And that is where you’ll find new pages of Dicebox, one
every Wednesday. The first 41 pages will remain free to the public both
here at Jennworks and at Girlamatic.

If you are planning to subscribe to Girlamatic, now is the time to do
it: until the end of April, a yearly subscription will only run you $19.95
as opposed to the regular $29.95. And if you do subscribe and mention
Dicebox, I’d be much obliged. Also, if you become a subscriber,
be sure to log-in before reading any of the features—even if there
are free—as it gives the respective creators points.

I really had hoped to release more pages before this, but with needing to be a few weeks ahead in my pages for Girlamatic and demands of he day job, it just couldn’t happen. And I really wanted to finish Chapter 2 before starting Girlamatic, just for a clean break. But, as I mentioned before, those last pages of Chapter 2 will also be made made free to the public within the year.

I will still notify the mailing list when I complete Chapter 2, so if you haven’t joined Girlamatic at that point, you can always take a test drive for a month get access to all of Chapter 2 plus the works of 14 other cartoonists.

The Dicebox
Mailing List is still worthwhile. I will send out a reminder on the
update day over at Girlamatic—each new installment is free for the
week—as well as let people know when a scene is complete. If everybody
on the Mailing List subscribes and finds the weekly emails annoying, I’ll
stop and just send notice when a Scene is complete, like I do now. Also,
I will send notice when I upload others comics to Jennworks for free.
In fact, I plan to resume work on a non-Dicebox comic short story that
I had to put aside while gearing up for Girlamatic.

Another thing that will make doing more art and comic easier is the end of a huge project that I had been working on for the day job for the last six months. It was a total design program for the newest branch of Umpqua Bank in Portland, Oregon–which has it’s Grand Opening on March 31st as well (of course, why not.) For you Portlanders, it’s in the Pearl District at 12th and Lovejoy. My company designed about 90% of what’s in the space: furniture, counters, banners, frames, brochures, shopping modules, the big mural. Though I think it came out well, it robbed me of days off and subjected me to 12 to 16 hour days (and I am no where near the hours some people put into it) And there are Pantone shades of blue, green and orange that I now have had just about enough of.