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AUGUST 3, 2008
I realized too late that I contradicted myself last week re: effects of the River on various species, so I went back and truncated one line of dialogue in the July 31st strip. Additionally, if anyone is pouring over the strip for subtle details, I also forgot to include the Observer's body-markings the last few days. It was a mistake, and not a plot-point.
JULY 17, 2008
Forgot to mention that yesterday was the MoE's fifth birthday. Thanks to everyone who's hung around this long.
JULY 15, 2008
In reply to a comment about the July 13th strip.. The voice in the last panel is not Crud, but is coming from the thing that landed on him. (Note the square dialogue box..) The font being used is called "Dusharnbi", which is (supposedly) based on the written alphabet used in Sri Lanka. However, as is (nearly) always the case with the fonts I use, I chose it because of the way it looks, not its real-life origins. There are no Sri Lankans living in or under the Mansion of E.
JULY 2, 2008
Voting Reward: Following Louch and Scrof's conversation, here's the latest version of the Forest map. As always, many of the smaller details are subject to change as the plot advances and new ideas occur to me.
JUNE 25, 2008
Sorry for the late update today; I ran into some internet problems which hopefully have been sorted out.
JUNE 20, 2008
I decided I needed to make a more definitive list of MoE characters for my notes, so I counted them up. Seems there have been about 300 characters with a name and/or at least one line of dialogue, more if you include all the dead folks. On an unrelated note, if you're looking for more comic goodness, I updated the links page.
MAY 23, 2008
Today's comic provoked a flurry of interest! So, as a Voting Reward, here's a repost of the national map. And yes, 1. The names of many of these Provinces were inspired by more famous fictional countries, and 2. yes, each is run by a Governator, although, as far as I am aware, none of these individuals speak with Austrian accents.
MAY 10, 2008
Station V3 celebrated its fifth birthday this week, so I beamed up my usual contribution of fan-art. Congrats to Tom for five great years! (My strip refers to character who has only appeared once so far..)
APRIL 30, 2008
The old "Fanstasy Webcomic Dropdown" I belonged to has been abandoned, so ComicGenner phact0rri has set up a new one to take it's place. "Fantasia" can now be seen down below and to the right. If you have a fantasy webcomic and want to join, head on over to this page in the ComicGen forums.
APRIL 26, 2008
Ben Gordon, who dwells in a Psychedelic Treehouse, is engaged in various web-comic-related activities, including the collecting and displaying web-comic logos. He's right; it's interesting to see what various people put at the tops of their pages. He asked to add the MoE, and I said yes. (Mine's on page 9 if you really need to see it again.)
Also, Jon Day, who created for me a couple of pieces of robot-themed guest art a week or two back, now has his comic Esthar Gate up and running. Check it out.
APRIL 7, 2008
I've posted some background info and a cheat-sheet on the Ichyoid font/language over on the Forum, for anyone who is interested.
MARCH 21, 2008
Added the SubShaft 44f guys to the Cast page.
MARCH 15, 2008
As a Voting Reward, here is a repost of a map of another piece of the Basement. As for Speedy the Jibjib.. I'm never sure how big of plot spoilers to issue, so I'll just say that yes, he made it back intact, and add that "back" is a word that can cover a lot of territory. Also, as an example of how some parts of the overall MoE plot are fixed and others are flexible, I haven't currently decided exactly when Speedy did all this; it may have been a month ago, or he may have gone on to die peacefully at a ripe old age..
MARCH 13, 2008
I received a question from a visitor which indicated that I haven't made the current geography as clear as I might want. So, here's a Voting Reward which is my current map of one of the more important swaths of the Basement.
FEBRUARY 26, 2008
"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there."
--Douglas Adams
FEBRUARY 20, 2008
Thanks again for the character suggestions. Some of them I will oblige in the next few days, but plot concerns dictate that I avoid others for now. One person asked for more information about Audra the Earl. I'm afraid that now is not the time to launch into yet another of my endless digressions, but I do promise when Rosemary will eventually hear all about Audra, and when she does, you will too. As a small consolation, here's a Voting Reward which shows what Audra looked like, or at least my current version thereof. (Yes, it's been established in the strip that Rosemary is wearing one of Audra's helmets.) Also, here's a repost of an old portrait of Audra's only son...
FEBRUARY 18, 2008
Feeling much better, so I plow on. Is there any character you'd like to get an update on, before we return back to Rosemary and Sylvester?
FEBRUARY 16, 2008
My strip buffer is empty and I think I've coming down with a bug. So, the Mansion may go dark for a few days. My apologies to everyone.
JANUARY 8, 2008
Over on the Forum, a reader asked some questions about the mechanics of putting the strip together. If the subject is of interest to anyone, I've posted a reply. As a companion to that, here's a Voting Reward which shows how the Mansion looks before being desaturated of color/magic. And, on an unrelated note, I've officially added links down there on the right going to The Belfry and Piperka, webcomic-listing sites which regularly direct visitors my way. If you're looking for more comics to read, check 'em both out.
DECEMBER 24, 2007
Merry Christmas, more or less. In unrelated news, the backup site is working, but as you can probably see, the Oggix shoutbox is now having problems. If you really need to say something, there's always the Forum.
DECEMBER 17, 2007
Ironically, perhaps, my backup site is having technical problems, and there may be no updates there for a while.
NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Voting Rewards: A couple of maps, first of the forest around the Mansion (revised and updated yet again) and an all-new depiction of the MoE's home province, Audravania. As always, the comic's plotline changes the maps, not the other way around, but they're about 70% truthworthy..
NOVEMBER 22, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans. According to my hit counters, I've had a massive inrush of visitors from Stumbleupon these last couple of days. Welcome to anyone who arrived via that route/offered a review, and thanks to anyone that dares to stick around. Also, now that we've seen more Hax-critters, I need to finally come up with a name for the species. Anyone got any suggestions?
NOVEMBER 7, 2007
I added the three Basement VIPs to the cast page.
OCTOBER 29, 2007
One of my favorite websites these days is TV Tropes, an exhaustive Wiki-list of plot and charcter concepts used in popular culture. So it was one of my happier moments recently to learn that the MoE has been listed as an example of one trope in the webcomics section. Thanx to whatever TVT editor included me.
OCTOBER 13, 2007
Someone out there evidently plugged me into the StumbleUpon network, and a bunch of hits came in. So I added a link back. Thanx, and again welcome to any newcomers.
SEPTEMBER 27, 2007
Plugging a couple of sites which regularly send a lot of visitor-traffic my way: The Belfry and Piperka, which both attempt to catalogue and list large amounts of webcomics. And hello from everyone who wandered in while waiting for Thespiphobia to update.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2007
My fellow CGer Zeera the Space Pirate reached her sixth birthday, so I sent my usual piece of fan-art. Congrats as always to NoemZ.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2007
After a long dry spell, here's a Voting Reward: a last farewell to summer. This started life a few years back as my contribution to a then-Keenspace event; what you see here is colorized and somewhat-updated.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2007
Greetings to anyone coming from Brian Roney's review of the MoE, and thanks to Mr. Roney for writing it.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2007
Public thanks to the dedicated fan who wrote up all the SubShaft 44f transcripts over on Oh No Robot. Also thanks, despite the utterly gratuitous profanity, to Tom for the fan-art on the forum.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2007
I'm informed that Station V3 has its hosting problems worked out. On a slightly related note... another of my favorite non-MoE webcomics is Phil Foglio's Girl Genius. It's a steampunk adventure set in a gloriously detailed alternate Europe and stars Agatha Clay, a heroine who is.. well, Rosemary, sorta kinda, if at an early age she had picked up a screwdriver instead of a sword. The strip as a whole is what the MoE would be, if I had drawing talent and patience and all that kind of stuff. Now seemed like a good time to mention GG, as Archangel (sort of) recently reviewed it over on his site, while in the strip itself, Agatha is about to confront Castle Heterodyne, a structure which appears to share more than a few similarities with the Mansion of E. Go check it out! Do it now!
SEPTEMBER 6, 2007
Any fans of Station V3 out there, the creator is having problems with his hosting company, and hopes to be back online as soon as possible.
AUGUST 29, 2007
I couldn't think of any fan-art to send this year, but happy birthday to Legostar Galactica; five years of Lego-based space parodies! On an unrelated note, you should now see RSS buttons here and there about this page.
AUGUST 20, 2007
I desperately need to build up a buffer of strips before disaster strikes, so for the next few days, you get sorta half a strip a day. Half now is better than nothing later..
AUGUST 10, 2007
OK, here's a couple of RSS feeds to try. Lemme know if either of them work for you, and if either works better than the other. The first is from rsspect.com, the second is ComicGen's "in house" feed. RSS ONE. RSS TWO.
As for ComicGen's updating problems.. the comics are going up every day, but often hours late. I have no control over this, it's an automated system. Also be aware that sometimes the comic gets uploaded but you need to click your browser's "refresh" button to get it actually loaded onto your screen. Webcomicsnation appears to be working correctly.
AUGUST 3, 2007
I've officially switched "Mansionofe.com" back to this page. I will continue to update the webcomicsnation backup site. Note that if you're into using RSS feeds, the WCN site has one. I'm seeing about getting one installed here, but I don't know what I'm doing and it may take a while.
JULY 17, 2007
A day late, but happy birthday to me. With ComicGen's ongoing server problems, I'm glad I didn't try to organize any celebration; maybe next year. We begin Part Four this week; in answer to a Tagboard query.. I do have an overall plot worked out, with an ending and everyting, but at this point I don't have a clue how many Parts there will be when/if I reach that end.
JULY 7, 2007
So, I reached 1400 strips. Only 100 more and I catch Station V3! And, on the 16th, I will reach my four-year anniversary, which makes me.. a dinosaur, or something, in webcomic terms. Around that time, I plan to wrap up the current Comshaw & Co. run, and return to Rosemary & Co., hopefully for an extended stay. It's long past time to move things forward.
JULY 4, 2007
In today's strip, the object on the left is the Pales' "Camp". As a Voting Reward, here is a repost of my current vision of the place.
JULY 1, 2007
Tagboard regular ArchangelIM127 runs a spiffy webcomic review site over at Livejournal. If you're looking for some more webcomics to read, or have some suggestions for worthy stuff to review, check it out! (And yes, he's already done the MoE, so there's no need to suggest it..)
JUNE 29, 2007
Voting Reward: a reposting of an updated and somewhat more accurate map of the forest.
JUNE 26, 2007
As noted above, ComicGen is bringing a new server online this week which will hopefully end the recent blackouts of service. While the switchover is happening, there may be further confusion. If something truly bad happens, check in at www.mansionofe.com for updates.
JUNE 17, 2007
The recent Troubles have killed most of my enthusiasm for voting rewards, but since it is The Day, and an actual working father has finally appeared in the strip, Happy Father's Day.
And on a completely unrelated note, I rediscovered this week a game from my misspent youth: Telengard, an early kill-the-dungeon-monsters game. A man named Travis Baldree, who clearly has too much time on his hands, ported it to Windows. While playing Mr. Baldree's version, I was surprised to relearn that Gnolls in the game are gray, snouted creatures who carry sticks. (Vote to see a pic.) I had absolutely no conscious memory of this when I first had Comshaw meet Rosemary and Sylvester, but I must have been thinking about it at some level. The inspiration just bubbles up, and you use it however you can...
JUNE 12, 2007
For whatever it's worth, I'm officially back; again, ComicGen remains deeply unreliable, and using "www.mansionofe.com" is your best bet for getting your daily fix. In regards to the Woman of Mystery's dialogue here.. don't strain yourself too hard trying to figure out what she's saying, because even I'm not sure; I know who she's talking to and roughly what's being said, but I don't remember now the exact words. And calling the Operator a leet haxxor is not all that far off the mark..
JUNE 2, 2007
Starting tomorrow, I will be away from my computer for several days. I've got enough strips in the hopper to cover this, but if ComicGen continues to act up, I won't be around to manually shove through updates. If you need your daily fix, the Webcomicsnation backup seems to be working fine. Behave yourselves while I'm gone.
MAY 30, 2007
ComicGen continues to have problems; the last few days I have had to manually update the strip every morning when I get up. So, if you're an early riser.. either check back later in the day, or go to the Webcomicsnation backup site.
MAY 24, 2007
Since one of the ComicGen admins is making worrying comments about possible future events over on the CG forums, I've set up an emergency bare-bones backup site for the MoE at Webcomicsnation. (I chose it out of the three possibilities offered because the name was the least obnoxious. "Smack Jeeves"?)I will not be transferring the entire site there, because it would mean re-loading 1300 comics one-by-one via the WWW. (Instead of in batches via FTP, which CG lets me do..) Still, if you want it, here it is.
MAY 22, 2007
Comic Genesis appears to have its latest tech breakdown sorted out, for now. I realize that these stoppages are frustrating, but I really don't want to move from CG unless I absolutely must. 90% of the time, they do a good job keeping things running, plus it's free, and easy for me to use; I just dump the daily comic files in a particular directory and everything happens automagically. Still, remember that the address WWW.MANSIONOFE.COM is owned (or at least controlled) by me, and not CG, and so if there's a truly serious stoppage, check in at that address, which I will attempt to redirect to a new location.
On the voting reward front, I've uploaded two sketches, one each of a type of critter who has not yet appeared on-screen in the MoE, but who has cast long shadows in the Mansionverse's history. I'm even not going to say what they are, but I suspect that you all can figure out what one of them is at least. Please note that these are still preliminary ideas, and the final official in-strip version(s) will probably look rather different.
MAY 12, 2007
A couple of.. semi-new.. voting rewards. First, an updated map of the elevator area: in addition to featuring the latest info, it also includes a room I added after looking back through the archives, and realizing that it was the only logical place that said room could be located... And secondly, my reposted Mother's Day pic, featuring the only mother to appear so far in the strip along with one of her offspring.
MAY 9, 2007
In addition to those still coming from The Ferrett's place, I appear to be getting a lot of visitors from the Somethingawful.com forums. If something of mine was actually posted there.. all I can say is.. see how awful my strip is? See the crudity of line, the obviousness of plot? Clearly, it's worthy of a big splashy front-page SA review!
MAY 6, 2007
Station V3 reaches four years old this week; as always, I beamed over a guest strip to help celebrate. Congrats, Tom!
MAY 5, 2007
If, while waiting for my next thrilling update, you crave more webcomics to read, I've added a couple of "new" ones to my Links page. Also, I wanted to once again promote the on-going efforts of this site, which attempts to exhaustively catalogue all webcomic-character "crossover" events. It's also the hub (or chronicler or something) of the current "Crossover Wars", a massive ongoing spectacle involving a whole bunch of webcomics invading/defending each others' universes. I'm of two minds on this; it is certainly an impressive and creative feat of organization, but some of my favorite webcomics are involved, and I find myself wishing they would just get on with their own plotlines. (Yeah, yeah, pot, meet kettle..) The MoE is not involved in this event and if I had been asked to participate, I probably would have said no, for that reason. (For now..) There is one exception; if any visitor would be interested in doing a quick n' easy artswap or crossover involving the three poor suckers in SubShaft 44f, drop me a line.
And on a completely unrelated note, the MoE just got a flattering (and thoughtful) review from "The Ferrett", who does such things on his LiveJournal page. (My only complaint would be, it was the Nome War, not the Troll War. No trolls in the Mansion. Yet.) Check it out as well, and welcome to those who found their way here from there.
APRIL 28, 2007
As you've probably noted, the shoutbox is working again. For the moment. In other minor news, I've once again officially "rearranged" the archives, in the sense that I've broken up the plot dropdown (that white box-thing under the word PRIOR above) into some new/renamed Parts. Part One: The Pots Room. Part Two: Time and Space and Fleebs. Part Three: The Widening Gyre, which is just about done. Starting soonish is Part 4, in which I hope to focus more closely (but no, not exclusively) on Rosemary, Sylvester and Mortimer (and Comshaw..) No actual archive-strips have been added or removed or changed.
APRIL 24, 2007
The shoutbox posting process appears to be broken at the moment, at least for me. We'll see if it gets better or not. In the meantime, I've posted some Chauncy & Edgar thoughts on the forum.
APRIL 12, 2007
Newspaper cartoonist Johnny Hart passed away this last week. In his later years he sadly Got Religion in just about the worst possible way, but back in the day he was one of the greats. In honor of one of his more famous strips, and my getting my ISP problems sorted out, here's a voting reward for him. Thanks, Mr. Hart, and I hope you got where you were planning to go.
APRIL 5, 2007
ComicGenesis has been on the fritz for the last few days; if you're reading this, it means that regular updates have (hopefully) resumed, or are at least trickling through occasionally. I would post my daily updates under my own power, but my ISP is also screwed up and currently unaccessable via WWW. (Which means that the voting reward pictures are also off-line at the moment.)
MARCH 24, 2007
A couple of reposted voting rewards. First, a reminder about who's inside that bottle in today's strip. And secondly, a rough map of the Elevator area.
MARCH 10, 2007
As noted before, I've been skipping the extras lately, but since it was requested.. here's a voting reward showing how I currently picture Hesper the metalworker; if/when he finally appears officially in the strip, he may look rather different. (Decide for yourself what his outfit means..) And another reward features Izchak; it's a guest toon I did three years back for the ComicGen strip Beyond Reality by Orion Gates. It's not canon with the main MoE plotline, but Izchak is being himself in it. The characters of Orion and Laura are of course copyright Mr. Gates.
FEBRUARY 15, 2007
My computer did an abrupt 180, and started working flawlessly again (#$%ing Windows software..) while CG got its problems sorted out as well. So I did a real strip. Still, I have to assume the thing's going die sooner rather than later. The cast list pics are now my emergency buffer; when they start to appear, you'll know that something has indeed gone wrong.
FEBRUARY 14, 2007
I've been riding the ragged edge of disaster in terms of updates for some time now, and I'm finally going to fall off: my computer appears to be dying (and ComicGenesis appears to be having problems as well..) Unless my machine shows immediate signs of improvement, it's going to have to go in for repairs. Since anything is better than dead air, starting (probably) tomorrow, you all get filler which is made up of selections from the moderately complete cast list mentioned in the last posting. I hopefully won't have to go through the entire collection, and can resume regular posting in a few days. Thanks for your patience, and see you when I see you..
FEBRUARY 11, 2007
For those who keep track of such things, I decided that Hopobefever the Ghast had appeared often enough that she deserved to be added to the Cast page. (If you shell out the $5 for a MoE CD, you can have a much more complete listing of strip-inhabitants. What are you waiting for? All the cool people are doing it!)
JANUARY 27, 2007
Way back in December I volunteered as an emergency back-up at the Tao of Geek Secret Santa swap. The poor sucker who got stiffed and then stuck with me was Kirstan Norris, who draws NSTA, which is a well-done action strip about the titular future-state intelligence agency, which is manned by amped-up cyborgs who still manage to be quite human and falable. Check it out!
On a mostly unrelated note, thanks to these sites who were nice enough to link to the MoE without any provocation: Mat Hat Comics, Shadow Dragon Executive Force and Hysterical Ramblings.
JANUARY 20, 2007
Re: the great Ichyoid-dialogue font discussion.. Yes, it's Elder Futhark, or rather, a pre-made font I snagged off a "Free Fonts" website which substitutes (something resembling) an EF symbol for each letter of the English alphabet. I used it simply because it looked nicely ancient and alien, while also being almost-readable even by "non-professional" geeks; compare with the font I used for this Legostar Galactica gueststrip. Neither the EF font's real-life European origins nor its use by Tolkien should be taken as any sort of clue or plot-point. As for its original 2004 appearance being upside-down.. fanwank: It's the day that changes everything! real reason: Flipping, I belatedly discovered, is what happens when you type in EF while using CAPITAL LETTERS. I'll stick with the lower-case version from now on.
JANUARY 19, 2007
I reposted yesterday's strip, after tweaking the sizes of some of the characters. (There are advantages to doing an all-digital strip..) Lately, I've had enough trouble keeping the strip updated without doing any voting rewards, but here's a rough map of the area around the Elevator.
JANUARY 1, 2007
Happy New Year. After today's secret santa art, there'll be a couple-three more days of Snerk and Frowgler, then back underground. Also, if anyone's been missing them (or rejoicing in their absence), the Sunday "Subshaft 44f" strips will resume; in the holiday rush I simply forgot about them the last couple of weeks.
DECEMBER 26, 2006
For everyone who hasn't succumbed to eggnog poisoning, and are still in the Christmas spirit, please consider going back into the archives and typing up a couple of daily transcriptions via ohnorobot.com. It only takes a few minutes, and on occasion it really does help me to have a easily-searchable dialogue archive.
DECEMBER 25, 2006
Merry Christmas for those who celebrate such things; thanks again to Andrey Pissantchev of Annihilicious for the Secret Santa art. After today, a couple more strips will wrap up the current story-arc. A short but moderately important forest interlude will take us to New Years, and with the dawn of 2007 AD we go back, finally, to Rosemary and Co.
DECEMBER 21, 2006
Voting Reward: My preliminary stab at a map of the forest around the MoE, or at least the parts which have been visited to date "on screen". Mostly; there's some new stuff as well. Please note that when I first starting drawing the strip, I didn't worry too much.. or at all.. about maintaining geographic precision. So, this is my best effort at retconning things into position. No doubt in some scenes, according to this map, the Mansion and/or the sun and/or the Spike appear in the background where they shouldn't. If it bothers you, just consider what the multi-layered twistpoint-laden Basement looks like, and remember: a wizard did it.
DECEMBER 17, 2006
As you've probably noted, the Tagboard isn't working. If you've really got something to say, there's always the Forum. Also, I've added a link above to the Comic Genesis "Wikipedia" article for the MoE; it gives you a quick overview of the strip, if you need one.
DECEMBER 16, 2006
Voting Reward: Version 2.0 of the Map of the Country. Still not close to 100% official, but it looks a little prettier.
DECEMBER 13, 2006
Voting Reward: The color version of the Rosemary/Aunt Eva pic I posted a while back.
DECEMBER 12, 2006
Voting Reward: A repost of a "non-canon" strip I did some time back about Roshambo the Warrior Beetle.
DECEMBER 7, 2006
My fellow ComicGenner Kat Lowery does a strip called "Distant Eras", in which a brother and sister are magically transported from a.. distant era.. to the modern day, resulting in numerous complications. She reached 100 strips recently, so I sent her some fan-art. Check it out.
NOVEMBER 23, 2006
Voting Reward: I've posted a rough, somewhat preliminary, map of the country where all of the MoE action takes place, and labelled the Provinces which have been mentioned to date, however fleetingly and obscurely in some cases. One of them will be mentioned for the first time on the 24th, so it's also a Sneak Preview! (And yes, more than one of the Province names is a homage to other fictional worlds. How many can you identify?)
NOVEMBER 6, 2006
I went back and added a couple of links to recent strips, if you don't remember who Lenore and Quincy are. And in a Voting Reward, here's what I originally pictured Sylvester and Mortimer's other siblings as looking like. If/when they finally appear officially in the comic, there will be some changes. You can decide for yourself who's who..
NOVEMBER 1, 2006
Looking back over my recent strips, I've belatedly realized that my drawing program has been bleaching out and/or pixelizing details when I save my strips as .gif files for uploading to ComicGen. (I think it's a side-effect of my adding more color to the strips..) So I have replaced the last and next couple days worth with .png copies, which take a bit longer to load, but look much better. If this change causes problems in viewing the strips, please let me know. I'm also trying out the new shoutbox that was recommended to me. We'll see if it works any better.
OCTOBER 23, 2006
Voting Reward: A better picture of the Pale Camp. Some details may be lost and/or added when the official version appears in the strip. (Which it will, sooner or later..)
OCTOBER 18, 2006
My fellow CGer NJ Huff, the artist behind Emergency Exit, has created a keen music video using tons and tons of shots from various ComicGen webtoons, including the MoE. (Although be aware it's a strip that I edited out of the "official" chronology..) You can watch the video here, and check out the lyrics and cameo list here. Congrats/thanks to NJ, and thanks also to the band "Aqua Full" who supplied the music, whether they wanted to or not!
OCTOBER 12, 2006
If any of you visitors produce your own webcomic, and would like to do some kind of "dress our characters as each other" art-swap for Halloween, drop me a line.
OCTOBER 3, 2006
My fellow CGer Zeera the Space Pirate reached her fifth birthday this month, so I sent some fan art which will be up for the next couple of days. Congrats to NoemZ.
OCTOBER 2, 2006
I see now that I probably made the 44f characters of Chunner and Crud too dark, causing unwanted confusion. I'll think about making some tweaks next week, but in the meantime, here's a voting reward which shows what they would look like after seven or eight baths, along with a semi-generic female Gnoll for comparison. (Do note that Gnolls can tell the sexes apart entirely by smell, which means that to them a individual's "visible" appearence isn't quite as important as it is among humans..)
SEPTEMBER 22, 2006
Voting Reward: A movie that won't be showing near you...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2006
I posted a note about this on the tagboard, but it appears The System ate it, so to repeat.. I posted some spoilers about Mortimer and the Nome War over on the forum.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2006
Voting Reward: A clear shot of a couple of famous historical figures. Well, famous in some circles.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2006
I felt surprisingly sad to hear about the passing of Steve "The Crocodile Hunter" Irwin. I knew he was in a dangerous line of work and something of a goof, but I guess somehow I expected him to live forever, or at worst die peacefully in bed at the age of 98. At least it wasn't a croc that got him. (As I read in the comments on another site, this is the last straw! When's someone going to do something about those Zarking sting rays!?) So, anyway, as a voting reward, he's my quick tribute to the man and his life.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2006
A visitor tells me that they have been seeing "NO HOTLINKING" messages the last couple of days, instead of a comic. Is anyone else having this problem? (The message is only supposed to appear if you directly link to an image from outside the Comic Genesis system; it's intended to prevent people from using ComicGen storage space for non-comics.)
AUGUST 27, 2006
My offline life is about to get busy for a while, and I need to work on building up a buffer. So for the next few days, you get one-panel strips. Yes, it's actaully faster to do one big detailed panel than a series of smaller ones. As voting rewards, here are clearer pictures of the two new characters at the back of the line.
AUGUST 18, 2006
I posted some Talking Rock spoilers on the Forum. And for a voting reward, today's comic in color.
AUGUST 11, 2006
Fellow ComicGen artist Tim Volpe has been kind enough to dish out cameos in the current plotline of his comic Alternate Delusions. And so, in his August 10th strip, Telic the Helipath appears briefly as a trainee member of the Green Lantern Corps. Thanks to Tim for the best kind of cross-promotion: one where I don't have to do any work! (And read the rest of his comic, too, it's one of my favorites.)
JULY 25, 2006
Voting Reward: It's too hot.
JULY 24, 2006
Voting Reward: my profound political thought for the day.
JULY 21, 2006
I've just barely been able to keep up the daily flow of strips lately, so if the updates stop for a few days, try not to panic too hard. While waiting, you can always check out Sandwich World, which has started updating again this month. (Yay!)
JULY 17, 2006
Three years of doing this. As noted, woo hoo.
JULY 1, 2006
Voting Reward: A subtle reminder to all you readers to go back into the archives, and contribute to the Oh No Robot strip-transcription service.
JUNE 28, 2006
In a fine example of synchronicity, this week over at Legostar Galactica, Captain Smith is currently undergoing an Unpleasantness very similar to Sylvester's.
JUNE 18, 2006
Voting Reward: For Father's Day, click and see a small spoiler about which fellow in the strip is a father...
JUNE 13, 2006
I generally try to refrain from going back and editing my old work, but I forgot to add Protus's ghost images in his appearence on the 12th, so I redid and reloaded the strip.
JUNE 12, 2006
Voting Reward: today's strip in full color.
JUNE 10, 2006
OK.. it appears that any decent up-to-date webbrowser automatically blocks the Saybox advertising, so I'll keep using it for now. If you're seeing an ad pop up, it's time to upgrade! Firefox and Opera both have their adherents; try both and pick the one you like. If you insist on useing IE, don't come whining to me..
JUNE 9, 2006
If you didn't follow the link over in the Saybox, it says they are adding advertising. I'll see how obnoxious it is before deciding what to do.
JUNE 6, 2006
Voting Reward: My thought on the day.
MAY 28, 2006
And so back to work. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to the 1000-strip fest, one way or another. As a voting reward, here's today's strip in full color.
MAY 20, 2006
1000 of them. Yay! Thanks to everyone who donated; I've paid my hosting costs for a couple of years, which is what I was hoping for. I'll take down the nag notice at the top of the screen soon, but the store will remain open, if anyone else ever wants a CD or a drawing. And thanks again to everyone who has been doing transcription duty, and to everyone who sent fan-art. The latter will begin running on Monday.
MAY 18, 2006
Voting Reward: Another teaser for a requested drawing, this time of a couple of the scalpsuckers who have appeared in the strip. Buy a hard copy of the picture and you can see the names I've given them. (This is sort of like naming a dog; a 'sucker might be bright enough to grasp that "this particular sound is intended to attract my attention", but they don't use the concept of names among themselves.)
MAY 14, 2006
Voting Reward: There haven't been many mothers appearing on-screen in the strip as yet, but in honor of the holiday, I scrounged one up.
MAY 10, 2006
Voting Reward: The Woman Of Mystery, then and now. Or is that now and then?
MAY 8, 2006
I contributed some guest art to Station V3's ongoing birthday celebration. It's up today, if you're interested. Congrats to Tom for another year!
MAY 2, 2006
Since a generous reader asked for it instead of a CD, I've added a new option to the store: for $5, I'll draw up your favorite of my characters and send you a signed hard copy. I have one of Rosemary done; as a voting reward, here's a teaser for it.
APRIL 28, 2006
Much thanks to those who have added to the transcripts. I do want to make it clear, though, that you don't have start at the beginning of the archive and work your way straight through. (I've been using the calendar page to randomly select and transcribe whatever strip pops up.) If anyone out there's got an all-time-favorite strip, do it up! Also, if you see that I've left a transcription open for further editing, that doesn't mean I didn't like your work, just that there's almost always more detail that can be added.
APRIL 26, 2006
Here's another way to contribute to the strip, and it'll only cost you a few minutes of your time.. If you go back to any page in the archive, you'll now see a button saying "transcribe this comic". Click on the button, and you can type in a transcription of the dialogue/action of the strip in question. Any and all transcriptions can then be searched via that new box at the bottom of this page. If enough of them get done, it makes finding a particular comic much easier. All of this is supplied by the fine folks at Oh No Robot, so thanks to them! (You can also go to their site and search all of the webcomics signed up with them.)
APRIL 25, 2006
As noted above, I'm approaching 1000 strips. As a celebration, for $5 I'm offering a CD archive of the first 750 or so MoE strips, with a few added features. Check out the details here. Or if you're a starving artist like myself, I'll post any fan-art I get for the occasion.
Also, I try to avoid getting into overt real-world politics here, but there's a nasty bill looming in the US House of Representatives that would allow telecommunication companies to dictate (via fees) what Internet content gets "priority" in terms of bandwith. The next step after that is flat-out deciding whether or not you get to access something. If you're an American citizen, and like reading (fairly) free cartoons, take a moment right now to contact your Congresscritter and tell them (politely) to stuff the idea.
APRIL 19, 2006
Voting Reward: A full-color version of today's strip.
APRIL 15, 2006
Voting Reward: After yesterday's mistake.. here's another full-color version of today's strip.
APRIL 9, 2006
Voting Reward: If you're curious about the reference to dead Bugs in today's strip, you can vote and see one, which, in a small spoiler, may look familiar. I'll be getting back to Rosemary and Co. before too much longer, but she's there too, if you're in serious withdrawal..
APRIL 3, 2006
Voting Reward: As the plot to date may have hinted, I have my reasons for not doing the strip in full color. Still, here's a chromatic version of today's strip.
APRIL 2, 2006
I've barely managed to keep the site updated, so there hasn't been much voting art lately. Still, here's a belated celebration of April Fool's Day. I suppose the Weirdo would have been more appropriate, but I figure if it's a woman, it might get more votes. Also, since the Webcomicslist voting page appears to be very dead, I'm removing the link for now.
MARCH 23, 2006
Around the end of May I'll reach 1000 strips. One thing I'm doing to mark the occasion is putting together a homebrewed CD archive of the first 850 or so strips, which I'll sell for a small fee. (If I sell just one of them, the strip will have paid for itself in regards to hosting fees! woot.) I'm setting up indexes based on strip number, character arc, chapter, etc, and including a (nearly) full character list. Now is your chance: is there anything you'd find helpful on such a disk?
MARCH 17, 2006
Voting Reward: In honor of the holiday, random leprechaunage.
MARCH 7, 2006
Voting Reward: A couple more MoE cast members. Not in their underwear, but you'll learn a new fact about them if you vote!
MARCH 2, 2006
Since it was sort of requested, here's a voting reward. Cuz all of the cool people are doing it, it's a MoE cast member wearing only his underwear. (Sorry, yes, "his".)
FEBRUARY 17, 2006
Voting Rewards: Sketches of Protus the Willygig, The Weirdo Who Lives In The Attic and A Weirdo Who Doesn't Appear In The Mansion Of E.
FEBRUARY 11, 2006
Voting Reward: I don't think much of Valentine's Day. It's a trumped-up excuse to peddle candy and flowers and jewelry. But still, love is love. So if you've got it, enjoy it.
FEBRUARY 7, 2006
For some (many?) of you, today's comic will be a semi-repeat. After Comic Genesis didn't automatically update yesterday, I finally forced a manual update late in the day, than promptly decided that for a varity of reasons, the strip for the 6th just wasn't acceptable. Since I'm guessing a lot of you didn't see it anyway, I bit the bullet and replaced it with what you see above. If your trust in me is shattered, I apologize, but it had to be done. As we approach 900 strips, I hope we can get back on track.
FEBRUARY 6, 2006
Voting Reward: I haven't had time do many of these recently, but I couldn't let the passing of one of the greats go by without some quick vampirage.
JANUARY 23, 2006
Voting Reward: Since it's never happened before, and will probably never happen again.. Yay!
JANUARY 13, 2006
Voting Reward: It's been pointed out to me that my characters spend far too much time in drab corridors; until I can maneuver the plot to more interesting locales, here are a couple of exhibits in the Mansion's Hall of Irreplaceable Abominations.
JANUARY 10, 2006
Voting Reward: As has been noticed, I've been experimenting with 'tinting' the strips, at least the ones set in the forest. I have.. reasons.. for not just going to full color, which in technical terms would be easy. Here's what a full-color version of a recent strip might have looked like. Comshaw's still gray because that's what color Gnolls are.
Also, since ComicGenesis has officially launched its snazzy new intro screen, I finally decided to edit the in-house "wiki" entry for the MoE, which is what visitors to the CG main page will see if they ask about my strip. Any suggestions what I should add to it?
JANUARY 7, 2006
Tom T. of Station V3 has set up an advertising-swap at his site, Comic Ostrich. Right now, it's just him and me, but hopefully some other webcomics will soon be added.
JANUARY 5, 2006
Voting Reward: A visitor suggested a shot of the alphabet used by the Basement-dwellers, so here it is, along with a full-color Helipath. If you want some more comments on the subject, I've made my monthly posting to the Forum.
JANUARY 4, 2006
Voting Reward: Since we have a couple in the audience, here's one for all the Nethack fans.
JANUARY 3, 2006
Voting Reward: Another species revamp, this time a Pale.
JANUARY 1, 2006
As noted, happy new year and all that. Back to real cartoons tomorrow, I hope. In the meantime, check out this site, in which you can find webcomic crossovers. Lots of webcomic crossovers.
DECEMBER 30, 2005
You may notice a change in drawing style over the next few days; I'm working with a new computer monitor which shows colors far more accurately than the slowly-dying model I was previously saddled with. Nicer for me, and possibly you as well.
DECEMBER 25, 2005
Ho ho ho. Thanks again to Ian for the Secret Santa art. Also in honor of the day, a bunch of us ComicGenners got together and did ornaments for an online Christmas tree. You can see the thrilling final result here.
DECEMBER 23, 2005
After a conversation with a site-visitor, I've come to the opinion I really do need to improve the art on display here. As a first small step, here's a voting reward: a portrait of a somewhat new and hopefully improved version of an Ichyoid. (And to any fish experts in the audience, yes, the misspelling is deliberate.)
DECEMBER 21, 2005
I signed up for a couple of "Secret Santa" art-swaps this Christmas. One of my assigned strips was "Arrowflight", by Monique McNaughton, who lives amongst the ice flows and polar bears in Canada. Arrowflight details the near-future adventures of a sentient fighter-jet and the young woman literally born to fly it/him. There's some great art-work on display; check it out here. (Although non-Canadians might want to read this first.) My gift is on the fan-art page.
DECEMBER 20, 2005
What with the holidays and everything, the offerings around here are going to be skimpy for a few days, so as compensation, here's another voting reward, this one celebrating the recent return to life of one of my favorites in the catagory of "webcomics I don't draw".
DECEMBER 17, 2005
Voting Reward: It's been mentioned a time or two in the strip that Rosemary was raised not by her parents, but by her aunt Eva. It's very likely that someday (way) down the line AE will appear in the strip; here's a sketch of my intial conception of her. This will probably change as time marches on, but it gives you a rough idea..
DECEMBER 13, 2005
Voting Reward: Either a random picture of a reader, or possibly a glimpse of the far-distant future. I worked on this one until I ran out of time; I may post a more refined version later.
DECEMBER 9, 2005
Voting Reward: Yet another sneak preview of a character who will appear sooner or later. (More likely sooner...) I haven't given his name, because I'm only about 80% sure what I want his name to be.
DECEMBER 6, 2005
I've been busy lately fulfilling my upcoming Secret Santa art-swap obligations, so there haven't been many voting rewards of late. Since my totals are plunging, I took the time to toss off a quick picture honoring my source for the species-name "Gnoll": Comshaw meeting one of his Dungeons & Dragons counterparts. You'll perhaps note I made some fairly heavy racial modifications when I started using Gnolls here.
DECEMBER 1, 2005
After some experimenting, I've replaced the character links in the latest plot arc with sortof "pop-ups" that, assuming your browser can use Cascading Style Sheets, give a brief character sketch when you hover your mouse over a character's name. Hopefully this will be easier and quicker than paging back through the archives. Let me know what you think. And thanks to Dudley's Dungeon, from whom I swiped the basic programming code I used.
NOVEMBER 27, 2005
For those who've lost track of who all these characters are, I've gone back and added some names and 'previous-appearence' links to the current plot-arc, starting here.
NOVEMBER 23, 2005
Voting Reward: Something which was requested in honor of this strip's newest fan. Also, you may have noted I've added a new "dropdown" in the links section below. It's a collection of fantasy webcomics; check it out, and add your own if you produce something that qualifies..
NOVEMBER 21, 2005
Voting Reward: Another sneak preview of an upcoming character. (Actually, this one previously made a very brief appearence in-strip...) Also, I added the gnolls Sina and Shona to the cast page. If you think anyone deserves a spot there, let me know.
NOVEMBER 11, 2005
Voting Reward: Remember The Vets
NOVEMBER 7, 2005
I'm having on-going Internet-connection problems, so if the strip goes dark for a couple of days, that's what happened...
NOVEMBER 3, 2005
Voting Reward: random mousage
OCTOBER 31, 2005
Halloween related notes: If you're reading this after today, I did a character-costume cross-over with Tim Volpe of Alternate Delusions. It's a excellent comic; check it out. And there's also an extra Halloween voting reward with Mr. Tree.
Non-Halloween related note: Since Tagboard found a way to sneak highly annoying pop-up ads past Firefox's blockers, I'm trying out a new service, Saybox. Dunno if it'll be any better, but it is nicely customizable. Thanx to Legostar Galactica for bringing it to my attention.
OCTOBER 20, 2005
Voting Reward: A new and possibly improved version of the "future MoE girl" I posted a couple rewards back, along with another lady who has already made a brief cameo appearence, and will also return someday. (As noted on the Tagboard, they are definitely not the same person, and I've made an effort to better distinguish them..)
OCTOBER 19, 2005
Voting Reward: A drawing of a couple of MoE characters who will eventually re-appear...
OCTOBER 12, 2005
Voting Reward: As you can probably tell, we've moved onto another plot-thread, but for those who need one last Camora and/or Rosemary fix, click here to see, depicted in color, a small gag that either got discarded because I couldn't find a good place to wedge it into the plot, OR a sneak-preview of an upcoming gag! You'll know which it is when I do. Also, keep the faith; when we eventually get back Rosemary/Camora/Whathisface, I will finally make an effort to present something resembling an overview of current basement society. Even as, perhaps, it changes forever..
And if anyone cares, I've officially declared that after two+ years, "Part One" of this strip is finally over, and it's time to move on to Part Two. (Which will probably be quite a bit shorter..) But honestly, unless you regularly use the storyline dropdown, located above, you probably won't notice much difference.
OCTOBER 5, 2005
Voting Reward: See another MoE character super-advance sneak-preview, OR get a link to a page that shows all of the Early Hour strips, OR see a girl who, unlike Rosemary, is willing to show a little skin.
OCTOBER 3, 2005
Voting Reward: Happy Autumn.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2005
Voting Reward: For those who want a clearer picture of the geographical situation which Rosemary and Sylvester were recently discussing, vote here to see an 85% official and completed map of the region in question. As an added incentive, there are also few extra details that haven't yet been mentioned in the comic proper. The Mansion of E is not on the map, but is a long ways to the east, or off the right edge. You'll perhaps also note that part of the unfinished 15% is that I didn't label every single little town on the map. I figured that at this stage most people wouldn't care. If you do care, now is your chance to offer some suggestions..
SEPTEMBER 27, 2005
Voting Reward: The Mansion of E: The Early Hours The Final Chapter.
Also, my fellow ComicGenesiser NoemZ is celebrating the fourth birthday of her great webcomic Zeera the Space Pirate, which chronicles the ongoing adventures of this youngish Amazon who.. well, she dearly wants to call herself a space pirate, and who am I to argue? In celebration of the happy event, I sent over some fan-art. Check it out!
SEPTEMBER 19, 2005
Voting Reward: We revisit three notorious scallywags with even more Talk Like A Pirate Day!!
SEPTEMBER 18, 2005
Voting Reward: The Mansion of E: The Early Hours Part Nine.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2005
As noted down below in the temporarily-reactivated newsbox, a webcomic "telethon" is being held today for victims of Hurricane Katrina, with an all-new comic posted every twenty minutes or so. I didn't contribute anything, but I still urge you to visit and if possible make a donation.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2005
Voting Reward: The Mansion of E: The Early Hours Part Eight. Part Seven.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2005
Voting Reward: HAPPY LABOR DAY.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2005
Since this will be fairly lengthy, I'll post my comments about The Tree here instead of over on the Tagboard. First of all, I freely admit, I am a scientific and mathematical ignoramus. So.. if at the end of the day, I create something that is just physically impossible... (ie, how can Gobules possibly survive when they are just a mouth and a pair of legs!?) I can only fall back on the deep wisdom of Lucy Lawless: "A wizard did it."
That said, I do try and apply what few facts I know to the strip. In regards to The Tree: It is immobile and has a trunk-like structure capped with bunches of things which look an awful lot like leaves. It produces oxygen and moderately eatable "fruit". So the Mansion inhabitants quite naturally started calling it "The Tree". None of this means that it literally is a tree. It also doesn't mean that its only power-source is the sun. And remember, this thing is a deliberately-constructed artifact, brought into being by an expert botanist and plant-breeder at the very height of his power and skill. You might even say he was a wizard when it came to plants.
And I actually do have a tentative explanation for how Gobules survive, that I might get around to detailing some year..
SEPTEMBER 2, 2005
Voting Reward: Part Seven of MoE:TEH. Part Six.
Also, it's been brought to my attention on the Forum that I may have a slight site-design problem, so I ask everyone else; can you see a faint pattern in the background of this page, or is it just solid blue? And what browser are you using?
AUGUST 31, 2005
As noted above, the real-world news is grim. Here in cyberspace, the terrific Lego-based Comic Genesis strip Legostar Galactica is celebrating a birthday this week, so I sent him some fan-art, which has been posted today. Check it out.
AUGUST 25, 2005
Voting Reward: A brief break from The Early Hours to mark the end of SUMMER.
AUGUST 22, 2005
Voting Reward: Assuming that Comic Genesis is back online.. Part Six of MoE:TEH. Note that this is also about as close to a Rosemary 'fan-service' pic as we're ever likely to get, so enjoy it while you can. Part Five. Part Four.
AUGUST 20, 2005
Those Destined is an enjoyable webcomic about the fantasy adventures of a young.. um.. woman.. whose life and general outlook bear certain resemblances to Rosemary's. The strip's creator Hayley Price put out a call on the Comicgen forum for fan-art, so I sent her a piece, which you can view today.
AUGUST 17, 2005
As noted on the Forum, the Comics Genesis people have enabled a user-powered "Wiki" enclopedia-type system for their many offerings. If you want to contribute some information about the MoE, it now has an entry located here. Here's your chance to defame my work in public! Thanks to Tom for setting up the "stub".
AUGUST 12, 2005
Voting Reward: Part five of MoE: The Early Hours. Part Four. Part Three.
As you may have noticed, in the last couple of these, I've tried out a new font for the human characters. I may start using it out in the "main" strip. If you have a violent objection, now is the time to express it.
AUGUST 11, 2005
As you can hopefully tell, I've started uploading the new version of the website. Please bear with me, as there are bound to be a few glitches along the way. If an old title crops up in a strange place, try reloading the page.
AUGUST 4, 2005
Voting reward: Part four of MoE: The Early Hours.
Part Three. Part Two. Part One is not currently available. You had your chance to see it!!
Also, I'm preparing to debut a new look for the website. If all goes well, it will use a feature called Cascading Style Sheets, which allow me much greater control over the appearance of the site; if you've got an up-to-date webbrowser, it should all work automagically. If you don't.. the site will still work, but it won't look very purty. Now's the time to update.
AUGUST 1, 2005
The Buzzcomix webcomic-voting-and-ranking list has revived after months of technical problems. I don't know if I really want to have three voting lists running, but since the creator of Buzzcomix went to so much trouble to bring it back, I'll post it at least for a little while. If you missed Part One of Moe: TEH, you can now see it at Buzzcomix.
JULY 31, 2005
Voting reward: Part three of MoE: The Early Hours.
Since the tagboard has been non-functional for a few days, I've deactivated it for a while. If you really need to tell me something, there's the Forum.
JULY 26, 2005
Voting reward: Part two of MoE: The Early Hours
Also, the storyline dropdown is broken. It's a system-wide problem, and will get fixed.. when it gets fixed.
JULY 23, 2005
As threatened a while back, the name of my hosting service has changed. It is now Comic Genesis. Bleh. I liked Keenspace better, but this decision is not subject to appeal, and the decor in the Mansion's many rooms has thus been updated to reflect the new reality. If you're still coming via mansionofe.keenspace.com, the address will continue to work.. for now. I strongly advise switching to either http://www.mansionofe.com or http://mansionofe.comicgen.com. (And yes, while "comicgenesis" will also work, "comicgen" is now the official sitename.)
I think I fixed everything, but if you find any broken images or links, please let me know.
JULY 21, 2005
Voting Reward: There are countless minor plot tweaks I would make if I ever had to start over with the MoE. Most can't be fixed now, but here's one which I can correct. I didn't make it clear enough that an entire night passes between the action of this comic and the next. So the next couple/three voting rewards will show what maybe I could or should have put in there. Vote now, and learn the Big Important Secrets of MoE: The Early Hours! Really! Would I lie to you?
JULY 16, 2005
Voting reward: Hooray for me!
JULY 12, 2005
Voting reward: For those who have been following the "Threnody" discussion on the Tagboard, here's a peek at how I currently envision the MoE character with that name. This image may change, a lot, before she actually appears in the strip, and it will probably be quite a while before she does turn up. I won't offer any more spoilers about her or her companion in the picture, but I imagine you can make some informed guesses..
And for any who are curious, I first came across the name because it is also a "real" word, meaning "a lament for the dead". It was featured on the Word-A-Day e-mail list, a place from which I have swiped a whole bunch of my character names, and which comes highly recommended.
JULY 9, 2005
Voting reward: A funny gag cartoon. You'll laff!
JULY 4, 2005
HAPPY (American) INDEPENDENCE DAY.
Assuming all goes well, this strip will reach its second birthday a little later this month. Thanks muchly to everyone who has stuck with me this long. If there are any artists out there who'd like to help celebrate, now would be a good time to send guest art and such. If you want.
JULY 2, 2005
Voting reward: My drawing program, Paint Shop Pro, has a "kaleidoscope" function which you can apply to pictures. I enjoy messing around with it, and here's a sample of some of the results.
JUNE 29, 2005
I didn't get around to posting it at the time, but if anyone really needs to see it..
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY.
JUNE 22, 2005
Voting reward: The latest challenge on the Keenspace Forums was to draw one of my characters "being cool". This was a bit of a challange, because most of my characters are biologically incapable of this. (Even Rosemary.) So I finally settled on the only one who even remotely qualified.
JUNE 18, 2005
Voting reward: Another character sketch, although I don't know exactly when this individual will officially resurface in the strip.
Also.. School Spirit is a Keenspace comic which celebrated a birthday this week. It's a gentle and peaceful strip about the day-to-day adventures of some schoolkids in rural Australia (along with their new friend, the titular spirit), and thus may not have much crossover appeal with my bloody and chaotic work. Nevertheless, I enjoy reading it, so I sent the authors some fan-art. Congrats, mates!
JUNE 14, 2005
JUNE 13, 2005
The Noob is a great webcomic about the misadventures of a terminal "newbie" who is attempting to play an online fantasy game called ClicheQuest. (It's funny even if you have no idea what I'm talking about!) It recently celebrated a birthday, so I contributed some fanart, which can be found on The Noob's guest art page.
JUNE 12, 2005
Voting reward: A reminder/spoiler about a couple of characters whom have been out of the picture for quite some time now, but just might be resurfacing before too long. It's also an example of my new efforts at shading my work. (Coming to the main comic on Monday..) Tell me if you think it's an improvement!
JUNE 8, 2005
Voting reward: there was a challenge issued on the Keenspace forums to draw your female character in a sexy pose. I personally had no moral objections, but Rosemary threatened to beat me up if I used her, so I had to enlist a substitute.
JUNE 7, 2005
Some time in the next few weeks/months Keenspace is officially changing its name to.. something else. I'm not going into the whys and wherefores, cuz it's long and sordid. What matters is, I have decided to take advantage of this time of upheaval, and have sprung for an internet domain name for the MoE. After a shaky start, it now appears to be operating correctly. So, you can come here via this address:
..And use it for links. I'm still being hosted by The Website Formally Known As Keenspace, and if you want to use mansionofe.whateverthenewnameturnsouttobe.com, it will work; all that www.mansionofe.com does is automagically transfer any user of it to here. But if I ever do depart TWFKAK, the new address will be redirected to the strip's new location. So I suggest that you switch now and be prepared!
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