Announcements for August 31st 2010!
Some of you have probably noticed that the page dimensions for updates have changed. This is part of the website redesign we’ve been talking about. In the upcoming months we’ll be making changes to the website design as well, all hopefully for the best. We’ll keep the updates coming as they are for the next several weeks but our plan is that beginning November 1st we will be returning to our original Tuesday Thursday update schedule. That’s right, two updates of Wayfarer’s Moon each week! As Jason has mentioned in earlier posts we will also be adding a second set of stories in the Wayfarer’s Moon Universe. These stories will be featuring various artists and we hope you’ll like them. In order to run more than one storyline and not create huge amounts of confusion we will be making changes to the website itself.
In addition to these other announcements, I have to admit that I have been negligent. I never mentioned that Shon Burke has been helping us out by inking a few pages for us, specifically pages 154-156, 157 and also 160- 162. He’s a talented inker and we’ve been lucky to work with him. You can see more of his work here http://barquiel.deviantart.com/ where he also has links to purchase some of the original inks he did for us. I’ll also be putting links up for that this week in the links section.
We expect to be working more with Shon on some of the upcoming stories we mentioned as well as future projects that we hope to be able to tell you about soon!
Thanks Shon!
May 21st 2009
Woot! I have been nominated for the 2009 Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award. It will be given out during the Eisner Awards Ceremonies at the San Diego Comic Con this year.
 
I was nominated by a reader which makes this even cooler to me, because I didn’t even submit myself!
 
I’m really excited and nervous about this. While this is not itself an Eisner Award it is a very cool one, and it will be presented during the Eisners, and many of the previous winners are now really well known comics artists.
 
For those not in the know, the Eisner Awards are the Oscars of the comics world. If you are interested you can read more at http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_manning.shtml.
-Leigh
Here is our current 2009 convention schedule. Please check back for updates during the year.
Emerald City ComicCon in Seattle WA on April 4th and 5th
Stumptown Comics Festival in Portland OR on April 18th and 19th
Olympia Comics Festival in Olympia WA on June 13th
Comic-Con 2009 in San Diego CA July 23rd – 26th Table L11
 
Here is our 2008 convention schedule as of 8/25/08.
Bell Con September 27th 2008 in Bellingham Washington. 
Tri-City Comic-Con on October 11th, 2008  
Wizard World Texas on November 7-9, 2008!
 
Here is our 2008 convention schedule as of 4/15/08.
Super-Con San Jose CA May 17th and 18
Spokane Comicon Spokane WA June 7th
We will continue to post more conventions as our sign ups are verified. 
Jason and I will also be attending the Emerald City Comic Con May 10-11 in Seattle WA, but we will not have a booth.
 
News 04/15/08 - Update on our first print run.
Ok, so I have just sent issues 2 and 3 off to the printer, and issue 1 is in the process of printing right now.
So what exactly has been the hold-up you ask?
Well I’ve been making many, many small and a few large revisions to the art in issues 2 and 3. We haven’t made any actual story changes, although Jason has made a few minor changes to the dialogue here and there. I substantially altered the coloring on the issue 1 cover, and I did new covers for issues 2 and 3. For various reasons I’ve found that I was just not happy with how several things looked in the second 2 issues, particularly Lily’s face on a number of pages, Iri’s hair, and various other things, so I’ve retouched at least something on almost every page of issues 2 and 3. Some things needed changing because they worked ok for the page size on the website, but not for print. Some pages needed some more attention to the background detail. Some things I knew I would need to change all along and some things I decided to change at the last minute. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve gone from being really happy with my work, to thinking I totally suck, to being moderately happy again. So it goes. Hopefully the conventions we attend this year will make it all worth the extra effort.
A note for loyal readers on the numbering of issues 1, 2 and 3. When we began the comic we had planned to treat it as if it were a bi-monthly publication, and paced the chapters (issues) accordingly. When I realized that I did not reliably have time to keep up with that work load we made some changes to some of the chapter pacing, which resulted in the website chapters getting longer than we had meant them to be. While making these books ready for print it because obvious that issues were a bit too long, and the pacing that we had originally intended worked a lot better, both for story pacing and for page count.  So here’s how the pages and chapters break out for the print books.
Chapter 1/Issue 1 “Spring” ends on page 22, rather than page 26 as it currently ends on the website.
Chapter2/Issue 2 “Crossroads” ends on page 46.
Chapter 3/Issue3 “The Oath” ends on page 69.
We plan to reconcile these differences between the chapter breaks on the website and the printed comic soon, but we have not yet done so.
What does all of this mean for readers? This means that I've finished getting the bulk of my print/convention stuff done and can now devote myself to making new pages again. Since it's been so long since I've updated I'll post page 88 as soon as I finish it. Hopefully that will be by Thursday or Friday (Probably Friday). That’s my goal, but since it’s Tuesday afternoon and I haven’t yet started penciling page 88, don’t be terribly surprised if it’s not up till Saturday. I’ve been putting in some long days to get things ready for print and my wife has let me know that she’d like some of my time as well.
- Leigh

 

 

 

 

 
Dragonflight August 8th - 10th in Bellevue, WA.
Bell Con September 27th 2008 in Bellingham Washington.
We will continue to post more conventions as our sign ups are verified. 
 
Here is our 2008 convention schedule as of 4/28/08.
Emerald City Comic Con Seattle WA May 10-11
Super-Con San Jose CA May 17th and 18
Spokane Comicon Spokane WA June 7th
We will continue to post more conventions as our sign ups are verified.