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Yes, you heard that correctly, sportsfans! Blind Alley Comics is going digital. Entering the internet age. Gettin the Ones and Zeros. World Wide Webbing. We just talked with web designer Rob Hix, who has generously agreed to design an awesome site for a pitifully small fee (we're kind of embarrassed about it). You'll be able to buy our comics and posters, both digital and hard-copy; view our awesome artwork in all its glory; see upcoming releases and view ancient history (of our work, that is); and find great links to other cool stuff that's floating around in the websphere, all alone. The site itself will be pretty immersive: lots of cool animations, an art gallery that's really a shooting gallery, and a creepy, gritty nighttime atmosphere. You're gonna love it, I guarantee it. It's gonna be a lot of work, but I think we're up for it. Rick Out! Update 1/28/16: As happens in life, our website plans have stalled a bit. Hopefully we can get back in touch...

No theme, just sketches I have laying around the office. I draw compulsively, so hopefully I can continue to upload these. Trying to do an attractive girl with a long nose. Meh. Dutch Master-type scenario. Again with the big nose. Shakmar - a species I invented for an epic story. Chickened out when it came to draw the background. I think they're watching a military parade, but use your imagination. T-rex at home. Deinonychus at home. Alamosaurus , a late-Cretaceous sauropod from the Southwest United States. There were long-necks around at the time of T-rex, but they were vastly different from Jurassic species like Brontosaurus or Diplodocus. Alamosaurus was an example of Titanosaurids, which arose in the southern supercontinent of Gondwana. T-rex, by the way, would largely have left this sauropod alone - his specialty would have been duck-bills or Triceratops. And finally, Oviraptor. Sometimes my dinosaurs deliver messages for me. More coming! R...

I'm sitting here watching a 10-year-old TED talk by Scott McCloud, creator of the visionary and influential Understanding Comics  trilogy (together with Reinventing Comics and Making Comics ). It's titled "The Visual Magic of Comics". Watching the guy, whom I've met recently - a very affable, personable fellow; very humble - I can't help but think, Geez, he's a mild-looking schlub like me...how the hell did he get where he is now? How did he turn his hobby into a career? Scott McCloud I'll admit, I'm feeling low at the moment (and it's not just the craft-beer hangover, although that doesn't help...) Blind Alley Comics is trying to expand its operations. We're emailing stores across the Midwest and Northeast, and trying to get a website together, as well as working on our various comic projects. It's a real drag: not too many bites on the old email trail, and the guy who was to do our website (the third in a row!) flaked on u...

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!!! Well no, don't despair. Be happy. The future is bright. Really, I mean it. Anyway, this is the cover for Die Katze #1. Release is scheduled for December - a nice little creepy Christmas gift for the kiddies (kitties?). Rick Out!