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Posted on 2025-01-25 by Zabetta Cragley

Thanks for reading the Minor Niner preview! I'll know an exact release date this August. I'm hoping to have it coincide with the actual season this comic takes place in.

Comic notes:

  • Bon Echo is a real provincial park! The Group of Seven liked painting Mazinaw Rock. I drove up to the park a couple years ago to get a bunch of photos and video for reference and to use as promo materials. The comic doesn't quite capture the scale of the cliffs. I grew up near-ish so we went here a lot as kids.
  • October 19th at Bon Echo probably wouldn't be as colourful as this or as warm. Usually all the leaves are off the trees but doing the fall colours looks prettier than all grey everything.

This is the origin story of the origin story! How did the pirates become friends? What was Ivanhoe like in school? After getting expelled and denied entrance to a private high school, Ivanhoe Scott gets sent to Black River Secondary where he meets his future best friends who later become the π-rates. Ivanhoe is approached by an older student named Kingston, who convinces him to dig up some "treasure" buried and abandoned by some gangsters. What follows is the camping trip from hell...

Minor Niner releases September 2025 as a digital download or print edition. The comic is 48 pages long.

Hiatus… coming soon!

Posted on 2024-06-03 by Zabetta Cragley

I’ve been looking at my comic schedule and it turns out I had planned a two week hiatus this summer, but I think it might end up being a two month hiatus. I’ve got a big cross-country move coming up at the end of this month and I need to do a TON of stuff in preparation. The thing at the bottom of my list right now is unfortunately comics.

Fortunately, the comic isn’t going to come to a grinding halt. There will be a new page this Wednesday (June 5th) and there will be at least one other update this June. Depending on how things go, I might be able to do biweekly updates into July. The comic is going to go on a full hiatus until at least early August, possibly September depending on how much work travel I have coming up.

The other good news is that Chapter 2 is on track to be complete by the end of the year. Behind the scenes, I’ve been getting a lot done. It’s all inked, I have 3 pages left to flat. The rest is just shading and adding speech bubbles. Chapter 3 is halfway drawn, I’ve started inking the next side comic (Minor Niner). Things should settle down this fall. I will be increasing upload frequency starting in October/November to make up for the summer. I just need some time to focus on BTS stuff and not have to worry about having uploads ready for a couple months.

Now, if you need something to tide you over until later this summer, buy Alpha of the North! More details are available in this post. It’s available digitally and as a print edition (and if you buy a print copy, I don’t mind taking a walk to the post office).