Cloudhopper #1 is almost done
ANY COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS YOU HAVE ABOUT THE ART the more specific the better ARE ASTOUNDINGLY WELCOME IN THE NEXT TWENTY-FOUR HOURS



That file is much, much bigger than it looks. It's a panoramic picture of the background of the last fifteen pages.

The idea was to do all the background at once, to give a real sense of place (which has been lacking sometimes) and a sort of payoff to a location joke. I'll give you a hint -- there's one direction the comic won't look until the end.

No, it's not up. That just occurred to me this second. Dan never actually looks up once. And that would be such an easy page to do...

You know I'm going to do it. I'm going to do a page where Dan just looks up and there will be an entire page of plain old blue. I'm that sort of fiend. But it's just gonna have to wait for the director's cut, because I didn't think of it until too late.

Because, you see, I am finishing Cloudhopper now. I am not leaving Santa Fe until it's done. I've put in six hours this morning and made a substantial dent, but it's not finished yet.

ACTUALLY I WILL USE THE 'UP' PAGE FOR THE COVER~! It is so perfectly elemental, something that could have happened at any point in the series, it's perfect for the cover. See, here's the thing, I don't want the cover to give away that he's on a cloud. I love the surprise entirely too much.

ANYWAY.

HERE IS THE DEAL.

Cloudhopper will be done in the very, very near future.

ANY COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS YOU HAVE ABOUT THE ART the more specific the better ARE ASTOUNDINGLY WELCOME IN THE NEXT TWENTY-FOUR HOURS

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I know from watching Zach sell Miner at Stumptown & Staple and gauging reactions (and preorders!) that I can certainly sell at least fifteen copies of Cloudhopper #1 during SDCC. Probably thirty, maybe more. I could also sell at least fifteen copies of mTX #1* and ten President of Ice Cream in those same four days. Again, quite likely more.

In order to print all these books I will have to pay lulu.com $600. I can reasonably expect to make that back, and a fair amount more.

If you would like to invest in this venture, I can promise a reasonable profit. SDCC is the last week of July, and I would pay you before the first of August.

So contact me if this sounds interesting to you.

*I fixed up mTX #1 a lot too, because you know I do stuff like that. If people are gonna keep buying it I might as well make it pretty.