Saturday, April 24th is the international 24-Hour Comics Day with 57 sites around the world playing host to comic creators attempting to create a 24-page comic (penciled, inked, and lettered) in just 24 hours. Austin has two locations hosting the event: Austin Books and Funny Papers. I’ll be participating at the Austin Books location with a lot of other people (over 60 people signed up and a definite 20 people confirmed). If you’re in the Austin area, and you’re curious about how comics get made, this is a good opportunity to see it all take place firsthand. Or come on by and enjoy the 20% discount on graphic novels/trade paperbacks from 11:59pm on Saturday until 7am on Sunday. Heck, come see how a room full of comic creators act after 24 hours with little sleep, lots of caffeine, and brains choked out by Sharpee fumes.

And you can pick up an official Brat-halla t-shirt while you’re there. ^_^

Found a bug…squashed the bug. This is just a test of the emergency bug-squashing system.

beeeeeeeeeeeeeee– urk … choke …

Okay, okay. I’ll stop.

“Practice is the best of all instructors.”

Ahh, very wise words indeed, but there’s more on the back:

“01 05 12 17 28 - 11
02 35 27 35 38. 1 6 8″

I’m currently working on a decoder for this cryptic message because I haven’t been able to find one on eBay. My first crack at decoding it resulted in the phrase, “I have your nose.” I think I need to double-check my notes.

As part of the changes, I set up the site to be able to add new sections quickly…like the new prose section that just appeared. Just some small fictionettes for now (I think the longest one is around 500 words)…they’re quick reads, so enjoy!

You might notice things look a little different around here. I finally scraped together some time to rework some behind-the-scenes stuff for the site (to make future changes a lot easier), and I decided to update some things and freshen up the overall look of the site while I was tinkering around. It took a bit longer than I’d hoped, but I like the way it turned out…now to finish the projects that set all these changes in motion in the first place.

But first…sleep. Oh, my precious sleep, how I’ve missed you so. Fear not…we shall be reunited this very night.

Well, Seth, Jim and I put together some t-shirts for the Brat-halla fans out there, and they’re available at the temporary (but workable) Brat-halla store. To kick it all off, I hired the cutest model in the world to show off the t-shirts…my daughter Eschele!