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Valley of the Silk Sky pencils! Anomaly Con, Emerald City Comic Con appearances!

March 23, 2016 Dylan Edwards No Comments

Chapter 6 pencils are done! Hooray! Now it’s on to inking and painting. Which means I’m on track to start running the chapter in April, probably after I get back from Emerald City Comic Con.

Yes indeed, I shall be at ECCC (April 7-10, 2016). You can find me at the Northwest Press booth #1227.

I’ll also be on the Queer Comics for Kids and Teens panel at ECCC on Sunday April 10, 1:15-2:15, in room T305. I’ll be discussing Valley of the Silk Sky, of course!

Also, this weekend (March 25-27) you can find me at Anomaly Con here in Denver.

I’m on about a billion panels, including Toxic Masculinity as Villain, Alien Cultures that Don’t Dehumanize, and Queer Identities After the Apocalypse. Again, gonna be talking lots of VotSS!

This means I will unfortunately NOT be at DINK (Denver’s brand new Independent Comics Expo, March 25-26). But Valley of the Silk Sky has been nominated for Outstanding Work from Colorado in the inaugural DINKy Awards, so I’m super excited about that.

So. Hopefully see some o’ you at one of these events, and check for Chapter 6 to start mid-April!

Cheers,

Dylan

Valley of the Silk Sky is nominated for a DINKy Award!

March 16, 2016 Dylan Edwards No Comments

The nominees for the inaugural DINKy Awards have been announced, and Valley of the Silk Sky is in the running! It’s been nominated for Outstanding Work from Colorado. The winners will be announced on March 26, at the end of the first DINK Expo.

(Also, let this serve as your periodic reminder that VotSS is available as a hi-res PDF if you wanna be able to read the story offline. Wink wonk.)

I am unfortunately not tabling at DINK this year because I had already committed to another show before their dates were announced. I’ll be at Anomaly Con March 25-26. But I’m hoping DINK does well and there’s not a conflict next year, because I’d definitely like to participate.

I do have a Denver comics event coming up this Friday:

I’m part of a group of comic creators who will be tabling at this event at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library. That’s happening this Friday, March 18, from 2:30 – 4:30 PM.

It’s free to attend, and I’ll have a couple of new minicomics out for sale, so you should come by if you can!

Cheers,

Dylan

Beyond gets a Lammy nom! VoSS progress report!

March 9, 2016 Dylan Edwards No Comments

Just got word yesterday that the Beyond Anthology is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Anthology! Great news to hear, and big congrats to the editors, Sfé R. Monster and Taneka Stotts, as well as all the other contributors, for making such an excellent book.

The print book is sold out of the online store, so if you’ve been meaning to grab it, be aware! (Obviously the digital edition is still available.) Some shops will still have copies in stock, and I’ll be selling Beyond at my next couple of conventions: I definitely expect to have books for Anomaly Con and Emerald City.

After that, no guarantees. I don’t have any information at this time on a reprint, though I believe it’s part of the plan.

As for Valley of the Silk Sky, don’t forget you can now buy a hi-res PDF of Part One of The Long Run. Read offline! Zoom in on the art and look at all the little bitty details! Help support indie artists with dollars! EXCITEMENT. (No word yet on the ComiXology edition, though I wouldn’t expect to hear anything for another couple-few weeks.)

Yes, yes, fine, you say, but WHAT OF PART TWO. Well, I’m about halfway through penciling Chapter 6, so it’s humming along. Still looking to start running sometime in April. I’m posting work-in-progress peeks and other art to my Patreon for $1+ backers, so if you wanna keep up with the goings on, that’s the place to be. Again, your dollars help support indie artists, etc.

Last bit of news, I totes forgot to post a link to this Unicorn Booty article/interview about Valley of the Silk Sky. A little something else to read while you wait!

Cheers,

Dylan

Valley of the Silk Sky: The Long Run Part One

March 2, 2016 Dylan Edwards No Comments

Oh, hey, look at that! The PDF for Part One of Valley of the Silk Sky is available on Gumroad right this very now!

Buy Valley of the Silk Sky PDF

This collects chapters 1-5, and features hi-res images of the art so you can zoom in and see all the little details you missed. Or, if you are one of the many people who doesn’t like reading comics online, you can now read offline. EXCITEMENT.

Your $$ helps support me in making Valley of the Silk Sky. So yeah, get yerself a big ol’ wad of queer sci-fi comics, and cause there to be EVEN MORE queer sci-fi comics!

Cheers,

Dylan

Valley of the Silk Sky page 52 closes out Chapter 5, and Part One

February 24, 2016 Dylan Edwards No Comments

Page 52 is up, and it is pretty darn gay! Observe the gayness:

And with that, Chapter 5 is done, and Part One is complete.

NOW WHAT, you wonder.

Next up, I’ll be releasing a digital edition of Part One so you can read it offline. If you are one of my Patrons, this eBook PDF version will be made available for you to download later this week. Otherwise, I’ll have it up for sale on Gumroad for $5.99. (Official release date is March 2.)

The book has also been accepted by ComiXology for their Submit program. So if you’re a ComiXology user, you will be able to buy a Guided View edition of Valley of the Silk Sky Part One, also for $5.99.

I’ll go into the details of the benefits of the eBook edition once it’s available for your purchasing pleasure. TL;DR: the art looks nicer and your $$ helps me keep doing this comics thing.

Okay, yes, but what about Chapter 6? What of Part Two, you ask?

Chapter 6 is in progress right now, though it’s not nearly as far along as I wanted it to be. Unfortunately, personal life stuff intervened (and by “personal life stuff,” I actually mean, “flying out of town twice to two different states in less than a month to visit relatives in hospice”). So it’s one of those situations where there was nothing much to do about it but accept that there was going to be a big delay.

So but I’m penciling now, and am hoping maybe to get Chapter 6 up and running by April. In the interim, I’ll be posting a lot of work-in-progress stuff to my Patreon for $1+ subscribers, and there’s a couple more world-building posts in the pipeline that I’ll be putting up on the Valley of the Silk Sky website.

Anyhow. Check back next week for an announcement about the PDF book!

Cheers,

Dylan

Valley of the Silk Sky page 51 is up

February 16, 2016 Dylan Edwards No Comments

Life is being really chaotic right now, and I’ll be traveling on my usual update day, so I’m putting up page 51 here on Studio NDR a day early.

It’s scheduled to auto-post on Tapastic and Tumblr at the usual times (ear-lie in the morning), so if you follow VoSS updates there, check back Wednesday morning.

The good news is that the eBook for Valley of the Silk Sky Part One is basically finished, just needs a couple of minor tweaks. Which I will get to when I’m not once again out of town for unplanned emergencies. I’m still hoping to have that ready for download before the end of February.

Anyway. Yeah. Stuff and things.

Until next week,

Dylan

Valley of the Silk Sky chapter 5 commences, Feeping Creatures sale closes

February 10, 2016 Dylan Edwards No Comments

Valley of the Silk Sky chapter 5 commences! Yeah, where ARE Hali’s quadmates? Let us find out:

pee ess – your periodic reminder that all characters use nonbinary xe/xer pronouns.

In other VoSS news, the digital book for Part One nears completion. All the art is formatted and the covers are done, just gotta do things like indicia page and probably some kind of introduction, stuff like that. I’m hoping to have it available by the end of the month.

Oh, hey, and the Beyond Anthology (which, as I’m sure you know, has a 16-page Valley of the Silk Sky short story in it) got a great write-up in the Onion’s AV Club. Read all about it!

Meanwhile, those feeps:

The sale on my monster art stuffs ends this Sunday the 14th, so these are the last days for snagging that sweet 20% off. Use that code! CarsSureAreGreat20

Also, I should mention that I’m doing a small, local show on Saturday night: Beastival 3 at Mile High Comics, if you’re in the Denver area.

If you can’t make it to the Beastival, be aware that items from the Etsy shop may disappear on Saturday night as they sell at the show. So if there’s a feep you’ve had your heart set on, best to snag it now!

Cheers,

Dylan

VoSS Year 1 and a little bit of Steven Universe fan art

January 26, 2016 Dylan Edwards No Comments

Now that Chapter 4 is all wrapped up, I’m posting the art I did to commemorate Valley of the Silk Sky‘s first year. This is going up a day early here because I’ll be out of town on Wednesday (my regular update day) and there’s not really a great way to schedule this post. So:

View it here right now on Studio NDR

OR! It’ll auto-post to Tapastic and Tumblr on Wednesday morning.

I’m very close to finished with Chapter 5. Hoping to wrap up the last of the coloring today. My current thought is to start running Chapter 5 on Feb. 3, though that might get pushed back if Stuff Intervenes (fair warning: Stuff is threatening to Intervene).

Anyway. I also did this Steven Universe fan art of Peridot a couple of weeks ago and am just now getting around to posting it here. It’s also up on the Tumblers if that’s your bag.

The important takeaway here is the Peridot is the best gem.

Cheers,

Dylan

Valley of the Silk Sky page 48, VoSS turns 1, and a Monster sale!

January 13, 2016 Dylan Edwards No Comments

VoSS page 48 has arrived! OBSERVE:

True facts, tomorrow (Jan 14) is the first birthday of my li’l sci-fi webcomic! I made a special art for the occasion, which I’ll be posting first to my Patreon (in a public post). That’ll go up tomorrow, and then I’ll post it here and on the various VoSS feeds once chapter 4 is complete (which shall be VERY SOON INDEED).

Meanwhile, I have this other thing going on:

As you may know, I make all this monster-themed art called Feeping Creatures, and I have an Etsy store wherein I sell said art. And right now I have a 20%-off sale going on if you use the code CarsSureAreGreat20 at checkout.

Y’see, my car decided what it REALLY wanted to do was to rack up a bunch of extremely expensive repairs with no warning. So the Feep sale is to help defray the costs.

The sale is on through Feb 14. Maybe you have a loved one who needs some monsters. Maybe YOU are that loved one. Anyhow, get on over to the Feeping Creatures Etsy store and stock up on some monstery goodness.

Cheers,

Dylan

Valley of the Silk Sky page 47 is up!

January 6, 2016 Dylan Edwards No Comments

You’ve been wondering how Hali wound up in this mess? Page 47 has the answers you seek. Read it here:

And now you know: if ever you have to stop Hali and ask xer for directions, take the resulting information with a grain the size of a salt lick.

I updated my Appearances page for 2016. These are the confirmed shows thus far, with more to be added later as confirmations come in.

Meanwhile, in Tales of the Status of Future Chapters, I finished thumbnailing chapter 6 finally, so yay! I’m working on an illustration for a thing, and once that’s done I’ll get to work drawing chapter 5.

Next week Valley of the Silk Sky the Webcomic turns one year old! I started publishing this story on January 14, 2015. Will I maybe do a Year 1 special art post?? MAYBE??? Tune in next week to find out!

Cheers,

Dylan

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