Made it!
Mood:  hug me
Topic: Heavenly Bride

Well it wasn't two days late as I had expected. It's only a few hours late, and that's not bad compared... so now there you have it: this week's Heavenly Bride page.

Um... okay. I realize that I've been pushing you guys to give me a little bit of input lately. Maybe I should explain some things most of you probably already know but simply haven't put in conjunction over here.

 I had to put Akashik down to one day a week and back off on drawing Heavenly Bride because, put simply, I need to eat.  These comics are put up for free for you, and although I do have donation buttons and wotnot I'm not overly comfortable with begging and stuff. I put this team together for the mission of putting out a story. Making a living at it would be nice, but it's a rare webcomic that finds an audience willing to help you do that.

So that leaves me with the other honorable solution: find a job.  BUT... I have fatigue problems and can't do both very well. I can't draw comics and keep a job at the same time.  I've tried to find commissions and work freelance, but so far in the past few months I've had one commission (which can be found at my Deviantart site, username Sparcarrier).

So I had to back off of these two in favor of not going homeless.  Or even losing these two. It costs money to pay for this website, to buy the special paper and markers I use, to pay for the electricity to run the computer, and yes even for the nifty books and things I put out on occasion. I owe War and  Conquest money for helping - yes we're not a business here but I did hire them out on contract.  Nothing here is free for me, only for you.

And this week's Heavenly Bride page was late because 1. my computer is a little squeaker that needs upgrades I can't afford right now. This slows me down. 2. My little squeaker (whose name is Charlie, btw) also needs to befragged and have large chunks of things I have on him burned onto disk or something, and 3. I chose to work on my resume to send out to several gaming companies instead of drawing Heavenly Bride on the basis of the cardinal rule: I need to eat.

I'm sorry this delayed the story for you guys. For those of you who were angry and let me know it, uhh.. no really. I'm sorry. I want to tell the story and finish it. I really do, but real life is a meanie head.

So please be a little patient with me when I'm late with a page or ask you guys for input.  It's very helpful to know that people are at least reading these stories, otherwise I've no reason to keep this website going at all.

Speaking of input, did you guys know you can respond to this blog? Just hit "post comment". I'm not sure how well it works, but someone told me today that this website didn't have any comments options and that sucked. My response is, "uuuh.. yes it does."  :-)

Late Update
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: Heavenly Bride

My computer is in severe need of love, so Heavenly Bride will have to be a day or two late.  I'm sorry about that.

I only have nine votes for the Akashik poll? What do you take me for: someone who will keep drawing without an audience?!?!  If you haven't already, get your butt to the home page, scroll down, and vote on the poll.

 Speaking of the poll, so far it appears that "Fly being schmexy" is in the lead.  It looks like Taus/Fly will have to provide some fan service in the next month...

Mood:  special
Topic: Stuff

You know what would be great? If everybody checked out the new poll at the bottom and gave me a vote.  It's set only to run for about a month (I think) and it's nice to have feedback from people on occasion.

To be honest, the response on the new donation pin idea has been ... uh... less than enthusiastic.  So I thought I'd put up a poll to ask you guys what you want.  I'm not the mind-reader my roommate is, and even if I were I don't even know where most of you are. So help an artist out by participating a little. I'd greatly appreciate it.  =^-^= 

And as always, please keep voting for Akashik on the Web lists (the button is to the left there).  It's a free way to support Akashik and Heavenly Bride.  Okay so I can't afford to pay the letterer and the support artist right now, but at least I could tell them we're rising in rank or something. LOL.  

 

And THANK YOU!

Topic: Heavenly Bride
Okay, yes I updated early.... and I guess that's all I have for news. Enjoy, I suppose. If you do. I've no clue. :-p

Mood:  flirty
Topic: Akashik

To all of you who have been voting, THANK YOU!  And please... keep it up! We haven't climbed very far, but even the little bit we've climbed was encouraging. Let's show the world what we're made of!

Someone noted that Ganji is feeling rather betrayed in today's page, and rightly so.  I'm of the opinion that the areas are grey. If she had told him who she was, would they have been friends? If they'd have been friends, how long until "fraternizing with lower ranks" would have gotten her reprimanded? Is loneliness really an excuse not to tell someone you're their boss?

 If you haven't orderd your Taus figure or put in a donation for a hat/lapel pin, time is running out! 

Every donation and/or purchase helps us pay for everything we do here. We can't do it without you! Anyway, why are we putting this story out to be read like this? For you! We WANT you to read and love this story. =^-^= 

Besides, the pins are cute. I want ooone... *whine*

Stuff
Mood:  cheeky
Topic: General News

Did you remember to vote for us today? If not, please take a moment and do so. Our dream is to get in the Top 100, but we can't do that without you!

We also put a new movie to watch up at the bottom. This time Death and War discuss Ganji among other things. Check it out.

Oh yeah. and in case you haven't noticed yet, I put up an entirely new donation system.  Basically if you donate a certain amount you'll get something in return. It goes by donation levels rather like PBS. =^-^= I dunno why; I just figured why not.

My favorite part of these is the hat pin: it's a little hat pin (or lapel pin if you prefer) design whose image you can see in the donation button.  With those I have to have a minimum amount of "orders" before I'm able to get them. Furthermore, if the idea works I'll have a new one every other month. 

I won't make any pin twice; they will always be collector's items and limited editions. Pretty sweet deal, huh?  I can't wait to get mine, so hurry up and put in your requests today.  =^-^=

 Also, Chapters 1-4 are in the works to become a graphic novel. If all goes well it will be available through Amazon.com or directly through us if you happen to see us at conventions. 

 To make it affordable, it will be in black and white. To have it in color. Amazon wants to charge way too much... although I'm thinking of perhaps having one or two in color at our con tables at a lower price somehow. I'm still working on it, so please bare with me!

Having moved things over to this new blog format today (thus having to go through a lot of old posts and clean up) I remembered all that has happened in the 2 years since Akashik was reborn from Battle of Angels.  It's just amazing.

 I met my husband through this comic and now I, Death, am married. I moved from Illinois into my very own house that has my name on the deed!!! I've been hit with a tornado, then a land hurricane, watched my teenage daughter get attitude, somehow managed to pay Conquest for some of her lettering, and War went to boot camp.

And I'm sure more changes are bound to be coming in the future.

 And on that note War just called me. Time for me to go.....

Topic: Heavenly Bride
HTML clipboard6-5-09 - Today's page took me THREE days to do. I thought it would never end, what with all of the scales and all.  I was thinking of a mandala motif in this one. I hope I got the mood across.  Oh, and btw I put up a new vote button up there in the upper left. Please vote. It would help a lot.  :-)

Mood:  cool
Topic: Conventions

June 1, 2009

Okay.  Carolinacon kicked rear.

We had a table next to the artist from Misfile, and he turned out to be a really nice person.

Then we moved our table next to the face-painting lady.

And we were annoyingly loud to everyone in the artist alley.

And laughed a lot.

We also sold all of Issue 2, Akshik, the color version EXCEPT FOR ONLY ONE COPY.

That rocked.

I hope we can go next year.

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5-27-09 - There will be an extra page next Friday, so remember to stay tuned. After all, things apparently are heating up between Ganji and Taus.

Also, we've added a desktop theme to the donation reward section as opposed to a plain old wallpaper.  If you're inclined, check it out!

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5-22-09 - For those of you checking Akashik late, Heavenly Bride updated today. Just a reminder.

We also put a new section into the Cafepress store while removing some of the old stuff. Gotta keep our offerings fresh, y'know!