Why, hello there. I’ve been away for quite a while, haven’t I? Sorry about that.

On the bright side, I’ve been working on a huge pile of stuff, some of which (like The Tick) you’ll be able to see soon or even right now, some (like the huge mess of action figure and vehicle designs I’ve been doing for Hasbro) you won’t be able to see for a long, long time.

So– If you’re in the Seattle area and are planning to attend the Emerald City Comicon this weekend (the 13th and 14th), well, I’ll see you there! I’ll be at table G-05, which I’m sharing with Indigo Kelleigh and Sarah Oleksyk. I’ll be selling original art from the Middleman and the Tick, some fancy prints, and some t-shirts. Here’s a map to the table that I have shamelessly stolen from Indigo’s site:

If you’ve been waiting for a commission from me, I owe you an apology for being so behind on those. I’m going to try to get them all finished soon– I’ve got about half of them finished but I haven’t packaged them or mailed them yet. They’re sitting in a little pile on my desk. I’ll try to get the first batch mailed next week and I’ll be drawing at least one a day starting Monday until they’re all done.

And, for some content, here’s the black-and-white version of the cover to the Tick #4, which got cropped for the final color version:

Happy Tick-day, everybody!

Today’s the day the first issue of The Tick, vol. 2 comes out! I drew it, and Benito Cereno wrote it. It’s kind of a big deal.

You can check out a preview here, then head on down to your local comics shop and buy five or six copies.

Also don’t forget about the original Jonny Crossbones art for sale.

In the interests of maintaining insurance on both myself and my car, I have decided to sell just 10 pages of original Jonny Crossbones art.  I will make a note here when 10 have sold.

The pages are 18×24 inches, black ink on white 2-ply bristol board.  Some pages have stuff drawn in the margins.

The price is just US $100, plus $5 shipping.  They will ship via USPS in a sturdy cardboard tube.

Original art makes a great holiday gift!  Also it will keep me from dying of a chronic disease.

I’m afraid I’m keeping pages one through ten for myself.  Any other page is up for sale!  My one condition of sale is that I would like to reserve the right to borrow the page for a possible gallery show upon completion of the book.  Your name will be listed as owner under the piece in such a circumstance, and I’ll cover any shipping costs.

Okay!  Click this button and own a page today!

contact me at lesmcclaine-AT-gmail.com if you’ve got any questions. And please feel free to spread the word around!

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Hey, sorry there’s no update today.  I found a HUGE mistake I made in the writing (I knew there was a problem, I just didn’t realize how bad it was and thought I could fix it with some dialogue editing) and I’m going back and changing a bunch of dialogue and some artwork earlier in the story.  So, no update.  I’ll be working on this fix more tomorrow, too, but I hope to have a new strip up for Monday.

Hi guys, we’re going to be shifting to a slower update schedule for a couple weeks– Probably two updates a week, spread out whenever I can get to them.

I’m working on the first issue of the Tick, and due to some delay in getting script approval, I’ve got to rush the whole issue out by the end of the month.  I’ll be back in the beginning of October with the 5-day-a-week updates.  Sorry about this!