Thanks to Oceans 68 (AKA Anne) for your link, and good luck with your artistic pursuits! Click SHOP in the bar above to check out books and DVD’s. Thanks so much for stopping by! New pages posted Monday through Friday.

Thanks to Katie Shanahan for the link. There is some awfully cute cartooning going on over there… The nifty SHOP has lots of items added, including back issues of many comics I have worked on. If nothing else, it’s fun to browse these titles. I can barely remember doing some of them!

Other works featuring Colleen Doran can be found at your book store, or via these handy links. Always try your local comic shop first! Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who links and recommends the A Distant Soil webcomic. Be sure to notify me of your link so I can post it here. If you enjoy A Distant Soil, I recommend Carla Speed McNeil’s Finder, which you can find at her home page, or at the Shadowline Comics website.

These pages were drawn in the 1980’s as part of a 120 page graphic novel. I recall being conflicted by criticism that my style was too pretty, and I briefly adopted a harder edged look. This was a mistake. Later, when I began self publishing, I tried to soften the hard ink edges, and give the book a more holistic style. This was tricky. The original GN’s were printed in color, which required further revision to the inks for black and white reproduction. This week’s pages showed some improvement in the art, compared to last week, anyway.

Special thanks for the link and fine reviews of A Distant Soil to No Flying No Tights, a website which reviews graphic novels for teachers and librarians.

This page was added to the series long after the other pages were drawn, and I did a lousy job trying to letter it myself. One of these days I am going to have to fix it. Preferably before we do a definitive edition of the series. Speaking of which, thank you to our kind patron who purchased a graphic novel and filled our coffers with funds! The lovely people at Image Comics inform me that A Distant Soil Volume IV: Coda is about gone. There are several dozen of the library edition hardcovers left, and very limited quantities of the volume IV softcover left. That’s it of the first…