SURPRISE!!

TWO COMICS IN TWO DAYS?! You betcha!

I thought I really needed to make it up to you guys for the poor comic I put up on monday. So I made an even better one. Not too shabby for a days work I spose ;)

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY! If you're not Australian, that's ok, you can join in too with this STRINE it's Aussie lingo mate. ;)

Time to hit the hay methinks.. Night peeps!

Well you all will be pleased to know that I shtayed up late last night and pencilled issue 91. It looks gooooooood. I think it will more than make up for issue 90, which I personally think slipped well below my standard. Despite getting positive feedback, I fell I let myself down with the lazy strip, so I'm making it up to myself and you, the faithful reader by doing an 'outstanding' comic this week. (Shouldn't be too hard to be outstanding when comparing it to issue 90 ;))

So other than that I've been working on a website for my girlfriend. Oh yeah, I have a girlfriend ;)

Check out the work in progress here clicky. Please keep in mind it's a work in progress.. but if you have any useful tips, please feel free to tell me :)

So..

Those of you who tune in regularly will see that, yes, there IS a comic up. Just a few notes about the comic. I apologise for the lateness, it was practically finished a week ago, but due to this terrible illness I have (read: laziness) I didn't put the wording on until tonight.

Secondly, I have to apologise for the style the comic is in. I had a sudden flare of artiness and decided to try my hand at ink brushing an entire comic. While it looks pretty, I don't think it is dynamic enough to be a medium I would seek to do the comic in from now on. Nor is it logistically friendly to organise.

But the comic is up, and I'm going to go now and get cracking on the pencils for issue 91 ;)

So. I needs a knee reconstruction. Yay! Now I'll have a matching set! I have a ruptured Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) and it needs to be repaired if I want to ever play sport again.

Recovery time from surgery is about 9 months. That's until I can train again. I go in to see the surgeon on the 7th of Feb and hopefully he can fit me in the next day for surgery. That means that I'll be jogging etc by about Christmas time. Wow! What a nice present that will be.

So isha be a fun year!

So I haven't blogged in a while.

Or updated.

Or done a comic.

Sorry about all that. But life in general has been good, that has to be a plus right? :)

I babysat my 6 year old sister last night. I tell you what, if Madzy hadnta been there I would have gone nuts. Nah shes not that bad, just energetic, and with my knee being stuffed (I get the results of my MRI scan tomorrow) I couldn't really keep up with her..

So yeah footy training started again on monday night. Man I would have loved to have been out there with the guys, it actually looked like lots of fun. Oh well, hopefully I'll be able to do all of that soon :)

*sigh*

Back at work in the office today.. Blech..

So while I was in Tasmania I managed to do HALF a comic. *sigh* We were in the car EVERY SINGLE DAMN DAY and it's damn hard to draw in a 4WD when you need to drive on bad roads and even go off road at some places. Then when I was getting back to where we were staying I would eat and promptly fall asleep..

I took 6 rolls of film worth of shots of fruit, mainly cherries and apricots, to help with the designs of more cartons this year. And a further 80 or so digital shots which should come in handy.

So I have to go see the sports doctor tomorrow afternoon at 5 to basically give me a referral to an orthopedic surgeon to operate on my knee. That's gonna be fun getting around after I get that done; because the trouble is with my right knee I may experience some trouble driving. I just want it to be good again so that I can play sport already! Why couldn't all the shite happen when we finished footy and basketball? Guddammit!

So yeah, work's pretty slow at the moment, it should pick up within the next two weeks tho. I guess it really gives me an opportunity to clean my office.. Blah, I'll do it tomorrow.. maybe :P

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!

I trust everybody had an awesome new years. Mine went off! I got to spend it with great company (my housemate Mel, her boyfriend Chris, and her sister and friend. As well as Maddy (ur so hot right now ;)) and her friend Alicia) with great music (Tenacious D rAwKd the fucken house!) at a great location (Melbourne's Luna Park. The rides nearly made me sick.. damn carnies).

I only had to punch one taxi, I was quite relieved :P

Comics in the works people, I might be able to finish some pencils while I'm in Tasmania for the week. Ima back at work next thursday, so I'm hoping to get some outta the way before then..

Anyway, I must go pack. Yay I get to go on a plane tomorrow *rAwK*