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Merry Christmas!
Posted on 2024-12-25 by Zabetta Cragley

Merry Christmas! Well, it's Christmas here for like 48 more minutes.

When the pirates were in Argentina they would've spent Christmas in Ushuaia. They were living off their earnings and probably spent most of their time hiking in the mountains and arguing about when the best time to return is. This was a very weird time for Marina who went from living in Miami to living on a small boat with a bunch of teenagers, plus Kingston (who was 20 at the time).

Also, happy belated birthday to Marina who turned 40 on December 6th.

Maritonia will return mid-January!

Alpha of the North – Available Now!

Posted on 2023-11-27 by Zabetta Cragley 
Ivanhoe and his crew of wannabe pirates head into the wilds of Northern Ontario and run afoul of some shady ship builders. The pirates owe the ship builders a significant sum of money for a boat they destroyed, which leads them on a chase across the North and ends in a brawl on a train in the middle of nowhere. When the dust finally settles, Alpha finds himself stranded in the middle of the night hoping for a miracle...
Alpha carrying an axe at night with a train behind him.

Alpha of the North is finally available in both digital download and print edition! It’s available on Ko-fi (print and digital), Patreon, and Globalcomix. Print edition is $12 USD and ships to Canada, USA, and the UK. If you are outside of those areas, please send me a message and I can get a quote on shipping. Digital edition is $6.50 USD.

To read a preview of Alpha of the North click here. Use the “older post” link to navigate back through the comic.

Status Update – January 2025

Posted on 2025-01-03 by Zabetta Cragley

Happy New Year!

I am busy plugging away at inking chapter 3 and Minor Niner at the moment. This post is mostly for me to track my progress on things

  • Chapter 3
    • 45/75 Drawn
    • 14/75 Inked
    • 1/75 Flatted
    • Digital Cover Page: Complete
    • Print Cover Page: Not Drawn
  • Minor Niner
    • 48/48 Drawn
    • 24/48 Inked
    • 6/48 Flatted
    • Print Cover Page: Not Drawn
  • Chapter 2
    • Print Cover Page: Drawn
  • Chapter 1
    • Print Cover Page: Flatted
    • 40/75 Reformatted
  • Chapter 4
    • 27/?? Thumbnailed

I’m planning to start publishing Chapter 3 to coincide with Webtoon’s 2025 contest, so that should be on March 15th. That requires a really substantial panel count for each update. Because of this 1/3 of Chapter 3 will be done by June.

I want to get a 15 page preview of Minor Niner published before March just so it doesn’t screw with the order of posts. You may notice that the comic is a little easier to navigate now. I rejigged some of the dates on my posts so that the chapter 2 epilogue falls after chapter 2 and the Alpha of the North preview isn’t in the middle of other updates.

Speaking of rejigging, I’m still working on reformatting chapter 1 to be a bit more consistent. This has had the added bonus of forcing me to doing some layer management in photoshop. I’ve got a good system now, but I had no fucking idea what I was doing during chapter 1. I’ve been fixing some minor typos and visual things that were annoying me. This is getting me set up to print chapter 1, which I’d like to work on post-Minor Niner. BTW I’ve finally managed to get a fucking cover page drawn for the comic. Yes, this will be shaded.

Chapter 2’s cover page follows similar ominous Sulphur Tongue imagery. The rather plain cover pages I do for the digital version will get used in the print versions as interior cover pages. Chapter 3’s digital page is already done. You’ll see it around March 5th. I had a plan for Chapter 3’s cover page, but I had to abandon it because I cut that particular scene.

I’m REALLY excited to drop Chapter 3. I think I’m going to have to up my rating on Webtoon to mature. RIP to the under 18s reading the comic on there. (I’m not going to tell anyone what to read, but based on my demographics from some sites, the under 18s aren’t reading this anyways LOL)

I’ve once again had to edit the comic on Webtoon because Ivanhoe diving into the Hudson naked was too spicy for them. I also had to change the bit about him meeting Marina as a 17-year-old because that was a no-no, too. Surprise! This is kind of an important plot point! It sets a rather important storyline into motion that we’ll revisit in Chapter 6/7. I hope people are paying attention to what’s going on in this comic because I’m dropping foreshadowing throughout. Reminder, I never post censored pages here, GlobalComix or ComicFury (my newest mirror)