I’m taking just a brief break this week from updating the comic to get a few things done that were demanding my time. The next page of Peter & Company will be posted next week, on January 30th. In the meantime, I have very big plans for this week, specifically involving the Peter & Company animated pilot.

In order to make the characters easier to animate, I have to create streamlined versions of their models. I put a lot of detail into the comics (particularly with the hair/fur, backgrounds, and clothing), and while I’d love for the animated versions to include as much of that detail as possible, it may not be entirely feasible. So I’m going to be turning on the camera for a Livestream show this week in order to go through the cast and work on the cleaner models.

The Livestream show is going to happen on Wednesday, January 25th, at 8 pm EST. This post is an open invitation for anyone to join who would like to partake in the process and give feedback. In particular I would love to have any fellow animators join in to offer their view on everything. I already have several of my friends in the animation field planning to attend, but the more people who can watch, the better!

The moment the camera goes live, I will be updating both my Twitter account and the Peter & Company Facebook page (both linked below) with a link to the feed. Make sure to keep an eye on either of those places if you want to catch the show. Whitney and I will both be on cam to talk with people in the chat room and hopefully make some good progress on the project.

Relevant Links:
- My Twitter account
- The Peter & Company Facebook page
- The Inking Room on Livestream

The pilot episode is coming up very soon here. I will be posting more information — including details on the upcoming Kickstarter campaign, which will fund the project — within the next month or two. In the meantime, the next P&C page will come next week. See you all soon!

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and happy holiday season! With the passing of the new year, it means Peter & Company is now seven years old. Awesome! Thanks to everyone for sticking with me through it all, even during periods of downtime and lack of updates. Here’s to many more years to come.

By the way, I’ve resumed doing weekly airings of our Livestream show, the Inking Room. Whitney and I have been regularly producing new material live on camera for people to join in and watch (usually I end up working on Peter & Company, while she does whatever projects she has at the moment). If you’d like to watch one of the shows, be sure to watch my Twitter account. We typically don’t schedule them more than a few days in advance, so that’s the best way to be notified since I put out a notice as soon as the cam goes up.

Garfieldo has been a long-time supporter of P&C, and was even cast as the voice of both Seth and Eddy back in the early days of the animation project (before it was upgraded to an official pilot). If you have an account on DeviantArt, you should definitely give the guy a +watch. He deserves it!

Since this was a piece of gift art from him for Christmas, I felt it appropriate to post it today. Plus, Whitney and I have been visiting family, so the holidays have kept me from getting the next page done, so it times up perfectly. The next P&C page will be posted next week.

I gave a brief glimpse of Chelsea’s bedroom wayyy back during the “Slumber Party” series. This time I decided to put some real detail into it, and opted to reflect her personality a bit more: dark and messy, things thrown everywhere, and (if you look closely) a Peter voodoo doll on her dresser.

Occasionally you have pages that just end up becoming a brick wall in the creative process. I redrew this page at least four times before finally pushing through and getting it done. I’m still not entirely happy with how it turned out, but I really wanted to get the ball rolling on the next couple storylines I have planned. So I may go back and retool some things on this page when putting it into the next collection book coming up soon.

Speaking of book collections, I’ve permanently cut the prices on all of the first Peter & Company Collection Book editions by crazy amounts. This is the absolute lowest prices I can lower them (according to Lulu), so if you’ve been thinking of picking up a copy, now’s the best time to get one. Head on over to the ordering page to see their new prices.

Edit: Yeah, I totally just realized that the couch gradually changes shape from a normal couch into a weird jellybean/airbag couch by the end. It’s like as soon as Seth poofs onto it, it starts gradually filling with air until it’s about to explode, HAHAHA. I’ll definitely be redrawing that for the color print version of this page. Whoops.

Also, yes, there he goes burning stuff again. Eddy might have some pyromaniacal tendencies, methinks.

I’m still not fully revealing who the Guardians are or how they came to be… yet. I’ll just say there is a special comic I’m putting together soon that will answer a good number of the questions that this page raises.

Update 12/5: I’m really sorry about the delay, everyone! This next page has been pretty elusive. I’ve gone through a few revisions and thrown a couple pages out without finding a version of it that I’m happy with. I wanted to have it done for today, but unfortunately that didn’t quite work out.

So, I’m going to make specific time to get it done this week. This will be the last page in the current story arc, and I really want to wrap things up right! I’ll probably set up an Inking Room Livestream session this week to draw it on cam and get some feedback on it, so watch my Twitter to see when that happens.

After slicing my foot open on a broken bottle, without even thinking twice, this kid pulled off his sock and wrapped it tight around my foot. He then proceeded to help me walk the whole mile back to my house.

I felt it was high time that Iggy got the moment in the spotlight that he deserves. I may not have had a lot of friends growing up, but the ones I did have were pretty awesome.

So yes, the comic takes a BRIEF break next week for a special Halloween-themed update. The next page of this story will resume the following week. We still have a few more pages to go.

To those who missed it last week, check out the HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT concerning the P&C Animation Project. Jump on over to this page to give it a read! Seriously, this is AWESOME.

So just who are the Guardians? What role does Eddy play in it? Who is this “Marlena?” LET THE SPECULATION BEGIN!!

In other P&C-related news, I have a HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT to make concerning the P&C Animation Project. Jump on over to this page to give it a read! Seriously, this is AWESOME.

Apparently I missed the sign that said the water was dangerous to walk through barefoot. After slipping on a rock, a shard of glass from a discarded bottle went about half and inch into the underside of my foot.

As for what happened immediately after, well… that’s coming up soon.

This is definitely the most painful face I’ve ever drawn on Peter. Poor guy. When bad luck rains, it pours.

(also, I owe you guys a color page from the donations pool, so expect one of the next few pages to be posted in full color as well!)

And yes I know, I know… this page is basically just a bunch of talking heads, which I usually try to avoid. The next page will be more detailed, I promise.

So the past few weeks have been pretty interesting. I’ve survived job-related stuff, a cold that is now going on three weeks strong, and even both an earthquake and hurricane within a week of each other. Needless to say, what I first stated would be a week delay in getting the next page done has been stretched into almost a month. But at least the dry spell is over, and we can get back to regular updates again!