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Well, its not really an April fool’s joke, since this is a legit page, but its probably more of a tease than I’d like it to be as I’m not sure when the other pages will get colored. The good news is that there is a backlog and I’m almost done lineart for this issue. The bad news is Che is super busy and hasn’t had time to color them. Starting with the next chapter, we’re going to talk about a shared coloring technique so that we can both color when needed.

The comic does update once a month however with the black and white lineart at my patreon, and color comics when they become available and whatever other goodies I feel like throwing at it. (which hasn’t been much often, I’ll be frank.)

Anyway, if you feel like tossing a few bucks my way and see the lineart updates, you can subscribe. I also post the color pages there first, then everywhere else.

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patreonicon And we are also now on Patreon.

Shifters Chapter 3 Pg 40

Been sitting on this a while, trying to work a page ahead or so in my patreon. Been trying to sort out a bunch of things. For those who don’t know, here’s why I’ve been so quiet.

In March of this year, my mother ended up in the hospital with very serious medical problems. She almost died of toxic shock from a bowel perforation. We also found out while she was in the hospital that she’s got Alzheimer’s, and it got really bad while she was in the hospital. She was very sick, and very out of it for some time. We are still dealing with the ramifications of her medical needs, now and ongoing as well as my family adjusting to a woman who’s really becoming quite different from the woman we all knew as my mother.

I’m doing my best to move forward. I want to, I have to. But it has been understandably hard. Che has also graduated and found herself gainfully employed in the animation industry doing posing for a major animation studio. As a result, she’s been working a lot and her time is very limited to do anything outside of her work. So we’re going to have to have a discussion about what’s going on going forward. Right now she’s colouring pages as she gets the chance, and I’m releasing them to the Patreon in black and white. When the colours are done, I’m posting them here. That’s kind of what’s going on for now until I can find something better. I’m trying to ease myself back into comics.

Che and I will be attending Rainfurrest this september. Che and I managed to score a table in the dealers area, so if you are in the Seattle area, or plan to come to Rainfurrest, please come and say hi.

Here’s the usual reminder that we are on facebookG+inkoutbreakTumblrTwitter, and even Livejournal if you are going oldschool for your comic updates. I also post updates on Deviantart and Furaffinity. If you want updates, subscribe to one of the above, I try to get them all when I update.. at least most of the time. :P Also, please tell your friends about Shifters if you like it! Word of mouth is the best way to show your love of the comic.

Shifters Chapter 3 Pg 39

New page. Of course Patreon patrons got to see it first at the beginning of February, which you too can get for less than a cup of designer coffee. *cough* Just saying. Patreon subscribers have been making it possible for me to afford to get these done and pay Che for her time. Although its a bit of a learning curve for me, in terms of how Patreon works, fees, etc, so there might be a bit of adjustment on the horizon as the pledged amount does not reflect the actual payout after fees and such, so that may be happening for March. It won’t affect this month however.

I will be at Vancoufur at the beginning of March. I’m trying to get the second Chapter of Shifters collected and printed, reordering some chapter 1 prints too.

Still plodding along. There will be a patreon stream Q&A this Tuesday, but there may be another public stream later in the week. I tend to stream between 8pm-12am PST, so if you are in that timezone or awake in that time frame, keep an eye out for the stream on social media or patreon.

Here’s the usual reminder that we are on facebookG+inkoutbreakTumblrTwitter, and even Livejournal if you are going oldschool for your comic updates. I also post updates on Deviantart and Furaffinity. If you want updates, subscribe to one of the above, I try to get them all when I update.. at least most of the time. :P Also, please tell your friends about Shifters if you like it! Word of mouth is the best way to show your love of the comic.

Chapter 3 Pg 38

Well its a new year, and thanks to our Patreon peeps, a new page! As promised, work was done over Xmas. Working on another page for next month already, should be done very soon, and of course trying to finish the rest of the chapter. Patreon peoples have had this page for a bit longer, and will get the next page earlier, but either way, its good news for all of you! Enjoy.

Still sorting out a lot of stuff, but we’ve made a promise to get at least a page a month (goal on patreon was met), so that’s what we’re going to do. It might be a bit mucky at first, especially after this chapter is finished as Che and I have to work out a style we can both color in, so if one can’t do it, the other can. Bear with us if styles change or are inconsistent for a little while.

In other news, Che and I applied and were accepted for a table at Rainfurrest 2015. This will be our first US con as a pair, my first US con since 2006. So if you happen to be attending that, come visit us! It is in Seattle WA, Sept 24-27.

Our convention schedule this year so far is as follows:

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Chapter 3 Pg 37

So, hello everyone. Its been a while, and what a ride its been.

As you can see, we are attempting to get back to the comic after the crazy year its been. A lot of things have been going on.

Firstly, Che, our estemed colorist and my partner in crime for this site has successfully completed her first year of  her University Commercial Animation Program. Because of the intensity of her program, she wasn’t able to do anything outside school work for the year. We are going to try to find a way to work around this for the upcoming year so there can be updates, but they may be slow. We’re playing it by ear, but neither of us wants to give up on Shifters!

As for myself, there was, and still continues to be a lot of drama around my family, although its taken a back seat to the craziness that is helping run a convention. I’m not entirely sure how I got so deep into this whole thing, but stuff happened and snowballed and I got a lot more responsibility that I had originally signed up for. That is all going to come to a head at the end of June, when the Convention will be occurring, and hopefully, I can extract myself after that point to a more reasonable level of crazy. It does give me a lot more respect for people who plan these events though.

IF you happen to be in the Vancouver area this June 27-29th, check out Northwestfanfest.com. Its the one big summer con! Three cons in one ticket! Che and I will be there in the artist alley.

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Chapter 3 Pg 35

Eh. Still working on that schedule thing. Che had a migraine, I had the busy. But its here now.

Have a comic.

Enjoy.

Edit:

Forgot to post this last night, but a friend of mine from the Webcomic Beacon Newscast, Eric Kimball, is doing a kickstarter for his children’s book project. I said I’d pass the word around. Its quite nicely done, and would make a nice addition to the library of any child.

If you know a kid, or have one yourself, consider supporting his book.

Edit 2:

Okay, maybe its not as clear as I would have liked (seriously, I struggled with this page as far as its composition is concerned), but karma is basically bouncing off ferrah’s face with epic force, thereby slamming it into the pavement. He doesn’t shoot maces out of his feet (which is silly). Originally I wanted to draw him landing on her nose and her kind of flicking him off, but do you know how hard it is to draw a slight nose flick? So I settled for this, I thought it was clearer.  Oh well.

Chapter 3 Pg 31

Here’s the page, a little late due to technical difficulties. If you haven’t heard there’s a huge attack on wordpress sites going on right now. So my host locked access to the login of all wordpress sites on their servers and just this afternoon supplied a work around so we could get into our sites. If you or someone you know runs a wordpress site, you should point them at this plugin. I’ve installed it now on this WP blog, and will be installing it on others. So if you are a member of the site and forget your password, do a password recovery before trying to log in too many times. 😛

In other news, congratulations are in order for the marvelous Che! She finally was accepted to her school of choice (after three years of trying very very hard to get in) and will soon be a magnificent and awesome animator of things. This is potentially very exciting. For all sorts of reasons. Yes.

Enjoy the page.