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by Pete on May 3, 2012 at 12:01 am
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All Work and No Sleep

by Pete on May 10, 2012 at 2:01 am
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Hey folks.  Just wanted to say that there won’t be an update this week and I’m very sorry about that.  Katie and I have been working our butts off trying to prepare ourselves for the Maryland Faerie Festival, where we’ll be debuting a lot of new stuff under our Fairy Magik line.  Doing all of that while dealing with a one-year-old who doesn’t sleep has pretty much drained us of being able to do anything else, hence no comic update.  There WILL be one next week, as well as the opening of preorders for two new products, so stay tuned.

In the meantime – and I always hate mentioning this when there’s a missed update – there is a new donator wallpaper available, as seen below:

I haven’t had time to set up the link in the PayPal redirect, so for a limited time if you donate, you’ll get the URL to the April wallpaper and I’ll be sending you an email with the May wallpaper.  As always, donations are greatly appreciated and I’m always touched when people do it.

See you next week!

 

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Donator Wallpaper for April

by Pete on April 8, 2012 at 2:08 am
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Because the weather has been unseasonably nice around here, I decided to do an early Spring wallpaper.  This image is actually an updated version of an image I did for my Bardsworth 2006 calendar (for the month of May, actually).  It should get you in the mood for Spring.

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Costume Commissions Available

by Pete on March 15, 2012 at 6:50 pm
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Some of you (most of you, I hope) know that Katie and I run a husband/wife art studio called Fairy Magik.  It’s been through a number of changes, including a recent website redesign, and now we are beginning to expand our offerings beyond fine art.

Katie has a masters degree in costume design and has wanted to put it to good use for a while.  So we are now opening ourselves up to costume commissions.  This includes cosplay costumes for conventions, Halloween costumes, or playtime costumes for children.  If you’re interested, please take a look.

Remember, con season is right around the corner!

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The Second Bardsworth Book – Your Opinion Counts

by Pete on March 13, 2012 at 2:14 pm
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In the film industry when a movie languishes in the development stage (the stage before pre-production), it’s said to be “in development hell”.  That’s the way I feel about the second Bardsworth book at the moment.

When I did the first book, I made the decision to do it in color for a few reasons.  The first was that I didn’t save the original files at a high enough resolution to look good in black and white, so by coloring them it helped out a little bit.  The second was plain old marketing – I wanted to give an incentive to buy the book.  And I was going to do the same with the second one.

Unfortunately, because of my many time constraints now, coloring the older strips takes forever.  I’ve only got a handful done (and I lost several in my hard drive crash to boot), and this is over the course of several years.  So I pose this question to you, the Bardsworth readers and (hopefully) potential buyers of the books:

Would you be fine with a Bardsworth book printed in black and white That would be released earlier than one in color?  Or would you rather wait the extra year or so to see it in color?

Leave me your opinions in the comments section.  Thanks!

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Donator Wallpaper for March

by Pete on March 8, 2012 at 9:28 pm
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As usual, my donator wallpaper for the month is about a week overdue.  And, because of the special circumstances I find myself in, I have to display the preview here.  So here it is:

 

The other caveat is that since I can’t currently make the wallpapers downloadable, when you make a donation I will email you a .zip file with all the sizes.  So make sure your Paypal email is the correct one for me to send it to, or else write the correct one into the comment field.

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