February 10th, 2012
10 Feb 2012 · page 51 of 1306
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Page fifty! A little milestone :) How time flies! 50 short pages from writing a letter in desperation to jumping on a table declaring he's the king of thieves. I hope you guys have been enjoying the comic! Comments below are always welcome!
Cast: Harriet Barber, Sidney Malik, Thomas Macavity
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Sidney over-acting forever!
He's Ali-Baba! They shall be his fourty thieves!
At least until they've got that butt-ugly statue, and Harry can send them all off to the clink. ^^
Hahaha I love how she some how worked her way in and is being so sneaky! Awesome comic!
No I don't like this comic, too awesome for me.
yes, that is my issue as well. she's overdoing it on the awesome quotient! speaking of, komikate, how are you keeping up with the rigorous 3 updates/week schedule? way more work than your darken schedule, no? i am grateful, impressed and surprised!
I'm full time on comics now, and that helps a lot! Much poorer but much happier :)
I must ask, do you actually make a living out of these comics?
Haha, I'd be doing much worse if I weren't married, I'll put it that way. In a year or two, if things go well, I'll be making a living wage. It's not an industry for the money!
Done right, you can do decently enough for yourself. If you want an example thereof, look at Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary. He went from being a part-time cartoonist and the product manager for GroupWise at Novel to a full time cartoonist about around October of 2004, having made it somewhat of a public announcement at Linucon 1.0.
I do do pretty ok, I just need to build up a bigger reader base and get some books out! I know the path, I've just got to make my way down it :)
Books will be a mainstay for sure, but I encourage you to set up a method for people to pay for downloadable pdfs too. I have been astonished at the number of people quite happy to pay money for what they could almost as easily see for free. (I work at Studio Foglio, so there's a few years of hard data now.)
Oh gosh, hi! That's great to know, thanks! I had that idea in the mental checklist as something to look at, but I'll definitely try it now.
I'd always appreciate any information!
Heyyyy, how'd Harry get in back there? LOL
She walked in through the door while Sid was being distracting :)
Give the people a show, keep dancing, and if today turns into tomorrow, the show was good. ;) And you got to see tomorrow.
Came here after I finished reading Darken and have to say it seems like more than 50 pages. This one cracked me up, well done on a finely crafted comic and page.
I do agree, Sidney certainly looks the part of a Thief King. But better than his ability to steal, a Thief King must be able to fight. Sidney, I hope you've got a good right hook!
I swear, that has to be one of the best boastful lines I've ever read: "Hah, none can kill the Thiefking! When Death came for me, I stole my life back from his very grasp."
Look out Malik - Macavity must be pretty strong if he can lift that gold statue with one arm.
(He actually challenged Death to a parlor magic contest and won - but you know, same result.)
Sidneys over the top acting gets me every time