Okay, so even though I am the lamest person on the planet for not getting this rolling before now, the new season of Kiskaloo is off and running as of this morning.  The new challenge will be to keep this Blog interesting without the comic on it.  I’ll be working on that.  But to all who stuck with me during the down time - thanks!  Have a great September!

Hello!

So another Comic Con has come and gone, and this one seemed to go faster than ever.  Partly it’s because I decided to try and do some drawings for sale this year.  I think I managed to get like, seven done over two days.

And of course, I didn’t use my Blog for what it’s for - namely letting people know where my booth was. This is because I’m oficially an idiot, and didn’t exactly know where my booth was till I showed up and saw it myself.  Anyway, I’m back and Kiskaloo has it’s new site, thanks to Nicolette.  Oh, the vinyls you see above are the new colors that came in just before Con.  We have a lot more that are in Long Beach, waiting to be transferred to storage, and we’ll be seling them on the site.  I’ll color-correct the picture later so you can see the colors more like they really are.  The store on the site is scheduled to open in less than a month, and I’ll keep everyone up to date on that.  Until then, here is a picture of me drawing, which I’m sure you will find fascinating, and one of the sketches I did while I was there.

Oh! Be sure and see the new site if you haven’t already!  It’s easy to find -  http://www.kiskaloo.com

-Chris

Hooray! Okay, so I didn’t get enough time to color it. I suck. But we already knew that.

So this is the deal - To prepare for Comic Con, I’ll be going dark on the strip for a few weeks - I’ll be spending my time getting all the cartoons into a book, and adding a couple of new ones (if I hurry) and even coloring some, which I haven’t had a chance to do so far. Time is short, so I’ll do what I can. Thanks for bearing with the cartoon on the Blog platform, I’ll be moving everything over to Kiskaloo.com before the Convention. I’ve been working with Nicolette the web designer, and the new site is looking good - I can say that because I didn’t design it. I’m looking forward to a summer of Kiskaloo, and a fall and winter of new adventures for these guys. There’s more characters ready to go, and some things I’ll be doing my best to explain - like what the heck is going on in this world that sesi and Ogo live in. Poor Mercury, he’s just an Ogo. I think he’ll get used to it.

This is for Martin. Martin is interested in having vampires on his desktop. Heck, who isn’t? If it isn’t big enough, Martin, let me know - I’ll post it larger! Thanks for reading the strip, by the way!

Well, here we go. One more till number 25. Just so everyone knows, I do indeed drink tea from time to time, although it always seems to be something I do in secret. Tea drinking in public never seemed right for me. Not that I would suggest you should be ashamed to drink it, or that drinking it regularly would drain you of consequence. In fact, my friend John Sanford drinks it, and his personality has not faded due to it’s use.

After number 25, we’ll be moving everything over to kiskaloo.com and on that day we’ll pull the comics off this Blog. This move, and the preparation for Comic Con in July, may mean a couple off weeks, but we won’t pull these down till they’re moved over. I’ll keep you up to date on what’s happening, and we’ll do our best to keep things interesting here during prep for Con. Actually, things in Kiskaloo have been very interesting the last few days. More on that later.

My brilliant web designer Nicolette Davenport has posted the “coming soon” page on kiskaloo.com and we’ll keep you posted as to when the comic will be moving. Also, a big thanks to Charles for guiding me through the process of making a pin! Hey, does anybody else have trouble with CS3 freezing on their computer? It takes me, like, three hard reboots to get this comic scanned and composited.

Sorry, just lots of words here - the new comic is already posted below. Which brings me to the point of this post - as this Blog has become more of a web comic than anything else, so Kiskaloo will be moving off this site and onto it’s very own dedicated website - kiskaloo.com

It will have a proper comic format, which will make it easier to jump back and forth between the issues, and eliminate the scrolling that exists on some of the computers that deal with this Blog format. We’ll make the change as soon as possible, and I’ll keep you posted here as the switch nears.

Oh, I’ve recently read a complaint that the image sizes are too big, and there is a problem with graininess - has anyone else had a problem with this?

Ah! An excuse for me to post a big rough!

There! Not the best inking, and I still would like to darken some of the open spaces, but I made it in before the end of Monday!