Snow by Night

This week’s almanac entry is the bio for Cienan yr Tuathal. He is an oddity in Sherbourg – a foreigner who has made a name for himself in town. Even though he moves through society, he is apart from it. As a cast member, his bio is listed under the Cast link as well under the Merchants section of the Almanac.

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Almanac References: Belle, Bertrande Grusseau 

Chapter 2 Page 10 is up. The boys lay out their trap in the museum. I’m sure everything will go perfectly according to plan without any snags at all.

Snow by Night will be attending Baltimore Comic Con on August 20-21. We’re in the Artist Alley at table A123. Pretty easy to remember, huh? That’s good, because we’re listed under my name (Eric Menge) instead of Snow by Night. I’ll have to get that straightened out for next year. Anyway, we’ll have the beautiful chapter 1 books, character buttons, chibi buttons, and the very popular quote buttons (“And Bees” and “Scallywag” are our most popular).

On a different topic, I learned some new techniques for creating word balloons from some of the artists at Otakon. I tried them out last week and really liked the results. So I went back and redid the balloons for all the pages in chapter 2. A peculiar thing happened while I was redoing Page 8. Blaise started whispering in my ear. He had an idea for new dialog on the last two panels. I tried to tell him that I wasn’t redoing language, just the balloons, but he was very insistent. “Come on,” he said, “It’ll be funny. And it works better than what you have now.” I glared at him over that last bit, but he was right. So I added in the new lines. Jassart heard about it and demanded a new line too. Then Cienan’s maid jumped on the bandwagon. Gah, I opened the floodgates. These characters are getting out of hand.

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Almanac Reference: Templetown

Chapter 2 Page 9 is up. Cienan pulls some strings and sets the venue for the trap. Sorry for the short post, but it was a long drive home from GenCon today. I’ll have more news on Wednesday.

*edit* In my exhausted haze last night, I didn’t get the incentive panel uploaded. It’s up now.  Blaise does his Cienan impression. Check it out with a vote at Top Web Comics.

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Diane and I are at Gencon this week and she has come down with con plague. So she’s not able to update the almanac. My apologies. I’ll catch the Cienan bio next week. However, we got the page update ready for next Monday. So new pages continued as scheduled.

Get well soon, Diane!

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Chapter 2 Page 8 is up.The action switches back to Blaise and we find out how he is spending his time at Cienan’s house.

I’ve recovered (mostly) from Otakon. It was an incredible show with more than 31,000 attendees. Thousands of people streamed by our table in Artists’ Alley, and Brittany and I spoke to hundreds over the weekend. To those who stopped by, said hello, and listened to us talk about our comic, thank you! We also got a chance to meet some artists. We sat by Erin McManness who makes incredible illustrations and jewelry. I got to hang out with Shazzbaa of Runewriters and Stephanie Stober of Final Arcanum. I also met an incredible artist – Dirk Tiede of Paradigm Shift. His comic of paranormal action/horror is one of the best I’ve read. And no convention is complete without Jennifer Zyren Smith of LaSalle’s Legacy. Her story is firing on all cylinders. Go check it out.

I’m uploading pictures from the convention to our Facebook page. Please take a look! And a new incentive is up on Top Web Comics. Give us a vote to see Blaise and Jassart’s attempt at angelic faces.

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