You can buy Volume 1 of Even in Arcadia in my store. There’s also a Limited Sketch Edition if you’re interested.

Well, I’ve sure been a stranger, haven’t I? I was hit by the biggest distraction like an invisible brick wall that I didn’t plan for. My wonderful, supportive partner in crime just graduated from the Capilano Commercial Animation Program last week. Being the good girlfriend (or I try to be), I was with him from the time I got off of work until early in the morning helping with his grad show preparations. For almost 2 weeks. It was tough, to say the least.

Now, however, I’m back on schedule. I will have a new page to update late tonight/early tomorrow morning for our regular Tuesday update. I’m also extremely happy to announce that the first volume of Even in Arcadia is in print. The first printing is only 50 books and I’m already halfway out, so if you’d like one I’d suggest sooner rather than later :)

There is also a Limited Sketch Edition available, but those are going extremely fast. I’ve been live updating my sketches to my tumblr.  I’ve really enjoyed doing the sketches, I feel like it’s a way to get acquainted with my characters again.

Lastly, I will be at VanCAF at the end of May hanging out with cool comic people like Sam Logan, Jeph Jacques and Christopher Hastings. If you’re in the Vancouver area, or can make it here, I suggest you come for this show. It’s free to attend and it’s going to be AMAZING. I’m also happy to show some people around for the weekend.

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Here, have a comic page!

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Guess whaaaaat? There will be an extra page this week, Friday or Saturday. Thanks for being patient with my time off last week :)

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I might have an extra page for this week, we’ll have to see how my time management goes :P

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Look, it’s that guy!

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Enjoy!

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“Wait” you might be saying to yourself at this moment, “why isn’t this page in colour?”

Well, dear reader, Even in Arcadia will be going black and white from now on. If you have taken to reading the comments, my twitter or the blog section of this website, you will know that colouring every page takes far too long to be able to regularly update this comic. So, for now it will be in black and white. Will this mean more updates? Probably. As to how many, I’m not sure yet. I want to try out this process for a few weeks before I decide.

But, don’t despair. The first issue of Even in Arcadia will be put into print shortly, and it will be entirely in colour. In about 6-8 months from now, when the second issue comes out, it will also be in colour. So the online version will remain black and white, and free to read.

I hope this doesn’t put you off too much, it was a difficult decision to come to, but in the end it was make a change or stop making the comic unfortunately. I’m always overly ambitious to start out with, but don’t worry, I’m learning. Thanks for being patient with me, I really appreciate it.

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If you are a subscriber, you will also get the fancy comic pages as well. Just because you are so awesome for supporting me. Hopefully with the toned down colouring I can increase the number of pages I do per week, but we’ll have to see. I want to do a few pages first to judge the time it takes.

Thanks for reading and supporting the comic!