Three comics posted in the last day, be sure to go back and check them out.
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Three comics posted in the last day, be sure to go back and check them out.
Apologies to people who’ve come here over the last few weeks to find next to no updates.
Here’s the short story of what’s been going on.
Two weeks ago I came down with a pretty nasty flu. I was totally out of it for a few days. I started feeling better, I went back to work. I tried to get back into my normal schedule of things despite not feeling a 100%. After a week of this I continued to feel run down and had now gotten a pretty nice cold.
I started waking up in the middle of the night feeling as though my lungs had stopped working (not to exaggerate too much but it was pretty terrifying) and I had to cough and cough to kick start them back up again. After two nights of this I finally went to the doctor to find out, surprise! I have pneumonia.
I’ve been on antibiotics for the last five days and pretty much been doing nothing but resting. I’m starting to feel slightly better. But I’m going to be taking it easy for the next little bit. Updates will most likely be spotty.
Februray 1st is annual Hourly Comic Day. Which I always seem to forget. Well not this year!
The goal is simple. Draw a comic for every hour you’re awake of something you did that hour.
Other hourly comics can be found here
A bunch of people have been asking me where the 2010 calendar is. Well it’s right here.
Featuring 12 of the best comics from the past year.
Zazzle has an awesome deal going right now where you can get 44.4% off if you use the code CALENDARS998. That means you can get this calendar for $11.65 until December 10th. Which is pretty sweet deal.
Books have arrived!
I’m now feverishly sketching and mailing away.
I’ve got plenty of stock so if you didn’t order yours during the pre-order stage. Order it now and I’ll ship it out right away.
Some pics of the proof copy of Mordant Orange – These Pirates Are Making Me Thirsty. Still available for pre-order. Shipping Late November. Order it here.
It’s finally here. Well almost. The pre-order is finally here. I’ve been secretly and furiously working away for the last few months putting together the first ever collection of comics from the site, Mordant Orange – These Pirates Are Making Me Thirsty. The comics featured in this collection are from the beginning (mid 2005) to late 2007.
I’m super excited to finally be able to share this information with you.
Some of the Details
Any books ordered during the pre-order will ship out sometime in late November.
The website was broke for most of Friday. I didn’t notice until right away because the front page loaded just fine. But if you tried to click on anything all the links were dead. I saw the stats earlier in the day (which were next to nothing)and just chalked it up to it being the a perfect storm of no new comic, the Friday before a long weekend and that suddenly everyone had become tired of the site. Luckily it appears I was wrong.
I think I fixed whatever caused everything to die (…give me a shout if you find something still broken @hypnobee). I was also able to update wordpress (which I don’t think really means anything to anyone except me) and I also updated the social bookmark / share thing at the bottom of the cartoons so now you can tweet your favourite comics.
Thanks to Naex for the heads up of the site being totally busted.
I noticed a serious drought in commenting lately.
About a month ago the site was getting hammered with spam so I started fiddling with the commenting settings in an effort to blacklist / stop the spam-bot that was attacking the site. I thought I had returned the settings back to normal after the attack stopped but I had left the ‘logged in to comment’ box still checked.
It should be all fixed now. Feel free to start commenting again. Good, bad or grammatically.
You’ll still need to put in a username and something in the email address box. I don’t use this information for anything other than pre-authorizing past commenters.
Happy commenting
If you’ve been following Mordant Orange for a while you’ll know this isn’t the first year anniversary of the comic (closer to 3 1/2 years). It is in fact the 1 year anniversary of when I decided to take the comic from three days a week to five days a week. Much like everything else on this site I decided one day to do it and then sat down and did it. At the time I found doing three comics a week pretty hectic but I knew if I wanted to keep doing this I would find the time to get the extra comics done. I was pretty sure that I’d have to give up my second job on Saturday’s to meet five comics a week.
Well it’s been a year and I’m still working that second job (who know’s why?) and I’m still able to find the time to pump out those two extra comics a week. I’d like to think it’s because everyone’s kind comments (and sometimes hate…some people on stumbleupon, their fierce hatred amuses me) that helps me keep the ridiculous hours I do to keep the comics coming five days a week.
Thanks to everyone for stopping by and checking out my goofy comics and showing your continued support.
