If you still see the unfinished version of Issue 206, CLEAR YOUR BROWSER CACHE!

I can’t believe it took me this long to finish Issue 206. After I came back from ConnectiCon, I was really tired and I felt really crappy afterwards. To top that off, I tripped and fell from the campus library stairs on way to class. I feel fine now and I should be able to have issue 207 up on thursday *crosses his fingers*

As part of our ongoing campaign to saveConnectiCon , I donated the original sketch of the badge art I did for ConnectiCon 2005. The winner of the eBay auction will get the original sketch and a print (8.5in x 11in) of the final computer-rendered image, both signed. All proceeds go to the saveConnecticon donation!

saveConnectiCon eBay Auction - Briana Bunny CC 2K5 Badge Art

Comic will up monday and back on schedule. I promise. I’m getting my strength back. Thank you for emailing me and telling me not to worry. I really appreciate it.

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Hey kids, Ananth here … hijacking Hawk’s rant since I want to leave mine up a little while longer. As part of our ongoing campaign to saveConnectiCon , Hawk has donated the original sketch of the badge art he did for ConnectiCon 2005. The winner of the eBay auction will get the original sketch and a print (8.5in x 11in) of the final computer-rendered image, both signed. All proceeds go to the saveConnecticon donation!

saveConnectiCon eBay Auction - Briana Bunny CC 2K5 Badge Art

AIM Chat with Katy @ 9:05pm

Katy: i fended off a pickup line today
Katy: “I fix computers”
Katy: “Oh, really? My computer never needs fixing. I use a Mac.”
Hawk: hehe
Hawk: someone used the line “i fix computers” on you?
Katy: yep
Hawk: during happy hour?
Katy: yep
Hawk: THAT line? wow
Hawk: that actually makes me feel…good
Hawk: coz i know i can come up with something better than THAT
Hawk: “I draw pretty pictures”

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I seriously hate this week. I managed to trip and fall down some stairs. I’m ok, but my ankle hurts. *sighs*

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I think i caught a bug or something, I feel really crappy. I really hate this weather. Anyway, I came home around 9:30pm from class, decided to take a quick nap. I woke up an hour later…. with this on my mind….”Oh crap i have a graphic design assignment due tomorrow!”

*sighs*

Three more panels to draw …. really sorry.

Oh my god, I’m so freakin tired. So much to do, I don’t know where to start. I thought I would have the time to finish drawing last thursday comic over the weekend, I failed. ARGH! Must get work done.

BTW, the applegeeks panel was awesome and packed. I want to thank everyone that came to see us. I apologize for acting like a nut case. >.>

EDIT: Hahaha …

ConnectiCon treats webcomics good. I mean really good. They’re treated as first-rate, top-tier guests. We were overwhelmed. Matt and Brianna, the con organizers, really went the extra mile for us, and then another couple of hundred miles just to drive the point home.

This ConnectiCon was our first ConnectiCon ever, and we loved it. Webcomics are a community, and at no convention has this community been more apparent than at ConnectiCon. One of the joys of webcomics is the close proximity to the readers - dialogue between readers and creators is far more open and immediate on the internet than in the world of print comics. If any convention captures that sense of open communication and community, it’s ConnectiCon, hands down. Hawk and I did our panel on Saturday, and it’s the best panel we’ve ever done to date. The crowd - the congoers - were great. I’d heard other webcomics crews talk about ConnectiCon very fondly, and now I know why. Hawk and I would like - love - to go to ConnectiCon next year, and we’d love to see you all there.

But it might not happen. ConnectiCon is in trouble.

Matt Daigle and Briana Benn are the two organizers of ConnectiCon. For the past two years, they’ve held it on a college campus. Because of a change in management at the college, the rental fee for rooms there quadrupled. ConnectiCon had to find a new home, and that new home was the newly-constructed Connecticut Convention Center. It was a new venue, but it looked less expensive than the fees that would be incurred if it was held at the college again. So Matt and Brianna moved the con.

Despite the con being a big success, fees incurred during the course of the convention caused Matt and Brianna to end up $35,000 in debt. They, and ConnectiCon, are in trouble. So, on Sunday evening, almost 30 webcomics creators gathered in a hotel room to sit down and come up with a solution. And we did.

This is where you guys come in. We need your help to save ConnectiCon - we need your help to save Matt and Brianna. There is a Paypal donations link at SaveConnectiCon.com - even if every one of you donates $1, we’ll be well on our way to helping close the gap. If you don’t want to donate, you can also bid on original signed art by many of your favorite webcomics artists in the near future (Hawk will be putting artwork up as well). There are also plans for a pay-site where the same webcomics artists will put up exclusive content and comics, accessible nowhere else.

Webcomics have always been loosely associated with each other - we know each other, we occasionally work with each other, but we’ve never come together like this. I say this in the hopes that it conveys the urgency of the situation. In the end, it comes down to this:

We need your help - help us save ConnectiCon.

ConnectiCon was sweet! Good crowd, good panel, good friends, good digs (the hotel room was amazing). Buuut … I’m beat … so the con report is forthcoming. Also,

Stay tuned for a very important announcement about ConnectiCon.