I’m trying to make sure all distribution options work. They all seem to be, except the sms one that’s waiting on some sort of confirmation.

Also, I started a new dA account, it was easier than cleaning all the mess on the first one.

So, this is it, huh? My debut album? Well, if it sells, I’ll say it is, if not, I’ll just pretend nothing happened.

You can buy the comic by clicking the marvellous button on the left, or going to the „shop” link in the menu.

The title is „Age of Smoke – Once upon a time, not long ago…”, and the first person who explains the origin of the title, gets the comic for free.

Peace.

P.S.: I’ll try to reanimate the shop on Graphicly tomorrow.

First one is a painting process of one panel in ep. three:

The other one is a promo, mainly for the first two episodes, but also with a glimpse of the third one. I’ve done the whole thing with some very basic tools, but it’s there, hope you like it.

For the third episode, I’ve spent a long time thinking about how to approach it. I’ve been planning to finish the whole story arc by the end of ep. three, making it a 30-page long season finale. But I just can’t invest 3-4 months to work on a comic that probably won’t pay off. I estimate this comics readership base to be at best 100 people, so with an average price for a digitally distributed comic it’s just not enough. Right now I’m thinking about making the rest of the story longer, but divided into a few episodes. So, instead of one 30-page issue with a bit rushed story, you’d get 3-4 issues 10-15 pages each, hopefully with a closer look at the characters. It might be one of those rare situations where the economic point of view actually helps the story too.

In the meantime, I’ll just try to make friends with Joss Whedon or something.

I’m sure you will all „spit your coffee all over the screen” upon hearing the news: the work on episode 3 is in progress. That’s where the misleading sneak peek picture comes from.

A new page and a new idea. Under the comic you can see a poll, that lets you choose which one of the candidates will become the next Head of the City Council. This way you can influence the story.

It’s been a chaotic week for me, the main news would be that you can find Age of Smoke on two new websites: Amilova.com, that is a place making multilingual comics translations possible, and Graphicly.com.

Preparing the files for those sites, and for (hopefully) printing AoS in the future took me most of the time these last few days, and I’m abit exhausted.

This short above was to be sent to the Kolektyw magazine, but at some point I decided to just put it on-line. The first page was done with Corel Painter, but I didn’t like the outcome and decided to go back to SAI.