Christmas Cards

Hi! Do you like cartoon drawings of Christmas-related things? Do you know about my Snatter stories? Would you like to give Christmas cards to people that aren't obviously bought at a local shop? If you answered yes to two or more of the above, you might like some of these:

 

Yeah, Snatter cards! YOU SHOULD CLICK THIS IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT DESIGNS THERE ARE, and no that link doesn't just lead to the picture you can see right there. In fact, some of the designs you can see there aren't even on the link you're supposed to click now, but you can still have them.

All you need to do to get your hands on these amazing cards (I mean, they're not AMAZING, but they're definitely not bad cards, and that in itself is pretty amazing for cards), is you should EMAIL ME BY CLICKING THIS, tell me what cards you want and how many of them, and I'll tell you how much you should send me, which you'll have to do via Paypal unless you've got any other bright ideas.

For your reference though, the cards are £1.50 each. They're good though. Nice and smooth,  pretty big (A5) and printed at a print shop from high-res originals, not just chucked through my Inkjet from a jpeg or something.

Quick though, not long left 'till Christmas now!

Christmas!

Keen-eyed, dull-lifed people will be readily aware that I haven't updated this blog since October. Now, I know what you're thinking, you're thinking that's because I'm very lazy aren't you? But no! Emphatically and pleadingly no. I've been fairly prolific in November and really prolific in December, because I have been doing this:

 
Advent-ure Calendar 2008!

This is a thing that I do each year at the SA forums, the premise of which is a bit complicated but goes something like: I play an exciteable, illiterate child, who wants to help out those who don't have an advent calendar by sharing his. His turns out to be magic or silly in some way, everyone ends up sucked into the ancient adventures of Santa during his early life, and fun times, or at least times, are had. All of this is presented in the form of several posts to a thread, at least one per day, in which the child talks the readers through what today's door (or "dore") looks like, and what chocolate is in it. But with time travel and characters from Christmas films.

This year, the whole process has been exhausting! I did start early, just like I promised myself I would, but there's just something about a deadline, isn't there. Until December actually began, I was drawing bits of it here and there, not really getting very much done. Just like last year, it was only when I found myself actually having to do it, really having to do it right now otherwise it wouldn't get done, that I started to really do it. Unlike last year, the workload was something like a a hundred billion times more, because I decided to use proper, (arguably) full-quality illustrations instead of the crude MSPaints of previous years. If I was going to spend December whacking together a lot of drawings, I reasoned, I'd better make them good enough to put in the portfolio afterwards.

Abby liked the idea, and agreed to help. In the end she did what she has described as "some," and I'd insist was at least as much work as I contributed.

In short, the day after Boxing Day was a huge relief, and although I've already ended up doing a new job for someone, it's still a huge relief to have this big project out of the way. When every day's the big deadline, it can get overwhelming.

I'll be posting some more of the drawings we produced for it on this here blog soon, but if you can bear to read something badly spelled (don't worry, it's deliberate!), then you can find the whole story RIGHT HERE!


So, soon I'll have the opportunity to get back to work on the Demon Tomato. Issue two is finished in all but reality, so it won't be long before I'll be able to stitch the thing together and start selling it alongside issue one. Although the print run is fresh and shiny, the actual original pages of the comic are starting decidedly to yellow and curl, and those are the ones that survived that time I left them next to an open window in a storm. So it'll be a quite exciting prospect to actually have a second issue done now that I'm a grownup and can produce these things a lot faster - and that of course will open the door to printing issues three and four, which are new, just about fully pencilled, and dangerously close to being fairly goodish.

What I'm saying is this: if you liked the Advent-ure Calendar, please try reading my comic. It's quite nice, it displays some potential, and it is available precisely HERE.