Hello, HandRooster readers. I know it’s been a while. What you’re seeing here is just something strange I did last night after listening to some David Bowie, but I do have some interesting news related to the sight. After a long period of trying to make things work with either myself or Steph as the illustrator of HandRooster, we finally admitted to ourselves that Steph is just too busy and I’m just not very good. Maybe I could be with time and effort, but I get too disappointed with my own efforts. I’ll probably still draw on the side and occasionally post things here, but the real news is that we have a new HandRooster Illustrator.
His name is Ry and not only will he be drawing the comic, he’ll also be involved with the writing process as well. Ry is a good friend of mine and while he isn’t an experienced illustrator or anything, he’s going to give it his best try. He has a tendency to jump into the things he does with both feet, as they say. Hopefully this will mean that his effort and improvement will do great things for both him and the comic. Since Ry accepted the responsibility of drawing the comic, we’ve been collaborating via Google Wave and IM clients and have come up with lots of interesting ideas, so I have high hopes for the future.
At the moment, he’s waiting for some supplies and we’re still getting our act together, but I should think that there will be some comics out before too long. Perhaps the first one will be our Christmas present to you. Until then, you can just stare at this strange thing I’ve created. Maybe I’ll do more of those as I get time.
~Mike
