Well, I've got the words done a little earlier today!
I love Phil's sleepy pig ingots here. I wanted them shaped like little frogs, but Phil pointed out that "pigs" is more appropriate.
I'll be back with the colors when they come in!
--Kaja
2023-03-16 20:00:44 +0000 UTC View Post
EDIT: OK HERE IT IS!
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I'll be back very quickly with the color version, but here's the line art while I mess with it.
Today I got to go to the doctor to have an EKG to make sure I wasn't having a heart attack. Spoiler, I wasn't. I'm a bit jumpy though, it's what killed...
2023-03-15 04:10:27 +0000 UTC View Post
And here's Monday's page!
I've planted a bunch of catnip around my house. Apparently rats don't like it. This summer, I'm hoping to play real-life Neko Atsume in my back yard. I have to think of everything possible to make my yard paradise for the neighborhood outdoor cats. My lads will hat...
2023-03-13 02:20:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had a headache since yesterday and I'm working slowly. Sorry this is later than I'd like!
--Kaja
2023-03-10 06:02:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Emerald City Comic Con was great! (Or so I'm told, I stayed home and worked on other things all weekend.) Everyone is tired but they seemed to have had a good time. Phil brought me a shiny thing to hang in the window, so I'm happy. It's shaped like a moon and made of some kind of man-made stuff t...
2023-03-08 04:24:35 +0000 UTC View Post
While I'm lettering these pages, I think a lot about writers like Neil Gaiman who write up their scripts and then send them off to someone else to draw and letter. I'm terrifically impressed by their ability, I can't imagine how they do it. (In Mr. Gaiman's case, I'm impressed by a whole lot more...
2023-03-05 22:45:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Check it out! Phil and Cheyenne are getting ready for Emerald City ComicCon, so they're way caught up at the moment!
It won't last, but it's always nice. Here's Friday's page early, and in color to boot!
--Kaja
2023-03-01 02:32:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I've got to hurry with this one because I have to catch my shy cat and take him to the vet to have his teeth looked at. Poor Bobo. He's not going to like this, even with all that sedative I gave him a couple hours ago.
We'll have a booth at the Emerald City Comic Con this weekend, come see ...
2023-02-27 23:19:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! We did the 5K walk, in the snow as it turns out. It was very nice and a chance to enjoy the snow (it wasn't very bad and the trail was clear) and try out the Yaktrax cleats I ordered during our last ice storm. The verdict is that the Yaktrax are amazing. I spent a lot of the walk slightly ...
2023-02-27 04:57:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo, I'm a little ahead again! This pleases me.
This weekend I'm going to do a 5K walk, I hope it doesn't snow on us! (It did snow a little this morning.) It was mostly a boring day, lots of work to do but none of it very interesting to tell about. The most exciting thing we did all day wa...
2023-02-23 05:56:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Harumph. My glorious lead is ruined. Oh well, here's the page. Thanks!
--Kaja
2023-02-22 05:00:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Surprise! I'm still kind of ahead with the lettering. So welcome to Monday, everyone! Just kidding, you didn't oversleep, you still have your whole weekend ahead of you, I hope it's a good one.
I plan to continue packing Kickstarter stuff with breaks to attempt some kind of coping wit...
2023-02-17 02:19:47 +0000 UTC View Post
And here's Friday's page! Hoohoohoohoohoo! (Insert ridiculous Daffy Duck noises here.)
I really was that far ahead.
So...even though it's Tuesday atm, have a lovely weekend, everyone!
Woohoo!
--Kaja
2023-02-15 02:39:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Valentine's Day everyone! This page had to be completely re-written for reasons, so it was another of those writing challenges that is kind of fun because writing with very specific requirements can be fun, and kind of awful because of deadlines. The best part is that the next page is total...
2023-02-14 22:38:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again!
Here in Seattle we've been having that little bit of Spring weather where I run around in shirtsleeves even if it's actually still on the edge of too cold.
I'm almost to Rivendell in my walking to Mordor, just got chased across the river by a bunch of very unfriendl...
2023-02-13 01:36:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Yay! I have it to you folks properly early for once! I like this!
My living room is full of tubes of original art that will go to the post office (hopefully) tomorrow. They should have gone out a long time ago, but they're going out now.
I'll be back with colors as usual, hope e...
2023-02-08 06:43:22 +0000 UTC View Post
My Mom and I went out yesterday and walked around the track at the local school a bunch of times. She wanted to test the accuracy of her pedometer, and she wanted to try out her new walking poles. The walking poles seem pretty nifty. I'll admit I just use the pedometer on my phone, and don't worr...
2023-02-07 23:43:03 +0000 UTC View Post
As I lettered this I kept finding things I had to rewrite. It took a while.
Anyway, here it is.
Here comes a new week! I've started playing Pikmin Bloom on my phone. More walking incentive.
Signing off to get this thing posted to the girlgeniusonline.com site!
--Kaja
2023-02-06 05:06:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: I added a word in the last panel for clarity.
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This was another page that I had do do some rewriting on because things that were originally supposed to be on this page found their way onto the previous one. Fortunately Phil's shouty people are easy to write new ...
2023-02-03 06:01:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again!
I'm keeping this short because I only have another couple hours to get that Kickstarter update posted before I've blown my January deadline. Also I don't have much to say, I don't know where the time is going and we're already a month into the new year.
I've signed up for...
2023-02-01 02:33:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Holey moley, January is almost over and I still need to do the monthly update on the Kickstarter page.
This weekend we actually left the house! There was a little Lunar New Year celebration in the yard of one of the local elementary schools, so we went out and watched lion dancers and...
2023-01-30 02:39:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Ugh, I'm running late again.
Today I went to my first martial arts lesson in almost two years and I'm kind of wiped out. I had some health things that made me stop, and then I was busy and just kept putting off the going back. So today I went and it was nice of a bit embarrassing. I a...
2023-01-27 05:11:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm very excited about the new edition of WizWar that Phil illustrated! It's currently being crowdfunded by Steve Jackson Games, and I think it looks fantastic.
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2023-01-24 10:06:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: Added the SFX to the color page. Whoops!
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I wish I had more to say but I'm just working and that's about it. I did clean my corkboard enough that I can put my map of Middle Earth, so now I can track my very slow progress to Mordor with little pushpins. I'm closing ...
2023-01-23 03:49:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm running so late tonight! I'm so sorry! (Flings page at Internet and runs away.)
--Kaja
2023-01-20 05:32:29 +0000 UTC View Post
You know, I had this almost finished on Sunday night, and it took me this long to get the last few pieces of dialog finished. Well, it's done now, so I can get back to the other things that are chewing on me. My main work drive has started to die, it turns out it was actually six years old (nooo!...
2023-01-18 03:07:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you everyone for the lovely birthday wishes! I had a nice time, and my Mom made the kind of cake we all like, with seven minute frosting that gets a little sugar-crunchy on the outside.
Apparently the possibility exists that there are, or at least used to be, dwarves in the Girl Geniu...
2023-01-16 02:01:31 +0000 UTC View Post
So today's my birthday, and I'll be having dinner with my Mom, so I'm not sure if I'll be at the desk when Cheyenne gives us the colors. I'll post them as soon as I can but I'm setting everything up to go live as line art in case I'm not fast enough.
Thanks everyone!
--Kaja
2023-01-13 01:12:45 +0000 UTC View Post
The capacity of one book shelf, when full of office supplies, paperwork, and random goblin treasure, is astonishing. It looks small but clearing it off seems endless. Also, I probably have too many pine cones, but I will never have enough shiny rocks. By which I mean to say I am still shoveling o...
2023-01-11 04:35:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I am so pleased, I got this one lettered earlier than usual! I'm trying to reduce anxiety by taking every project that I can't get to right now out of my main studio and shoving it in a corner upstairs. I don't want to look at anything I can't take care of until after my Kickstarter is completely...
2023-01-08 07:04:23 +0000 UTC View Post