Magellan

Beatrix Grainger and Bruce-93 having a bad day in Bad Karma.

Another quick update on my creative endeavours. I have been working away on the next Magellan story with a fair bit of gusto and excitement… currently have the cover and fifty pages drafted. The story will probably weigh in at 150-200 pages so I’m at least a quarter of the way through the drafting.  I’m also starting on the line art, with the colour and lettering to follow in the next week or two.

Here’s the B&W art  of the draft frame I shared a few weeks ago.

Providing things continue to flow creatively I’m hoping to launch the next chapter in mid January, at two updates a week. Stay tuned!

It is with much sadness that I advise that my father, Noel, passed away last Sunday. As many readers would have known via my notes with recent Magellan updates, he hasn’t been well for a couple of months.

He had a form of cancer that was both fast acting and aggressive. We learned of his condition not that long ago, and within eight weeks he succumbed to the damage it was wreaking inside his brain and elsewhere. He was a great father and I am so sad he has passed.

The funeral was yesterday, and I believe we gave the old man a really nice send off and honoured his legacy well. Prior to his retirement, he worked in banking – an industry which I know these days is rightfully maligned for its practices – but he was certainly never part of that; moreover he was greatly involved in volunteering for the community, during both his working life and even more so in retirement.

Goodbye, Dad, I love you and I miss you.

As my brother and I are will executors I’ll be a bit involved in other duties for some weeks to come, so I will be taking a short break from producing Magellan updates, I am however crafting the next story and the next voting incentive… both will be pretty awesome (I hope!). More news soon.

Probably shouldn’t be celebrating too much in case I jinx it, but this feels like it call for a bit of the old rah-rah. After a couple of seemingly interminable months (for me, and no doubt you too, dear reader) I have finally uploaded the bulk of content.

The good news is that it means I’m up to date with updates for the current story… and there will be another new page in a short while so I can test the auto-update function.

I’ll get to these but feel there is less urgency, but still need to add:

• Gifford’s Story
• Rochelle/Mindmistress’ Story
• Several of the older vote incentives
• Some general pages

Seperate major undertakings:

• Locate and add old commentary. This exists in the backup, somewhere, just haven’t figured out how to extract it.
• Locate and add old readers’ comments – I hope this is doable… just not sure how yet. If I can, I will.
• Sort out the 500 and slow loading issues. My webhost claims to have made some changes to help with loading. I’ve still encountered a few 500 problems but not as many as last month, please let me know if they persist.

Anyway, yay! Progress!

New update coming… Sunday July 14 (around 10am Sydney EST)