Chapter 13 continues! Page 116 is now live for your reading enjoyment.
Do you still need to get caught up on the story so far?
You can read the whole thing online right here on the Valley of the Silk Sky page or you can acquire book collections of Parts 1 and 2 in either print or digital formats. Chapter 13 picks up immediately after the events in chapter 11, which is not included in the book collections since it’s in Part 3. So be sure to read chapter 11 as well, lest ye be confused as to what the hell is going on.
Here we go! The commencement of Chapter 13 is now! You can read page 115 right this very moment.
Do you still need to get caught up on the story so far?
You can read the whole thing online right here on the Valley of the Silk Sky page or you can acquire book collections of Parts 1 and 2 in either print or digital formats. Chapter 13 picks up immediately after the events in chapter 11, which is not included in the book collections since it’s in Part 3. So be sure to read chapter 11 as well, lest ye be confused as to what the hell is going on.
Valley of the Silk Sky officially returns next week!
I will resume my previous practice of early access for my $1+ Patreon subscribers, and then release to the general public a few days after. On Monday, August 31st, $1+ Patreon subscribers will get to read page 115, and on Thursday, September 3rd it’ll be available to the general public across Patreon, Tumblr, and the Valley of the Silk Sky website. I’ll also post the pages here on Studio NDR as I have done in the past, but the priority goes to the other sites listed first, so if you are impatient those are your best choices!
New pages will drop on Mondays for $1+ Patreon subscribers, and on Thursdays for the general public.
So, yet another a reminder to get caught up on the story so far if you haven’t already done so!
You can read the whole thing online on the Valley of the Silk Sky website (or here on Studio NDR) or you can acquire book collections of Parts 1 and 2 in either print or digital formats. Please note that the events in chapter 13 immediately follow the events in chapter 11, which is not included in the book collections since it’s in Part 3. So be sure to read chapter 11 as well, lest ye be confused as to what the hell is going on.
Behold, three more installments of my series of the Most Worst Puns I am able to muster! These will be the last Taxo Unbos for an unspecified amount of time, as I will be shifting gears to coloring Chapter 13 of Valley of the Silk Sky, which I expect will keep me pretty occupied. You can keep up with my progress on that by following my Patreon!
But now, some terrible puns. Click through to their individual pages for yet more punnery and shenanigans:
Why yes, I do actually have some new comics for you. First up, a short diary comic called “Stimuless.” I guess you could say this is an AUTO-bio comic, har har. But yes, this is more or less the sequence of events that occurred, though the real life version had less anthropomorphism.
For the last few weeks I’ve been running a Valley of the Silk Sky short story over on the VotSS website. (I typically only publish pages from The Long Run here on Studio NDR; any VotSS extras and short stories are to be found on VotSS.) Well, that short story, “Extraction,” is now complete, and you can read the whole thing in one go. So go:
Finally, I’ll be vending at a virtual convention this weekend, Rainbow Space Magic Con. There will be a bunch of readings and panels with various queer authors of genre fiction, so if that’s of interest to you, come join us this weekend, March 12-14.
I’ll have a vendor pop-up slot on Saturday, March 13 (PT 2:00pm / MT 3:00pm /CT 4:00pm / ET 5:00pm / UK 10:00pm). In addition of a quick run through of my various wares, I’ll also be doing a live reading of some of my comics, so be sure to tune in for that!
Best of all, registration is free, so get yet butt over to the RSMC site to sign up:
Waaaaay back in the early days of the pandemic, Melanie Gillman organized and edited a digital zine of recipe comics called Parsley Sage Rosemary and Quarantine. You can still snag a copy of the whole zine on a pay-what-you-want basis, but since the rights have reverted I figured I’d share my recipe here:
If you want that whole “recipe with life story” thing, hit up the Patreon link. If you want the recipe and NOTHING ELSE, stick with Studio NDR.
Other Goings On
So yes, it’s been quite awhile since I’ve updated here. Honestly, like a great many other artists, the bruising ordeal that has been 2020 has pretty much done in my creative drive. I have been struggling to make anything more complicated than a sticker of a bear drinking bubble tea (it is a very cute bear, though).
So right now I’m mostly focused on trying to take some down time, in hopes that actually officially chilling for a bit will help recharge the ol’ batteries.
I do have the next chapter of Valley of the Silk Sky thumbnailed, though I have not yet commenced penciling (that’s what I’m hoping to get the energy to undertake).
I do have a VotSS short story that has not previously been published online that I intend to start running in January, so there will be comics come the new year, even as I hide in my hidey hole.
Chapter 13 is in the works, but it’s early days. I had to design a new environment which required researching some Things, and then figuring out how to retrofit those Things to the technology available to the fine folks in the Valley.
All for an element in the background that is unlikely to garner much notice, ha ha. BUT IT WILL BE A FUNCTIONAL BACKGROUND THING, OKAY.
Anyhow, thumbnailing has commenced. As per usual, I’ll be posting work-in-progress stuff for my $1+ Patrons, so if you want to follow along, a single dollar a month is all it takes.
I don’t know how well it shows up at web resolution size, but if you can’t tell, Ujo’s face in panel 2 is that of a big dork who cries about cute animals.
Perhaps somewhat less apt to cry about the animals in panel 3. Tyv may cry about those, actually, but not for the same reason. (Xe is really not the sort of person who likes hanging out in nature all that much.)
Check back next week to find out what else is hiding in the shadows …
