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July 1st. Ho-lee-crap. Where did the spring go?

Fellow Vancouverites might agree with me when I say, who cares where the spring went, as long as it stays like this for a while! (We've had it coming, people.)

I haven't been posting about Abigail much, I know. It just seemed like updates would be saying the same-old, same-old for a while -- Sandrine's hard at work

Welly welly welly. Lots has happened since my last update... the NSI PlayWriters came and went -- holy crap, that looked like fun. Can't wait to hear more about it!

I went on holiday in Oregon for 10 days, and came back engaged. Yay! Did you know they have no sales tax in Oregon? Also yay!

And,

I've given up on the weekly thing. That was probably madness.

Nothing about comics is really weekly, I'm learning.

Things have been picking up steam with Abigail's War. Sandrine is producing page after page of beautiful pencils. I believe she's working at pages 7 and 8 now, and 1-6 aren't going to change much before colours. Yay! Check out Rober

I haven't blogged about the process on Abigail's War for a couple of weeks... sorry 'bout that! Truth is, there hasn't been much drama. Just a steady production process that has now officially produced Pa

Well, last week (Week 4) was a bit of a blur for me! Pencils and colours for Page X, an appearance on The Gutter (yes, I am the keeper of various demons and their mysterious audio effects), some personal joy (gonna have a new book of poetry out t

For anyone who might not have seen it, Jane Espenson (writer for Buffy, Firefly, BSG, etc.) on writing comic book scripts .

Her blog is mostly about writing for television, with an emphasis on writing spec episodes of TV. It's pretty awesome, if that world interests you at all.

The ongoing weekly saga of the production of Abigail's War, from the writer's perspective...

The beginning of the week saw us finish the final, final versions of both the script and the Vis Doc. Which meant the immediate pressing goal was to select and confirm the artist(s) who'd be bringing the book to life.

The few days we were looking at galleries, I found m

Okay! Another week over. The big tasks this week? Reviewing and revising the script (a couple of times) as well as the creation and review of the Vision Document. Script: check. Vis Doc: really, really close.

(If editor-by-day, caped-protector-by-night Robert and I hadn't both succumbed to evil bacteria this week, we'd sooo be done.) Personally, though, I'm happy we&

In case anyone's wondering what the CCN pre-production and production process is like, I thought I'd blog about it. I know I was really curious about what happens once a pitch hits #1...

So I found out last Monday Abigail's War was this week's winner. Whoo-hoo! Too bad I was travelling all day. Weird way to celebrate. Right away that day, I got emails from two Z2H

...yay!!!

I'm writing this in the Portland airport (free wireless - ahh, civilization) with a doofy grin on my face.

I still can't quite believe Abigail's War has gotten the thumbs-up from all of you. Thank you so much for buying into the world and the story, and for being patient as it came together.

This is definitely a new world for me. I'