Hey y'all, I was lookin' to create a fancy comic archive script with an admin and all that jazz, but I found that I just didn't have time. But then I realized my needs were so simple, I didn't need an admin tool, database, or any of that. I just wrote a couple lines of html and reference a simple javascript file that handles the page library as an array.

It's not rocket science. It's not fancy. And there's certainly room for improvement. But I figure some of you might be interested in using it, as well.

"The people who succeed and do not push on to a greater failure are the spiritual middle classers. Their stopping at success is the proof of their compromising insignificance."
-Eugene O'Neill

I've mentioned it lightly, in passing, before, but I wanted to elaborate. Neal Von Flue got me hooked on this site, Stickam - it's like MySpace with webcams. For the most part, it's used by the young'uns to socialize, etc., but Neal and I've been using it for art jams.

Fabricari is complete and available in print. I came home from work last night and saw my copy shipped from Lulu. At 132 pages, the cyber-punk webcomic reads much more coherantly and fast-paced as it was meant to be read. Don't get me wrong, publishing Fabricari as a webcomic, as a dynamic creation, was rewarding in more ways than I can count, but holding the finished product in my hands really brings all that hard work home for me.

The cover was colored by Cat Garza and looks gorgeous with light bouncing off the paper unstead of through the screen. The soft color pallet makes his digital coloring look like watercolors.

If you were ever a fan or follower of the webcomic, I urge you to get the book. Adam and I kept the price low at 10 bucks to help compensate for the shipping. We want you to read this thing as it was meant to be read.

The title says it all. I've been sketching up a storm, taking the time to learn and draw for new upcoming stories. It's been great to get live feedback from folks looking over my shoulder as I draw, so I'm going to up the schedule to two nights a week.

Schedule:
Tuesday and Thursday Nights
8pm(ish) - 12pm(ish) EST

I was reading one of my favorite blogs on illustration, Illustration Art, and I stumbled on this tangent comment; it was so profound that it blew me away. And, well, I had to share:

After taking some time away from webcomics and art in general, I'm itching to be productive again. The only way that I know how to do this is to resume a schedule.

And so, I'm bringing back the Fabricari Art Cam on Thursday nights, 8pm - 12pm (ish) EST. I'll keep it focused on character designs and concept sketches - mostly light, fun stuff for now.

The last page of the webcomic graphic novel, Fabricari: Ad Hoc has been posted. Considering most of it was written and drawn improvisationally, we're really happy with how it turned out. Adam White and I will be working on an assortment of new projects over the next year, to be announced in the fabricari.com blog. Thanks to everyone in this community who helped with encouragement and advice. It's been one massive learning experience.

Fabricari hits 250 strip milestone!

Um. Yay! That's all I got.

Once again, I'm taking the art cam to the next level. I have streaming video of me drawing at my art table every night I draw. The camera is in front of my face, the microphone captures whatever music or swearing is going on in the studio, and it's real-time so you can send IMs to harrass me and tell me I cain't draw straight. I might yell back acha.

Tonight, I did the first live run and drew a bunch of fan art and requests for viewers. If you can handle windows media player 9 (I've been told it works just fine on macs and firefox) then you should have no problem viewing this.