Over at my personal blog I wrote up a rather lengthy report on my first appearance as a guest at a major comic convention. You can read it here.

Now that the convention is over I can get back to a little normalcy and that means getting the long-awaited first pages of Chapter 4 finished and up soon.

If you’re in Charlotte, NC this weekend you need to come to HeroesCon, one of the biggest and definitely the best comic book conventions in the U.S. It starts this Friday, June 4 and goes through Sunday, June 6. I’ll be there making my first big convention appearance. I’ll be set up in Indie Island at table 439. If this map means anything to you my table is the one highlighted.

Once you’re in the convention you can’t miss Indie Island. Just look for the big Indie Island sign and check out all the cool artists that will be there until you come across me in one of the corners.

And with that we end Chapter 3. This was a much longer chapter than the first two and with the delays I’ve had the last couple of months it probably seems like we’ve been in it for a long time. Or maybe chapters actually don’t figure that much in to how you read this comic online. Do they?

I’m currently working on a new printing of the first “issue” of Nathan Sorry as well as the first printing of the 2nd issue (22 pages each and for sale soon here on the website – more about that soon). I never originally intended to print this book in proper comic book style issues so my chapter breaks don’t coincide with the typical 22 page issue break. As I’ve been formatting the story for printing I’ve been leaving out the Chapter titles since they get confusing in context of individual issues but I’ve found I need to keep the chapter page breaks because it’s needed to intentionally interrupt the flow of the story. The chapters are meant for how you would read this in it’s final graphic novel form but I think it’s also helpful as navigation for the webcomic, especially as the length increases. I use it myself for jumping to certain parts of the book when I need to reference it.

Anyway, enough about that. We’re moving on to chapter 4 where Casey returns. I’ve also got some other stuff coming up that I will announce here shortly.

I realize that this most recent page was pretty late but unfortunately this is going to be a tough month for me as I’m in the middle of a large design project that is taking up a lot of my time. I’m going to do my best to keep close to my schedule but expect some more lateness over the next few weeks.

So, with that in mind – plus in case I’ve picked up some new readers recently from the new webcomic thread on The Whitechapel boards or this review on The Comics Reporter – I figure now is a good time to remind everyone of the ways you can find out when new pages go up. Since, even when I’m on my regular weekly schedule I can’t guarantee a consistent new page day I offer these ways of being alerted (ranked in order of immediacy and reliability):

Email Alerts.
These emails go out within minutes of a page going up. The only reason I use these emails is for page alerts so don’t worry about me spamming you with other news. It’s also very easy to unsubscribe from these (the link is at the bottom of each email) so if you find that you don’t need to be alerted this way anymore feel free to unsubscribe. I won’t be offended.
Sign up here.

RSS Feed.
If you’re familiar with RSS feeds than you’re probably already reading this on one. It’s really a great way to keep up on a lot of blog oriented websites. Many webcomic creators keep their art from appearing in their RSS feeds because they want you to come to the site where you’ll be tracked as a hit in their analytics software. I care more about people reading the comic than I do getting hits on the website. So feel free to subscribe here.

Facebook.
Not only will you find out right away when a page goes up, but since I’ve started the Nathan Sorry Fan Page on Facebook I’ve been using it a lot for Nathan Sorry related news and posting other little goodies that I haven’t gotten around to posting in this space yet. Plus, its a great way for readers to interact with me about the story.
Become a fan.

Twitter.
There’s actually two Twitter accounts you can follow to keep up with Nathan Sorry news and page alerts. My personal account (@richcbarrett) is the most active. I don’t use it soley for tweeting about the comic though and I’m pretty active on it so if you’re not following a lot of other people you might get tired of me showing up in your feed. Nathan Sorry himself has his own account (@nathansorry) which I originally started as an experiment. The idea was to tweet as Nathan himself, showing thoughts from his head during the missing two month period between 9/11 and his showing up in Freddy’s restaurant. But that got to be a little too much to manage so I’ve recently started using that strictly as a Nathan Sorry news account.

Tumblr.
This is the least reliable method for getting page alerts. In fact, I don’t always post on here and when I do it can be up to a week after the page has gone up. But what I use this for is showing excerpts from the art. It’s really more of a promotional vehicle for bringing in new readers.

If you’re on Facebook, I just created a Page for Nathan Sorry so hop on over and become a fan.

This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while but wasn’t sure what to really do with it. At the very least it will be a good place to get notifications when new pages are posted and other related news. I’ll also be posting miscellaneous artwork from the comic and other tidbits that I may not necessarily post in this space here. My point is I’m going to try to make it worth your while to be a fan.