Behold! The very first batch of Girlbot stickers, from the friendly fellows at BuildASign! They’re bumper stickers, specifically, and they made it really easy for me to upload my design and get my stickers within a week! Even got back to me with corrections about trim size and all that, so I must endorse them.
These babies will be freebies at conventions and with any orders from the store here until I run out. Depending on how much people like them, I’ll likely order some more!
With Friday’s update, I also posted a new donation wallpaper and the announcement of another sketch card fund drive, the Fabulous February Fundraiser! (Or FFF for short.) Just like last time, each person who donates at least $5 will get a custom sketch card, your own piece of original art mailed to you as thanks for helping me meet my goal. Donate any amount for the wallpaper, as usual. Or order something from the store, and the profits will count toward my goal, as well.
The new wallpaper is a silly pastiche of the trippy cat paintings of Louis Wain. I like the idea of doing Girlbot art based on different examples of fine art, and so I may continue this as a series if people like this one.
I know I still owe some bonus material from the last fundraiser, and that’s still coming. I’ve been too busy to put it out for you before now, but things will be letting up a bit this spring. So look forward to that. But! I’ll likely be posting most of it as filler material instead of bonus material on top of normal updates. I’m finishing up the first part of the Epic Saga of the Intrepid Girlbot, and I’m going to need a little breather.
So, anyway, the money I get from FFF will go toward Stumptown. Plane tickets, lodging, and ordering of swag for the table — and later on, in the online store.
And if it makes any difference, it’s my birthday this month~!
Here’s my list of appearances for 2011, to the best of my knowledge:
I may add or subtract events, depending on what comes up. I was originally planning to attend Small Press Expo, as well, but it seems unlikely that I’ll have the first Girlbot volume published before then, so I decided to invest that travel money elsewhere. I was also invited to be a webcomic guest at ConnectiCon, but I’m unfortunately too much of a small-fry to be worth flying out there. So, sorry East Coasters.
I’ll do my best to get out to lots more places in 2012!
Just wanted to post a little thanks to the people who were thoughtful enough to send me gifts through Amazon the past month or so. I got a copy of Fun Home, some tea, and a fancy coffee-making set. They were all really nice surprises!
So thanks. You know who you are.
A much overdo update of some sections of the Girlbot site have been added, most importantly the Extras page, which now holds all the guest comics and bits of filler that had built up in the main comic archive. Also, new fan art! (If you sent me something that I didn’t post, please let me know, and I’ll make sure to fix it!)
Other updates are in the About page, with an expanded “The story so far…” section, and in the Store, where the original art of all the comic strips in the archive is now up for sale.
More updates are coming, but I thought those were the most important.
First off, as you may have guessed from the Friends of Lulu logo, I have news on that! It was announced yesterday that The Intrepid Girlbot won the award for best kid-friendly work! I can’t thank you guys enough, everyone who nominated and voted for my little webcomic. Girlbot is officially award-winning! I even get a trophy! (I’ll take pictures.)
YEEEEEE!!!
Ahem.
Item number two! Tom Siddell kindly drew a guest comic for me, which I posted for Friday’s update. Much to my surprise, all the attention crashed the site! Hah! After being out of bandwidth for several hours, I upgraded Girlbot’s hosting so that functionality would be restored. Depending on how many people continue to visit from Gunnerkrigg Court, I can’t guarantee that the site will stay up over the weekend. But if it goes down, it should be up again by Monday, so don’t fret.
That’s it for news. Enjoy your Halloween weekend! I know I am!
As you may or may not be aware — depending on how much you read the news updates that go with each comic post — this week and next will be dedicated to guest comics other cartoonists have lovingly drawn for me. They’re all super rad, and I’m sure you’ll like them. But I won’t tell you who I have lined up! You’ll just have to wait.
Regular Girlbot updates will resume November 8th.
(Also, I will re-commence putting out the promised bonus material in November. I haven’t forgotten!)
This has absolutely nothing to do with Girlbot. I just want as many people to see this as possible:
And so resumes the parade of extra material I promised for the fund drive. Here’s the high-resolution PDFs, all conveniently in one post for you…
Next up: a tale of the mysterious Boybot. Coming…soon!
The NEWW Fund Drive reached $200 earlier this week, and I promised Girlbot development art and thumbnail sketches in return for the support of you lovely people. So here ya go…
One of the very early drawings of Girlbot, doodled before I even started writing the first strips. She’s mutated some since then, but the basic idea remains the same.
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The first set of thumbnails, along with more little brainstormy doodles. Raccoon #1 was originally meant to look more like a real raccoon, as you can see.
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Shortly after launching Girlbot, I decided to make an alternate version of her to make into a big old-fashioned comic strip to enter into a project called the Big Funny. These were some of my brainstorming sketches and notes for that.
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And these are the thumbnails for the Little Miss Mechanical comic.
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This is a big scan of the most recent strip thumbnails in my special Girlbot sketchbook, over a month’s worth. They go from strip #164 to strip #186, which hasn’t even been finished yet. Good luck telling what’s going on in the yet-to-come strips!
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Next goal is $300, when I’ll make a set of hi-res PDFs for everyone to download!
