Well, this last weekend was a trip. We drove down to Portland and I attended my first Magic the Gathering event in at least 15 years, possibly 20. People were so nice, and there were artists there I haven't seen since I was a young'un, back when we were all just starting out. It was amazing.
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And here's Monday's page! I'll get the colors up if I get them before I leave for the con. If not, I'll get them up the minute I get home.
I'd write more, but I'm currently being treated to a lecture on the nature of comedy. Victor has opinions. I really think this kid needs to be a p...
2023-10-12 10:30:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Ooof, today has been a day of many things! It's late, but all the potatoes are prepped and I shoved them in the freezer which I know is not great for potatoes but the alternative was that they sit in the kitchen while we go to this Magic the Gathering thing in Portland. That wouldn't be great, be...
2023-10-12 09:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post
It's late so I'm just going to drop this here and run, but I'm pleased to be somewhat ahead for once! I assume those are magic 8 balls the moggies have found. Truly a treasure!
We'll be in Portland this weekend at the Command Fest Magic the Gathering event. I still want to make a little ske...
2023-10-10 07:50:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This page is once again a reminder that these are not sane people. Ok, here it is, and here's another kitty drawing too! Of course I'll be back with color when i've got it.
I spent the last couple days prepping the Franz story, which is now titled "The Quest for Gold and Sequels." I haven't...
2023-10-08 22:15:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The prompt here on Patreon says "Tell your members what you're working on". More of the same, as it happens. Dealing with Kickstarter. Listing things on the new gallery site. Trying to clean the place up a bit. Forgetting to post the pages on DeviantArt and never quite getting around to posting o...
2023-10-06 01:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, Phil isn't feeling very good and anyway we've just handed Cheyenne several pages of Magic the Gathering token cards to color, so we're cheating again tonight with a color version of the Guild of Monsters art that's going on the last of the 4 dice calendars.
We talked to the folks at B...
2023-10-04 02:13:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! It's October! Yay! Time to put out the skeletons! That is, the skeletons that aren't already free-roaming all-year-round house skeletons. There's a difference.
I'm so pleased that folks like the dice calendar art Phil and Cheyenne made! We will certainly do other things with...
2023-10-01 22:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, this is my fault, because I pointed out to Phil that we need to prioritize these countdown dice calendar pictures before the holiday season gets into full swing if the folks over at PipsMountai...
2023-09-28 23:07:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: Got my technical jargon all twisted up, even though I knew I had to be careful and looked things up, and then went and put my foot in it anyway? Well, whatever, thanks Dava for the help sorting it out!
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Helpful god-queens are not always terribly helpful. Okay this w...
2023-09-27 02:47:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, here's Monday's page a bit earlier than usual, so hooray for that! We got all that silliness out of the way and surely nothing else goofy will ever happen again in our comics.
About those Seattle animals, I recently found out that we have something called a 2023-09-22 23:54:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I love this page. I love Wednesday's page too. It doesn't happen often, but I love it when we can show a little peek into the parallel Girl Genius comic imagined by delusional in-world characters.
So what's going on around here? Well, I'm in the middle of an interesting time with our busine...
2023-09-21 19:29:18 +0000 UTC View Post
This page exists for that image of Agatha riding a giant winged rat. Just so you understand.
Phil has a LOT of tomatoes. He's made a huge pot of sauce, stuck a lot of just tomato slurry in the freezer, and now he's got the dehydrator out and is making tomato chips. THEY'RE SO GOOD! He's als...
2023-09-19 20:30:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: I fixed that error, thank you!
Phil is cooking the tomatoes from the garden into sauce. It smells incredible and I want to find the time to make a lasagne. I think I'll have to make a lot of lasagne. There are a lot of tomatoes.
I ran out of Cadfael and now it's Black Adder. It'...
2023-09-17 23:57:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Poof! Tea for everyone! I know we make most of our jokes about coffee around here, and we live in Seattle, one of the Earth's great homes of the whole "coffee lifestyle" thing, but I grew up drinking tea at home. That was mostly due to my Mom, who loves tea and dislikes coffee. My grandparents, g...
2023-09-14 22:48:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Cat dwarves. Dwarven cats. Fuzzy little guys.
Well, things are getting late tonight. I was off at the hospital getting my infusion most of the day, so now I'm quite tired. Now that I'm posting this, I'm going back down to my lair to pack more stuff. I'll get the colors up when I can!
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2023-09-13 03:15:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, they're on their way back to Mechanicsburg! Huzzah!
Phil has been awarded the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in the Online Comics: Long Form category, and he's so happy about it! I'm pleased too. He wasn't able to fly out to the award ceremony so they're going to mail him...
2023-09-10 21:58:48 +0000 UTC View Post
EDIT: I almost forgot your Moggies! Here they are!
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Well, I have to cut this a bit short because my Mom's computer has frozen with a "Call Apple Tech Support" message and phone number front and center. Yeah, let's not do that. I'm going to go handle that and check her an...
2023-09-08 02:05:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Next day edit: I changed a word. Now it just says "keep them alive" which sounds better to me. It bugged me all night...
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AAAAA! We're due to start the streaming event on Twitch in 15 minutes, so I'm going to cut this very short, and I'm sorry about that! I want to do a wallpa...
2023-09-05 22:46:13 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a line in Jenny NIcholson's Evermore video on YouTube where she imitates the stereotypical Grand Vizier: "Your Grace, he means you harm!" Her delivery is hilarious, and we've been saying that around here a lot lately, but especially about this page.
(Edit: the line isn't her imitati...
2023-09-04 02:58:55 +0000 UTC View Post
We'll be at PAX West this week, along with the lead game designer on the Girl Genius AiCH game! We've got a tiny little corner thanks to PM Studios, booth 2525 and we'll be around throughout the event. The game is coming out on September 5, and we'll be doing a release stream, although I don't ye...
2023-09-01 02:02:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: Heyo! Here are the colors, and I've added another cat for your amusement. This one has captured a tiny lich! Cats are good to have around the house if you get an infestation of tiny liches.
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So I beat the Girl Genius game on Normal, and I've found all the backer portr...
2023-08-29 02:54:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I have to keep moving forward, and drag myself through the end of PAX. I need to do a little writing job for the game, and I still need to finish that painting for charity which I need to have done by the end of the month, which is bearing down on me like nobody's business.
The writing woul...
2023-08-27 21:03:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
Today I thought it would be fun to show you some sketches from a thing Phil and I have been amusing ourselves with. It's a bunch of D&D-flavored cats. A dungeon clowder. A bunch of puurdurr hoboes. Phil loves cats and always has fun drawing them, and I love his cat drawi...
2023-08-25 01:39:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Oof. I am going to be running on fumes until after PAX, there's a LOT to do. It's all fun exciting stuff though! Well, packing Kickstarter stuff isn't that exciting or fun, but I feel good getting it out the door, so that's something and I'll take it.
Today I really need to finish getting t...
2023-08-23 02:47:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry this one posted later than I like again! I've been feeling a bit under the weather and I took longer with the thinky-writey-work than I should have. It's important because it's explain-y lore stuff, and it's continuing onto the next couple pages. I'm wound up with a lot of things I need to ...
2023-08-21 06:53:33 +0000 UTC View Post
It turns out that Cheyenne was off on a very cool trip doing stuff that he'll tell folks about himself if he isn't under some kind of NDA, and Phil apparently knew it and knew the page was going to be a bit late, and forgot to TELL ME! So that's why Wednesday's colors came in a bit later than usu...
2023-08-17 23:55:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's Wednesday's page! I'll get the colors up when I get them. Phil didn't get the art to Cheyenne until yesterday, so I'm not sure how the turnaround will go.
Back soon!
--Kaja
2023-08-16 03:22:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm home! And still groggy. But I've fixed the word balloon tail in panel two now. Thank you to everyone who wrote to tell me about it! I have been very tired.
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We're running around trying to put as much stuff as possible into all of our suitcases, so the kid will have what ...
2023-08-10 03:21:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll probably have next Monday's page ready pretty quickly too, I hope nobody minds that I'm tearing ahead! We'll be getting the kid settled at college and he's taking my laptop, it being the only one in the house capable of doing anything beyond email and writing. So I won't be able to do any st...
2023-08-08 08:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post