As promised, we have some more pages of borders up for your delectation. All in all there’ll probably be around a hundred and fifty pages or so of borders before it’s all finished, so plenty more to come, including some that are halfway positive in what they say. You can find the rest of borders in the strip section.

 More of the same next week, I think, before I move on to some longer comics for a while. I should really get on with stuff for the next print issue too. At some point I’ll put up a list of things that are in one stage of progress or another, and have you, my dear readers, vote on what you want me to complete next. It’s a fairly long list, featuring things like The Silent Choir, The Isolationists and Diesel. Let me know your thoughts, you need only click on the mail button to drop me a line.

Hello from the electronic wilderness, my devoted followers. As you’ve no doubt already noticed, I’m back to the normal schedule of two pages of Live Static, as the story skips happily into it’s second pulse-pounding chapter. As was remarked to me just the other day, it’s hard to see exactly where the story is going to head from here. You’ll just have to trust me, won’t you?

Meanwhile, things continue to move on apace at the grand old House of Strip, as we tend not to call the place. I’ve finished the first page of what should prove to be the next print issue of Strip For Me. Depending on what I feel like, this is possibly going to be an all borders issue – featuring a lot of new material. Then again, I might do something else, as usual. Let me know what you think.

I’ve also been trying to get to grips with the oncoming digital age, with some practice on the old Wacom tablet. I’m not there yet, I don’t think, but I’ve been surprised by how friendly it is proving to be. I’m toying with the idea of producing future Silent Choir installments in an entirely digital manner. It’s as good a place to start, as any, I think, and the style of the strip is all over the place already as it is.

There’s an exciting bit coming up in a second, which is why this week’s news section isn’t like the movie 300 in any way. Instead, you’ll find a news update that is internally consistant, non-repetitive and doesn’t make you want to leave half-way through. So let’s get on with it, shall we?

First up! New pages of The Silent Choir are now posted for your delight. There were a fair few people came up and asked about the choir at the Thing last week, and the questions seemed to all run the same way. How long is it going to be, and when will it be finished? Well, I reckon that the complete choir will be one hundred pages in length, which means there’s still around twenty-five weeks of strips to run, at two strips a week. Do remember to have a poke around the pictures, by the way, there are a lot of hidden links that should help you understand the story with a little more clarity. Or perhaps deepen your confusion…

The Thing, by the way, went well. It was a great little show, with a fun atmosphere. I’m not going to embarrass myself by attempting to name all the people that made it so much fun. You all know who you are. Probably the most wondrous part of the whole endeavor was all the comics with me in them. Two of which were on the table I sat at. This tidily leads us on to the paragraph.

Here’s the exciting part: if you go on over to the shop section of this very website, you’ll be able to purchase for yourselves the newest issue of Strip For Me, which made it’s debut at the Thing last week. It looks a lot like this:

Actually, it pretty much looks exactly like that. The latest issue is one long story entitled Empty Canvas, as the cover suggests, and it’s a little different that usual. Oh, there’s scars and art and tragedy, like there always is, so don’t you worry. Some people have said that it feels a little lighter than usual, and maybe that is true. I’m still getting used to it, to be honest. I’ll be able to tell you exactly what I think about it at some point in the future, no doubt. It’s all new, and not on the site, so order it with all haste. You won’t regret it!

Also in the shop section you will be able to find the first issue collecting The Rule of Death, the strip that I have been illustrating over the top of Mr Goodbrey’s scripts. This one looks a lot like this:

Again – it’s thee to buy, people! You can find the newest episodes of Rule of Death at serializer, or on this very site, every Friday.

So that’s your lot. Get on over to the shop and stop bothering me. I’m off to work on the next newest thing to delight your eyes.

All raise your glasses!

Hello, my friendly fellows. Welcome to the latest update in the long list of updates that I have perpetrated upon this here website. As always, we have two new pages of The Silent Choir, which are here and here. Do enjoy, we’re over the halfway point now, and there’s plenty of mysteries left to reveal….

What other news? Not too much this week, as I quietly work away on both The Silent Choir and The Rule of Death. However, young Mr Oliver Smith has been saying nice things about the newest issue of Strip for Me over at TRS2. Go on over and listen to his recommendation, why don’t you?

Okay, so if you’ve visited before you’ll see that this is a bit different from the way that it’s been in the past.  I’ve shifted this news page over to LiveJournal in order to allow comments and to let people add the page to their feeds and whatnot.  It’s maybe not the best of solutions, but I’ll be interested in hearing what you all think about this little change.

Anyway – on with this week’s entertainment.  There are new pages of The Silent Choir up, as there are most weeks.  If you’ve not seen this strip before, then here’s a little catch up.

“Something happened eight years ago.

“On the last night of a tour of European Cathedrals, a member of a school choir died.

“100 lives were affected by his death. Some of them saw something that night in Paris, something they can’t remember or won’t remember. Some of them have wondered what happened, letting the idea of it grow vast in their heads. Some of them have just got on with their lives, as best they could.

“None of them have sung since.

“The Silent Choir is a hundred very short stories that show where the members of the choir have found themselves in the eight years since the accident. Through the stories we get a fragmented view of what happened that night, and see how the events have affected the people involved. We see connections between the people who have stayed in touch and those who no longer speak to each other. It’s about memories and aspirations and regrets. It’s a mystery. It’s a horror story. It’s a melodrama and a romance and a comedy.

“It’s The Silent Choir.”

Okay… In other comic news we find that I’ve actually managed to finished one of the scripts that I’ve had lying outstanding for far too long already.  I’m quite pleased with it too – more news when news is to be had.  Aside from that I’ve been busy rescanning Live Static in order to do a decent print copy, and to reletter the whole damned thing.  Busy times, folks.  Busy times.

Right. Off to work on something else.  Do enjoy your holidays, if you have any, and feel free to drop me a line…

Hullo, people out in the land of internetdom. Welcome to the latest update to Strip For Me, the comic of unfriendly romance.  As usual for a Sunday, we have two new pages of our feature story, The Silent Choir, and these can be found here and here.  For those of you who haven’t been following the series, there’s plenty time to catch up as we’ll be going for another few weeks before it’s finished.  If you’re wondering what it’s all about, well, it looks like this:

And it’s about a hundred stories long.  There’s plenty to explore at the index of The Choir itself.

Not much else in other news – I continue to work on relettering Live Static, and have been getting ahead on The Rule of Death again.  So work continues apace, but there’s nothing that you get to see until I feel like sharing… there’s more news to come though… there always is.

Maybe next time!

So, another week and another update.  You’ll all be very excited to find out that you’ll be able to look at the newest pages of The Silent Choir right here today.  That’s correct, if you point your browser either here or here, you’ll be able to see the newest two pages of our current strip.

Well, I say newest.  I’ve been hard at work this weekend, as I always try to be, but this time I managed to get a bunch of pages drawn and inked, and a few more in place for coming weeks.  So there are newer pages, but you’ll have to wait a little longer for them…

Don’t worry though, we do this every Sunday.

Also, just this evening finished the art all the way up to the end of the current chapter of The Rule of Death, which means that Mr Goodbrey is going to have to write me some new pages when he gets back from his transatlantic adventures.

Next week, excitingly, expect more of the same.

Sunday brings, as usual, a new update on the good ship Strip For Me, with two new pages of The Silent Choir added to the total.  I’ve also gone back into the old episodes and added some new links to help you navigate around the pages.  There are links within links on most of the Choir pages – just roll your cursor over the images to find them.

In other news – I’ve been very lazy this week, and I have drawn very little, but I have managed to complete another script in the Wolfboy sequence.  This will be drawn, at a much later date, by a special secret artist, who I’ll tell you all about when he does some drawing!  I tell you though, it’s nice having someone else doing the pictures – that’s the bit that I find hardest, after all.

And so it is!  There’s two new pages of The Silent Choir up for your reading pleasure.  I hope that you’ll be as welcoming of Grace Campbell and Irene Budd as I am.  I mean, they’ve not had the best of times, so it’d be nice to be nice.

More Silent Choir next week.

Yup, it’s that time of the week again.  So, two new members of The Silent Choir for you to take a look at.  This week Kristine Reilly and Laurel Walters join the company.  Make them feel welcome, won’t you?