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I really like this page but in order to avoid spoilers I had to blur out the story text. Anyway I just wanted to share the work I’m slaving away on until the book is done. I have probably a little less than 30 pages left to finish before February 28th.

Big ups to Alec Longstreth, whose fanatical snow scenes in Basewood somewhat inspired my snowflakes, though admittedly nowhere near as crazy as his, I had them in mind. I am about to draw a fuck ton of snow over the next few pages. Wish me luck.

If you haven’t already, I implore you to consider contributing to the Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout, which is my way of raising the funds to print the first five chapters as a book. I’m just shy of meeting my funding goal halfway!  More info here.

Okay, back to work!

BIG BIG NEWS – there is a HUGE sale going on right now in the store to benefit the printing of Freewheel: Volume One. Basically I cleaned up my inventory shelves, discovered a bunch of stuff I thought I didn’t have, and actually counted how many of other items I have, so I put EVERYTHING on sale at a discount!

Anything purchased under the section marked LIMITED TIME FREEWHEEL FUNDRAISING SPECIALS will go towards the printing bill for Freewheel: Volume One and all funds collected from those sales will be added to the Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout page calculator! Books, shirts, minicomics, you name it – ALL ON SALE! Check it out!

Yesterday I cleaned out my business shelves (doesn’t that sound like a metaphor for… something dirty?) and I found, among many other things, 8 copies of My Brain Hurts #2. The magazine-sized first printing that’s stamped and numbered (of 100) with the original cover price of $2 on it (I raised the price to $3 after this went out of print). I’m selling the copies I have left (already sold five) at cover price for U.S. orders (at shipping cost for international orders). Let me know if any of you people want one!

If you want one, let me know and I’ll tell you where to PayPal the bucks!

Also – big sale at my online store coming soon! I was going to start it on Wednesday but I’m too tired to deal with it now so… maybe Thursday or Friday!

TODAY IN FREEWHEEL – we learn about the Gang Mills nest security system! It’s a little bit like Lord of the Rings, like the warning beacons of Gondor? (I call them the Maglites of Gang Mills) Maybe one of them read the books…

I always wondered about the one guy who lived on top of that snow covered mountain… is his ONLY job to light that fire? What if they never used the beacons? Would he just live up there forever? What does he eat? Does he live alone or with his family? These questions, they bother me!

Anyway, so since Freewheel: Volume One is not even halfway funded yet, I’m afraid I still have to bug you every week about the Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout. As I type this, we’re at $882 out of $2500 (which is about 35%), so there’s still $1618 left to raise before the end of February! Check out the Campout page for details on how you can help, and even if you can’t contribute financially, spreading the word is sometimes even better!

Oh AND be sure and check out the sweet writeup Jen Vaughn of Mermaid Hostel did on the Freewheel Campout! She drew a really neat picture of me in an outfit I WISH I owned! You should go look at it!

Currently the Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout is at $796 of the $2500 needed to print the first volume of Freewheel (collecting chapters 1-5). Which brave soul will step forward and put this project over the $800 mark? I have less than two months to collect the remaining $1704, so your help is needed now more than ever! Even if you can not contribute financially, word of mouth is just as, if not MORE important than cash contributions.

Check out the Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout for details on how you can help and all the rad stuff you can get by helping to fund the first printing of Freewheel: Volume One!

I will soon be sending out my second funder email update, including preview panels from the not-yet-seen Chapter Four, which I am currently working on. If you’d like to see that, you should totally contribute!

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A comic I did in about two hours with no pencils straight to the paper with limited supplies I happened to have on me for the amusement of Bouncing Souls fans and family at their annual Home for the Holidays shows this year. It was originally a fold-out one-pager so to reconstruct it for the internet it looks a little odd. Click each page to see the bigger version.

Enjoy!

Real-life Greg at the real-life show

Real-life DJ doing real-life texting (with sunglasses indoors)

Real-life DJ’s real-life crack attack