Curled Whisper p17 – Goodbye
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Curled Whisper p17 – Goodbye

by on 08/09/2013 at 12:01 AM
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I’m HERE! Stop panicking everybody! Oh lordy do I have some persistent readers – sooo many comments and emails, and…. I’m soorry.
I disappeared from life for a good three months, as I undertook the biggest, baddest project for Mythbusters I’ve ever had the over-enthusiasm to accept. Plus freelance gigs. I haven’t been sleeping much – just ask Ian, alone and crying in an empty bed.

As the demands for a new post piled up (and my guilt grew heavier) I managed to halfway finish an ‘explanation’ post for my absence. But then YOU guys got SO vocal that this weekend I said ‘screw it’, and I distracted myself from the federal election and it’s incredibly depressing result to give you THIS!

Thanks actually. This page was very cathartic for me. 🙂

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Dust of the Earth

by on 18/07/2013 at 3:39 PM
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While it might not be quite this crowd’s scene, I’d like everyone to know I’m writing a novel.

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It’s a cyberpunk story. So I can imagine that might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but if anyone here happens to like their humanoid sci-fi as well as their anthro fantasy, this is also on the table.

Basic story is we’ve got two international thieves who go by the handles of Dust and Tachi. They’ve just pulled off the heist of the century and stolen the world’s first truly sentient artificial intelligence.
Now all they have to do is live long enough to deliver it to their buyers. Pity Tachi’s relatives, a ruthless cabal of cyborg assassins calling themselves ‘Righteous Chrome Fist’ have been contracted to retrieve the A.I.

It’s more ‘the Matrix’ than ‘Neuromancer’. But if anyone here has a taste for hard sci-fi I’d really like to hear your opinions on what I’ve got, particularly if I’ve got something wrong.

One thing I do stress is that this is just a first draft, so feedback is very much appreciated. I’ve written a lot more chapters than the five currently online, so for the next little while weekly updates are guaranteed.

Hope everyone likes it, please read and review.

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Strip Search

by on 25/05/2013 at 5:52 PM
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Hey everyone.

Just in case we have a reader that hasn’t seen the need to check out Penny Arcade TV yet, I have good news: There is a reality show on the internets right now that isn’t all about watching arrogant people fail and flip out.
Penny Arcade teamed up with my favourite online sketch comedy act, Loading Ready Run to produce Strip Search. The show is basically America’s next top webcomic artist. It follows the usual reality TV show format of throwing 12 webcomic artists in a house and making them compete with each other in a variety of interesting challenges, including an elimination round between two artists every three episodes to slowly whittle them down to one contestant.

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What’s really interesting about this show is the lack of executive meddling. The contestants were selected purely on their artistic merits, not because the producers wanted someone to be the bitch and someone to be the arrogant elitist. Which comes out in the show, everyone is having fun in the competitions, none of the contestants enjoy the opportunity to put any of their peers up for elimination. Tycho and Gabe even jokes about it. ‘You mean to tell me our efforts to create a high-stress, competitive environment have resulted in some kind of artists commune?’

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When almost every other reality show is about bitches voting the people they hate off the island or master chiefs turning their nose up at an amateur’s cooking or Gordon Ramsey going ballistic at someone it’s nice to know that when you step away from the TV execs pandering to the lowest aspects of our culture that there are still people willing to be nice to each other even as they compete professionally.

It’s on Penny Arcade TV on their website and their youtube channel. If you’re not already on it, check it out.

Ian (Hey look, the writing guy actually wrote something).

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Where are we?!

by on 13/05/2013 at 3:28 AM
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Yo! It’s been forever I know.
I’ve wrote the following in a comments thread but figured I’d broadcast it here too.
It’s been ages since we’ve updated, and I could tell you the usual weepy story of artists everywhere – life is busy in the best wonderful, wierd-new-opportunities-sense.
Honestly I’ve had a blast the last couple of months getting into the mythbusters animation, and doing fun arty things I never had the time for when I was trying to do enough freelance stuff to stay alive (ergo, every waking hour of the day!) I think I’ll put up an ‘excuses’ blog post once I’ve done the next comic, so at the very least you can see more art and some of the other cool artists I’ve worked with.

But I do have a duty to you faithful readers, and I’ve felt a little nagging guilt and shame with every passing week without a new post 🙁
I’m at the line art stage of the new page right now, so the full colored update will be up by Friday.

I’ll let you in on a little secret too… I’ve been putting things into place to animate a part of the Red Tales saga. I won’t let on too much, but after the Mafekin story arc, be prepared for a new kind of update 🙂

Thanks, as always, for your patience and enjoyment of our beloved baby, RedTails.
Cheers,
Katie

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SupaNova Sydney and our first print run

by on 05/06/2012 at 8:46 PM
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Good news everyone!

Katie and I are taking Red Tails to our first convention. As the title suggests we will be at SupaNova in Sydney from June 15-17. We will be sharing booth Q3 with the ACT Comic meet who will be promoting the wonderful ‘Beginnings’ comic anthology (which Katie also provided a submission for). We are putting together several prints of your favourite Red Tails characters for sale and we’d like your help in deciding what the designs should be.

So far we have two definite designs for prints but they both feature Raoud, so unless your idea is awesomely original we’re full up on Raoud. Other designs we’re looking at is the cover from Ch 05: The Heist and Enola’s Rocketeering Adventure (see Below)

Katie is also looking at doing some new art for the Wolves and the Rabbits, but if anyone has something they’d really like to see in a print let us know Katie is willing to bow to the masses on this one and that doesn’t happen often.

Enjoy.

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Guesty for Emma

by on 28/05/2012 at 4:59 PM
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I lovely lass by the label of ‘Emma-Jean’ has gone gallivanting off the Sweden or somewhere, and so has asked to me to provide a guest strip for her webcomic ‘Deep and Meaningless’.
If you’d like to see something that I almost NEVER do (to whit, draw human-shaped things) then pay a little visit to deepmeaningless.com

Tally ho.

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