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Something just came in the mail...

Let's see... a couple weeks ago I got in a small 3D printer, and a very cheap hobby-type CNC mill as a sort of "trainer", plus some parts for my bandsaw...

So what could these be? The tags say "frah...

Well, that was kind of nice of them...

Got a box in the mail, which was kind of a surprise. A 'surprise' because usually I know what's heading in, as it's something I've either already been talking to the customer and know it's on the way,...

Welcome new Readers and new Patrons!

Wow, looks like were right at 99% of the way to the next milestone, finally. :) I might have to actually go out and buy a webcam and figure out how all this "make a video" thing actually works...

I ...

And We're Back!

Finally, after more than a week, we're back! TWB is currently showing the strips from back when everything crashed, but I'll be updating the updater later this evening, and we should be back to being ...

A teaser for the Patrons!

I quick behind-the-scenes peek at a bit of upcoming fun. Penciled line art, scanned and digitally "inked", wait'll you see it in full color. :)

Not sure what they're supposed to be doing, though... ...

TWB, October 4th:

Well, as of late Wednesday evening, neither of my sites have returned as hoped for. I spoke again with the ISP earlier today, and the official line was, in effect, hopefully, but no promises.

Yeah, ...

TWB October 3rd:

Hopefully the site will be back up sometime today... Fingers crossed!

Doc.

An update:

An update: I called again this morning- I was polite, I know the phone jockeys likely don't have any real say in what's going on :D - and got an update.

The story is, supposedly they found some malw...

October 2nd:

The continuing adventures of a webcomic without a webpage! (Where's the "rolleyes" emoji?)

I dunno about you ladies and gents, but I'm getting kind of tired of not having an actual damn webpage... H...

Let's get this party started!

Yep, as of late Sunday night, TWB is still down, and I'm still given no hard ETA on when it'll be back up. But, you ladies and gents still deserve your dose of TWB goodness, so for the first time sinc...

And Friday's Comic!

Apparently they're still having issues with my servers, so again, in case the system doesn't come back up by Friday morning, here's the next strip!

Yes, I've called, and yes, they're working on it. ...

Thursday's Comic!

Looks like my servers are down again, so just in case they're still down in the morning, or just down long enough for the updater to miss it's cycle, here's Thursday's strip a bit early.

Doc.

Wednesday's Comic!

Sorry, my host is apparently having server problems, should be resolved soon. In the meantime, here's today's interrogation! :)

Doc.

Officially The First!

Officially the first fan-art of Miki, that is. :) By convoluted-comic-timeline-fetishist Al of Poisoned Minds.

He's also got a Sw...

Flowers, part 2:

Another book sketch. This is the kind of sketch that, if I were to turn this into a proper art piece, I'd be doing a LOT of tweaking. :)

I seem to have gotten worse at the actual drawing, ever since...

Flowers, part 1:

A recent set of book purchases came with a "Fanboy" sketch request that kind of "gamed the system" a bit. :) Usually you can only pick one character, and I try to discourage too much description of wh...

The Lost "Button" Strip

Back when I was doing the "Do Not Push This Button" strips back in 2012, after one particularly long day in the shop, I whipped up a quick filler strip using some clipart of RJ from "Over The Hedge".<...

TWB T-Shirt Fire Sale!

Longtime readers may recall years ago when I produced a line of paintball and/or TWB-related T-shirts, and sold them along with the book preorders.

Well, I used to have them made to-order, locally, ...

A quick guest strip!

Longtime readers might recall my old "Scraps" strips, where I had some 'clipart' of the characters, which I used to make quick filler strips when I was short on time, or my brain had malfunctioned and...

And finished!

Finally squeezed in a moment to finish this off. And considering it started as a quick book sketch, I don't think it turned out too bad.

As always, I just wish I had more time for this kind of thing...

Step 4: Color!

Not much to show here, just a simple flood-fill of the basic colors.

Sorry, I was busy today! :)

Doc.

Step 3:

Step 3 is cleaning up the linework. This one took a bit longer than a comic strip would, since I blew it up considerably larger than a typical comic panel. (It's obviously shown reduced, here.)

So i...

Step 2:

The first step was taking the inked drawing and scanning it. For the comic I usually erase the pencil lines before scanning, so it's quicker to clean up the base linework. When I do the book sketches,...

Yeah, it's been a while...

I have to apologize for being so quiet lately, ladies and gentlemen, and I really wish I had some cool new art to show off. But as is usual for about this time of year, I'm extremely busy in the shop,...

Can I keep 'im?

A reader asked that, since we're seeing some of the other background players, if we'd see Packrat again, and if so, would Pirta catch him properly this time. :)

Packy's not sure how he feels about t...

Free Minicomics!

I have a bunch of these little promotional minicomics left over from the convention, and plan to keep them in stock for a while as, well, free promotional giveaways.

If you'd like one, please email ...

Arctic Comic Con 2018 Report:

The full report can be read over on the Tinker's Guild.

The image above...

TWB Minicomic #2!

There's a comics convention going on up here on Saturday, so I took some spare time this past week and put these little giveaway comics together. I'd hoped to make an actual storyline comic, but I jus...

Just one cup, please...

I'm trying to cut down.

:)

Doc.

Swamps Fantasizes

In the TWBUniverse, "suntan lotion" comes in varieties, one of which is used by white-furred types like polar bears and arctic foxes to help the sun bleach their fur even whiter and brighter.

In the...