Chronicles of Salterre
by Nziz & Stone
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The update is late as promised, but there are plenty of extras to show for it! The camping trip didn't pan out, but this weekend was a blast nonetheless. All these minicomics were just from Friday.
This week we have more Behind the Storyboards in the art section. Next week's update may be a couple days late, since we'll be camping, but that should give us plenty of time to draw. Woohoo!
We promised another update with art, and here it is! Lots of it. Be amazed!
Lo and behold, we update again! Amazing. There should even be art and life-comics with the next one. No, really! The hiatus is officially over. Alert the media.
I'll bet you thought we were gone! Well, we're not, and here's a new page to prove it. We have a couple others already finished and ready to go, so we're going to try the Once A Week schedule again. Hoo-ray.
New page, hallelujah, and the schedule is thoroughly thrown to the winds. But then you already knew that. The semester has started -- my last semester of grad school -- and then I will join my co-creator in The Real World. Should be fun. In other news, Mentos and Diet Coke do explode when mixed! Fantastic!
So aparently winter break isn't as full of free time as one might assume. And since we'll be spending next week in Georgia, the next update may be somewhat behind schedule as well. (Schedule? What schedule?) The official word is: the comic will be updated whenever we manage to get around to it. But on the plus side, there will probably be other fun artstuff each time. Today there are five new pictures in the art section, and I'm posting a link to this one even though it has nothing to do with Salterre. For now, anyways; when a comic involves dimension-hopping, any crossover is possible!
We live! And the semester is over, at long last! Now there should be time to do this thing properly, not to mention draw a bunch of other fun stuff. Back in August we took a road trip to Disneyland, and wound up chronicling some of the highlights in sketchy comic form. The first two are up in the art section, with more to come. There are about half a dozen sketched out already. Woo!
Finally, another page! And what's more, there are four more minicomics in the art section. *confetti* We have other ones sketched out too, and we'll finish them as soon as we can. The cats demand and deserve lots of attention, as previously noted. Onward!
New page! New character! Woo, mysteries! The next page will be finished when it's done, and we have no idea when that will be. Work, homework and stray kittens are higher priorities at the moment. A pity, I know, but the cats are adorable and will soon be ours, so you'll just have to forgive us some distraction. And the comic is now officially settled into this url. Yaaay!
There were grand plans about being done with The Move by now, but life got in the way. So for the time being, there are two identical sites for Chronicles of Salterre. The only difference is the vote buttons. I'm hoping that there will be time to change the urls on the voting sites soon, and to turn the old site into a redirect link, and to scan all the fun behind-the-scenes short comics I've been drawing lately. There's a surprising amount of them for how busy Stone and I both are at the moment. What can I say, it's more fun than homework!
All hail! Another page. And not only is it a new page, it is an explanatory page. Muahaha, things are becoming clearer. And! In other news! There are three new pictures up in the art section, and our first ever fanart, in its very own section. (It looks lonely. Perhaps you would like to give it some company? Do not be put off by its awesomeness.) Go! Frolic! Look at the stuff! Do not be alarmed by the falling html, as we put the finishing touches on the move!
Obviously any statement made by the management here at Salterre Inc regarding "staying on schedule" should be disregarded as mere lunacy. So sorry for the delay; the responsible party shall be flogged with a pillow at the next available opportunity. Thank you; that is all. For now. [End transmission.]
We're back, as promised. Barring even more unforeseen events, things should stay on schedule for a while. And soon this "elsewhere" scene will be explained, honest! The plot will progress, and wonderful things shall happen. That's an official decree.
So much for summer free time. Hopefully the next update will be on time, but I wouldn't bet any money on it. Between now and this weekend the two of us have to move all of Stone's worldly possessions from one home to another, and this Saturday my family is leaving for a week-long vacation. We'll see what we can do in terms of updating, but if it's another Long Time between updates, fret not. We'll be back.
Finally, the next page, and the new art! With more on the way. Whee-ha! It's almost summer vacation!
Another update, but sadly no new art. Yarr, we be busy. 'Tis finals season, after all. Maybe we'll have that art ready next time.
We update! And we bring ART! All rejoice! The pictures are sketchy and un-inked, but oh, they are fun. And there is more to come, because we forgot to scan a few. Whoops! More for next week!
Tada, the new page is up, despite all odds! And ooo, magic... (Insert further interesting comments here.)
This is the page that was supposed to take very little time to do, because all we had to draw for most of it was eyeballs. It ended up taking far more time than it should have, however, because we decided to color that blackness in on the computer instead of by hand. Bad idea. The paintbucket tool doesn't work when every panel is a million shades of white instead of one. Note to self...
Behold! It is updated on time, and scanned with a real scanner. Which we have come to realize is a tiny bit smaller than the pages that we want to scan. *facepalm* Maybe we'll trim the rest of the pages in the sketchbook to fit. We'll figure it out. But meanwhile, behold again, for there is a new piece of art in the gallery, with more to come! Because we kinda forgot to scan those. Next weekend!
Now isn't that a nifty trick? And apparently the scanner thing isn't a certainty, any more than that update-every-Sunday thing is (ha). This time it took us too long to finish in time to use the scanner, because we were busy watching our new Gargoyles DVD (Volume One of Season Two). So awesome. Anyone who was ever a fan needs to buy one now, because there's a rumor that there may not be a Volume Two if more of these don't sell. We cannot let that happen.
Ha! It was scanned this time, with a real scanner! Take that, Murphy's Law! Oh, and we told you Timber wasn't dead. There's no way we'd kill off such a fun character only twenty pages in.
Cuddly, isn't he? And tactful. And unwashed. And enigmatic. And much much more! *cheesy* Oh, and by the way: scanner next time. Or not. We'll see.
Woohoo, lookit 'em run! Magical lightning saves the day. And maybe we'll get to use the scanner next time. Oy vey.
Observe the nifty fight scene and the changing art style. Black clothes are much easier to draw this way; it's easier on the pens and the fingers. Plus it looks cool if done right. Hopefully we'll be able to use the nice new scanner next time, and avoid the annoying page-warping problems that give us those gray corners.
Woo, it's Jeriko! Finally, the debut. This is the page that we wanted to add to last week's update. Next week's page will have more than one panel, and some nifty action as well. Things should start picking up around here!
If the art looks a little different on this page, it's because we swapped roles: Stone pencilled and Nziz inked. And if you wouldn't have noticed the difference if I hadn't mentioned it, then our skillz mesh better than we thought. Go us! There were supposed to be two pages this week, but the second one's not finished. Dramatic page next week. And for those of you eagle eyes, that's not a continuity error in Timber's positioning. Alyssa turned him over while he was offscreen. :P
P.S: The prayer came from Boondock Saints, an awesome movie. Go see it now.
Sorry about that unexplained hiatus; first we had college finals to deal with, then holidays. But now it's winter break, and hopefully we can resume a normal schedule. There's even a non-crinkled Salterre alphabet up for show! Hooray! And next week's page should be something else to cheer about: we finally get to introduce Jeriko. This should be fun. (And for those of you worrying about Timber ... no need.)
Alright folks, a new page is up as promised. And also as promised, we now have the Salterre Alphabet written out, albeit in pencil on crumpled binder paper. There hasn't been time to draw the letters on the computer and make a dignified-looking font of it, but at least it's written down. So until a more professional version comes along, here's the alphabet. Pretend it's an ancient artifact that has somehow survived the ages; those wrinkles have history. And enjoy the latest page, where something important begins to happen! Ooo, mysterious!
Welcome to our comic, where we update every week except when we don't. *disgust* Sorry about that, folks; life happened. In the form of midterms, and a few other things. But now it's over, and we're back on schedule; we even have a working scanner (digital camera) again. Of course, November is National Novel Writing Month, so we may be slightly distracted by trying heroically to each write a crappy novel in 30 days. But at least we'll be enjoying ourselves in our distraction! And we'll do our best to stay on schedule. As for that alphabet key we promised you last time, that'll be up next week. Honest.
Let it be observed that webcomicking is an adventure when all available scanning implements keep crapping out on you. We've resorted temporarily to using the school scanner, and emailing the pages home. Naturally that's difficult too. Oy vey. And on a different topic: we're still testing options when it comes to word bubbles and text. This current option is least time consuming, though slightly less pretty. We'll see how that goes. And! For those interested parties, we're working on an actual Salterre-speak alphabet, so you'll be able to decode what they're saying soon. The alphabet shall be posted next week, with appropriate fanfare.
The latest page is up, and sorry about the wait. Blame the inker. (Stone says he's very sorry, and directs attention to the suddenly crazy-busy life he's leading.) At any rate, we're all set for next week, with both that layout and the next one sketched out already. So we're ahead of schedule now. Oh, and there's a new sketch up in the gallery. (How do you get pants on a werewolf, anyway?) P.S: We'd like to direct your attention to the new little button right above the date; there are about four thousand webcomics listed on that site, and we're steadily climbing the ranks. Boo-yah!
New page up, well on schedule, and once again a bit of a cliffhanger. We love our surprises, yes we do. And for those of you who've been here before, you'll notice that it's actually the latest page up here on the main site, rather than the first. (What a novel concept!) You'll also notice some artistic testing on our part, in regards to the word bubbles. We're still seeing what works best for us in terms of looks, time, and effort. (Should be settled in soon.)
This time we have... *drumroll* ...a double update! The crowd goes wild! (As well it should, since we slacked horribly last week.) To make up for last time, there are two new pages up; go here to see the first of them, then click "latest" for the other. Also! There is a new drawing up in the art section. It is another fascinating character who has yet to make an appearance. (But when he does, you won't be able to miss him!) Also, take note: next week we'll fix it so that the newest page shows up here, rather than the first. It's time.
We live! The vacation hiatus was longer than expected, but we're back in business. And oh, such a business it will be. Page six is up, to finally show you what they see through that crack in the wall. (Yay!) We've got the next couple of pages planned out, and there will most likely be some goofy new art on the horizon as well. And who knows what else. (Plus we'll probably be changing the Page-One-on-the-main-site-forevar thing sometime soon; that's getting old.)
Three cheers for the arrival of page five! And some art as well: another snippet of character development and some concept art. And as for the comic itself, we love our cliffhangers, yes we do! The next page is shaping up to be something fun. Hopefully it will be introduced to the world well on shedule, though both of us creative types will be vacationing on the other side of the country at the time, so this is rather up in the air. But we'll do our best. In the meantime, look at the wonderful people who've signed the guestbook so far! Hooray for them. What about the rest of you, eh? *nudge nudge*
Page four is up, as promised. I think we'll be leaving page one on the main page for a while longer, at least until it won't spoil too much for any new readers to see the latest page first. And, since page four may not be enough to satisfy anyone's curiousity, there's some new art up as well. Huzzah! And the spiffy new guestbook is still waiting to be signed. (The smilies compel you!)
The guestbook lives! All hail Bravenet.com, source of free webthings in impressive quantities! All that our shiny new guestbook lacks now is some signatures to make it feel useful. (Hint hint.) There's a vast smorgasbord of nifty smilies to play with there! Enough to keep anyone occupied for quite some time. Possibly until the next update (a few days now; we're sticking to the weekly schedule). Until then, have fun with the smilies! They even have Bert, Ernie, and Boba Fett; who could resist that?
Greetings, and welcome to page one. Pages two and three can be found by clicking, and further pages will be added on a weekly basis. Eventually the layout will change to show the most recent page instead of the first, but as this is the beginning of everything now and we want people to read things in order, here's page one for you. Enjoy.
