Fan Art by N.C. Webber
By Irma on September 2nd, 2010Posted In: blog

I got this AGES ago and kept meaning to post it, which is stupid since it’s SO GREAT! It’s almost like looking at Imy in real life
You can check out more of his great work over at his site, Afrodisium. Thank you so much N.C! And thanks for being so patient in waiting for me to post it
I would LOVE to have more fan art! Are you interested in making me a fan art and being featured on Friday Fan Art? Then just read the simple rules here, and get to work!
Hey guys! I’m not depriving you of a strip this week. You’re still getting two. But a little later. My real life job has had a lot of new stuff going on, which has resulted in me putting in more hours, and I haven’t figured out how to manage my off-time better. I’ve been working on the Monday strip but haven’t been able to complete it. Thought not for a lack of trying…
So for this week we’ll be doing a Tuesday and Friday updater. Still 2 updates, just a little later.
Thanks for understanding!

So! NYCC is getting closer and closer! I’m so excited and NERVOUS! Nervous because I’m just hoping everything works out with my merchandise and so on. But one thing’s for sure, I CAN’T WAIT!
So here’s the deal – I don’t have my own table. Mike Witmer & the folks over at Th3rd World Studios were generous enough to offer up a sliver of table for lil ole me. So if you go searching for me at the NYCC website, you won’t find me. Look for Th3rd World, and that’s where I’ll be!
Here let me help you out… (click for larger)
Ta-dah!! I’ll probably post this again just before the con. But I’m too excited to wait until just then!!
I hope i’ll be seeing some of you there!

YES! It’s DONE! Finally! With the move and everything I had going on, there was a while where I was afraid I wouldn’t get it done. But it IS done. And it’s been sent off to the printers! They’ll be sending me a proof soon and I CANNOT WAIT to get it! Once I do get it, and I’ll be crossing my fingers that everything will be fine, I just have to aprove it so that they can print up my order. WOO!!!
It’ll be a little while before I sell them here. I’ll be taking them to NYCC in October with me first, and then putting them up here in November when I get back.
But, anyway, YAY!

I spent my entire weekend finishing up the book. I’m tired but it was definitely worth it! Look at the Mick Meter up there!! Mick is one happy fish right now! As you can see, other than the “Edits” meter, it’s just the cover that’s left to do. I started working on it yesterday, as you can see in that screen shot above, and I’m still working on it now now. I need to get this to my printers this week. So it’s just all about getting this cover done.
Barring any big problems (of which there should be NONE! NONE!!!!) there will be a new comic on Thursday, and there will be NO MORE book-related interruptions! The book is SO CLOSE to being done that I can taste it! It looks GREAT and I’m so excited about seeing it in actual print!! The feedback I’ve had from the couple of people who’ve seen it has been good so far. SO… WOO!!!
See you guys on Thursday!

I got this super FUN fan art from Roland AGES ago and in my scatterbrained state these days I completely forgot (I also have another fan art waiting to post). Roland is the cartoonist over at Metal Jaw Comics, and you should head on over there and give him some love! Thank you SO MUCH Roland!
I would LOVE to have more fan art! Are you interested in making me a fan art and being featured on Friday Fan Art? Then just read the simple rules here, and get to work!

This GREAT fan at was sent to me by Marc. Marc doesn’t have any of his own projects up on the web yet, but I’ve heard rumors that they’re coming
I actually got to watch Marc draw and color some of this live on Ustream! IT’s always very cool watching other people work. Thank you SO MUCH Marc! ANd hurry and get your projects up so I have a link for these people other than your twitter
I would LOVE to have more fan art! Are you interested in making me a fan art and being featured on Friday Fan Art? Then just read the simple rules here, and get to work!

I haven’t had an fan art for a while, and now I have a whole bunch in waiting! And what better way to start it off than by posting the very first Cherry fan art?? This one is brought to us by Doug Keech of Fake Life Comic. Since I never give my characters eye colors, Doug usually does that on his own with his fan arts for me. He gave Cherry yellow eyes, wwhich is pretty cool I think! And she looks great! Thank you so much Doug!
I would LOVE to have more fan art! Are you interested in making me a fan art and being featured on Friday Fan Art? Then just read the simple rules here, and get to work!
So, THAT was not what I expected! I expected about 20 names, but got about 163, with few repeats! Thank you all SO MUCH for joining in on the fun. I got a lot of great suggestions, and, let me tell you, it was HARD to choose.
I wrote all the names into a spreadsheet first (thanks to Doug for that idea!), with the contestants’ names next to them, and then I hid the column with the contestants’ names and alphabetized the submissions, and went through each name. At this point I had no idea who suggested what, and just went by what felt right .I must have gone through the list 20 times, bolding names I liked and crossing out the ones I didn’t think fit. FInally, when I woke up this morning and took another look, one of the names just popped out at me as PERFECT. Once I finalized my decision I made the contestants column visible again to see who suggested it.
Anyway, you want to know the winner dontcha? Just imagine a Drumroll.. and here it is:

And the person who suggested this name is faithful reader Don! Congratulations Don! (Don suggested the first name only. I added the last name myself.)
BUT WAIT! THERE ARE MORE PRIZES!
Once I started to see the amount of entries I decided to create two more smaller prizes to give out as well. You can see all 3 prizes here:

The 2nd prize goes to the name I ALMOST chose. It was very close. But in the end, I just didn’t think it was right. I liked the idea of the last name (and enjoyed the linked YouTube videos as explanation!), but it wasn’t right. SO, The runner up prize of Imy and Mick goes to Kira for the suggestion “Taylor Rockford!”
The 3rd and finmal prize goes to Michael Kinyon for the addition of a great little backstory along with his name suggestions that I just LOVED. I won’t b using it, I have my own backstory from him, but I appreciated the added creativity
“Backstory: He is Portuguese. He is a big fan of, strangely enough, Rockabilly. He heard that Sweden is one of the places where Rockabilly thrives, so he emigrated there a few years ago, hoping to make it in the music business. It didn’t work out, and so he opened the Cafe Rawk.”
Thank you EVERYONE for participating! This was TONS of fun! Now that I know that people are into prizes, I will have more contests coming up and VERY SOON. So don’t dispair, you will have many more chances
As a sidenote, it’s true that VIncent is the only character with a last name at the moment. But that will change VERY soon!

FINALLY! A contest! Anyone can participate! And the winner gets THIS piece of original art:

Now, see that guy up there? He’s shown up twice in the comic so far (here & here). He’s had speaking parts both times, but no name. Now that Imy’s working at Café Rawk, it’s time for him to come back, because he is the OWNER of the café. And this time he needs a name.
That’s where you come in.
Comment on this post with your choice of name. You have a limit of 3 posts/names. Depending on how many entries I’ll get, I may choose my top 5 and have you all vote for them. Otherwise, I’ll just choose my favorite and that will be the winner.
You have 1 week to submit! Submissions will close at midnight MY TIME (CET) on Thursday, June 24th.
Have fun!