Suburban Tribe issue 2 Now On Sale!

Fresh off the UPS truck, issue #2 is now available! You can order a copy through the site store, or if you're here in town (Louisville), you can stop by my fave LCS The Zone, located at 4121 Shelbyville Rd. in St. Matthews.

I'm a little surprised to say that I like this more than issue one. It's leaner and the stories are a little breezier, plus all of the strips in this one were created using Corel Painter as my digital inking tool. Also, if your email was used for an "Ask a Cast Member" comic over the last few months, those strips are featured in issue #2 as well. This is your chance to see your name in print!

Issue 2 also features an all-new Permutation of Stupidity comic that has never been seen before.

Speaking of P.O.S., I'm running one of them from issue 1 today beacuse I've just been too busy with freelance deadlines, busted water heaters, self-destructing MacBooks and other personal and freelance business appointments and emergencies to cobble together a new Tribe strip for you today. I hope you'll forgive me, I'll get back on track on Friday. Gotta keep the story rolling so that issue #3 will be out for Thanksgiving, after all!

Search Engine Update
With over 200 strips transcripted into the OhNoRobot database, you can now search a hefty chunk of the Suburban Tribe archives using the search feature in the nav bar on the right, just under the email link.

3 or 4 readers have just been transcribing fools, digging through dozens of the oldest, wordiest and uglyist strips in the archive, god bless you all. OhNoRobot will not let me see formal names, but I'm pretty sure that transcriptor numero uno is Llewelyn Graeme. Regardless, anybody who transcripted even one strip gets a huge thanks from me. I have not had to make one correction-- even to those strips where Caesar's misspelled emails and IMs were meticulously recreated.

You guys rock.

Lastly...
While flipping through some old art books last week, I found this 4-year-old thumbnail of a long-forgotten Suburban Tribe strip (click on it for a readable version):


I'm pretty sure that this was an uxexplored direction of my very first story arc, Bachelor's Bounty. Apparently, Dave was looking through the classifieds and got the idea to subject himself to medical testing in order to pay off his debt before I decided that he would market cat food to lazy single men.

I dunno, I just thought that you might like to see something like this.