Miles Alexander Barrett was born this Sunday and he and Mommy are doing great! As a result, his dad’s webcomic will be missing an update this week but should be back next Tuesday regardless of how little sleep he is getting.

Whew, it’s been a while, huh? As I mentioned in the blog portion of the last page I posted, I was going to be on a mini-hiatus due to vacations and an absolute surplus of freelance projects eating up all my time. That hiatus was supposed to be over in July but here we are in August and I’m only just getting my head above water. While hiatus-ing I pondered the idea of changing how I update the comic — abandoning the page per week model for a “chunkier” scene-based update schedule. The problem with that was planning out “release” dates for each update would then become a lot of work in itself and I would probably end up working more slowly than I do right now.

So, I’m sticking with the page per week model. I know most of my readers probably dip in and read chunks of the story at a time but I might as well allow for the few that read a page at a time to keep on reading the way they want to read it (and please keep doing so!)

However, I am taking advantage of this break to try to get ahead of myself and build a buffer of completed pages for the first time ever. This way I can actually have a chance at a real regular weekly schedule with a consistent release day and everything.

With that said, Nathan Sorry will return on Tuesday, August 23 and will continue to update every Tuesday from there on out (unless I get slammed again or I decide that Tuesday is not the best day for updates for some reason).

One of the things that has kept me busy was a 6 page “comic article” that will appear in the September issue (I think?) of Charlotte Magazine. A by-product of working on your own comic like I do is that occasionally someone comes along and wants to pay you to do one for them and as great as that is it winds up taking time away from the comic you are doing for yourself. But I’m really happy with how the Charlotte Magazine piece came out and I will link to it here when it comes out.

Thanks to everyone for continuing to read and for being patient with this long downtime I’ve had. I urge everyone to start following me on Google + if you’re on there because I will probably start posting some previews of new pages as I work on them there. There’s a fantastic comics and illustration community on there and it has turned out to be a great way for us artistic types to show off what we’re working on.

I’ve been a little quiet here this past week because I was preparing for and now unwinding from this past weekend’s HeroesCon. It was a great experience. Very different from last year (which was also great though). I just posted a lengthy report over on my main blog. I go into detail about selling my new book, moderating a panel on Designing Comics, appearing on a Webcomics panel and entering a piece of art into the annual art auction and being totally blown away by the result.

All the details are here: http://www.richbarrett.com/2011/06/06/heroescon-2011-report/

New page coming later this week. Also, I will finally start selling the print edition of Nathan Sorry Vol. 1 here this week.

This Saturday (May 7th) is Free Comic Book Day and I will have a couple of offerings both online and in the real world.

First off, Graphic.ly, where I have been selling the first two “issues” of Nathan Sorry for the past few months will be offering Nathan Sorry #1 for free that day only. There are lots of other free comics being offered through Graphic.ly on Saturday and here is a list of them: Graphic.ly Celebrates Free Comic Book Day

If you live in the Charlotte, NC area most local comic shops will have a copy of the Sketch Charlotte Free Comic Book Day anthology. My 3 page Nathan Sorry “trailer” will be part of that book alongside a lot of great stuff by Charlotte-area comic artists Henry Eudy, Tom Davidson, Eraklis Petmezas, Chrissie Zullo, Brigit Scheide and a lot more.

I should also mention that you can get the 1st issue of Nathan Sorry for free over at The Illustration Section but it’s free there all the time so it’s not really part of their Free Comic Book Day offerings.

Plus, check back here on Saturday and I might just have something else to give away.

UPDATE:
Come back here to the site on Saturday and you’ll be able to download FREE CBZ and PDF format versions of Nathan Sorry Vol.1 the first 64 page graphic novel collection of the story. I will be selling a print version of the book shortly and will probably offer the digital version to anyone who buys a copy then but for one day only I’m just going to give it all away for free.

UPDATE:
There’s a new download page here where you can get Nathan Sorry Vol. 1 in two different formats.

UPDATE:
Thanks to everyone who downloaded the Free Comic Book Day digital files. That page has been taken down now but I’ll be offering digital downloads and print versions of that book for sale very soon.

I recently added a STORE section where I will be selling PDFs of each issue of Nathan Sorry but to start things out I am simply going to give the first issue away for FREE. If you have an iPad it is very easy to load a PDF onto it via iTunes and read it via a variety of applications like iBooks or ComicZeal. PDFs also work on just about any other device you can think of which makes it a good universal choice.

So, hop on over to the Store and download your copy. Future issues will be added soon at the 99¢ price point.

Also, issue #1 is now also FREE on The Illustrated Section. And issue #2 is available there right now for only 99¢.