Journey Upstream has started! 7 first pages are up on the comic's website now.
And the next batch of pages are nearly done too.
As the title says, the public release of the first batch of pages is here. Go read it at:
www.journeyupstreamcomic.com
(I hope everything works as it should, let me know in the comments if the website is broken or something else weird.)
The next batch is almost finished, I only need to finish one more page for it. I’m feeling really rusty with drawing after spending nearly 3 weeks away (that’s a crazy long time to not be drawing!!) visiting family over the holidays, so I’m really chomping down on this one page, trying to get back into the art flow again. I’m one of those people who don’t really get rested up on holidays or travel, I just get frazzled and fog-brained. Working, and doing the same thing every day, is much more stabilizing and calming!
Anyway, next week those pages will go up as early access to the paid subscribers over here, and the week after that publicly on the website. The whole of the prologue should wrap up around the end of February (it’s not a suuuper long prologue) if I’m able to keep up a decent production pace.
Anyway, enjoy the pages (those of you who hadn’t seen them yet), a let me know if anything is displaying wrong or other such things. I’ll get back to work now, and see you all soon with more pages!
Cheers~
Minna
I bought A Meandering Line for my younger sister for Christ Mas after reading it online, and she got me the same thing! Haha! Great book! My mother has now read it and it made her cry. She loved it. I also bought Lovely People for my older sister. I have not read it, bit to girly for me! Thank you for your story and Christ Jesus bless your future!
Minna, you have a way of storytelling that takes seemingly mundane concepts (animal stories) and makes them captivating and intriguing. I have a broad exposure to many graphic styles in comics from around the world and your color pallet and style has become one of my favorites. I am greatly enjoying your newest efforts and look forward to when physical copies become available. Why are physical copies important to me? Because it is something that I can pass on to my daughter when she becomes old enough to read that she can read anywhere and is not a screen.
I would like to provide one piece of feedback for you to consider that is philosophical in nature and one which I think every artist with Faith in God grapples, which is how best to glorify God in their work. Some believe that it is by only creating things that are heavily evangelistic and nothing else. Others believe that it is simply by continuing to create great art that God is glorified, regardless of whether it is evangelistic or not. I love the visual telling of your testimony and the way you weave biblical truth into your art and storytelling. However, I hope that you will continue to create fantastic art and tell great stories from that fantastic imagination God gave you without feeling obligated to turn every story into an evangelistic message. Now, if that is what you feel lead to do, you should do that, but I believe we create out of what we are and what is inside us, so if the Spirit is living in you and permeating your life, the Light will permeate whatever you create. In short, my recommendation is don't hide it, but don't force it either. If it is real in you, it will be real in your work. I am sure as your walk with Christ deepens, you will work out your own philosophy of art as a Christian. I am curious; did you ever work out a solid philosophy of art before? If you had one, what would you say it was?
Interested in your thoughts on that subject if you are willing to share them in this forum.
Okay, enough opinion. a few questions for you:
1. So I still want to purchase the 4th Volume of Stand Still Stay Silent, but I think I missed the Kickstarter campaign that printed it. Is there any way I could still purchase a copy or am I just out of luck?
2. Also curious what bands are your favorite?
3. Is there an automated alert message that will tell me when I need to renew my subscription to your blog?
Thanks for what you do and keep up the good work!