Tarnation Blog

2010-11-02T17:00:00.001-07:00

Tarnation is on hiatus! It will be back in about a year! In the meantime I am debuting a new comic called "Haunted City!"

Haunted city is the supernatural romance tale of an artist named Epiphany (blame her parents), an investigator named Stephen and their ghost, Quinn.

Read it at http://www.hauntedcity.net

More pages coming!

2010-04-12T17:20:00.000-07:00

More comics soon! I am working on page thirty tonight...Hopefully I will have it for you all by Tuesday morning.

2010-03-27T04:51:00.000-07:00

So, if you look you will see that I have updated three times in one month. I am shooting for a fourth which would be great.

In any case,if you don't like RSS feeds and still want to know when the comic updates you can always follow my Twitter or look me up on the Face thing (my name there is also Michael J Patrick -see how easy it is?).

2010-01-27T01:55:00.000-08:00

It's been over a month since my last page. Sorry about that. Hope I don't do that ever again. I really intend to update EVERY week. Life gets in the way, you know?

Anyway, the plot should be unfolding a little more in the next couple of pages. This page here has lots of fun looking background characters. I like to think that each of them has a story going on parallel to the stories of our main characters. Maybe some day I will explore some of them as well.

Feel free to leave feedback!!

Inactivity...

2010-01-04T07:29:00.000-08:00

This comic has been inactive for close to a month, but don't despair (unless you hate it, then you can despair all you want).

I am working on new pages as we speak, plus I have put together a mini which contains the first chapter of the comic so far.

I know a lot of people have discovered this comic through some ads I have been placing lately, and I welcome you in. If you have read the archives and like what you see be sure there will be more to come soon, so keep m bookmarked or RSSed or whatever it is you kids are doing these days.

More Tarnation is on the way!

Constantly evolving art

2009-09-20T11:16:00.000-07:00

I hate the way I draw. From panel to panel Miriam's face changes shape like a piece of silly putty.

I created a new ad banner that reflects the way I am probably going to draw her here on out (costume change for her soon too):

I probably will keep the lines black (as opposed to the color holds I used in the banner) just for the sake of time, but I am going to make my characters a little more anatomically solid from now on. Closer to the first few pages that I drew more slowly. They say about drawing comics, "First you get good, then you get fast. Then you get good and fast." I skipeed the first step and went right to fast.

Late!

2009-05-23T23:48:00.000-07:00

Sorry, but this week's comic will more than likely be late. I have a lot of stuff going on and something has to give. I will do my best to get something up as soon as I can. I understand the importance of posting regularly and I appreciate all of the people who read my comic very much.

See you soon.

A question to my readers...

2009-04-30T02:59:00.000-07:00

Both of them. Ah, that old joke. But really I am only aware of two regular readers of this comic so at least it is true.

Anyway- I'm thinking about changing my updates to Monday instead of Friday. That means I may not update this week at all (but a couple weeks ago I did two updates so that has to count for something, right?) Thursday is a hell-day for me between work, and Scarlett (she has regular school and her evening French class). Plus it is a popular Ustream night and I'd hate to give that up.
I may move it around a few times until I find a day that works for me. Anyone have a problem with that? Brenna, Brigid, I'm talking to you guys.

So, now there is a blog here.

2009-04-24T21:57:00.000-07:00

I got rid of the WCN comments thing and replaced it with this blog. I am still trying to decide between Blogger and Wordpress, but since my old blog was Blogger I figured I'd stick with it.

So, hopefully you've been reading the comic (if not, then why are you even reading this?- go it's only seven pages so far. You'll be caught up in no time!). After each page I post I recoil in horror at how bad it looks. There are already dozens of things on my list of stuff to fix if I ever do a print version of Tarnation (like that godawful picture of Ron on page four- ugh). At this point a print edition is extremely unlikely, though, so I will just keep plugging away at it and leave the pages as is. I don't want to get bogged down in revisions. For a couple years before this I was'working' on a comic that never saw the light of day because I was constantly redrawing the first four pages and never got any further. So you get to see Tarnation ugliness and all. Lucky you.

I expect to experiment with a few different styles as the comic progresses. I will probably switch to a B&W or sepia scheme for the next story arc (Spelunking), but that is a long way off. The current storyline (Nightingale) should run close to one hundred pages and as I mentioned this is only page seven.

So, if you are liking the comic (or hating it) or just want to say hi- feel free to use this here blog as your sounding board.

See ya.

Michael J Patrick

Testing Tarnation blog- go!

2009-04-21T23:10:00.001-07:00

Just setting up a blog here. Move along.