That’s right, boys and girls, I’m going to be getting rid of the links page.  You may have noticed a couple of 200 pixel banners pop up over on the right hand side. As I figure out this WordPress thing, I realize just how easy it can make navigating the site for you guys. These will open in a new tab or new page depending on your browser settings.

Also, in about a month or so, you’ll see a new little change take place. I’m going to print my comics through Ka-blam! They’re actually local to Orlando, and the quality of late has been really good.  The print job will be more professional, and I can probably make profit a lot easier since I  won’t have to guess at the price of ink going into a minicomic. Everything will remain in print. There will be a few changes, like Flight of the Virginia Dare being a single issue instead of two books and the previous collects of Artist’s Journals will be retitled within the Bunkee series, most likely #0 and #1/2.

That being said, Happy New Year!

I just picked up my books from ka-blam! printing in Orlando, and I must say that they look very nice. The full bleed is perfectly done, the print quality is excellent, and if it weren’t for the fact that I put in so few pages, it’d seem like a proper comic book. Very professional, and I couldn’t be more pleased.

If you want one of these excellent books, you can order them print-on-demand through IndyPlanet. I’ll put a permanent link on the web site soon.

Well, as I’ve been updating on Twitter, I’ve been doing the heavy job search for full time gainful employment here in warm and (very importantly this month) snow-free Orlando. The success rate has been zero and a very promising lead from Monday has not progressed past the point that I left it. That’s discouraging, but I’ve tried not to let it get me down and I’m still hopeful that something may happen in the near future. If so, then this plan of action is moot (Hopefully, it doesn’t materialize after I’ve executed this plan). Now, let me explain the plan of action.

I’m moving back to North Carolina. I’ll continue to scour want ads in the next week just in case a last minute option comes about, but for the most part, I’ll be watching North Carolina want ads more than Orlando ones. Hopefully I’ll have better luck in the Lenoir/Hickory/Charlotte area, but the further I have to travel for work, the more it needs to pay. I’m really looking for office work, as that’s what I’ve been doing for the past nine years. I’ll also set up the web site to showcase a little more design work and maybe get a little freelance work. That part is a loose plan, but let’s go back to firmer parts of the plan.

I still need to talk to my friends here in Orlando to get a sense of the exact date that I’ll be moving. I can’t afford to stay in Orlando long, and once I move the real pressure is on to get full time employment as quickly as possible to avoid prospects worse than having to move to North Carolina. I am trying to look on the bright side of the move, if for no reason other than to avoid thinking about moving all of the books I own again. I do look forward to attending Sunday meetups with the Gastonia Society for FreeThought. I hope to be able to attend HeroesCon, which is something I may not have been able to do from down here. I do look forward to being close to my family, since they are growing older. I most importantly look forward to making my life better. The past four months have been hard, and next few weeks will be harder, as I have to leave good friends that have supported me as I made a huge transition. They also got me drawing again, and that is something that I will not let ebb away from the drawing sessions.

The drawing being brought up, let me assure you that I’ll try to keep the strip on weekly Monday updates. A week may get missed in the near future, but not in the next two weeks. The great thing about ComicPress is that I can pre-load the updates. I’m also going to reprint Jet-Pack Jenny and the Flight of the Virginia Dare with Ka-Blam, in one volume with annotations at the back of the book. Bunkee #5 will be coming as well, again, with annotations towards the back of the book.

In the meantime, please check out the commissions page, the shop page and my Etsy store if you want to help out in any way. Commissions may take a little longer as I’ll be spending a lot of time packing up boxes, but I will get to any requests as quickly as possible.

There’s a Jet-Pack Jenny Facebook fan page

I set it up months ago, but completely forgot about it until I was searching for someone’s profile on Facebook and saw that I had gotten an extra fan, that was not one of my fiends on Facebook. Now it’s always neat to know that someone likes your work not just because they know you. So I used the little “suggest to friends” link and now there’s a couple dozen fans of Jet-Pack jenny on Facebook. Of course I know all but one of them already through Facebook.

So what do you get by being a fan of Jet-Pack Jenny on Facebook? Well, you will get first peeks of the new strip as soon as it’s posted. In most cases, the strip is uploaded at least 24 hours in advance. This week’ll be a little earlier. I also hope to use the photos section to show some sketches and stuff that’s related to Jet-Pack Jenny, but really only have a place in a final collected edition that has a sketchbook section.

By being a fan, you’ll get extra stuff, but it’ll also be the first place I break news about new collections, such as a collected Flight of the Virginia Dare. I’m going to print it through ka-blam! so it’ll be able to be purchased as a print-on-demand item. Ka-blam! does good work, and if you’ve never bought one of the books that they’ve printed because you were worried about print quality, you really need to get one. I can’t print mini-comics at the same cost, and the time-saving element alone is a great bonus.

So what are you waiting for?