Ready to hear something very scary?
I am going to my last con of the year this weekend up in Albany NY.
Boo!
Here is the information:
Albany Comic Con Flier
I actually will be hosting a panel on how digital media is changing the comic book market. It should be very fun.
This being the last con of the year I have a few goodies to give away to Exiern fan. I can promise to make it worth the $3 entrance fee.
Also at 8:30 in the morning I am getting breakfast at the Wolf Road Diner right by the con. You guys are invited to come by and grab some breakfast with me. I will be the guy in the gold shirt with silver tie.
Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
meh.. Good enough
The new exiern site is now functional. I wanted to wait till it was also beautiful but I realized with everything else that is going on that would take slightly longer than the heat death of the universe. So I will be testing the site this week and next week I will port the site over. Again you can take a look at the new site here:
http://new.exiern.com
http://new.exiern.com
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Ok this may be confusing.
Today strip touches on a bit of Exiern cosmology that is known only to myself at this point. Now if this was a normal story the details of this cosmology would be revealed in time. The story would unfold and you would learn more about the universe as you learned more about the characters. But this is a filler comic and only has 3 more pages of life before we get back to the “normal” story (I hope).
Delving into what Ce is talking about with her masters and the travelers is just not allotted for in the limited time we have left. It’s my hope that this little story stand on it’s own and you don’t really need to know the backstory to appreciate the basic drama. But at the same time it feels like a tease never to tell you what is going on.
The basic idea for the cosmology of Exiern came from the famous line by Nietzsche “God is dead”. When I first heard this line the thought that ran through my head was “Gee, I wonder how the devil feels about that?” Granted Nietzsche was not being literal but just being his emo-prime self talking about the terror of transcending the concept of gods and yada yada yada. But I wondered what if the statement was to be taken literally. If God is dead where does that leave the devil?
The devil after all rebelled against god because he was angry over man being placed above angel. So here is the devil basically trying to prove a point and show how base and pathetic humanity is. Then God dies, the devil can never prove his point, he can never regain his place in heaven, his love/hate relationship with God is cut short. This concept impressed me as very tragic, a sort of life time movie on a cosmic scale and I always wondered what the devil would do in that situation. So when it came to create the cosmology of Exiern I decided to mirror this tragedy.
The brief history of Exiern is this;
Exiern was created by a group of individuals known at the Travelers. The Travelers dreamed Exiern into existence creating a paradise. In this world the Travelers created the nymphs to act as servant and concubine. The nymphs were beautiful immortal creatures designed to please all the sense of the Travelers.
However not everything the Travelers created was beautiful for you see the Travelers had an enemy known as the Authorities. To protect themselves from the Authorities the Travelers dreamed into existence powerful demons known as Beyonders because they were placed at the gates to the Beyond as guardians. The Beyonders were to prevent the Authorities from entering the realm of Exiern.
Every thing was good for a while. At least that is what the Travelers thought. However their, servants (Beyonders and Nymphs) began to grow restless. The Beyonders felt ignored by the Travelers having been placed far from existence at the edge of reality. The Nymphs felt that the Travelers were paying too much attention to them as the constant service to the whims of the Gods was wearing.
So the Beyonder and the Nymphs allied and turned against the Travelers in the Great Demon War (although it would probably be more accurate to call it the Great Demon Labor Dispute). Despite the power of the Beyonders and the cunning of the Nymphs, the Travelers were after all gods, and thus the Travelers were victorious in the war. As punishment the Nymphs were bound to the land in far off secluded places so that the Travelers could continue to take there pleasure with the beautiful creatures but not worry about rebellion. The Travelers, fearing the Beyonders more than the Nymphs, pushed the demons out of existence to dwell in a half-life in-between dreams and reality.
After the war the Travelers created the races of man to act as there new servants and the race of dragon as the new guardians. And again things were good for a time. Unfortunately the dragons proved to be inferior guardians and the Authorities were able to breach into the realm of Exiern (Some say the dragons let the Authorities through as a plot to take over the world although they never say this in front of a dragon.) Once they had established a foothold in Exiern the Authorities began to attack and capture the Travelers starting the God War.
This time the Travelers were not victorious and in the end all of them were captured or killed. Once the God War was over the races of man pledged their allegiance to the new gods, the Authorities (some races more reluctantly than other). But in response to the offering and oaths of loyalty the Authorities simply replied; “This dimension is no longer suitable to our purpose” and then boarded their sphere shaped ships and left Exiern and have not been seen in 5 generations.
And this is what Pip and Ce are talking about. And you get a cookie if you read through all this silliness.
Delving into what Ce is talking about with her masters and the travelers is just not allotted for in the limited time we have left. It’s my hope that this little story stand on it’s own and you don’t really need to know the backstory to appreciate the basic drama. But at the same time it feels like a tease never to tell you what is going on.
The basic idea for the cosmology of Exiern came from the famous line by Nietzsche “God is dead”. When I first heard this line the thought that ran through my head was “Gee, I wonder how the devil feels about that?” Granted Nietzsche was not being literal but just being his emo-prime self talking about the terror of transcending the concept of gods and yada yada yada. But I wondered what if the statement was to be taken literally. If God is dead where does that leave the devil?
The devil after all rebelled against god because he was angry over man being placed above angel. So here is the devil basically trying to prove a point and show how base and pathetic humanity is. Then God dies, the devil can never prove his point, he can never regain his place in heaven, his love/hate relationship with God is cut short. This concept impressed me as very tragic, a sort of life time movie on a cosmic scale and I always wondered what the devil would do in that situation. So when it came to create the cosmology of Exiern I decided to mirror this tragedy.
The brief history of Exiern is this;
Exiern was created by a group of individuals known at the Travelers. The Travelers dreamed Exiern into existence creating a paradise. In this world the Travelers created the nymphs to act as servant and concubine. The nymphs were beautiful immortal creatures designed to please all the sense of the Travelers.
However not everything the Travelers created was beautiful for you see the Travelers had an enemy known as the Authorities. To protect themselves from the Authorities the Travelers dreamed into existence powerful demons known as Beyonders because they were placed at the gates to the Beyond as guardians. The Beyonders were to prevent the Authorities from entering the realm of Exiern.
Every thing was good for a while. At least that is what the Travelers thought. However their, servants (Beyonders and Nymphs) began to grow restless. The Beyonders felt ignored by the Travelers having been placed far from existence at the edge of reality. The Nymphs felt that the Travelers were paying too much attention to them as the constant service to the whims of the Gods was wearing.
So the Beyonder and the Nymphs allied and turned against the Travelers in the Great Demon War (although it would probably be more accurate to call it the Great Demon Labor Dispute). Despite the power of the Beyonders and the cunning of the Nymphs, the Travelers were after all gods, and thus the Travelers were victorious in the war. As punishment the Nymphs were bound to the land in far off secluded places so that the Travelers could continue to take there pleasure with the beautiful creatures but not worry about rebellion. The Travelers, fearing the Beyonders more than the Nymphs, pushed the demons out of existence to dwell in a half-life in-between dreams and reality.
After the war the Travelers created the races of man to act as there new servants and the race of dragon as the new guardians. And again things were good for a time. Unfortunately the dragons proved to be inferior guardians and the Authorities were able to breach into the realm of Exiern (Some say the dragons let the Authorities through as a plot to take over the world although they never say this in front of a dragon.) Once they had established a foothold in Exiern the Authorities began to attack and capture the Travelers starting the God War.
This time the Travelers were not victorious and in the end all of them were captured or killed. Once the God War was over the races of man pledged their allegiance to the new gods, the Authorities (some races more reluctantly than other). But in response to the offering and oaths of loyalty the Authorities simply replied; “This dimension is no longer suitable to our purpose” and then boarded their sphere shaped ships and left Exiern and have not been seen in 5 generations.
And this is what Pip and Ce are talking about. And you get a cookie if you read through all this silliness.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
New Exiern
Watch me build the new site:
http://new.exiern.com
Watch me build it very very slowly. Comments are appreciated.
http://new.exiern.com
Watch me build it very very slowly. Comments are appreciated.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
About the bath strip
For all of you that were wondering here are the answers to your questions:
1) Yes I do pay attention to what is said on the chatbox.
2) No I don't have any integrity left.
Hope that clears that up.
1) Yes I do pay attention to what is said on the chatbox.
2) No I don't have any integrity left.
Hope that clears that up.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
What the hell happened?
So I have been away for a week and change and we missed an update. What is going on?
Well in order of events;
So you know what? I am calling last week a week off for the comic. I have just not had time for anything. Fortunately my ex-employers have seen fit to free up a good deal of my time so I should be able to catch up. But I must say being unemployed has been much more work than being employed so far.
When I tell people about my loosing my job they ask me if I ever consider working on the comic full time. My answer is “Yes and I also consider winning the lottery and living on a private island with a naked supermodel. But I wouldn’t call either a good life strategy”. The simple fact is the economics of a writer/artist team is a good deal more difficult than the lone creator economics.
A lone creator has complete control over output that is not the case with the team scenario. Also a team has to generate twice the income of a lone creator. A difficult task to say the least. These factors work against a team scenario for creating a viable job.
So Exiern will remain a hobby. However if you want to donate something extra or get a membership to support me I am not going to stop you. If we could double Exiern income I could just do the comic for a living. That would be cool but I am not holding my breath.
On the other hand if anyone out there knows of a company looking for a cooperate trainer with experience in office applications, web programming, graphic design, database systems, and SharePoint, someone with a good deal of web and social marketing suave let me know. I would like to eat food and have a home.
Thanks.
PS: Anyone know of any comic writing job let me know as well but I doubt there are many of those around.
Well in order of events;
- I got very sick
- My computer died
- My computer was fixed but my internet died
- I was fired from my job
- I am moving out of my apartment because I can’t afford it (see fired)
- I am sick again.
So you know what? I am calling last week a week off for the comic. I have just not had time for anything. Fortunately my ex-employers have seen fit to free up a good deal of my time so I should be able to catch up. But I must say being unemployed has been much more work than being employed so far.
When I tell people about my loosing my job they ask me if I ever consider working on the comic full time. My answer is “Yes and I also consider winning the lottery and living on a private island with a naked supermodel. But I wouldn’t call either a good life strategy”. The simple fact is the economics of a writer/artist team is a good deal more difficult than the lone creator economics.
A lone creator has complete control over output that is not the case with the team scenario. Also a team has to generate twice the income of a lone creator. A difficult task to say the least. These factors work against a team scenario for creating a viable job.
So Exiern will remain a hobby. However if you want to donate something extra or get a membership to support me I am not going to stop you. If we could double Exiern income I could just do the comic for a living. That would be cool but I am not holding my breath.
On the other hand if anyone out there knows of a company looking for a cooperate trainer with experience in office applications, web programming, graphic design, database systems, and SharePoint, someone with a good deal of web and social marketing suave let me know. I would like to eat food and have a home.
Thanks.
PS: Anyone know of any comic writing job let me know as well but I doubt there are many of those around.
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