hello everyone,

it looks like my little streak of updates gets a little hiccup this week. you see i’m doing a little traveling visiting some friends and working at the same time. i actually have this week’s update drawn and inked but i’ve had no way of colouring it. you see i forgot my wacom tablet, and there’s no way in hell i’m colouring this comic on my macbook with a track pad or mouse. so rather that attempt a substandard colouring on this weeks update i have decided to take the time i would have devoted to colouring and draw the upcoming week’s strips.

so, while i have nothing to offer you this week, next week you shall get four pages of update running from tuesday to friday, and the week following things shall return to the regular two pages a week. i apologise for the delay, but i’d rather skip a week than pass along something that i feel would not be my best work due to the circumstances at hand.

till next week,

ramón.

apologies to all for today’s late update.

i had finished everything at 5pm and decided let it simmer for a couple of hours as i went to meet a friend for a round of drinks and dinner. my thought in this was that i wasn’t quite happy with the original dialogue and i had to let it sit and come back to it to see if i liked it. well, dinner was originally supposed to be an early affair as my friend had to finish packing later. you see he is moving to korea for an indefinite length of time. but needless to say the night continued on as we caught up and then said good-bye.

i didn’t get back to the studio till almost midnight – and from that point on i wrestled, bleary eyed, with the dialogue – till now.

at the end of the day, because of the delay, the story is better for it :)

i’m glad you all enjoyed p147, it was really nice to see the discussion in the comments section. i’ll have to go through there and chat with you all as there are some very interesting viewpoints and observations. but for now i still have another hour or so of work ahead of me… and then bedtime beckons.

see you all next week when, well… oh boy.

sometimes a smarmy attitude will get you nowhere…

(and now it’s time to go fill my tummy with food. tasty tasty food! i am so hungry.)

the right words can be powerful tools, and our boney friend seems to have a way with them…

tune in next week two words too many are uttered.

silence sometimes speaks louder than words.

hopefully it does so here :P

always wary of putting up pages sans dialogue on a comic that updates twice a week. but if i could do a comic entirely in silence i would. maybe my next project… the one with the clown that i tweeted about… hrm, maybe.

i wish i could post the next 4 pages right now! cause man… well, you’ll see… next page in day and a bit!

i still seem to be running a day behind – my apologies.

i’m going to try and work diligently through the weekend and see if i can rectify this situation.

on that note, a good weekend to you all and i’ll see you next week… on time :)

it’s 1:14am here… so i guess it’s officially good morning!

i seem to be a day behind everything since new years. hopefully in the next few days i can change that, and move it so i’m a few days ahead… maybe, even, dare i say it weeks ahead… ah, to dream. but in all honesty, i did sit down a few days ago and laid out the next 20 pages or so of kukuburi which i’m quite happy about as it’s been floating in my head and in rough notes for a few months now. and even though i’ve known the ending to chapter one for some time it took me some time to arrange the puzzle pieces. i hope you’re as happy with it as i am.

though knowing these characters they’ll veer of the script i’ve set forth. they’ve done it once, they’ll do it again. it’s the beuayt of the spontaneity of doing things the way i am… and also the danger.

as you can see this week we return to our team out in the trenches and to reiterate morvo’s response… not goood.

btw, if you haven’t done so already, you still have a chance to VOTE on what you might think is in the box that reggie fought tooth and nail to bring to the brigade.

see you tomorrow :)

in my mad rush to get page 141 up the other day i forgot to wish everyone a happy new year and a welcome back! so inconsiderate… so, yeah, what i just said :)

our old boney friend is enjoying emotionally destroying our heroine! i tried, without morphing the his skull too much, to evoke the image of a grin in his ugly mug in panel four. it’s almost an optical illusion, sometimes i see it and other times i don’t… very subtle i suppose.

as i mentioned in the butternutsquash blog i had a bit of an interesting years end. to reiterate -

“after a couple wonderful months in europe i had a bit of a strange ending to 2009. the day before christmas i was told my tenancy case, that i had won but a month previous after a 2 year ordeal, was now being appealed (joy) and then an hour later i received a call whereupon i was fired from a job. a first in my decade of freelancing as an artist. it was a blow to the ego, but at the end of the day i saw it as a blessing which will allow me more time to dedicate to the things i hold dear, like bns and kukuburi. as rob and i near 200 strips in the squash i would like to work towards a collection before the year is out – as well i have high hopes of taking the squash 3 times a week sometime this year. big dreams – hopefully i can make them all happen!”

and not to mentioned kukuburi volume 1, which i had hoped would be ready for spring, will more realistically be ready for a fall release. but not too worry, i’ll keep everyone updated of progress. to fill the springtime gap i’m working on a nice giant sized kukuburi print, and maybe a t-shirt. we’ll see.

- so, big plans for this year. i hope you all stick around and enjoy the ride! and as that old commercial used to go “tell all your friends, tell a whole bunch…”

greetings all,

better late than never i say! rather than ramble on endlessly (i’ll do that with tomorrow’s update) i am going to run out and grab some food with a friend…

till tomorrow!

i hope everyone had a lovely christmas!

me, i’m smack dab in the middle of mine. i stepped out of town to see half my family yesterday, and the journey continues tonight as i see the remaining half of my family. so needless to say i’m juggling my time here a bit. though rest assured i am working on kukuburi and will be back in the groove next week… i had hoped it would have been today, but family and workload prevented that notion.

but on the flipside, since i worked basically through the holidays i now have the next two weeks free which i can dedicate to the things i love, namely kuku and the squash!

have an amazing new years eve, and i wish everyone a prosperous 2010 full of love and merriment.

cheers,

ramon.