Snow by Night

Blaise heads deeper into the wilderness on Chapter 9 Page 8. His efforts to revive Snow-by-Night continue to come to naught. To see what awaits Blaise in the coming night, please vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

Diane and I will be at GenCon this weekend. You can find me at Author’s Avenue in the Exhibit Hall. Diane will be volunteering at True Dungeon. No almanac update this Friday because of GenCon. And on a final note, I uploaded pictures from Otakon to the Snow by Night Facebook page.

*EDIT 8/17* We’re on the road and not able to do the update tonight. Expect Page 9 late tomorrow afternoon. Until then, please enjoy our Gencon photo album on our Facebook page.

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We got back from Otakon tonight. Otakon is gloriously awesome and we met so many great people there. It is also a marathon. I’m really looking forward to some sweet delicious sleep. We got some neat pictures from the convention. I’ll upload those to our Facebook page tomorrow.

Blaise receives a visitor during the night on Chapter 9 Page 7, but Blaise takes care of that right quick. But have we seen this visitor somewhere before? To see a peek at Wednesday’s page, please vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

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Blaise ventures deep into the wilderness of northern Everique on Chapter 9 Page 6. Deep into a land of dark and seemingly endless forests where the snow hushes every sound, where Blaise may not be as alone as he thinks. To see who else is there with him, please vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

Otakon is this weekend. Everything’s done except for packing clothes and food. You can find us at Table L-06. Hope to see you there.

To complete the collection of the Inner Senshi, here’s a sample of Venus and Jupiter, drawn by Amanda Gomes of Ianua.

*EDIT* No almanac update this Friday on account of Otakon. I’ll see everyone on Monday!

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We met back with Blaise in Ville Marcelet on Chapter 9 Page 5. News of the warrant has reached the small town, forcing Blaise to make a difficult choice. To see what Blaise buys at the Wilderness Provisions shop, please vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

Otakon is mere days away. We’re working frantically to get everything ready. You can find us at Table L-06.

We’ll be unveiling our new prints of Sailor Scouts in 18th century naval uniforms, drawn by Amanda Gomes of Ianua.

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Hello everyone. Sorry for the delay on the almanac, but we were having server issues last night Today’s Almanac is the Vigenerot Hospital in Sherbourg. This hospital is loosely based upon the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, the oldest hospital in Canada. You can find a great history of it by Bill Trent in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. For this entry, I enjoyed making Anne-Marie and Michel Sazarrin, my homage to Michel Sarrazin. Maybe someday we’ll do a vignette with these two healers fighting the plague spirit of 1612. I love playing healers in RPGs so the idea of a baroque-era philosopher and habit-wearing cleric kicking evil spirit butt warms my heart.

It’s the first of the month and the votes have reset on Top Web Comics. Please vote for Snow by Night.

Otakon is next weekend. We’ll be there with some new prints. In celebration of the release of Sailor Moon Crystal, Amanda Gomes drew a set of prints for us with Sailor Moon in 18th century naval uniforms with their powers being alchemical based. Here’s a preview of Sailor Moon. We’ll post more sailors next week.

We have this handy map of where to find Snow by Night (featuring me and Diane), Ianua (featuring Julie), and Final Arcanum (featuring Steph). Steph is sharing a table with Ava’s Demon so she’s on the map as well.

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Ald receives a command that he can’t refuse on Chapter 9 Page 4, as Vivienne sides with Jassart. Don’t think that this will be the end of it for Ald. He’s a cagey veteran. He’s got other plans. To see who’s the subject of the next scene, please vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

We added a couple of new features to the website that I wanted to draw attention to. The first is a shiny new FAQ on the About page. I’ve added in some questions that I remember getting a lot. If you have other questions that you think I should include, please let me know.

Below the FAQ is my Bibliography. I read a lot of source material when preparing the comic. I thought you might be interested in some of the books I’ve used to inspire me and the artists. There are one or two books on the list.

Heading over to the Links page, we’ve added two new sections of links. The first is Colonial Resources. I added some of the links to pages dealing with colonial America, especially colonial French Canada. The second is Native American Resources, which has links to a variety of useful pages dealing with Native Americans. I’ll be adding more links to both of these as I continue to research and write the story.

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We return to Sherbourg in Chapter 9 Page 3, where we find Jassart receiving a lot of visitors as he recovers in the hospital. To see a bit more of this charming scene, please vote for Snow by Night at Top Web Comics.

August is quickly approaching and that is the month of cons. Diane and I will be attending Otakon on Aug. 8-10. You can find us at Table M-03, right across the aisle from Ianua and next to Spinnerette. We’ll have some new top secret prints, but also a new booth set up. Diane and I have reimagined our table as a colonial trading post complete with chests, baskets, blankets, and crates. I’m really pleased with how well it came together. We couldn’t have done it without some supplies from the Smithsonian Museum of the Native American Indian and some gift baskets from the Red Lake Nation (their wild blueberry syrup is incredible).

GenCon follows on the heels of Otakon on Aug. 14-17. Busy month!

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Our first almanac entry since returning from hiatus is snowshoes! These wonderful creations allow the wearer to walk across snow without sinking by distributing the weight. Snowshoes were an invention of the Native American tribes in the real world, so that fact continues into Corthis as well.

We’ve found a couple issues with the transfer to the new site. The biggest is the RSS feed. It’s still borked. Steph and Diane can’t find the issue that’s causing it to malfunction. We’ll continue working on it.

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