An old friend (and likely the only Moose Riders fan left) recently asked me for MR merch, and it got me thinking about resurrecting The Moose Riders again. My excuse for letting it fall to the wayside over the last…9 years? has been an increased workload thanks to taking on yearbook responsibilities at my day job. That is a fair excuse for a good chunk of the year, but if I’m being honest, I still have lots of time to work on this comic during the rest of the year. Of course RIGHT NOW is actually crunch time for the yearbook, so don’t expect new MR content just yet, but know that the wheels are slowly grinding back into action.

Anyway, in poking around my old Chrome Dome Comics and The Moose Riders sites, I’ve discovered that the theme and plugin I had been using to manage the comics stopped updating and were no longer compatible with the current version of WordPress, things weren’t working as they should. I’m trying out a new theme/plugin combo, manually importing the old pages, and just generally trying to get things tweaked enough that when I do manage to get back to drawing pages, I’ll have a way to share them.

So what I’m trying to say is, “Thanks for the kick in the pants, JT.”

Wish me luck.

Just wanted to mention that, despite the lack of activity around here, I’m still at work on The Moose Riders. Found out the other day that the fine folks over at ComiXpress, who I’ve been printing my comics through, have decided to retire from the world of print-on-demand comics. Obviously I’m sorry to see them go, but I wish Logan et al. the best of luck. I’ve spent the last few days trying to make a decision about a new printer, and it looks like Ka-Blam is the way to go. They have slightly different tech specs, but if I’m lucky they’ll be able to work with the files I’ve already got. If not, it might take a bit longer for the print comics to become available again. Either way, I will keep you posted.

Anyhow, I guess the point of this post is just to reassure you, the loyal reader, that print comics will come back, and that new pages are on the way when the distractions die down a bit. Chapter 4 will continue as soon as I am able to make it happen. Thank you for your patience!

Happy Holidays! For the rest of this month (for the rest of this YEAR!) I’m running a Buy-One-Get-One sale on the Moose Riders digital downloads. This means you will be able to buy BOTH Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of the Moose Riders for only $1. Pre-load The Moose Riders on the Kindles, Nooks, and iPads you’ll be giving away to loved ones! Come back after Christmas to put The Moose Riders on the fancy devices you got for Christmas! Use discount code 1dollar2books at checkout from now through December 31!

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‘Sup, homies? Ready to do something nice for the human race? Well, here’s your chance. Comic Creators for Freedom begins their annual donation drive today. Donate $5 or more and you get a totally sweet wallpaper showing 127-ish female characters in this epic snowball fight. Even more importantly, your generous donation gets split between two very worthy causes in the fight against human trafficking, Love 146 and Gracehaven House. Help out.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret
Mead

Wednesday, January 11th is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. To participate, we formed the Comic Creators for Freedom – a group of over 100 comic book creators who volunteered our artistic talents to raise money and awareness for this cause. You may not know it, but there are currently 27 million enslaved people worldwide- more than double the number of enslaved Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. UNICEF estimates that 1.2 million children every year are sold into slavery, most of it sexual. The US Department of Justice estimates 16,000 victims of human trafficking are brought into the United States every year. Unlike slavery in the past, what is happening today is happening in secret.
It won’t end until awareness is raised, and people like you and me take a stand.

So here’s what we did: each creator contributed an original drawing of one of our own female characters, and combined them into a single wallpaper image! The wallpaper features characters from all over the web, including
Girls with Slingshots, The Dreamland Chronicles, Kukuburi, Earthsong Saga, Looking for Group, Love and Capes, The Dreamer, The Moose Riders, and tons more! Donate today to download this unique, once-in-a-lifetime wallpaper. The Donations Drive will last for two weeks, from Monday January 9th – 20th. All proceeds will be split evenly between Love 146 and Gracehaven House– two organizations working on rehabilitation of victims and prevention of this crime.

To learn more about the CC4F visit www.comiccreatorsforfreedom. To learn more about the problem, visit http://love146.org/slavery. (Note: contains adult themes and actual accounts of sex slavery.)

Ok, so there’s this group of cartoonists/illustrators that have been doing this awesome fundraising thing to help put a stop to human trafficking. The theme this time around is “Epic Snowball Fight!” Each participant is drawing one of their female characters either throwing or getting hit by a snowball. All these characters will be put together into a big snowy Battle Royale wallpaper for the fine folks who donate during the big drive in January. Cool, right? Anyhow, I volunteered to be a part of it. I’m drawing Lola–you can see an early shot of the WIP over on my dribble account.

I’ve upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, Webcomic, and Inkblot, and a few things have changed a bit. Still trying to tweak some stuff, but I wanted to point out the new Character pages I’ve got set up for the Moose Riders. This finally gives the kids their names, which should make my son happy. Now if you look at the bottom of each individual post, there will be a list of each of the main characters. If you click a name, it will take you to a page with a character description and a list of every page that character appears on. Cool, huh? Anyhow, here they are: Lola, Westley, and Moose.

Busy week. Will try to get 25 finished up later next week.

Page 24 is kicking my ass. I keep re-drawing bits with repeatedly disappointing results. Plus, a water main broke in my front yard. Sorry for the continued delay.

I’m working on the site a bit to prep for the upcoming launch of The Moose Riders, so things might get shaken up a bit.