Minor Niner
- Alpha of the North: This FINALLY going to be finished this year. I have 7 pages left to ink and I’ve been chipping away at it by doing a panel or 2 or 3 a day. I’m also flatting at the same time. Flats are half done. I’m still hoping for a July release of this comic. I could very well have this whole comic coloured by Easter. Expect to see a lot of shameless promotion starting in April. Alpha of the North is going to be available as a digital download and a small print run.
- Chapter 2: The other thing I’ve been chipping away at! This chapter kept ballooning because I had to introduce some plot threads. 70% of the pencils are done. I need to keep plugging away lest I outpace myself (not fun). It’s surprising how many pages you can get finished by drawing a couple panels every lunch. Some people are probably like “no duh” but this is extremely novel to me because pacing myself is not normal for me.
- Chapter 3: I’ve started thumbnailing but I’m shelving that til I’m done Alpha of the North and Chapter 2 pencils. This will probably be a much shorter chapter than #2 and I HOPE future chapters are around 50 pages. But only time will tell once I’ve finished thumbs.
- Chapters 4+: I’m currently editing chapters 4 and 5 and hoping to finalize chapter 4’s script by the summer. Writing is one thing I need to start prioritizing. I have most of the story roughed out, but haven’t started scripting chapter 6 or later. I recently re-read my notes and so many of my ideas changed.
- Minor Niner: I’m going to start drawing this for June Nanomango and continue in November. 15 pages at a time. It’ll be the 2024 side comic.
- Other Comics?: New side comics are in the works. One will be a shorter story, the other two are big stories. They may be released in volumes.
Maritonia updates will be happening all August! In the background, I'm going to be crushing out flats for Minor Niner which I hope to have available for sale in October. I'll make a proper post about it later in August, but here's a quick preview image:
I'll be posting a quick preview with every page.
Also, if you enjoy Maritonia, want to support the comic, and also are a GlobalComix gold subscriber, I post pages a few days early (usually Sunday/Monday) if you want to read the pages before everyone else. You can also read Minor Niner in full as a subscriber. I also have the comics (mostly) set up for frame view on GC. Go read Maritonia on Globalcomix!