It's aliiiiiiiiive!

Where have I been lately? Writing novels, mostly. (Nothing published. Nothing even close. Don't get excited. *g*) But I plan to get my webcomics off the ground again (yes, I know we've all heard that before, but this time I MEAN IT!) and generally start having more of an original-fiction/webcomic presence on the Internet again.

My website, laylalawlor.com, has been cleaned up and redesigned (check it out). The Kismet site is still basically the same (aside from adding a few more of the older stories). The rest of the site is fairly minimal at this point, but designed to be easy to expand as I start rebuilding my projects again.

I will also be doing a series of introductory LJ/DW posts talking about my different creative projects. There are a few new people following me these days, and even those of you who've been around since the old days (hi! *waves*) came here through different channels -- some of you knew me from conventions, some from Kismet, some from fandom, etc. So over the next few days, I'll make some little update/overview posts for:

• Kismet
• Raven's Children
• Freebird
• Other projects (novels, etc)

Other stuff that's coming up:

• I'm restarting Sun-Cutter again! Tentatively this is planned to begin in April, if I can get a decent backlog of pages by that time. (In the meantime, see the Sun-Cutter tag for the first 15 pages from 2009.)
• I'm going to do an annotated version of Raven's Children -- basically just the old pages, but with new commentary. And I've never had the whole thing online before. I'll talk about this more when I get to the RC post.

It's almost spring here in the north country (never mind the four feet of snow and the below-zero temperatures outside), and I'm energized and ready to make this my job again!

Kismet - Introduction and sample pages

(Several years ago, my sister made me the entire Kismet cast in LEGOS. BEST. PRESENT. EVER.)

My series of introductory project posts has to begin with Kismet, because, well, first of all, it's Kismet and I love it, and second, Kismet has not just one but two anniversaries this year. October will be the 10th anniversary of the Hunter's Moon webcomic -- it was 10 years ago, October 2002, when I put up the very first pages. And this year is also the 20th anniversary of Kismet itself. If I remember correctly, it was 1992 when I sketched the very first Kismet characters on an old manilla sketchpad, a husband and wife team of bounty hunters named Dusty and Elaine.

(It's also possible that it was 1991, but since that means that I missed the 20th anniversary, I'm going with '92. *g*)

Kismet is a sprawling space opera, a series of interwoven comics and short stories taking place over the course of a few decades in the middle of the 28th century. The "present day" is 2752, or 276 in the New Galactic Calendar. Most of the Kismet stories are self-contained (more or less), though as a whole, they build on each other.

Website:
http://www.kismetcity.com - feel free to look around! In particular, there is a Who's Who (illustrated cast list) that might be useful once you start reading. (Not LEGOs. Sadly.)

Stories:
• Hunter's Moon is a 340-page color graphic novel that I worked on from 2002-2006. It is now complete, and I recommend it as a good starting point for introducing Kismet, its cast, and its main storylines.
• Sun-Cutter is the next in the series. There are only fifteen pages right now, but it will be starting up again shortly.
• Kismet City Limits is a collection of short comics from the decades leading up to Hunter's Moon.
• There is also a comics landing page that lists all the comics in chronological order.
• The Kismet library collects the Kismet short stories that I wrote while I was developing and working on Hunter's Moon. (The original Hunter's Moon novella, essentially the rough draft for the webcomic, is there as well.)

( Under the cut - a bit of sample art; one of the pages contains graphic violence, and another includes a visual gag involving a sex toy in the background (though it's a 'where's Waldo' kind of thing) )