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,