comics for May 11, 2008 – 05/11/2008

Hi Xyliacs! First off, we hit the 4K referral mark! YAY! Thank you everyone who is linking to Xylia. We continue to maintain a good following, and everyone who visits helps the cause. I know the ads are busy, but they help Xylia earn her keep as it were! ^_^ Thank you everyone who reads and tells their friends about us!

A quick note about donation gifts. I have been having a devil of a time with my email, and a few folks were good enough to come forward and let me know that they hadn’t received their gifts. I assure everyone, that I try to get them sent within 24 hours, so if you DO NOT have your Nigel’s Opus gift, PLEEEEASE email me to let me know- it means that the email didn’t go through, and I will not know unless you tell me. You will not be upsetting me, or bothering me- you are ENTITLED to the donation incentives I promise here! I have a second email service that I have started using if my regular service doesn’t work.

Today’s page was a challenge. A real challenge. You’d think two panels no big whoop, but the rewriting and SFX and all that made it a hair-puller. I hope at least one person likes it…But- the next page should be a good one! I HOPE!

Thursday I asked you all to help two fellow Xyliacs- Canadian friends Adam and Brandie, as they try to win a wedding contest- click this link to vote for them and help them have a dream wedding! It’s a close contest, so your votes really count.

Today’s fan art is from my pal, Mara the Chibi Master! An adorable chibi likeness of our favorite Azloean couple… Clicky the thumbnail to see!

Speaking of fan art, I gifted a couple of my webcomic buddies with my own fan art last week, and they have kindly posted them on their sites! Sarah of Phoenix Requiem (she has a link to click to see it) and Brock Heasely of SuperFogeys! The link is his fan art site!

Well, it was brought to my attenton that the Claudius wallpaper is not coming out as different sizes (thanks to Photobucket’s lovely resizing feature. So here is one at the highest size Photobucket Claudius wallpaper I still haven’t quite figured out how to download it properly on my FTP site, but as soon as I do, I will make it available in the various sizes for your desktop convenience!

Hey, before I forget! Vote, TWC please! Today’s pic is an unfinished painting- trying out some new techniques…not quite there, but feh! Vote anyway!

My dear friend, and our AMAZING WEB GODDESS Miss Kez is graduating with her pre med degree THIS WEEK! Kez is one of the most amazing people I have ever known and been honored to call a friend- talented, hard working, diverse, able to break boards with her head, and not to mention mind-blowingly smart. While earning her pre-med degree, she worked on her own webcomic and novel, War of Winds, put countless hours in helping me with MY websites: Talismen and Xylia, studied with martial arts masters in China, built many other websites for other people, and a multitude of other things that I can’t even count. Will you please help me in congratulating Kez?!

Thank you to everyone who has downloaded the previous project I worked on: Talismen Return of the Exile Volume I will be presented as Wowio downloads in four montly issues for US readers. Hopefully to be available soon to other countries. Please click the cover of the comic to go to Wowio! It’s free for you, makes us some money. Thank you.

The Xyliacs Club is still a fun place to be! Lots of great members. There are some sketches and things there that are unavailable anywehre else, so stop and visit, or join!

Let me say again, thank you everyone for donating to Xylia! Your donations keep me going, and we are working towards the goal of another eight update month in June!!

Here’s the lowdown on how the donation gifts work:

We get to $800.00 on the thermometer- two updates a month in June!

-$1.00-$4.99-while these donations don’t get you the incentive story, they work towards getting the two page goal, and you will receive an illustration from the story.

-$5.00-$9.99- gets you Nigel’s Opus Chapter III (with a Chapter I & II synopsis)

-$10.00 – gets you Nigel’s Opus Chapter II & III (if you would rather have I and III, let me know)

-$15.00+- gets you Nigel’s Opus Chapter I, II, & III

As always, if you do not receive your gift within twenty-four hours, please email me!

Finally, if you are looking for a commissioned caricature or portrait, I am taking commissions at this time. Here’s a sample of a wedding invite I did (click to see larger) I also do Christmas card layouts (never too early to get a start on that), b-day invites or just pictures. They are 100% digital, so you take the file to your printer and make it the size you want! Please email me for quote information (please put ‘caricature inquiry’ in the subject. bji2001@mchsi.com

That should do it for now! Thanks for reading and believing! See you THURSDAY everyone!!
~B