The annual birthday-special art will go up at the end of the current chapter. In the meantime, me and Plush Cybele are having some celebratory pie.
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Updated to WordPress 5, and so far the new Gutenberg editor is more annoying than useful.
There isn’t just one main window in which you edit the content of your post. Instead you fill that window with drag-n-drop blocks. They’re all supposed to be optimized for different content, but in practice they’re…really not. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m working on a big chart of Which Characters Know What Spoilers. Any readers want to help fill in some blank spaces?
Current as of this latest chapter…so if you haven’t read that far yet, don’t click the image! ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That’s right, I’m getting that sweet cross-platform linking action by pointing you to the campaign for Leif & Thorn Volume 1!
Closed the Volume 5 cover poll from the previous post, because the winner, by a landslide, is…Blake!
Now I just have to figure out how to draw them for the cover art. Their buff/manly/spiky-haired form is the default one they take when it’s just them and Walker, but it doesn’t actually show up in the book, so I’ve gotta work out a pose that captures the vibe of their femme/Desi form. (Featured image: some draft possibilities.)
Reseda pretty much keeps her standard form no matter what, but putting her and Timothy/Camellia on volume 6 does mean I get to draw Camellia with the softer, less-clean-cut aesthetic she settles into once she’s no longer closeted on the job. Which is nice!
…anyway, all this doubles as penance art because today’s page will be late. Check back in a few hours – it’s on the way.
(There’s a poll in this post, and your vote is also Important, so read carefully!)
Now that the first four volumes of But I’m A Cat Person have been edited and released, I can finally…ah, give myself a pat on the back for getting halfway there, then roll up my sleeves and move on to the next chapter.
Volume 5 is going to include chapters 16-18, plus the short Interlude 4. (And an extra-large batch of bonus content to make up the pagecount.)
Volume 6 will have the more standard set of contents: chapters 19-22.
Which brings me to the decision — who goes on the covers?
See, in the first four volumes, the cover features the most prominent Being from the chapters within…
…and basically, I got lucky. The plots all lined up nicely, so that of the five core Beings on the main team — Patrick, Reseda, Poe, Kara Lynn, and Cybele — one of them was the obvious choice for each volume.
So it would be nice to get Reseda on volume 5, right? (The chapters where she got the most spotlight before that were unfortunately in volume 1, which was taken.)
But based on the contents…volume 5 is much more Blake-centric. Their big showdown with Kara Lynn is ongoing throughout chapters 16-17. Reseda only appears in chapter 18 (plus a few panels in chapter 17), and isn’t pivotal.
Looking forward to volume 6, this is where Reseda finally gets her most prominent sequences since her introduction. Chapter 20 is mostly her big experiment with Sparrow (plus Timothy’s big career change), and chapter 22 is where the two of them make their plot-turning-point road-trip to Chicago.
There’s no other obvious “main Being in the plot” for volume 6. Blake only appears in chapter 21, and it’s her turn to be non-pivotal.
So, readers — what do you think? (It’s a non-binding poll. Don’t hold back!)
Who should be on the cover of BICP volume 5?
- Blake! Base it on the actual contents, save Reseda for volume 6. 90%, 26 votes26 votes 90%26 votes - 90% of all votes
- I have absolutely no preference. 7%, 2 votes2 votes 7%2 votes - 7% of all votes
- Reseda! Finish the main group of protagonists, put Blake on volume 6. 3%, 1 vote1 vote 3%1 vote - 3% of all votes
Total Votes: 29
August 23, 2018
- August 26, 2018
Voting is closed
The good news is, Volume 5 has all the pages edited. And once I know who’s on the cover, I can start color-coding the bonus features.
Chapter 16 was redrawn to the audiobook of The Fifth Season, then the newly-released season of Voltron, and finished off with Star Wars episode 8.
Chapter 17 was redrawn to the sequel audiobook, The Obelisk Gate (it was really good, okay, I had to see what happened next asap), then to a whole lot of the first season of Friends At The Table.
Interlude 4…okay, the third book of the trilogy was out, but the library copy was on hold. So I redid this art entirely to Friends At The Table.
Chapter 18, same thing — it’s a really long show, okay — interspersed with the second season of the Steven Universe podcast. Not because I finished FatT season 1, mind you. Just because I wanted a little variety to break things up.
Final note: There’s going to be a Kickstarter in September for the first volume of Leif & Thorn! A serious print run is more cost-effective over the long term than what I’m doing with BICP…but you do need the cash upfront.
So keep an eye out for that. I’m still tinkering with the specifics, but you can definitely look forward to something BICP-related in the stretch goals.
All the fun I’m having with the Democracy Poll widget on Leif & Thorn, I had to go install it on BICP too.
Starter poll! You can pick up to 3 answers, and enter a new one (canon or non-canon, it’s all good) if it’s not there already:
Favorite ship in But I'm A Cat Person? (Choose up to 3!)
With only six more weeks left to use Project Wonderful, I figured I’d better start learning how to use some alternatives.
(Haven’t retired all my PW ads yet, though — so if you see more ad boxes than usual around the site, it’s because of the experimenting. Bear with me.)
Here’s what I’ve learned about Google AdSense so far.
I’ve officially revamped all the comic pages that will go in volumes 3 and 4 of But I’m A Cat Person!
However…I’m also moving cross-country (again!) in just under two months. So I kinda need to put all my spare focus on that for the near future.
Assuming the move goes as planned, BICP volume 3 will be released at the start of June, and volume 4 will follow in late July or early August. That’ll give you time to save up up for them. And maybe buy the earlier volumes.
Meanwhile: there’s now a BICP/Leif & Thorn store on Gumroad! If you’d rather collect the BICP omnibuses (omnibi?) in digital-download form, the first two volumes are available there.
For the record:
Chapter 14 was updated to season 2 of Jessica Jones, and then to a lackluster Hunger Games parody. (It couldn’t decide whether it wanted to be a silly sendup of the original, a scathing work of political satire, a woobie-filled angst-fest, or a sexy revel of ridiculous kink. Protip: none of these tones work if you keep switching to the others.)
Chapter 15 was redrawn to the latest season of Voltron (they’re all half-size now, so I lose count), followed by the first season of the Steven Universe Podcast. (The official one, with a ton of Crewniverse interviews. Good stuff.)
Netflix just got more Miraculous Ladybug, and there’s also a season of Supergirl I haven’t watched, so it won’t be hard to find working background material when I get to volume 5.
Hey, readers — Thursday’s page will be up some time in the afternoon. I’ve spent the week so far juggling commissions, moving preparation, and some special surprises for next week.
In the meantime, a writing meme from Tumblr:
Inspired by Doctor Who’s “Turn Left:” Pick one of my stories and tell me a point in the tale that you’d change. Something tiny (e.g. “and then Fay chose silver glitter instead of gold”) or big (e.g. “and then Rose was arrested instead of Jack”) and I’ll tell you how that one difference would have altered the course of the entire story.
Feel free to ask about any of my comics and non-comic works — including But I’m A Cat Person, Leif & Thorn, or, heck, And Shine Heaven Now if you feel like it.
You can comment with prompts here, or send them by Tumblr askbox (to BICP, Leif & Thorn).
Fills:
