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Why do I keep volunteering myself for NEW projects when I can barely keep up with the OLD ones?
I unofficially announced this in a friends-only post recently, but here's the official heads-up: Freebird is coming back ... as a strip cartoon in our weekly entertainment paper. I'll be posting the strips on the website a week or so after they appear in the paper. It has its own domain name now: http://www.freebirdcomic.com (hell ... that reminds me, I need to finish the website before the comic's Thursday debut).
In addition to that, I'm doing an interview for the paper, as well as doing the art for its cover this week. And this coming Friday, from 6-8 p.m., I'll be doing a book signing at the Comic Shop in Fairbanks, for anyone who is in the area.
Other stuff ... Kismet: Hunter's Moon is coming down the home stretch. I will be done by the end of this year, probably sooner, and there will be a book. I plan to collect the whole storyline into one volume, so it will be a fairly thick book. No idea yet where, or how, I'll be getting it printed, though I'm thinking about doing it locally. Cover price, we're probably looking at about $20. (It will be around 400 pages.)
My top priority of the moment will most likely be Freebird, because I have a publishing commitment for that one ... followed by Hunter's Moon (because I want, very badly, to get it done). Followed by Midnight Sun. There are also a few other, small-scale projects that I'd been putting off until the new year (basically, art that I'm doing for other people .... in some cases for pay, in other cases out of friendship or reciprocation or what-have-you). I expect that for the next few months, Midnight Sun will either go on and off hiatus (depending on when I have time to work on it), or will go to a "wheneverly" schedule -- which amounts to more or less the same thing.
I always finish projects if I say I will, though ... even if not exactly WHEN I say I will. I wrapped up Raven's Children (even though it took 2 extra years), and Freebird is coming off hiatus this month, exactly on schedule. So, trust me when I say that the interruptions in Midnight Sun will be temporary, but necessary in order that I may keep the other projects running smoothly. Once I get Hunter's Moon under wraps, MS will swing to the top of the priority list while I finish up Book 1 of that (which is gonna run about 120 pages or so, and may be published by a professional instead of by me).
Here's what we are looking at in the way of publications coming out of my still-nameless studio over the next few years.
RAVEN'S CHILDREN
Vol. 1 (2002) and Vol. 2 (2005) are both available. A new RC series is planned for the future, but probably the much-distant future, at least a couple of years off. The books will be sold from my website and a handful of stores. The new series will probably be web-based, but it's really too early to say.
KISMET
Hunter's Moon the graphic novel will be released upon completion. Late '06, I expect. I actually have the material on hand for at least 2 more, somewhat slimmer Kismet GNs (consisting of short stories, both comic-based and prose) so these will be in the works for later. I also have several more long Kismet stories planned -- none of which will probably be as long as Hunter's Moon -- and quite a lot of short stories. After HM wraps up, it is likely that I will get some of the shorter stories out of my system and then swing into another long story.
FREEBIRD
As you read above ... it will now take the form of a weekly or bi-weekly strip cartoon. My publication in the entertainment guide is non-exclusive and I have full rights. I'm nervous and excited about it. It'll be my first time getting out in a mass venue in my community. I am closeted no longer! Not that I ever was ... The future of Freebird is, obviously, very much in flux right now, so we will simply have to see how it goes. Most likely scenario, if the strip does well, is that there will be a book collecting the strips a couple of years down the line.
MIDNIGHT SUN
We're currently about 25 pages into an approximately 120-page GN. The comic's schedule will be uneven over the next few months and it may go on hiatus entirely, to give me more time to work on Hunter's Moon. Then it will swing to the top of the priority list, will update more frequently, and will finish the current book in, probably, 2007. I'm going to try for widespread distribution with this one, one way or another.
There are my plans for the next couple of years. Ambitious, no? But, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Those of you who have been following my publishing follies for longer than a couple of months have no doubt noticed that my plans, and priorities, change a lot as time goes along. Next fall, my publishing schedule may not very closely resemble what you see above. But no matter what, you can be assured that I am committed to my art, and to giving shape and life to the many different characters who populate my subconscious. One way or another, they will make themselves known to the world.
I unofficially announced this in a friends-only post recently, but here's the official heads-up: Freebird is coming back ... as a strip cartoon in our weekly entertainment paper. I'll be posting the strips on the website a week or so after they appear in the paper. It has its own domain name now: http://www.freebirdcomic.com (hell ... that reminds me, I need to finish the website before the comic's Thursday debut).
In addition to that, I'm doing an interview for the paper, as well as doing the art for its cover this week. And this coming Friday, from 6-8 p.m., I'll be doing a book signing at the Comic Shop in Fairbanks, for anyone who is in the area.
Other stuff ... Kismet: Hunter's Moon is coming down the home stretch. I will be done by the end of this year, probably sooner, and there will be a book. I plan to collect the whole storyline into one volume, so it will be a fairly thick book. No idea yet where, or how, I'll be getting it printed, though I'm thinking about doing it locally. Cover price, we're probably looking at about $20. (It will be around 400 pages.)
My top priority of the moment will most likely be Freebird, because I have a publishing commitment for that one ... followed by Hunter's Moon (because I want, very badly, to get it done). Followed by Midnight Sun. There are also a few other, small-scale projects that I'd been putting off until the new year (basically, art that I'm doing for other people .... in some cases for pay, in other cases out of friendship or reciprocation or what-have-you). I expect that for the next few months, Midnight Sun will either go on and off hiatus (depending on when I have time to work on it), or will go to a "wheneverly" schedule -- which amounts to more or less the same thing.
I always finish projects if I say I will, though ... even if not exactly WHEN I say I will. I wrapped up Raven's Children (even though it took 2 extra years), and Freebird is coming off hiatus this month, exactly on schedule. So, trust me when I say that the interruptions in Midnight Sun will be temporary, but necessary in order that I may keep the other projects running smoothly. Once I get Hunter's Moon under wraps, MS will swing to the top of the priority list while I finish up Book 1 of that (which is gonna run about 120 pages or so, and may be published by a professional instead of by me).
Here's what we are looking at in the way of publications coming out of my still-nameless studio over the next few years.
RAVEN'S CHILDREN
Vol. 1 (2002) and Vol. 2 (2005) are both available. A new RC series is planned for the future, but probably the much-distant future, at least a couple of years off. The books will be sold from my website and a handful of stores. The new series will probably be web-based, but it's really too early to say.
KISMET
Hunter's Moon the graphic novel will be released upon completion. Late '06, I expect. I actually have the material on hand for at least 2 more, somewhat slimmer Kismet GNs (consisting of short stories, both comic-based and prose) so these will be in the works for later. I also have several more long Kismet stories planned -- none of which will probably be as long as Hunter's Moon -- and quite a lot of short stories. After HM wraps up, it is likely that I will get some of the shorter stories out of my system and then swing into another long story.
FREEBIRD
As you read above ... it will now take the form of a weekly or bi-weekly strip cartoon. My publication in the entertainment guide is non-exclusive and I have full rights. I'm nervous and excited about it. It'll be my first time getting out in a mass venue in my community. I am closeted no longer! Not that I ever was ... The future of Freebird is, obviously, very much in flux right now, so we will simply have to see how it goes. Most likely scenario, if the strip does well, is that there will be a book collecting the strips a couple of years down the line.
MIDNIGHT SUN
We're currently about 25 pages into an approximately 120-page GN. The comic's schedule will be uneven over the next few months and it may go on hiatus entirely, to give me more time to work on Hunter's Moon. Then it will swing to the top of the priority list, will update more frequently, and will finish the current book in, probably, 2007. I'm going to try for widespread distribution with this one, one way or another.
There are my plans for the next couple of years. Ambitious, no? But, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Those of you who have been following my publishing follies for longer than a couple of months have no doubt noticed that my plans, and priorities, change a lot as time goes along. Next fall, my publishing schedule may not very closely resemble what you see above. But no matter what, you can be assured that I am committed to my art, and to giving shape and life to the many different characters who populate my subconscious. One way or another, they will make themselves known to the world.
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