Thought i’d share with you a panel of the next Sawbone arc. We go a little Poe with a homage to the Raven

I just wanted to give you guys a heads up on the status of issue 4 of the Time Being. We’re currently fixing up all the little things that niggled at us as we put out the pages every week such as faces that just weren’t right, eyelines that were off, props I forgot to draw on pages, lines of dialogue that could be tweaked etc.  We’ll be doing that with all this free time that our guest arc gives me (oh boy are you guys in for a treat!). The book will then be available from blackboox.net and we’ll probably be having a launch for those in Melbourne, and possibly New York despending on what Jen is doing.

We’d also like to trial ebooks very soon so if you want to spend a little less but not have a hard copy we’ll make that available to you. Let us know what you think. I don’t own a fancy iPad so i’m not sure how excited people are about reading comics on their tablets.

Finally a few people have mentioned they’ll wait for the collection of the Time Being however sadly there are no plans at present for such a thing. Self publishing is an incredibly expensive thing to do and putting together a book that would dawrf the size of the first two volumes is out of our league so unless we can get a publisher on board the floppies are the way to go at the moment. Maybe down the road but please don’t hold your breath.

Meanwhile I thought i’d share with you a potential cover for the last issue. We’re still playing with a few ideas.

For those that miss the text under the comic this week’s page (and the rest of this arc) is drawn by the incredibly talented Arran McKenna. Arran brings a wonderful sense of colour and fun to his art which hints at his training in animation. You can see some of his stuff here.

Character Animation Showreel 2011 from AzzaMckazza on Vimeo.