Nothing Better is going on Summer Vacation!

This Friday June 27th will see the last page of Nothing Better Volume 2 update. Beginning Tuesday July 1st (and updating every Tuesday/Friday) a slate of guest comics will start up to carry us through the summer. Guest comickers were asked to tell their own college or college-inspired stories and I've got lots of good stuff from many talented friends and peers to share.

Over the course of the summer I'll be busy writing Volume 3 of Nothing Better, doing some freelance work and enjoying being a new father. I'll also have some random comics and art of my own to share. Hopefully we'll manage to entertain you.

Nothing Better Volume 3 will begin updating online on Tuesday September 2nd!

(and for those wondering, the plan is to have the print version of Nothing Better Volume 2 out early next summer, so be patient!)

stick around - we've got a great show!

Monday, June 16, 2008

Charlotte Nicole Page was born on Friday June 6th! Both baby and mom are doing very well. I've been home from MCAD for the last week as we get used to life with our new daughter and so far it's been going great.

I've also been finishing up the last few pages of NB Volume 2 - which will end on the last day of June. After that it will be a summer full of sweet guest comics and other random stuff as I take some time to relax, spend time with my family, and write Volume 3, which will begin in September!

Sunday, May 18, 2008

First a bit of news - I recently signed up with Wowio, a site where you can download PDFs of books for free! (you have to register though) Authors earn 25 cents for every book under 100 pages and 50 cents for every book over 100 pages that is downloaded! They stick some ads in your PDF to support the service. I thought I'd give it a shot as it's a way for people to be able to download and read Nothing Better whenever they want. Plus, I'm uploading individual chapters to try and make a bit more money - in the few days since I uploaded the first chapter I've already earned about 10 bucks! I'll try and keep the curious updated on how this continues to pan out.

I'm finishing up the last few pages of Volume 2 of Nothing Better and am deep into outlining Volume 3! Here's what I started with - don't look *too* closely if you don't want anything spoiled!

Click over to the LiveJournal to check out more recent sketches.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

hey gang, if you live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, Cori and I will be at the MCBA MICROCON this Sunday, April 27th, from 10am - 4pm. come say 'hi,' get some books and a sketch or two!

Monday, March 31, 2008

I always feel like I should be posting stuff like this more often but the days just run away with themselves. nothing terribly exciting:

Sunday, March 23, 2008

I NEED YOUR GUEST STRIP!!!

the current volume of NB will finish up at the end of June - just after our baby is due! my plan is to run a month or two of guest strips while I adjust to life as a father and build up a backlog of comics to start Volume 3 of Nothing Better.

so I'm putting out an open call to help! since Nothing Better is about life in college I'd like to collect guest strips about YOUR college experiences. draw a comic about something funny, stupid, sad, exciting, poignant or memorable in some way from your own college days (maybe even a college legend!). shoot for doing a one page
comic, but if you need a few pages to tell your story, that's also fine.

if you're game, let me know - I'll get you more details. comics wouldn't be needed until June at the latest.

THANKS!

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Today marks the beginning of Chapter 12 - the last chapter in Volume 2! Here comes the end of Katt and Jane's first semester in college. This also marks the return of two updates a week - back to Tuesdays and Fridays! Sweet.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

I did a guest comic for my awesome friend Raina Telgemeier today - go CHECK IT OUT!

Thursday, January 10, 2008

I've mentioned that I've been working on a pitch for a non-NB graphic novel over the last few months. Click on the image to go check it out!

As I've noted - I don't intend on finishing the story unless someone wants to publish it. I hope they do because I like the characters. I'm in the final stages of getting the actual pitch together and I should be sending it off to publishers in the next few weeks.

In the meantime, let me know what you think of this. do you like it? do you want to read the rest? where do you think it's going?

Monday, January 7, 2008

Over at the Comics Journal website, Dirk Deppey lays out his 50 best comics of 2007 and Nothing Better joins the list at #27! Awesome.