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Weekly Update

January 30th, 2010 by Sarah Winifred Searle

I was busy on Wednesday, so my weekly update is Saturday this time. This past week was pretty exciting, as I had an interview in Boston for an artist position (cross your fingers for me). I also took my first three day break from the comic since I started at the New Year, but I quickly got back on a roll and have produced two pages in the past two days.

p016webThe most recent installment (currently available at the website, click image above to go there, or will be posted tomorrow at Drunk Duck) closes the “first day at school” scene in which Maggie meets her new classmates.

Notes:

The usage of “queer” means strange in this age and context, nothing like the typical modern usage. Don’t get offended by it! Also, open racism was the norm and will appear more than once in the story. While the graphic novel will overall be fairly tame, I intend to be as true to the setting as possible, which might not be exactly PC all the time. I would say it is meant for no younger than the teenage age group.

Comic Creator’s Alliance

January 15th, 2010 by Sarah Winifred Searle

I forgot to update when it first went live, the Comic Creator’s Alliance went live this past Monday! If you missed my first entry about it, it’s a collaboration of something like 87 different cartoonists, their female characters appearing on a downloadable wallpaper that you can access if you donate toward organizations working to end human trafficking.

“There are currently 27 million enslaved people worldwide- more than double the number of enslaved Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. UNICEF estimates that 1.2 million children every year are sold into slavery, most of it sexual. The US Department of Justice estimates 16,000 victims of human trafficking are brought into the United States every year.”

Definitely a worthy cause! I didn’t contribute because my comic wasn’t live at that point, but I donated and now proudly sport my shiny new desktop! Even if all you have is a couple bucks, every little bit counts.

Also, I put another page up at Under the Apple Tree and anticipate another soon. The update schedule will probably consist of pages being posted as they’re finished, but I’ll do an “official” update on Wednesdays and maybe another day of the week so no one misses any pages.

First Wednesday Update

January 13th, 2010 by Sarah Winifred Searle

I’ve decided to make Wednesday my scheduled update for my new webcomic, Under the Apple Tree. It seems to make the most sense as I have most of the day off so I can catch up before I post, and not many of the other comics I follow update on Wednesdays (lots of Thursdays and Fridays), so hopefully that will get me some more traffic later on.

Today I was only able to put one page up, but if I finish some more this afternoon I will post a second. Scene 2 opens with Maggie waking up and hearing music playing from down the hall. Now you get to meet Mrs. Ripple, her mother.

Constructive criticism is always appreciated. I have mixed feelings about that last page, so I’m curious what you all think. The style is more simplistic than before with a sort of retro home-y color scheme to invoke a certain feeling for the scene… we’ll see if it works.

I have also worked quite a bit on the website and now there are wallpapers available, as well as character descriptions (which I’ll update as more appear) and a fleshed out links section. If anyone would like to exchange links I’d be happy to oblige!

Under the Apple Tree is Live!

January 10th, 2010 by Sarah Winifred Searle

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The first scene is posted! I meant to wait on it, but I’m really happy with what I have so far. Updates should occur on Wednesdays, consisting of a couple pages each, but this week’s might be smaller considering I posted the entire first scene.

Constructive criticism on the comic and the website I designed for it are encouraged!

Webcomic Website Up!

December 9th, 2009 by Sarah Winifred Searle

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It’ll be a little while yet until I begin posting pages, probably a few weeks, but if you want to see a preview check it out! I’ve fleshed out the website I’ll be using for the comic including wallpapers to download and links for other things to read while you eagerly await my comic.

Under Archives there’s also a preview available! I took the pages from an old version of the first scene and posted them so you can get a taste. The artwork has improved and the first scene changed since then, but it’s there if you’re interested.

UPDATE: Indexhibit’s file uploading system wasn’t reliable for some reason, so I redesigned the website. It’s up right now, but not with as much content.