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I already posted part of this page in progress, but I haven’t posted the whole page before, and now you get to see it with Jake’s colors. Enjoy!

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I finished drawing the “Hereville” graphic novel this weekend, and Jake finished colors. That doesn’t mean I’m all done — there’s still a significant amount of work to do (title page, back cover art, fixes requested by the publisher, etc) — but still: YAY! I’m very happy to have gotten the principle art done, and I’m pretty pleased with the book as a whole.

Below: All 139 pages of the graphic novel, plus the front cover. It might be a tad hard to read at this size, though… the larger sized version will be in bookstores in November.

Zahra’s Paradise. Here’s the first page:

Only chapter one is up so far, but it looks like it’s going to be a very good book. Go check it out.

Posted with the kind permission of Keith Knight; visit Keith’s website for many more cartoons.

All Mirka’s siblings, plus her father and her stepmother, and Mirka herself. This was fun to draw.

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Here’s a page of art from the upcoming Hereville graphic novel. The graphic novel will be 139 pages long, of which 104 are inked and I’m not sure exactly how many (but a lot) are colored. If all goes well, all 139 pages will be complete five weeks from now. And I will be exhausted.

Which brings me to something I should have mentioned; I now have a collaborator on Hereville. Mr. Jake Richmond, my friend and housemate and excellent cartoonist, illustrator and game designer, is coloring Hereville. Thanks, Jake!

Anyway, here’s a preview page:

You can see a larger image of the page here.

My friend and cartooning colleague Stephanie McMillan is drawing a children’s book, written by Derrick Jenson. It seems like a cool project.

The funding mechanism is pretty cool as well; you can essentially pre-buy copies of the book (by donating $12 for pdf, $25 for dead tree), but your credit card will only be charged if they raise enough money to produce the book. (You could also donate more in return for more valuable rewards, like original art). If they don’t raise enough money, then none of the donors are charged anything.

Follow that link to see a video preview of the book (including the first five pages of art), or check out the more extensive Youtube preview.

I hope they raise the money they need. It’s a really neat idea — crowdsourcing grants for the arts, in effect. (I might try to fund the second Hereville book the same way!)

I haven’t forgotten Hereville! I’m still working hard on the graphic novel.

Right now, I don’t have time to do much of anything but draw Hereville, which is one reason I’ve been posting so rarely. I should finish drawing the graphic novel in March, and after I’ll be a bit more active with posting.

Here’s a panel I just inked, showing Mirka’s school’s cafeteria. You can see Mirka and her sisters Gittel and Rochel, sitting at the table closest to the viewer (behind the girl with the spikey hair). Gittel is the one with glasses.

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Posted with the kind permission of Kevin Moore. Click on the cartoon to see it bigger, and to see Kevin’s commentary and links.

In addition to Kevin’s comments, I’d point out this post by Ezra, pointing out that (by the weird definition of “subsidize” conservatives are suddenly using), Stupak “did not block the federal government from subsidizing abortion. All it did was block it from subsidizing abortion for poorer women.”

And read as well this piece, pointing out that by the Bishop’s definition of federal funding, the enormous support the Federal government pays to Catholic hospitals and charities must be a subsidization of religion, and is presumably unconstitutional.

A cartoon that was inspired by Paul Krugman’s article “How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?” Click on the cartoon to see a bigger version.