UPDATE - EXCITING NEWS / HIATUS

As mentioned in a previous post, the comic is finished. It justs needs to be coloured. Here's the bad news, it may be some weeks before we actually post it, why? Well that's the good news...

Myself and Dan have decided to enter a Flat Life animated short into this -

http://www.newyorktelevisionfestival.com/2007_contests_xbox.htm

So you can look forward to a fully animated 5-7 minute animated episode of Flat Life in the future! Unfortunately this will be a huge undertaking in order to finish before the deadline, so the comic will have to be put on temporary hiatus until the animation is finished.

I will continue to post on the blog and try and get the next comic up soon. Also if we can find time we may post some black and white strips or work in progress artwork from the animation to keep you entertained during the down time. Subscribe to the RSS feed to keep yourself in the loop!

A moment for mourning

I have little doubt that the tragedy at Virginia Tech in the US on Monday effects all of us. How something so senseless happens is disturbing. I only hope that a serious effort to look into the causes of these events and hopefully prevent them in future is partaken.

Hopefully the issue of gun control can be discussed seriously, as there surely can be little doubt that if the United States had the level of gun control that all other first world countries share, this tragedy would probably have been on a lesser scale.

That is not to say that guns are to blame for what happened. But neither is rock music or video games. What is to blame? Well I fear that is a question that requires too much real thought for the mainstream media in the USA to discuss. And I have no doubt the usual suspects will be brought out so we can all point fingers. Although Marilyn Manson hasn't put a new album out in a while. But maybe "blame" is the wrong word. Maybe responsibility would be more apt, maybe we need to decide how we all are responsible rather than who to blame. Or at least how we can be responsible in helping prevent it from happening again.

My condolences to the family's and friends of those that are no longer with us, I am deeply sorry for you loss.

Nerdcore holla

I recently got the chance to see "nerdcore" rappers MC Frontalot and MC Lars play together in NJ. Pretty cool show. For those that don't know "Nerdcore" is the ironic juxtaposition of two very disparate cultures, namely hip-hop and nerd/geek culture.

I highly recommend you all go check out some "laptop rap" (as MC Lars calls it) or"nerdcore" especially the two aforementioned artists. You can download a bunch of free music from each of their websites.

I was also fortunate to meet both MC Lars and MC Frontalot, they seemed like cool dudes. Upon purchasing his CD, Lars gave me a "mix tape" CD with some other cool music on it. As well as some new stuff of his own it had a really cool female rapper who calls herself KFLAY. Check the link on her name, for more free music to check out.

SNAFU - We are back!

So after days of server issues (read: my hosting guy messed up my FTP and was too busy to fix it) we have moved over to the far more reliable Eyeskream servers! Yay for Eyeskream!

The new comic is done but we haven't finished colouring it yet. Been a very busy few weeks, Dans been away and the new home has eaten in to my spare time. But expect the new strip up within the week.

I also have some other exciting projects in the works, including short animations and a webcast!