Dylan Edwards's Blog, page 15
February 7, 2019
January 3, 2019
More autobio funs, and what’s in store for 2019
Continuing with my efforts to add comics to my website that were originally published elsewhere, here’s the piece I originally created for the 2018 Draw Out the Vote project from Oni Press. Cartoonists from each of the 50 states discussed political issues relevant to their state, and why voting is an important part of addressing those issues. My comic focused on LGBT issues in Colorado.
Anyhow, this is now posted to the here in the Autobio Comics section of good ol’ Studio NDR.
But what of 2019, you ask?
I made a public Patreon post going into some detail regarding my comic makin’ plans for this year.
The TL;DR: version is more Valley of the Silk Sky, including a new minicomic, a new issue of QAT Person, and further pun horrors with Taxonomically Unbound.
Anyway, I seem to be having yet more website issues, so I guess I’ll drop everything and go troubleshoot that now. Cool!
Dylan
Nibbles – Draw Out the Vote: Colorado
I originally created this comic for the 2018 Draw Out the Vote project from Oni Press, where cartoonists from each of the 50 states discussed political issues relevant to their state, and why voting is an important part of addressing those issues. My comic focused on LGBT issues in Colorado.
December 27, 2018
New Nibbles and other news
This is not actually a NEW new comic, just one I realized I had forgotten to post here on the ol’ home site. It was originally published by The Nib way back in June of 2018 as part of their Response feature on transgender stuffs.
You can read all the Response comics here on The Nib’s site, or you can read just my comic here on Studio NDR.
As for t’other news:
I had meant to have enough Taxonomically Unbound comics done to last through the end of the year. That didn’t quite happen, on account of various things exploded (my creaky old version of Photoshop, my website, my other website), and I have spent much of this month Dealing With Trying to Get Basic Things Working Again instead of making new art.
One of my temporary solutions to the Photoshop explosion problem was to download Clip Studio Paint, a graphics program that’s more specifically designed for comics creation. I have not actually had time to learn how to use it due to the various website explosions, but one of my goals for the coming weeks is to at least dip into the basics. Probably gonna make some new Taxo Unbos as part of my practice efforts.
I’m also working on a bunch of Valley of the Silk Sky stuff, about which I shall go into more detail next week as a sort of What to Expect in 2019 post. SO. Stay tooned!
Cheers,
Dylan
Nibbles – Visibility has its Rewards
This comic was originally published by The Nib, as part of a Response feature with several cartoonists giving their thoughts on what it means to be transgender and how that has changed for them over time. You can view all the comics here.
December 20, 2018
New Taxonomically Unbound, new Valley of the Silk Sky website
Just as you feared, there is a new Taxonomically Unbound, and it lurks in these locations:
on Studio NDR
on Tumblr
on Twitter
on Patreon
There is also, as you may have gleaned from the headline, a brang new Valley of the Silk Sky website:
This is, as I have probably mentioned before, a replacement for the VotSS tumblr website. While the tumblr one still exists, this new one is self-hosted and therefore less subject to the whims of content moderation algorithms.
It is also much easier to navigate, given that the underlying architecture is more conducive to separating comics from appendices from random art. Also the tagging is actually useful, since it’s not mixed in with all the rest of tumblr’s tags.
ANYway. I’ll continue to post VotSS comic pages here on Studio NDR, but, as before, extra content like appendices, concept art, character portraits, and all that biz will live over there.
Cheers,
Dylan
December 13, 2018
New Taxo Unbo and some general updates
Yes indeed, the latest in Taxonomically Unbound punnery may be found here:
on Studio NDR
on Tumblr
on Twitter
on Patreon
Meanwhile, I’ve been working away on the new Valley of the Silk Sky website, which is still not ready for your eyeballs, but it is definitely starting to take shape. Turns out I’ve created a fair amount of content for this series, and it’s gonna take awhile to get it all put in place.
Speaking of Valley of the Silk Sky, if you’ve been wanting to get the digital edition from ComiXology but have been holding off for whatever reason, it might interest you to learn that it’s on sale for 50% off at the moment. You can grab both collections here:
The Long Run: Part One
The Long Run: Part Two
Cheers,
Dylan
December 6, 2018
New Taxo Unbo, Mini Comic Con, Tumblr goings-on, VotSS news, etc.
First up, here is where one might read the new Taxonomically Unbound, should one so choose:
on Studio NDR
on Tumblr
on Twitter
on Patreon
But, wait there’s more. Oh, so much more to discuss. First up, an event this very Saturday:
Mini Comic Con
On Saturday, Dec 8, I will be at the Sam Gary Branch of the Denver Public Library for Mini Comic Con. The event runs from 10 AM – 4 PM, and admission is free. FREE, I tell you.
All the deets are to be found at this Facebook event page, so click and learn.
Tumblr goings-on
Meanwhile, what the heck with Tumblr, you ask.
As you may know, Tumblr is, as far as I can tell, in the process of destroying itself by driving off its entire user base and generally treating everyone like garbage. Cool!
It’s hard to say right now how all this is going to shake out, but I’m definitely bracing for Tumblr to essentially disappear altogether, or to fall so far into irrelevancy that it hangs around like MySpace’s ghost but no one really speaks of it anymore.
The problem that creates for me is that the Valley of the Silk Sky website is built on a Tumblr webcomic platform. Now, I had long yearned to make a proper VotSS website, since the limits of the Tumblr site functionality grate on my nerves sometimes. But building a whole new website is a massive (unpaid) undertaking, so I haven’t been in a rush to get to it.
However. If Tumbs is going to flush itself down the toilet, getting to website building is a thing I’m going to have to do.
So I’ve started the process. I have a dot com domain for VotSS, and the bones of the new site are there. It’s going to be at least a couple few weeks before I even feel comfortable linking to it, since it really is a construction zone at the moment, but the process is underway.
I’ll continue to post to the VotSS Tumblr site for as long as it seems reasonable to do so, but know that soon Valley of the Silk Sky will have its own home.
Monster Journey update
Speaking of Valley of the Silk Sky, you may recall I’d created a short story for the Monster Journey anthology, and said anthology was having a Kickstarter to raise funds to print. Well, I’m sorry to say the KS didn’t make goal. So what happens next?
I’ve already been paid for my contribution, as have all the other artists involved, so that part isn’t an issue. The publisher has said he’ll likely run a new Kickstarter in a couple of months, and will definitely be publishing the books one way or the other. So I’ll let you know when I have more details.
I am no KS expert by any means, but I have definitely noticed that campaigns running during the holidays tend to struggle. Thanksgiving week is something of a black hole, and losing an entire week of a crowdfunding campaign certainly ups the difficulty. Hopefully a post-holiday campaign will fare better!
Finally …
I was having alllll kinds of website problems last week. I *think* they have been resolved, though I’m still noticing a thing or two out of place. Mostly minor stuff related to deprecated widgets and whatnot.
Anyhow. Lots going on, and I must get back to it!
Cheers,
Dylan
