Kelci D Crawford

COMICS!

Johnson & Sir STILL don’t have a website of their own. I’m seriously considering potentially hiring a web designer to completely botch design the site for me.

But Johnson & Sir are still going strong! This week, their new story arc has started, and is called, “Alien Shenanigans.”

Validation is getting SO much support from you awesome readers, so thank you! If you like the comic, you can Like it on Facebook and keep up with updates and see some fun things Christian and I share.

And in case you missed it, check out the newest page over at Mini-Comic Theater. Things are starting to heat up over at the research lab…

And The Legend of Jamie Roberts is now up to 426 pages! In fact, here’s a sneak at a bit of script I wrote yesterday:

In which Daniel gets distracted while firing an arrow, but still managed to hit a troll.

DEVIANTART!

…has nothing new this week. Shame on myself.

ETSY AND REDBUBBLE!

Neither the Etsy or RedBubble store have anything new either! Man, I need to up my game.

However, I will be leaving Etsy soon, in favor of re-opening my Storenvy. Once that’s up, I can start selling In Her Wildest Dreams posters! That’ll help immensely with Validation, especially if you show your support for the comic and decide to buy one.

TUMBLR!

Look at this majestic Deadpool.

But on a more serious note, I did share my two cents on whether art school is worth it or not, as a response to someone else’s opinion.

There’s also a good written piece about making characters interesting without stereotypes, and a master post of drawing tutorials for everything from drawing cats and dogs to drawing human anatomy.

And if you need some music to listen to, this playlist is fun. It’s inspired by John Green’s books. Laurena Segara makes an appearance on there, and if you haven’t heard her, BAM, and be cured.

FRIENDS!

Maquel’s got a spiffy sketch. Jeff’s got animations.

Casey made some cool Pacific Rim fanart. Chloe made a fun Summer Wars sketch.

And of course, Christian and I are busy with Validation. But it’s a good kind of busy! She’s also been promoting other comic works from The Webcomic Factory, so be sure to check them out too. There are multiple stories on that site, but don’t get lost in all the stories!

THAT’S ALL FOR NOW!

Thank you for all of your support! You are awesome. :)

All the exciting things have been happening!

Ho man have things been busy here!

COMICS!

Validation updated twice this week. And expect a new poster to come soon! (Design and sketches will be posted here and on the Tumblr).

Johnson & Sir are off-hiatus! See the newest strip over at the tumblr.
Also, Johnson & Sir will be moving over to their own website soon! Expect to see something new next Saturday. :D
“But wait! The tumblr! What about that? What will you do with it?”
It’ll become an ask blog for Johnson and Sir, where you can ask the characters anything you like.

And Mini-Comic Theater has concluded the first short story, “Shadow.” Check it out from the beginning! (I also took the time to redesign the site for it. Now it looks and works MUCH better). The next upcoming short story comic is “Strike”!

Bonus! Right now, The Legend of Jamie Roberts has clocked in at 391 pages! French the llama!

DEVIANTART!

New works this week include more warm-up sketches, a trade with my friend Casey of her character Haku, and a very wise old owl.

YOUTUBE!

Oh my gosh! I finally finished sharing my May Sketchbook in six parts! Golly that took too long

REDBUBBLE AND ETSY!

The very wise old owl from deviantART is now also a T-shirt or sticker!

And over at Etsy you can get another post-convention poster, The Queen of Crows, an original character of mine who also makes an appearance in the short story “Shadow” in Mini-Comic Theater! (Circularity: I am good at that).

TUMBLR!

I’ve been busy this week. Check out my social commentary piece, “If Feminism is Not Needed, Then…” And the Young Turks summed up my feelings on the Zimmerman case accurately.

And in less serious business, if you missed “Whose Line is it Anyway?” coming back on TV, I reblogged the first episode! Enjoy. :D

Also here’s an infographic on how to make the perfect story.

FRIENDS!

Check out Chloe’s short film! It’s cute and sweet and charming in its own way. She also shared some references on Tumblr for muscles and boots.

Scrollon, a comics-reading app that Christian helped to spearhead with Douglas Liefer, is making an appearance at San Diego Comic Con! And it’s now available for download at the iPad App store! It’s a really cool new way to read comics: instead of panel to panel, you read it like a scroll, with side to side swiping. Neat, huh?

Jeff shared a couple of cool comic pages you should look at, because they look AMAZING.

And Casey drew this really awesome Tron fanart! I am an absolute sucker for black shadows in art and just looking at it makes me go “ADVHDJASKNVLA.”

RECOMMENDED READING!

The books and comics I finished reading this week and enjoyed the most were:
The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long, Jim Demonakos, and Nate Powell
Girls with Slingshots by Danielle Corsetto
Unnatural Creatures, stories selected by Neil Gaiman.

THAT’S ALL FOR NOW!

Thank you for your support, and Don’t Forget to Be Awesome!

I’m going to try doing this thing where here, on this blog, I share all the progress, projects, and comics made in the last week. I’m hoping this’ll be a fun way to keep all of you in the loop. :D

So let’s get right to it!

COMICS!

Validation is officially online and updates every Monday and Thursday. We’ve been getting some good feedback already from readers, including a feature on MTV Geek’s Top 5 Webcomics You Missed This Week in the #1 spot! You should hop on over and check out what all the buzz is about.

Johnson & Sir will be coming off of hiatus the next week, with a change to the schedule: formerly it updated on Tuesdays, but now it updates on Saturdays, along with another webcomic…

Mini-Comic Theater! It’s now officially on the web, and will showcase the mini-comics I made for other anthologies and for conventions. Right now it updates every Saturday, but bonus pages will be added every Wednesday, should any come along.

The Legend of Jamie Roberts is still being scripted, and now it’s up to 372 pages! It’s still slated as a webcomic release for November of this year. I posted some teaser sketches from the script on deviantART and Tumblr.

STORES!

I no longer have a Storenvy store. Sorry.

But I DO have an Etsy store and a RedBubble store, both launched this week. New pieces will be added over the next week, including some cool new T-shirt designs in the works. ;D

While you’re at it, if you’re a big fan of Legend of Zelda, go check out my friend Melanie’s RedBubble! She makes great tees, including this one that I bought recently.

DEVIANTART!

Three new art pieces were added to my deviantART page, including Dragonball Z Convention Stickers, the Validation Poster, and the aforementioned Jamie Roberts teaser sketches.

Still currently working on a trade with my friend Casey. It’s 90% finished!

If you would like to be featured in the deviantART news section of later Weekly Updates, just leave a comment here, on deviantART, or send an email. I would like to feature other artists in the future.

TUMBLR!

Aside from the teaser sketches, other notable posts include a reblog of wonderful reference photos of Bengal Tigers, a silly music video by a trans singer, and beekeeper news and how you can help with the alarming number of deaths of bees (please don’t disregard this: as silly as it sounds, bees are humans allies, and the fact that many are dying because of pesticides that we are using should warn us about the state of our crops).

On a lighter note, my friend Chloe shared this wonderful art tutorial on how to draw hands holding swords, and she said some kind and awesome things about Validation.

John Liver also has some awesome art up on his blog, which you should check out.

And Christian Beranek, my lovely writing partner, shared this fun and curse-filled tip sheet on writing awesome work.

THAT’S IT FOR THIS WEEK!

Next week will be more Validation, more Mini-Comic Theater, new Johnson & Sir, some cool new T-shirts, and hopefully more awesome things from my friends!

See you again this week, and Don’t Forget to Be Awesome.

Today is the official launch of the webcomic Validation!

Written by Christian Beranek (founder of The Webcomic Factory), the story follows Ally, a transgender girl trying to love a normal life with a little help from her friends.

I hope you dig!