Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Page 196 - Things to Remember
I'm really happy with how quickly and how well this page came together. The face and shadows I'm particularly happy with.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
ARRRG!
The page is done, but every time I try to FTP it I cannot get it to transfer. I don't know if it's something wrong with the program, the server, my internet connection, or just the %$*& world is out to get me today. I've sent the file to my work email and I'll try tomorrow morning to upload from there. In the meantime, I'm posting today's page to the Gallery (see link on the right of where the comic should be) until I can get the internet to stop being a jerk.
Friday, January 8, 2010
GONE FISHIN' - In Hawaii
I will be away from all internet from January 9th through the 17th. As such, I will not be able to reply to notes or questions during this time. Nor, obviously, to update. I'm sorry things have been so on-and-off the past few weeks. The holidays are killin' me. In a good-for-me, bad-for-my-projects kind of way.
SoG will update again on the 19th/20th, depending on your time zone.
SoG will update again on the 19th/20th, depending on your time zone.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Page 194 - Thank you, for everything
In a lot of ways, this page is also a thank you from me to all of you, my faithful readers. As many of you have guessed by now, Shades of Grey is finally reaching the ending I planned for it over seven years ago. We have only a few final loose ends to tie up and the story will be over.
However, it will NOT be the end of my involvement in comics. I have three projects in the works right now, two of which are new comics stories and one that is an Original Character Tournament (OCT), just released at the start of this month. Which brings me to the focus of this post.
As some of you may know, for the past several months I have been participating in an OCT called Oberon’s Garden. While I expected it to be fun and challenging, there was another element that I did not anticipate. That element was the seemingly-spontaneous birth of a micro-community, from which I have made real flesh-and-blood friends. It was this element, more than anything else, that made me want to start my own OCT project.
Now I have released Project Minotaur, an OCT set in Greek myth with a scifi twist. To put it in a phrase, it’s “godpunk”. While I want this to be a fun and challenging opportunity, I also want to help foster a community that values the same thing I do: Quality storytelling. I want this event to serve as a vehicle to support storytellers, no matter what medium they use, and help them grow. I want Project Minotaur to raise people up to start stories of their own, that focus on character depth and creativity rather than fancy art to cover a lack of substance.
So that is my hope, but it is one that I can’t realize alone. I need your help.
All told, my corner of the internet is a small one. At my latest estimation, there are about a thousand of you, and while that seems like a lot to me, I know it is relatively little in the eyes of the internet. However, if each one of you posted a link to Project Minotaur in your blog, your facebook account, your favorite forum, your website, or even just told a friend, the potential impact this event could have increases exponentially. I have made codes available for you above this box. All you have to do is copy and paste the HTML.
I don’t generally ask much of you, but I have poured a lot of work and love into this project and I need your help, support, and participation if it’s going to succeed.
Please, help me make this event something great.
Sincerely,
Robin Dempsey
However, it will NOT be the end of my involvement in comics. I have three projects in the works right now, two of which are new comics stories and one that is an Original Character Tournament (OCT), just released at the start of this month. Which brings me to the focus of this post.
As some of you may know, for the past several months I have been participating in an OCT called Oberon’s Garden. While I expected it to be fun and challenging, there was another element that I did not anticipate. That element was the seemingly-spontaneous birth of a micro-community, from which I have made real flesh-and-blood friends. It was this element, more than anything else, that made me want to start my own OCT project.
Now I have released Project Minotaur, an OCT set in Greek myth with a scifi twist. To put it in a phrase, it’s “godpunk”. While I want this to be a fun and challenging opportunity, I also want to help foster a community that values the same thing I do: Quality storytelling. I want this event to serve as a vehicle to support storytellers, no matter what medium they use, and help them grow. I want Project Minotaur to raise people up to start stories of their own, that focus on character depth and creativity rather than fancy art to cover a lack of substance.
So that is my hope, but it is one that I can’t realize alone. I need your help.
All told, my corner of the internet is a small one. At my latest estimation, there are about a thousand of you, and while that seems like a lot to me, I know it is relatively little in the eyes of the internet. However, if each one of you posted a link to Project Minotaur in your blog, your facebook account, your favorite forum, your website, or even just told a friend, the potential impact this event could have increases exponentially. I have made codes available for you above this box. All you have to do is copy and paste the HTML.
I don’t generally ask much of you, but I have poured a lot of work and love into this project and I need your help, support, and participation if it’s going to succeed.
Please, help me make this event something great.
Sincerely,
Robin Dempsey
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