Only one panel, but it’s big. I seem to be sticking with the wonky panels for now. Bad news, though! I’m going to have to skip an update, I think, as I’ve been ill and Ron’s birthday is today. Lots of things conspiring against me to get anything comic-related done, the biggest being that I just can’t focus on art when I’m nauseated. So look for an update on Friday, wah!

Wow, this comic took a long time, mostly because I spent like three hours on the lineart. I don’t know why… does it seem like I added more detail in this one? Cause I’m just not sure. Maybe I’m just lame with any perspective besides eye-level- speaking of which! My good friend Ping (you know, Webcomic Finds) was giving me some good pointers on comic creation, and it made me determined not to throw out that goofy-perspective shot in panel two. Maybe that’s what took me so long. References after references! Ugh, stop looking at it. 

Anyhoo! The fundraiser is over and I didn’t make my goal, although I was surprised (and delighted) to get so incredibly close!!! You guys are awesome. I’ll be looking up computer parts, now. A huge thanks to all donors, I hope to produce work worthy of your patronage. 

A couple of cool things tonight: First is a fanart from a mysterious personage only to be known as “Random Pedestrian” of a Fang languishing in his green-ness. I love the green (and the lines) in that one. Next is the hugest sketch dump ever, done by Erulisse, and I think Zedwig is in it about three times, sometimes with other Lint characters. The Lint sketches I found were all on the left side, to help you out a bit. Lastly we have about a bazillion new icons by Bahnree! No one will EVER hurt for Lint icons around here, no sir. Thanks for those; I always love to see what a reader picks out to be eye-catching in these comics. 

Whew. Anyway, Happy New Year, everybody, hope it’s great all around. 

-Colby

I got carried away again and so you get dialogue with it, but only one frame. Two was just way too spoilery, even for people who like spoilers. Zedwig, even though I’d like to think I  know my own characters, is crazy beans. I mean, he’s so crazy I found myself saying to myself, “Zedwig is freakin’ CRAZY.” as I laid out this page. Usually this sort of thing wouldn’t surprise me but he kind of went a little more desperately nuts on this page than I expected, and that was when I realized the depths of how far Zedwig will go to stop Fang. 

I’ve been surprised no one (who has commented) has considered the possiblity that Zedwig is totally feeding Fang a barrel full of lies here. I guess we all figure characters mean what they say, if they say them. But maybe, just maybe, if Fang did relent to release Zedwig, Zedwig would immediately commence in blowing him up violently. I’m not sayin’ either way, but y’know. There may be more here going on than just “Okay Fang, I’ll save you if you let me.”

I suddenly had the need to break out of the three-lines-of-little-square-frames thing and just wanted to draw Fang all big and looking mean and imperious yet unsure and cautious; casual yet coiled like a spring, and Zedwig looking hopeless yet determined, beautiful and strong but fragile and cracking. I probably didn’t get half of that through in the drawings, but it’s always fun to try! 

I’ve wondered for a while what method best suits me for panel layout; I have long felt more comfortable with more panels to be able to pack in as much story as I can on each page. However, with this one, I packed in the same amount of story but streamlined it a bit. Maybe I could have packed in a little more. There are two cliffhangers I hypothetically wanted to end this page on, the first being this one, (which isn’t a huge cliffhanger really, as far as cliffhangers go) and the second I’m not sure I could have hit had I used nine, ten panels, or more. My pacing is a little off, or maybe the last page really looks blah to me, but for whatever reason it felt completely natural to break out of my standard paneling style. Besides, I always get artistically creative and experimental when these two guys are having a scene.

Anyway, I digress from things that are actually interesting to anyone but myself. Donations! Wow, you guys are crazy generous. Thank you so much; it takes a tremendous amount of stress off of my mind not to have to worry about how I’ll replace my old grannyboard (plus everything that’s attached to it). It looks like we’ve almost hit the target, but there are only two days left! There is actually a front-runner now in the whole donation race, and although it’d be great to hit the target for monetary reasons, at this point I honestly am more interested to hit it in order to get to see what the top donor comes up with for a request comic.  

So the reason I’m so babbly is because I finished the comic early tonight and obviously can’t figure out what to do with myself without a comic deadline looming over me like a guillotine. Wow… spare time… I guess I’ll play!

Thanks for reading! 

-Colby

And I got carried away and forgot to submit this in its early stages, so it’s 3 panels with dialogue that actually take up most of the comic page (because I also got carried away with the size of the first panel), so if you don’t like spoilers don’t click!

Wow, I barely made it getting this out today, but here it is! I enjoyed the making of this one. Good stuff. AND, I managed to get it out despite having to reformat my hard drive and wrestling with my computer for hours and hours and hours until I finally got it fairly workable for now. Plus I had a virus… the REAL kind. Everything conspired, but we persevered. Kinda.

Speaking of my computer which has been a decent computer yet is aged beyond reason: There’s less than a week left in the whole fundraising process for some technology that doesn’t threaten to die on me, and I don’t know if we’ll get to the goal, but that’d be really nice if we did! By the way, there are two people tied for the biggest donation, so if you’re shooting for it, I recommend adding a paltry amount to it, like an extra two cents, to assure your spot on top. ALSO: A huge thank you to all those who have donated so generously!

Despite dying computers and the stomach flu, Christmas was awesome anyway, hope yours was great too. I recieved a few snazzy pieces of fanart this week for Christmas. The first is another in the series of Lint dudes playing instruments by Lady Nilstria, and this time it’s Al’bert’s turn. He would so play the trumpet. The other comes from Jennifer Mitchell, who got some new pens for Christmas and decided to draw the Lint crew. Looks like they’re about to ambush Hope and make her an ornament on that Christmas tree. Thanks, guys!

Anyway, I’d better stop babbling and get some sleep, so thanks for reading!

-C

The vote incentive is up, but it’s really sketchy and totally crappy looking so here are a few other things for you to look at too: A pseudo-wallpaper of Fang, and some sketches of Zedwig and Hope looking mildly uncomfortable. I hope you all have a great Christmas!

A little later than I’ve recently liked to be with this one, but everybody everywhere is sick right now, and that unfortunately includes me. Fortunately I’m on the upslope, and everything will be hunky dory in a few days.

Christmas is also in a few days so I will be taking off the next update, but will be updating on Friday, December 26th. I’m getting hooked on a faster story pace, but man I love Christmas. Fun times will be had by all!

Here is a lovely fanart by LNilstria of Fang playing a musical instrument that doesn’t seem, at first glance, to suit him, until you look at it for a while and realize… oh yeah… it really does:

Fang’s so creepy. You might remember Zedwig with a violin from previous. Thank you LNilstria!! Now I feel even more anxious about getting my fanart page together.

Lastly, if you like Lint, please consider donating! I’m not sure if I’ll make my goal, but maybe things will pick up near the end!

Thanks for reading, and Happy Birthday Melissa!

-C

EDIT: Lo and behold, I DID work on my fanart page! If anything is missing or wrong, please please please tell me!

Some of you might be unhappy to find there is indeed a scene change. Yes, I intend to leave you hanging. Will Al’bert die heroically? Will he live to recount the story in a hilariously augmented fashion later? Who knows! (except me)

Well, I didn’t get anything done this weekend I wanted to, but hey, as long as I get to update regularly I’m pretty happy. Hopefully you’re pretty happy, too.

Speaking of happy, do you have any idea how long I’ve waited for the chance to make Al’bert say “En garde”? Probably not! Payoff can be sweet.

Also, I should never mess with my wordpress files; this time I accidentally deleted half of my plugins, so that’s why the Tag Cloud is gone. I don’t think you guys were all that attached to that thing anyway.

I don’t have much else to add, except my fanart page is an embarrassment. Bear with me a bit longer, I’ll get it cranking and up to date soon! Thanks for reading!

-C