The second volume of Nathan Sorry is on its way to the printer and can now be pre-ordered (and if you haven’t picked up Volume 1 yet you can order that as well) over at my online store: http://nathansorry.bigcartel.com/ I’ll begin shipping these out in September and it’s going to be a pretty limited run so order soon. If you’re going to be at SPX next month, I’ll have them there along with my brand new AlphaBeasts postcards. I’ll be at table W64.

Nathan Sorry Volume 2 collects pages 64-117 (Chapters 5 and 6) of the webcomic in a handsome black and white collection. It’s only $9.99 plus shipping.

If you prefer comics of the digital variety stay tuned. I’ll be selling both volumes in PDF, CBZ and ePub format for reading on various mobile devices and will announce that in the coming weeks.

Check out both volumes of Nathan Sorry, my AlphaBeasts Postcards and my Animal Alphabet Flash Cards here: http://nathansorry.bigcartel.com/

If you visited this site earlier today and either received a warning message about malware or were redirected to some sort of video site I apologize. This website (and others I maintain) got hacked this morning and I’m still dealing with restoring everything. I got Nathan Sorry back up and running as quickly as possible and hopefully it won’t happen again but things could be touch and go for the next couple of days while I get everything in order again.

Nothing that was going on here should have been a security issue for visitors to the site by any means but I just hate to have the site become inaccessible or – even worse – act in a way that seems strange or inappropriate especially on a high-traffic new page day.

It’s a good reminder for everyone out there to backup your webcomics and blogs regularly.

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.