So! It’s Thursday and you are not seeing a comic. You’re also not seeing a “sorry no comic” drawing because those are, IMHO, a really bad idea – they drain the energy one could use for pushing the next page forward to SOME degree, and ruin the flow when reading through the archives.<\/p>\n
What happened? Well, I went to Furlandia this past weekend. Got Thursday’s page finished and uploaded on the train down, but I spent the train back home to Seattle just reading a book because I needed to unwind after spending a weekend selling, then a day and a half chilling in my friend’s very cat-inhabited apartment. Concrud plus allergies do not make for a happy brain.<\/p>\n
Then Wednesday when I opened up Illustrator to work on the next page I realized I was at a point where I really needed to do some scripting. I ended up writing rough script (and panel flow diagrams, and some little panel thumbnails) out to page 102, which is to say to the end of this current chapter. And starting to organize my thoughts on the next chapter, which will probably be the last one of book 2 – and even starting to think about how to lead into book 3 elegantly. Which is to say “with lots of glitches”.<\/p>\n
I should be able to get another page in the can this weekend, and then hopefully get back on track again! It’s a LOT easier to draw comics when you know what the heck’s supposed to happen on the page at hand.<\/p>\n
Also, some things of interest: by request, you can now buy a big poster of the Vesta space station<\/a>, and also by request, here is a desktop-sized copy of the previous page<\/a>. I should really make a “desktop images” category at some point!<\/p>\n And ALSO here is a signal boost: want a copy of the latest volume of Girl Genius? And maybe some perks? Go here<\/a> and do that Kickstarter thing. The Foglios are a huge influence on me; Rita would still probably exist without ‘Buck Godot<\/a>‘ and ‘Girl Genius<\/a>‘, but it would be a very different-looking beast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So! It’s Thursday and you are not seeing a comic. You’re also not seeing a “sorry no comic” drawing because those are, IMHO, a really bad idea – they drain the energy one could use for pushing the next page forward to SOME degree, and ruin the flow when reading through the archives. What happened? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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