Thursday | October 22nd, 2009
GOODBYE, CRESTFALLEN?

FIRST OF ALL…

BIG THANK YOU to everyone who’s been following GOODBYE CRESTFALLEN week after week for the past 600 years. (It’s been 600 years, right? Seems like 600.) I really do appreciate you guys coming here week after week, month after month, decade after decade, supporting the comic and making me feel like I’m not just screaming, feebly, into a hideously empty void. You have rendered me VOID-LESS, and I am enjoying it quite a lot indeed!

I especially appreciate all you comment-leaving types out there (and not just for the free spell-checking you provide). All the guessing and theorizing and whatnot is just BRILLIANT… I think some of you (Alphatroll) have given more thought to how the witching world works than *I* have. (Was that MATH in there??)

(You are strongly encouraged to continue speculating wildly in the official-type Serenity Rose forum, Bubblegum Noir.)

SO.

I guess the question is…

WHEN IS VOLUME 3?

SOON.

Well… hopefully soon, anyway. My policy is that I won’t start Serenity’s next story until I’m ABSOLUTELY 100% NO-SCREWING-AROUND-HERE POSITIVE I can tear through all 120-some-odd pages, two per week, until it’s done. It takes a long, long, veryvery long time to render out these Serenity Rose pages, unfortunately, and it’s very hard to balance that time with the time spent, y’know, “making a living.”

The demon Botched Deadline claws hungrily at my mindmeats, and his hateful little imp, Irregular Update, taunts me every night in my dreams.

A Serenity Rose book costs roundabout $8000 to make, believe it or not, so if I’m going to make another one, I need to pile up some money for a while… There are a couple of long(ish)-term freelance projects hovering over my head right now maybe possibly, so that’s good, but YOU TOO can help support the Serenity Rose Vol. 3 Completion Fund…

HERE IS HOW:

1) Pre-Order THE BOOK! And help spread the words!

2) Pick out some ORIGINAL ART!

3) Grab a PRINT!

4) Request a SKETCH COMMISSION!

5) DIRECT DONATIONS! I’m just like NPR.

With luck I’ll have the proper SR funds raised and a nice clear desk within a year. But… of course, if any of you happen to have $8000 lying around RIGHT NOW, I could get Volume 3 rolling by January 1st. Check your sock drawers, folks!

(NOTE: Heartshapedskull.com will NOT (repeat: NOT) be lying fallow during these dark, lonely days of money-grubbing Seralessness. Nope, I definitely have some thinks in mind, and maybe if you come back in a week or two, you’ll see what I mean.)

And thank you again for reading and supporting Serenity’s little story over the years. I am literally bursting my guts to show you what happens next.

BOOK 3 (and 4) AWAIT.

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Commissions: ROUND SEVEN

November 10th, 2009

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Why yes, that IS Sonic the Hedgehog’s pal Tails menacing a Warhammer 40K Space Marine with a “chainsaw sword” while Frank Zappa saunters by in the background with a disapproving look on his face. What of it?

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Bunches more, including one (1) image of two (2) David Byrnes, in the COMMISSIONS GALLERY. That place is getting to be the coolest gallery on my site, actually… If only my whole professional life could be nothing but Serenity Rose and peculiar commissions.

If you’d like to request your OWN rendering of Frank Zappa (or anything else) send your demands to SERENITY@HEARTSHAPEDSKULL.COM. The base price is $50, and $30 for each additional character on the same page. Shipping is all kinds of free within the U.S., and a mere $3 to parts beyond.

I probably won’t be able to dig into any new commissions until around December 1st, so this is pretty much THE call for CHRISTMAS REQUESTS right here… And I already have a few folks in the queue, so if you were hoping for a sketch of mine to wad up in somebody’s stocking this year, NOW IS YOUR TIME!

HERE ARE SUPERHEROES:

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One of these guys is called “Wiccan.” Not to be confused with Brendan “BAD ASS” Li’s immortal character of the same name. (COMIX: Not just for kids anymore!)

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