2013-05-29

The first page of Year Two! Silk and Spook take a break at the Santa Cruz River for a much-needed drink of water. You can see Picacho Peak behind them, so they’re definitely heading in the right direction.

But didn’t Hampstead say a couple pages back that he knows where they’re going? Sounds like ol’Spook needs a plan. Stay tuned!

This is the first SNH page I’ve drawn on honest-to-god bristol board since page 39…well, not including the previous two covers.

Every page from 40 through 52 were done on regular 8.5″x11″ printer paper. I ran out of bristol board in February, and when I had the money to get more, I didn’t have the time to go get it. And vice versa! haha

When I was drawing those pages, I drew one panel per sheet. Stitch it together in Photoshop. You get the idea.

Well, now I’ve got a lot of these things laying about, and I’d rather they live somewhere else. So if you’ve always wanted some original art, but don’t have $150 for a Locus page (or $100 for a SNH page), you can get some anyway!

The original art of every panel on every page from pages 40 through 52 are for sale for $10 each. This is brush & ink artwork (sometimes pen & ink, but rarely) at 10″ wide and 5″ tall, on a sheet of regular 8.5″x11″ printer paper.

It’s gonna be $5 more for an envelope and postage, but that’s good for everyone, no matter where you live. And that $5 is good no matter how many panels you want.

If you’re interested, head over to the Locus store and scroll all the way to the bottom for more information and where you can email me about it.

And those of you who have been waiting for Locus trade paperbacks will be happy to see that the first four are on sale! Finally. Jeez!

TPB 5 should be on sale soon–I’m still waiting on the test copy to get back. I’m putting together TPB 6 this week, and TPB 7 should be done next week.

Every TPB I’ve had made so far looks absolutely fantastic. Ka-Blam prints from RGB files, not CMYK, so all the glow effects and funky lighting absolutely shines. Check ’em out!

And stop by here next week! Silk’s got something she needs to do before they get goin’.