The plan at the moment is to re-launch Chibi Cheerleaders by (at the earliest) August or (more likely) September. In the meantime, I’m trying to wrap up loose ends with other projects — mostly some web design work (helps to pay the bills :). I want to try and have as clear a plate as possible so that all I’ll need to focus on is the comic (then again, what’s the old saying about “best laid plans?”).

I’ve been inking some of the old pages, and I’m planning on releasing them on the site hopefully by time you start seeing new pages. If they aren’t all done by time everything goes live, then at least I’ll update them a chapter at a time.

Oh, and for those that have been wondering why the UStream feed’s been blank…there hasn’t been much of anything to show you at the moment. I mean, unless you want to watch me code web pages. ‘Cause I know how fun that can be. But, keep an eye on the Twitter feed over on the right. I’ll post when I’m about to start showing the feed (or just show up, and you’ll see it here on the site anyway).

No worries. I got the domain issue resolved (as you can probably tell), and the site is back up and running.

For those that missed the whole thing — you didn’t miss much.

Now, while I’m sure there’d be people that’d love a video of my ugly mug staring at them, I’m thinking of using it for something else — specifically, broadcasting what I’m drawing. It could be a request for a doodle for warming up..or a live stream of the latest page I’m working on. In any case I thought I’d try it out and see what people thought of it. I doubt it’ll be all that exciting, but hey…it’s there if you’re bored.
Here’s the link.

To help out on his medical bills (as well as keep his store afloat), the guys over at iFanboy have set up a fund where you can donate however much you want. I went and donated a bit of cash, and I hope you can too.

[Link to the donation page, with a more in-depth explanation of what happened and how you can help]

While I still have the old sketches page on this site, I decided to post all future sketches and completed works (comic pages excluded) on my DeviantArt account. This was more of a consolidation thing than anything, as I was just posting the same work in two different places anyway. The DeviantArt sidebar will keep track of (and show thumbnails of) the most recent work here, but it’s been flaky recently. So, in case you don’t see anything, just head on over to DA just in case. I’ll try to post any art updates to Twitter as well (look at me trying to be all social and stuff).

Lookit that…three days, three posts. That has to be some kind of record for me.

So, if you happen to use Twitter, and would like to keep in touch with the goings on over here, you can find us here. I’m going to post updates for the site, Chibi Cheerleaders, the Manga Studio For Dummies subsite, and other items you’d like to know.

I’n a semi-related note, I’m really liking this Scribefire plugin (though I’m using an older version called Performancer because there’s a plugin that will post to MySpace). It’s making it a lot easier to post (obviously, since I’m posting here for the seocnd day in a row), so I guess I’ll stick with this for a bit. Let’s hope I’ll actually get around to blogging a bit more frequently (though I won’t be posting what I had for lunch…sorry. :P). The only problem is that I haven’t had much to talk about. The good news is that the next couple of months should provide some blogging fodder, so stay tuned.

If you’re interested, the plugin is ScribeFire, and you can download it here. I’ll play around with it, and let you know how it is.

Turns out that what I initially thought was indigestion or food poisoning was actually a severely pissed off appendix. So, I went down to the hospital and had it put down (and taken out of my body). I’m all better now…with three significantly smaller incisions than I was expecting to have.

Funny thing is, when I explained what happened to family and friends, the only thing everyone keeps focusing on is “you drove yourself to the hospital with appendicitis? The hell is wrong with you!”