First of all, thank you all so much for the views and comments and faves and stars and all of that goodness for The Mockingbird Song last month! You're all wonderful, but you knew that. Or if you didn't, you know it now. ;-)
Speaking of how wonderful you all are, please take a moment to explore the Fan Art gallery! There have been a ton of new images added, and they're just spectacular. Just a few examples for you:
Mack from Jersey City sent this picture of Casilda from ten years after the zombie apocalypse:
As previously mentioned, your pleas have been answered, and I'm finally working on some t-shirts! Here are the top designs I'm considering:
Handyphone!
Plague Kid!
The big Creaz!
This first set will be a limited run, and price is tentatively set for $15 each, so I need your help figuring out which design to run and how many! Answer the following anonymous survey (it's just three short questions) and pick the next Skary shirt!
I'm not too modest to say that I think the tracks I picked out for The Mockingbird Song soundtrack are pretty fantastic, but I had nothing to do with their creation. I just found them, thought, "Oh my gosh, that's IT!" and bought the licenses to use them. That means I can't give them to you for free, but I have good news! You can get them for yourself! And please do; independent artists can always use your support.
Fernwood - Sangita
Those artists are Gayle Ellett and Todd Montgomery--aka Fernwood--and the tracks in question are "Cimarron" and "Mistral," both of which can be found on their truly beautiful album, Sangita. You can pick Sangita up at CD Baby or iTunes. Enjoy!
Also up on the downloads page are some of your old favorites, including the printable Skaryvision "glasses" so many of you were upset to see gone (I'm sorry, I'm sorry!). Good times, folks.
Shawnee Jenkins is a good kid. She gets good grades, does her chores and cleans up the blood her parents leave behind every night. [This one's not for the young'uns, okay?]
[Also, it's set in the 50s, so some of the stereotypes are a little over the top. I don't really believe that bikers are inherently evil.]
[Also also, I just realized the dorkier of the biker dudes looks like Conan O'Brien. This wasn't intentional. Conan O'Brien is neither dorky nor a biker dude. Well, not a biker dude.]
The Mockingbird Song should hooooopefully be fixed and ready to go shortly after Easter. I'd hoped to finish it by this weekend, but I've been out of town, under the weather, and had other priorities. AT THE SAME TIME. But worry not! It's coming soon.
From Liz (age 15), Brazil, who says, "Well, I thought my own country could be a wonderful place for a Skary vacation, so my artwork is in Rio and the kid is looking to the dead child she just buried in the sand, the parents looking for him behind. Kinda creepy, I think my grandma didn't like it, but I did. I used acrylic colors to paint it, hope you like my first Skary drawing :)"
Liz, you get your choice of any Skary print, signed by me. Check your email for details!
Of course, every entry I received was absolutely wonderful. I might be biased, but even so, we all got a good chuckle out of these as we were judging them. It was hard to make a choice! All the other entries are proudly displayed within theFan Art gallery. Much applause for each of you!
There are many other new fan art submissions unrelated to the contest that have just been added to the gallery, so be sure to check 'em all out! They're really quite snazzy. (Is it appropriate to label drawings of wicked, deadly weaponry-toting little children as "snazzy"?)
I'm about to embark on a journey to NYC. When I return on Sunday, I intend to post all the fan art I've been late on posting before. But I could always use more! That's where you come in.
You have until 12am, Monday the 22nd to send me a Skary picture in any medium (digitally drawn, pencil, paint, Crayon, photo, whatever you like). But the theme, you see, is vacation. How would a Skary child enjoy a trip away from home? Send me your picture using the fan art form. Judging will take place all next week, and the winner will receive any print of his/her choice (signed, of course) from the Skary ImageKind store!
Rules (gotta have 'em):
Your artwork must be original and by you and you alone!
You must use a current email address when you submit your pic. Your email won't be shared with anyone, but I need a way to get in touch with you should you win!
File type must be jpg, gif or png. No bitmaps, please!
Entries will be accepted from anywhere in the world
Theme must be "Skary vacation"
Remember: the deadline is 12am, March 22nd, 2010. No exceptions!
I get a lot of email from you all (which I love!), and there are a few questions I get more than others. Once upon a time I had an FAQ page, but I think it fell down the rabbit hole. I couldn't tell you what happened to it, but I imagine it's probably having tea with a festively bewigged Johnny Depp or something. So, here's a new one! Read the rest of this entry »
While I'm working to rebuild the missing minute of The Mockingbird Song (brief summary of What Exactly Happened: the main file and its backup were corrupt. I don't know why or how. Fortunately, there was another version saved in Dropbox that I'd forgotten about, and it's complete except for about 63 seconds, which I'm working on now. It's faster than trying to unbreak the other one), here's some news for you! As announced via Twitter and Facebook earlier last week, we finally have a winner for Evelyn's Puzzle. You thought it would never be solved, didn't you? Well, our winner has asked to remain anonymous because the prize--the original sketch of Evelyn and Mrs. Nattingbottom--is going to be a surprise gift for someone special. Congratulations, Winner (and Winner's sweetheart!) But I did promise I would explain all the clues for you once the puzzle was solved, so, here you go: Read the rest of this entry »
