HEAP

[24/07/26]
I have two chunks of EXCELLENT NEWS! firstly: I am tabling at Scunthorpe Zine Fest! this will be the first time in a year I'll inflict my works on a paying, physical public. I will be on my bestest, and least offputting behaviour. this also means I need to get myself in gear and actually finish the megaheap cover! g-gulp!

the next piece of news is less solid, and more niche, but potentially HUGE. for me. longtime heap-eaters will remember that this past march I completed a fanzine about shade from borderlands. TLDR- I really like shade from borderlands. I just think he's neat. fans of disappointment may be aware that borderlands 4 is getting a new story dlc: the last resort. the trailer is loaded with palm trees. i'm wearing my gigantic tinfoil hat and taking this to mean one thing: the TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF SHADE. the devs simply cannot resist that little freakazoid.

[14/07/26]
miniupdate, the badge gallery has been stricken from the navbar and can now be accessed by clicking any of the three random badges in the corner. in an attempt to force myself to start pencilling the comics i've storyboarded, i'll also be posting CHARACTER BIOS as updates here, so STAY TUNED.

[13/07/26]
ok, remember all those times I was like "OH MAN, I GOTTA GET THE KO-FI ONLINE!!!" and then I didn't? this time I did! the ko-fi is live, featuring three things so far: pocket gargamel (which is featured on the site already), the shade fanzine (the development of which has been documented here), and THE GOOD FRIENDIMAL PALS, a full-sized comic book about sociopathy and togetherness. i'll be uploading more zines and comics in the coming weeks- or maybe i'm just saying that again. i'm a wildcard, people! you'll never know my next move!

[07/07/26]
i'm alive, I promise! the continued plight of The Busy Season™ is kicking my ass. but we persevere. believe it or not, I still haven't done the cover for the Megaheap Comicle Omnibus-style Booklet (the longer I don't give it a cover, the longer the title gets) 'cos I keep cycling through ideas. I think that's my issue right now- I can't focus! I keep bouncing from concept to task to storyboard to inking to sketching. I can't even tell if i'm getting anything done in this process anymore. but i'm DOING, and that's what counts maybe.

[15/06/26]
IT IS DONE. the old design is dead, long live the new design. as usual, there will be further futzing until everything looks exactly the way I want it to, but from here on out THIS IS THE LOOK.
a moment of silence for the old look. I actually have no idea when I made the site look like that in the first place.

I adapted the code from my old site, because I can't resist that kind of autocannibalization, and I was too lazy to make a new layout. but on this site, I perfected those boxes. honed the tables. the Old Ways served me well!

[12/06/26]
new logo time! new design time! new everything time! i'll be working through the pages to implement the new look, so bear with me in these times of inconsistency. i'm nervous as to how the galleries will react to the new boxes, so i'll put them off 'til last. the code for these box frames is much cleaner than the table boxes, at least, so there's less of a chance of me destroying the layout with an ill-placed "div". the Old Look will be somewhat preserved via the archive page, until I get bored and revert it all into the nu-look. still not jazzed about how the chatbox looks, and the date/title boxes i'm going to redo, but we're getting someplace.

[11/06/26]
good news! i've got two days off, so I can work on the site again and not leave it half-formed. also good news! I was putting off posting the ko-fi because I lost the pdf to the comic I wanted to post there, "The Good Friendimal Pals". I also lost all the original files, like a goofball. but all is well, now.