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And now, for something slightly different.

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peggy shippen

Yes, a new character. No, not altogether my usual style. No, I don’t know how long she’ll be here. But Eric Burns, who “draws” the Adventures of Brigadier General John Stark has been begging for some fan art, and, well, he’s so nice about it I had to help.

After turning his request on its head, of course.

To keep up the fun, we’ll have another Peggy Shippen (comic) strip (sickos) Thursday, and one Saturday as well. I have literally three other comics in the works so I don’t need to drag this series out forever.

Bonus Sketch: Climbing back into the saddle.

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You know, I knew it’d be an interesting challenge if I stopped drawing for a solid month, but I didn’t know it’d be this bad.

This took me three hours. And by “this” I mean just the lineart of Cole. The background I stole from a previous comic.

If it weren’t for the fact that I sucked at drawing men in the first place, I’d really be worried.

More training!

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Today (and for the rest of the week) I’m in Windows 2003 Server training.

Me.

In Windows training.

Yeah, I have trouble believing it too. Especially the part where I take the test and get certified and get one of those weird cards that M$ gives out. Freaky stuff.

Anyway, the good news is that I should be leaving here before the snow hits tonight. The bad news is that a) there haven’t been any slow periods for me to post before now (and this is lunch) and b) I have to be here at 8:30 tomorrow morning. Yuck.

Milestones

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I’ve had a weekend where I didn’t actually complete a single project I started.
I’m sleepless right now and I have a long week ahead of me.
I’m angry because I’m tired and I’d like to be asleep,
not failing at writing poetry, failing at working on the novel, or failing to check my email.

December 5th marks exactly 1 year that I’ve owned the kirabug.com domain.
The various incarnations of my website are much older;
my geocities site was started 5 years ago, though none of the archives are still there.
from there, to Earthlink, to Comcast, and now to here, my home

through two moves, three or four blizzards, various car accidents,
experiments with html, experiments with php, experiments with javascript
experiments with poetry, fiction, comics, forums, more poetry, more comics

I’ve changed. The site’s changed. We’re getting 1500+ readers a month
(that is, if I’m reading my logs right, but even so) it’s an odd feeling to think someone’s listening
especially at 2am on a monday which promises to be a very long day
when i feel like the whole world’s asleep, and i’m alone

I’ve been a little too quiet lately; I’ll try to remedy that
not that I’m sure that’s what you’re here for – the logs point to a strong
possibility you’re here for the comics, but hey
i’ve been babbling on for a year here and you keep coming back

thank you, all of you, for giving me an anchor, and a milestone to achieve