Snow by Night

Chapter 2 Page 11 is up. Our scene shifts as we follow Blaise to the Harp and Trumpet. As usual, Blaise quickly loses control of the conversation.

We have Baltimore Comic Con this weekend. Brittany and I will be there at Table A123 along with chapter books and a variety of buttons. I’m thinking of making some new quote buttons like “Go fart in the clover” or “Won’t isn’t can’t” (but that last one is a quote from Chapter 3).

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Almanac References: Belle, Bertrande Grusseau 

Chapter 2 Page 10 is up. The boys lay out their trap in the museum. I’m sure everything will go perfectly according to plan without any snags at all.

Snow by Night will be attending Baltimore Comic Con on August 20-21. We’re in the Artist Alley at table A123. Pretty easy to remember, huh? That’s good, because we’re listed under my name (Eric Menge) instead of Snow by Night. I’ll have to get that straightened out for next year. Anyway, we’ll have the beautiful chapter 1 books, character buttons, chibi buttons, and the very popular quote buttons (“And Bees” and “Scallywag” are our most popular).

On a different topic, I learned some new techniques for creating word balloons from some of the artists at Otakon. I tried them out last week and really liked the results. So I went back and redid the balloons for all the pages in chapter 2. A peculiar thing happened while I was redoing Page 8. Blaise started whispering in my ear. He had an idea for new dialog on the last two panels. I tried to tell him that I wasn’t redoing language, just the balloons, but he was very insistent. “Come on,” he said, “It’ll be funny. And it works better than what you have now.” I glared at him over that last bit, but he was right. So I added in the new lines. Jassart heard about it and demanded a new line too. Then Cienan’s maid jumped on the bandwagon. Gah, I opened the floodgates. These characters are getting out of hand.

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Almanac Reference: Templetown

Chapter 2 Page 9 is up. Cienan pulls some strings and sets the venue for the trap. Sorry for the short post, but it was a long drive home from GenCon today. I’ll have more news on Wednesday.

*edit* In my exhausted haze last night, I didn’t get the incentive panel uploaded. It’s up now.  Blaise does his Cienan impression. Check it out with a vote at Top Web Comics.

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Chapter 2 Page 8 is up.The action switches back to Blaise and we find out how he is spending his time at Cienan’s house.

I’ve recovered (mostly) from Otakon. It was an incredible show with more than 31,000 attendees. Thousands of people streamed by our table in Artists’ Alley, and Brittany and I spoke to hundreds over the weekend. To those who stopped by, said hello, and listened to us talk about our comic, thank you! We also got a chance to meet some artists. We sat by Erin McManness who makes incredible illustrations and jewelry. I got to hang out with Shazzbaa of Runewriters and Stephanie Stober of Final Arcanum. I also met an incredible artist – Dirk Tiede of Paradigm Shift. His comic of paranormal action/horror is one of the best I’ve read. And no convention is complete without Jennifer Zyren Smith of LaSalle’s Legacy. Her story is firing on all cylinders. Go check it out.

I’m uploading pictures from the convention to our Facebook page. Please take a look! And a new incentive is up on Top Web Comics. Give us a vote to see Blaise and Jassart’s attempt at angelic faces.

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Almanac Reference: Templetown

Chapter 2 Page 7 is up. Brittany and I just got back from Otakon this afternoon. It was an amazing weekend. We met a lot of great people and sold many books and buttons. I’ll have a more complete con report for the Wednesday update. For now, I’m going to go sleep for 20 hours.

*Edit* For a great Blaise facial expression, please vote for us on Top Web Comics. heh heh. Blaise is so much fun.

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Almanac Reference: Surnames

Chapter 2 Page 6 is up. Cienan makes a very strange request of Jassart in return for his help. Jassart is less than amused. This update’s vote incentive is a glimpse at what Cienan offers Jassart to help them catch the thief. Vote for us on Top Web Comics to see.

Otakon is this weekend. It’s going to make uploading the almanac entry on Friday an interesting experiment. We haven’t done this on the road before. Diane is great so I’m sure it will go of without a hitch. Please come see us in the Artists’ Alley. We’re table U-07, which you can find on this handy Map of Artists’ Alley.

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Almanac Reference: Aileon, Cienan yr Tuathal,

Chapter 2 Page 5 is up and we meet Cienan who is one of my favorite characters. As you might have guessed from the name, he’s not from Saronne. I’ll give some more details about him on Friday in this week’s almanac entry. But I won’t give too many. Cienan’s past is cloaked in mystery which is just the way he likes it.

Otakon is this weekend. I’ll be there with Brittany and Diane. Many of our friends will be there as well — Jen Zyren Smith from LaSalle’s Legacy and Shazzbaa from Today Nothing Happened and Runewriters. For a full list of Artist Alley attendees, check out Otakon’s list.

If you wish to see a preview of Jassart’s reaction to the conversation with Cienan, be sure to vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

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Almanac References: Governor General, Pénélope Gâteau, Vivienne de Carailles

Chapter 2 Page 4 is up. Jassart is on the prowl while Blaise has his suspicions confirmed.

For a sneak peak at a fabulous alchemical flintlock rifle, take a look at this week’s vote incentive on Top Web Comics.

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