remember the wolf statues all over town? No? That’s okay, it was two years (and 76 pages) ago.
There’s something very spiritual about putting together a wordless page; they’re one of the reasons why I enjoy telling stories through comics (beyond the fact that I get to write and draw).
Next week, if I don’t get too bogged down in rent-paying endeavors: more silence! So much silence! Enough to fill a whole medieval town after dark…
Better late than never! Here’s this week’s page of Family Man: relative calm as compared to the frenzy of new information that’s appeared over the last few updates. Still plenty of mystery, though. As always.
Also of note with this update – I’ve switched over my online store services to Shopify, and have added some items, including the first ever piece of Family Man merchandise.
I’ve developed a great relationship with a local printer, who does wonderfully faithful giclee (high-end digital inkjet) art prints – they’ve done such a great job with prints from the Lady Parts show that my only problem has been keeping them in stock.
So I’ve decided to start offering an experimental print-on-demand service for all the pages of Family Man to date.
If there’s a page you’ve really enjoyed and would like to have in a frame-ready physical form at the original size I drew it – 9×12 (or bigger, for that famous library page!), you can now buy it from me, and I will run over to the printer and ask him to please calibrate and print it just for you.
I’m starting things off at the low-low price of $25 per page (on archival paper, $40 on fancy watercolor paper). It’s safe to say the price probably won’t drop anytime soon, so here’s your chance to get in on this before I decide it’s a big ole hassle!
Oh yeah, also, those chicken stickers are still at the store. Never gonna stop pushing these. I love them so.
Man, two big reveals in as many weeks! Hearkening all the way back to, hey, page 3. (Apologies for making you look at things I drew in 2006; I take comfort knowing it’s not nearly as painful for you as it is for me.)
Technically there’s one big reveal and one obscure tip-off. But let’s not get greedy about it.
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COMMERCE: I’ve finally acquired the last of the stock items (spoons, some of the Lady Parts prints) that were holding back some very late orders on books and prints, especially international orders! So if you have been patiently sitting on your hands over in the UK or Canada, don’t fear, I haven’t forgotten you.
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NEW STUFF: I’ve got a new poetry chapbook out. It’s called Private Island, and it’s for sale in my store at the LOW LOW price of $2.00, which is a mere ten cents for each page of action-packed verse, most of which has never seen the light of the internet before!
There are many flavors in this one, and it’s the prettiest thing I’ve ever made at a copy shop, so snag one at will.
And now here is a page guaranteed to startle and confuse, if Luther’s face is any judge.
But, whatever you think is going on: I’ll repeat my mantra of wait for it. Your questions should be answered by Labor Day.