Good Luck, England

Mini Epics 13–16

Well looky here, four more strips of the "let's see what goes on in a boarding school for girls" variety. And to think that on New Year's Day I thought I could churn out one of these per day for the whole of 2012! It's more than halfway through the year and I've only done 19! Still, I suppose this means what has been done is of higher quality. That's what I tell my therapist, anyway. You don't mind waiting for quality, do you?

In the last strip below, Miss Sleepyhead herself makes her return to my comics canon after an absence of 12 years!

Mini Epics 9–12

I know it was way back at the end of April when I posted Mini Epics 5–8, so you may want to go back and refresh your memory. Or, you can just jump in right here. I'm not gonna tell you how to read comics. I'll let the newspapers do that.

Safari! Still More Album Artwork

Thanks for hanging in there while my Mac hangs in there. We'll continue to fight the good fight, and so on. To all of you who checked out Mini Epics, many thanks. There will be more. Well, even though my computer isn't in the best of health, the work must go on and finally China 5's 6th album is complete! It's called Safari and here is the recently-completed cover art:

Sometime during July the physical CD will be put together and then I can post a photo of what it looks like. Below is the rough sketch for the cover illustration which I drew in America on Christmas Eve last year.

And I'd like to return a shout out to my friend Sharna in England – thanks Shaz! It's the first time I've been mentioned on Twitter...that I know of.

Meltdown

After a month short of five years of loyal service, my Mac has suddenly (although it would be nice if you got prior warning for this sort of thing) decided to have a meltdown and develop hard disk damage. At the moment I'm facing losing the entire hard disk's contents, if it comes to me having to erase and reformat it. So while I'm spending my days backing up files, do me a favour and get that page count up to 8000! Go on, do it just to please me. And this goes without saying, but expect delayed postings on this blog for a while – don't worry, I'll be back. The blog-o-sphere can't contain the Birdman, etc.

(By the way, anyone know when the new iMacs are coming out? I heard June or July 2012, and it's June or July 2012 now, so...)

Despite my filebackuppage however, I will definitely lose my carefully time-dated photos in iPhoto (but stuff using that from now on) and, worse still, my iTunes play counts. So for posterity here's a screencap of my final iTunes Top 30 Most Played. I REGRET NOTHING!