This week's two page update of Dicebox completes Book 1: Wander, which clocks in at 289 pages.
This'll be the last Dicebox update of year. I will be using the next couple of months to work on the rewrites to Book 1, which will entail creating 6 additional pages of story (and the elimination perhaps ten existing pages) along other art and word tweaks throughout. I'll also be redesigning Dicebox.net in preparation of Book 2, rebuilding the archive with ComicPress, which will hopefully be easier to maintain as well as offer more flexibility in navigating pages and so on.
Completing Book 1 took twice as long as I anticipated. But then, Book 1 ended up 90 pages longer than what I reckoned on and then there was that whole getting pregnant and having a baby episode. Book 2 should go much quicker as it's a tighter story and there will be no more offspring for me (I'm a "one and done" kinda mom). Also, I think I have a handle on cartooning and where I want to go with it, the source of much fumbling early on.
Book 2 : Chase will begin on January 11th 2011, which is a Tuesday, the new update day for Dicebox. January 11th will also be the day I'll open up pre-orders for the print edition of Book 1.
In the meantime I'll be making random posts to the Dicebox Process Journal and update my Twitter with any pertinent news among random nonsense.
So just your typical page of Dicebox.
You can read it here.
My main website and journal, JennManleyLee.com.