The penultimate chapter of RED LIGHT PROPERTIES has just gone live, in which Jude returns to the office in time for a very sweaty interview with a reporter from Tropic Magazine:
From here, this novel wraps up in two weeks on Sept 7th with our big fat finale… but this is far from the end for Miami’s favorite phenomenologist/realtors. Jude & co. will be returning soon in the series’ second volume, MALA FAMA.
Details TK, like, really soon.
At the invitation of Brazilian arts magazine Zupi, I’m participating in the 1a Mostra 3M Arte Digital as both a guest artist & workshop speaker. The exhibition begins next week (August 18) here in São Paulo with a talk by my friend/compatriot Molly Crabapple.
My own workshop will be the final of the exhibition, held on September 29; I’ve titled it “Narrativas Plásticas: Criando Hístorias Visuais com Técnicas Digitais” (or “Plastic Narratives: Creating Visual Stories with Digital Tools” para os gringos). I’ll post video of the talk just for YOU after 09/29.
Here’s info from their site em português:
Imaginar os atuais processos de criação sem a interferência de ferramentas digitais é uma tarefa cada vez mais difícil. Por essa razão, cabe a pergunta: hoje, podemos dissociar o real do virtual? Tentando responder a essa questão, a Mostra de Arte Digital tem como intenção discutir a relação entre as novas tecnologias e a arte, exibindo trabalhos totalmente digitais e obras manuais que são divulgadas pelas novas mídias.Sem depender mais dos meios de divulgação tradicionais, os artistas podem, hoje, divulgar seus trabalhos pelo celular, computador ou vídeo, apresentado suas obras em qualquer lugar e a qualquer momento. Por isso, softwares e ferramentas digitais ganham cada vez mais adeptos.
A partir disso, nada mais justo do que apresentar uma mostra que exponha obras de artistas que dialogam com essa tendência, para que todos acessem, vejam e apreciem. Fazendo juz ao nome, a Mostra de Arte Digital irá expor os trabalhos em telas de LCD e em computadores, além de apresentar as mesas digitalizadoras, convidando o público a realizar ilustrações em plataformas inovadoras. Bem-vindo ao futuro.
Over the last few months in/around creating new chapters of Red Light Properties, I’ve gone into my old files and optimized/reexported every-last-goddamn-word-balloon in the entire graphic novel to create the seamless “clickthrough” reading experience promised at the serial’s beginning. Sometime learning processes are a bitch, but in the end… we all win.
If you’ve fallen behind on reading RLP, allow me to cordially invite you to dig back in from The Beginning, or to pick up where you left off using our Chapter Index.
And if you please, share share share RLP with your friends and family; the best place to send them to would be redlightproperties.com.
Cecilia’s gambit with the Jentas comes to a close in today’s new episode of Red Light Properties, as our crew heads back to their office for an interview with a newspaper reporter.
From here, we’ve got just two more episodes left until the end of this graphic novel… but I’ve got plenty more tales of Jude Tobin and company clogging my skull cavity.
RED LIGHT PROPERTIES is the first novel in a series, and by the time we close out this volume online, I’ll have some news about the second RLP book (entitled MALA FAMA)’s launch window and location. I do hope you’ll be joining us.
In the prepping-RLP-and-moving-to-Brazil chaos of late last year, I told you about TAKE TWO, the 6-page comic I’d written/drawn for the UK anthology CTRL.ALT.SHIFT UNMASKS CORRUPTION. The anthology was released in conjunction with the Comica Festival, and was featured in The Guardian (with the requisite Bam! Pow! headline *facepalm*) as well as in a swanky Soho gallery show… but it only appeared in greyscale in the final published book (still available here).
I’d like to share TAKE TWO with you guys here and now, in its intended full-color. Clickety-click, my lovelies:
The newest episode of Red Light Properties is online today, and it’s chock full of some of the wildest work I’ve done:
From here, we’ve got just three more episodes together, my darlings.
As ever, you may also pick up wherever you left off via our chapter index.
Today brings episode 19 of Red Light Properties, in which the group’s investigation into the Scheinblatt apartment comes to close (kinda)… while SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER:
OR: you pick up wherever you left off via our chapter index.
ALSO: Please support RLP by recommending us on DIGG; it takes 1 minute to sign up and you’ll help turn a lot more people on to my work.
AND: thanks for reading :)
Man, this new chapter of Red Light Properties was a bitch to get just right, but I think you’ll agree it was worth all the sweat and late-night crying. This episode lets santero Kako take center stage, with portents abound for Jude. New chapter is here:
You can also pick up wherever you left off via our chapter index.
ALSO: Please support RLP by recommending us on DIGG; it takes 1 minute to sign up and you’ll help turn a lot more people on to my work.
Hey hey, you’re looking great this morning! Today brings us the newest installment of Red Light Properties, as Tobin & Co. enter the Scheinblatt apartment to investigate the haunted Golden Palms complex:
As an aside, you might notice how much speedier things are running this week, due to some under-the-hood fixes I mentioned recently being fully-implemented as of this chapter. By the time the next episode runs, RLP should be a much smoother ride for you kids with low-bandwidth.
Today’s also Brazil’s first game in the World Cup (and my first as a brasileiro), so it’s my duty to sit in a boteca with my countrymen and scream and cheer at the screen, spilling my beer on everyone in a ten-foot radius. See you on the other side, kids!
With Red Light Properties‘ online presentation, I tried to bring something new to webcomics in the form of what I call “clickthrough panels.” Given months of feedback, this technique works great for people with high bandwidth on certain browsers but no-so-hot for others. Being the nurturing kind that I am, I want everyone to be smiling as they smoke the story down to its filter.
So with months of hands-on brainstorming with Tor.com and the mindless drudgery of continued re-exporting of all-this-work-I’ve-already-goddamn-done, we’re implementing a number of improvements to Red Light Properties’ reading experience over the coming weeks to make it work better for everyone as the story begins to slide towards the concluding chapter in mid-September.
First up, and live now, is our new INDEX PAGE, which breaks down the series into its chapters. Having the player only cache chapters instead of the entire novel to date both significantly drops loading times (duh, I know) and allows You The Reader to catch up with the story way easier than before.
There are other back-end improvements coming as well, things that should’ve really been built in from the beginning if I was just a little bit smarter. You may not notice them at all, but they’re several little tweaks to slim down file sizes and accelerate our reading experience to “seamless” or even “smooth like butter.”
Of course, I welcome your feedback with this; even the nittiest-of-picks can clue us in to a better holistic webcomics experience.
Let us know what you think in the comments, yes? I go draw now.
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