I'll be at Emerald City Comic Con this weekend (March 27-29 at the Seattle convention center)! It's my first time going and I'm so excited to check it out! You can find me at table MM-03 up on the 6th floor and I'll be there all weekend with prints, pins, mini illustrations, and copies of the Erstwhile books. I'm thrilled to debut something I've had in the works for a while: Missing Monday necklaces!
 

I'm also excited to share the anniversary pic I posted to tumblr a couple of weeks ago, which I'll be selling prints of at the con:



I'm looking forward to a good show and soaking up some Seattle rain! If you're in the area or attending ECCC, please feel free to stop by and say hello :)

 

 

I'm super pleased to announce that as of this spring Missing Monday will be joining digital publisher Hiveworks as an affiliate!

What this means for you guys: the site will be getting a makeover sometime in the near future (yay!) and the URL of the comic will be changing to www.missingmondaycomic.com (so be sure to update your bookmarks!).

Suffice to say I'm pretty excited :)

Meanwhile, I went through the archives this weekend and did some clean-up. I switched chapters 2 and 3 around so that the beginning of the story flows chronologically, as well as changing the page titles so that the archive is much easier to navigate. And, while I was at it, I upped the page size a little bit so the pages read better on standard size monitors.

There are a few other things I'd like to unveil in the near future but they'll probably have to wait until after I'm done getting ready for Emerald City Comic Con in March. Stay tuned for those!

I'm very excited for these updates, and I hope you are too! :) Thanks again for reading, commenting, and sharing Missing Monday. Here's to big things in 2015!

Some festive Foyle and Monday art because I had a craving:

Hey all, long time no blog!

Rose City Comic Con:
As keen eyed readers might have spotted in the side bar, I'll be exhibiting at Rose City Comic Con in Portland, September 20-21. My table is G-11 in the Artist Alley and I've made a con map that shows where exactly G-11 is. You'll be able to spot me by the big ol' blue banner with Monday and Foyle on it :)

I will be there with my mini comics, my little book 'o burlesque lifedrawings, both Erstwhile volumes, prints from Missing Monday and Erstwhile, and tiny original watercolors! If you already have one of my books you can also bring it by and I'll sketch in it for you.

I do also take commissions, in advance and on site, for tiny watercolors. Contact me by email (cozyfire @ gmail) or swing by early in the weekend if interested.

Ebooks:
Not able to find me at cons but still want to pick up my minicomics? Good news, I've got ebooks of my minicomics available for purchase through gumroad. No Missing Monday books/minicomics yet, but I'm hoping to change that in the very near future ;)

Other Comics:
I recently finished my long-running journal comic, Littlest Elle, after seven years :) The archives will remain free to read online for the foreseeable future.

My newest fairytale comic, the Twelve Huntsmen, is almost complete! You can check it out over at the Erstwhile site.

Took a walk down memory lane thinking about how this comic got started. I was going to blog, but then I ended up blogging via journal comic instead :)

Funny how the creative process isn't ever straight forward, right?

[caption id="attachment_945" align="alignnone" width="500"] Missing Monday: origins of this comic[/caption]

In hindsight, I think it's probably good I was able to mature as a writer before this comic launched ;)

Missing Monday has officially been online for three years now :) As always, please enjoy some gratuitously adorable Monday/Foyle celebration art.


Thanks everybody for reading along with me this far! I can't wait to jump into year 4, I think it should be a fun one *grin*

MM's anniversary is coming up on the Ides of March. My, how the time flies! I'm proud of what I've achieved this past year and I'm going to try and push myself to accomplish even more in 2014 :) Here's hoping!

A Character Page recently got added to the menubar. (Finally, amirite?) It's basically names and blurbs for all the important cast members to help you guys keep track of who's who.

If you poke around enough webcomics, you might be familiar with TopWebcomics.com? It's a giant links list for webcomics that ranks comics based on reader votes. I've added a button to the sidebar that lets you vote for Missing Monday if you're into that sort of thing :) Everyone who votes gets to see a special bonus sketch as a reward. This month's incentive is a concept sketch of Monday and Foyle from the very beginnings of the story back in 2007 because I love seeing how character designs evolve.

One of the other webcomics I work on, the Erstwhile fairytale anthology, is kickstarting a second print collection of our comics! Speaking from experience, volume 1 has some serious bookshelf appeal so volume 2 should be awesome :)

The collection will include my versions of Brother & Sister and Death of the Little Hen. There are also some great incentives for backers, like art commissions, plushies of one of my characters from the Singing Springing Lark, and some paper dolls drawn by Louisa! If we reach our first stretch goal I'll also be drawing a short comic about some super lazy princes :D

EDIT: Thank you so much to everyone for supporting this project and helping us reach our goal! We couldn't have done it without you :3

This weekend is Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco, October 12-13. I'll be at table 514, which you can find on the map here.

I will be there with minicomics, Erstwhile volume 1, some original comic pages, and tiny original paintings. I'm available for a limited number of commissions so swing by early if you want to grab one!

More Comics By Me!
For those who haven't seen it yet, my adaptation of the Singing Springing Lark has started running at Erstwhile Tales and it will be running through November. If you like my work I highly recommend checking it out, since the entire comic is watercolor painted. It takes me forever but I am super proud of the results.

Tumbl(r)weeds
Soooo I broke down and got a tumblr for my cartoons and comics and stuff. Right now it's like 99% Pacific Rim and Missing Monday fanart, but there will probably be some original stuff soon. I will reblog any and all fanart of my characters, by the by. Just putting that out there ;)

Conventions!
I'll be tabling at SPX! I'm sharing with CJ of City of Cards. This is my very first con outside the Bay Area, actually, so I'm super excited and nervous at the same time. Merchandise is still TBA but I will definitely be available for small commissions :)

I also added a handy widget to the sidebar which says which events I'm attending this year ^_^

First up is Fanime, over Memorial Day weekend in San Jose. I'll be at table #17 sitting below a banner of Foyle and Monday ;) The Official Map is here, and an easier to read fan-made map is here. On the fan-made map I'm in G block.

I'm a little thin on Monday merch since so much of my focus is on actually creating the comic, but I do have a Monday/Foyle button design and 2 print/miniprint designs featuring the girls :) I also have a few small original paintings that will be coming with me, such as the watercolor for Monday and the key, chibiFoyle, and the ridiculous ridiculous My Little Pony mashups. I do on-site commissions as well, so there could always be new Monday art ;)

Otherwise, I'll also have my minicomics, the roller derby comics, a limited number of Erstwhile hardcovers (first come, first serve!), and a random assortment of original comic art for sale (including some of the original painted pages for Death of the Little Hen).

On a related note, next week's page will go up a day late due to being away from the computer for 5 days. I'll have filler art for you to tide you over, though, I promise :)

Hey guys! It's the Ides of March today, which means it's the official second year anniversary of this webcomic :) You can tell it's been on my mind a bit with the new header art and some tweaks to the site layout here and there. I also figured I should keep up a tradition of doing adorable art in celebration, so I made sure I had a drawing posted and at the ready:


Happy 2nd Year, Missing Monday! by *elleskinner on deviantART

Key to Somewhere by *elleskinner on deviantART

Monday on her side of the door. Cryptic art is cryptic!

Right now my priority list for the site is: (1) trying to build a comic buffer because I've gone two entire years without one and that is really difficult, (2) getting a basic character page up, and (3) putting up an art gallery. Hopefully I can actually achieve #1 someday and move to the other items on the list! :)

Silly comic that jumped into my head after page 96/97, because poor Monday's pastry got abandoned in the dirt. And food is like one of her favorite things~!

This happens to me a lot, where I'll get a flash of silly spinoff panels to the page I'm working on. I was thinking it might be fun to draw some of them out sometimes, sort of like the omake comics you'll see in the back of manga :) So, here you go.

(I'm a dork. This is not news.)