All Good Bands Have Side Projects.
January 21st, 2013
To you, Blank It is a comic. To us, it’s a taxing endeavor that yearns for completion but also eludes us. I say the comic’s not done and I stick by that (I’m not killing this story until Book 2 is complete), but in the meantime, to keep our juices flowing, Aric and I have started another comic called Kaleiope.
It’s a Tumblr, so you may have to scroll to get to the beginning. Anyway, it’s something to satisfy us in the meantime, hopefully it’ll provide you some entertainment as well.
January 21st, 2013 at 3:19 am
Neat!
January 21st, 2013 at 3:21 am
I have a correction for the first comic. It should be “mor…”, not “mour…”. Because it’s short for “morning”.
Seriously though, this comic looks really neat.
January 21st, 2013 at 8:30 am
i am so excited anytime i see that you are still updating. i check this page every day so i do look forward to when you finally get a chance to finish it!
January 21st, 2013 at 1:27 pm
Yaaaaaay!!! Thanks for the update, I’ll be sure to check out the new addiction… I mean, project. :D
January 21st, 2013 at 11:46 pm
Hey, I can wait for Blank It, even without the little side project. But I must admit, it is really neat, and I can see myself getting into that as well!
“A comic about a girl and her castle. and dumb crows.”
Love it already.
January 22nd, 2013 at 4:40 am
Hey guys! In preparation for a future of hopefully many more pages of Kaleiope (and of course Blank It), if you tag the pages in some manner, then we’re able to use those tags to view the comic chronologically.
Example: http://btothef.tumblr.com/tagged/bttf/chrono (Ryan North’s Back to the Future novel review, as available from the header)
January 22nd, 2013 at 3:02 pm
It’s hard to tell from the minimalist theme right now (I’ll be updating it) but yeah, apparently you can already do that like this: http://kaleiope.tumblr.com/tagged/comics/chrono
February 13th, 2013 at 3:48 pm
Good Sir Lemmo,
You mustn’t forget. For some of us, to read a webcomic is to commit to a narrative, to seek in the work of its author a narrative. It is common in the art form for a creator to update irregularly, sometimes waiting for weeks, months or, on rare occasion, over a year for as little as three compact frames to bring us just a little closer to closure. Closure we often never see. It’s like gambling, a fever almost.
It’s not just you two. Many creators fall ill, some even die; some lose their websites or cannot sustain a life conducive to creation; others lose their inspirations, and artists in general are known for depressive periods which provoke from them great art but tragic lives. Some of the world’s greatest works of art are incomplete, began and never finished yet beautiful even so. Life in general is without closure. Our choice to seek closure in such a delicate and easily disrupted medium is like putting a coin into a slot machine, where the coin is our emotional investment and the payout is the narrative. We don’t always get back what we put in, and we hunger for it.
And sometimes, we wait a very long time.
We’re a patient lot. You owe us nothing, or everything, depending on your point of view, and we wait.
Do what you must. I’ll be here.
Sincerely,
Mackie
March 11th, 2013 at 1:58 pm
Macksting, that was absolutely beautiful.
March 13th, 2013 at 9:39 am
Yeah… what mack said.
March 25th, 2013 at 7:33 pm
I dunno, I’d feel better about it if I hadn’t used ‘narrative’ twice in one sentence. No sense of poetry there.
Thanks, though. Rereading it, I think I managed to show my love for the work he’s done.
May 16th, 2013 at 6:11 pm
Still checking in from time to time. Nothin’. Darn,
May 26th, 2013 at 6:22 pm
You and me both, Mack.
I certainly hope they come back to this eventually.
July 12th, 2013 at 1:09 am
They may, they may not. We’ll keep checking back until the site goes down or the strip ends regardless.
August 7th, 2013 at 8:16 pm
doo doo dooooooooooo…
August 24th, 2013 at 9:10 pm
please bring it back!!!
September 9th, 2013 at 8:03 pm
Still kicking!
November 29th, 2013 at 12:37 pm
come back to ussss…….
December 5th, 2013 at 9:37 pm
Still here!
December 7th, 2013 at 7:23 pm
Same.
January 7th, 2014 at 12:44 pm
Happy New Year!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUTk61K4HFk
Lyrics:
Blood red skies in the morning,
Pitch-black heavens every night
Take them both as a warning
That the winter fire need be bright.
Fierce the blaze on the mountain
Sheds its light for miles around
While the stream and the fountain
Lie frozen and locked in the ground.
(Refrain):
Now the leprous white Lady
Leads Her train of the lost
Leads the spirits through glade and wood
And goodly fields of frost.
Summer’s consort waxed brightly
The tall and golden-haired prince
And She came to him nightly
With pomegranate and quince.
Dead and gone is Her lover
The most fair and radiant of all
Now she’ll never recover
The king cut down in the fall.
While the climbing sun tarried
As if his marches were stayed
At midsummer they married
Mortal man and immortal Maid
But the king never reckoned
What he gives for the boreal crown —
To be god but a second
Ere the sun starts his course ever down.
Through the summer and after
In the sere and brown of the fall
Days were filled with their laughter
And nights with their echoing call
But as autumn leaves smolder
And the smoke slowly drifts through the air
So the young king grew older
And withered and died in despair
Nine white maidens attend Her
Where she treads without leaving spoor
As she seeks her defender
Who shall wear the crown once more.
By the light of the beacon
You can see Her pass through the ring
She’ll not weary nor weaken
Till she finds Her wintertide king.
January 9th, 2014 at 8:27 am
I can’t read it on tumblr! This sucks!
February 13th, 2014 at 7:28 am
lemmo plz y u do dis aric yyyy
May 4th, 2014 at 10:44 am
Yep, still checking every once in a while.
May 13th, 2014 at 7:23 am
Aaand back again.
May 13th, 2014 at 7:23 am
Aaand back again.
June 12th, 2014 at 9:28 am
Yeah. Aw well.
June 16th, 2014 at 7:58 pm
Checking my bookmarks. Refuse to remove this one, but I did move it to the “fallow” sub-folder. See you next Wednesday.
June 25th, 2014 at 12:42 am
still check this site twice a week. still look at the tumble each time. still waiting. please come back to us
July 3rd, 2014 at 9:08 am
Blank It still comes to mind as one of the best I’ve ever read.
Miss you guys.
August 18th, 2014 at 2:51 pm
I suppose I could go back and read Lethal Doses. I never did get around to it.
August 20th, 2014 at 2:02 pm
Guys, come on… PLZ come back.
September 16th, 2014 at 2:01 pm
I started reading these a few years ago when they were on an iPod Touch app. Rediscovered them a few days ago, and to my surprise, they had added many more comics! Thoroughly enjoyed them. I understand the load it puts on the creators, but some closure would be nice. However, I understand “closure” doesn’t come in a few panels, so I guess I understand the creators’ decision to leave it open instead of ill-finished (if that is indeed what they decided).
October 20th, 2014 at 6:38 pm
October comment. Yeah.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:24 pm
Seconded.
October 31st, 2014 at 10:45 am
What’s up, October?
November 8th, 2014 at 1:13 am
Mostly just dangerously broke and thinking of trying to move to another country. I mean, yes, things could get worse, but not surviving here isn’t much better than not surviving elsewhere.
December 3rd, 2014 at 12:29 am
I’ve come to a conclusion… this is dead… *snifff* so I have come up with a final comic strip in my head… I hope you all have done the same… and I hope it is good…
January 17th, 2015 at 1:23 pm
Still here. :)
I hope you guys get around to finishing this sometime, but it not, that’s okay. This is still one of my favorite comics!
April 13th, 2015 at 9:38 am
Okay, the bots have taken over. I’m out.
May 18th, 2015 at 11:47 am
I was really looking forward to reading a few years of updates since I stopped reading in late 2012 when my life got kinda hectic, and I forgot about this comic for years. Looks like the artists did, too.
September 7th, 2015 at 1:39 am
Just found this after searching for anything…
http://lemmo.tumblr.com/