Hi everyone, sorry for the missing update last week – I was really busy trying to finish off issue 7 of Batman & Robin (out in January) and was working so hard that I actually forgot about doing a Sin Titulo strip until it was too late! Embarrassing, but that’s what happened.

Very big news this week, as you have noticed by the banner at the top, Sin Titulo took home a 2009 Joe Shuster Award for Best Webcomic. I was unable to attend the ceremony but my good friend Andy Belanger, creator of TX’s Raising Hell, accepted the award on my behalf. Video of his (funny) acceptance can be seen here. Thanks very much everyone involved with the Shusters!

This week’s strip is partially inspired by the scene in Poltergeist 2 in which Craig T. Nelson vomits up the tentacle monster, which was one of the most unsettling things I saw as a kid. I haven’t seen the movie since then but the horror of that scene has always stuck with me.

As always, you can come and discuss Sin Titulo and other stuff at the TX Forums – come and say hello!

Sorry everyone, I thought I could do it but I can’t. I had intended to be free enough to be able to return to working on Sin Titulo by December but the post-Europe rush combined with the impending holidays makes it impossible. I could do a strip this week but there’s zero chance I’d have one for next week or the week after so it makes it sort of pointless to start up again until I can maintain a reasonably steady update schedule.

As frustrating as this might be for you the readers, I promise you it’s more frustrating for me to have the flow of writing interrupted, and while I could try to force myself to rush them out for the sake of having one done every week, that really defeats the purpose of why I started this strip – I wanted to do something personal and creatively satisfying for myself, and cranking them out to meet “deadlines” is the last thing I want to do.

I also promise you that I’m not abandoning the strip – I’ve had significant interest from both domestic and foreign publishers and it’s given me more motivation than ever to finish the story. I just need a little more time to get back into it.

The silver lining is that all of the work that I have been doing for Disney and DC that has kept me from working on Sin Titulo has left me financially stable enough that I’ve decided that once I wrap up Batman & Robin in February, I will start work on Sin Titulo again and work ONLY on that until it is finished. Once I am working on it daily I will probably increase the frequency of the web updates, and my goal is to have the book finished, printed, and on sale by late 2010.

Once again I apologize for this, but it’s really my only option. Thanks to everyone for the support thus far and we’ll be back in February.

Happy holidays to everyone.

-C

I’m literally minutes away from leaving on my month-long trip around Europe with fellow TXers Karl Kerschl and Ramón Pérez – if you are in any of the following cities, please come and visit us!

October 23-25
Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada na Amadora (FIBDA)
Amadora, Portugal
http://www.amadorabd.com

October 28
Kingpin Books
Lisbon, Portugal
http://kingpinbooks.blogspot.com/

October 31-November 1
Lille Comics Festival
Lille, France
http://www.lillecomicsfestival.com/html/main_UK.html

November 2
Album Librarie
Paris, France
http://www.album.fr/librairies/librairie-album-comics/librairie-album-comics.htm

November 7-8
La Fete De La BD
Andennes, Belgium
http://lagrandeourse.over-blog.com/pages/FETE_DE_LA_BD_2009_ANDENNE-1447954.html

November 11
Alastor Milano Fumetto
Milan, Italy
http://www.promocard.it/locations/show.php?id=7809

November 12
Alastor Novara
Novara, Italy

November 14
Forbidden Planet
Dublin, Ireland

November 16
Comica – ICA Nash Room 7:30pm
London, England
http://www.ica.org.uk/visit

November 19
Orbital Comics
London, England
http://www.orbitalcomics.com/

November 21-22
Thoughtbubble Festival
Leeds, England
http://www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/

Please check with the individual event websites for more information.

Hi everyone, unfortunately I’m having to take a bit of a break from Sin Titulo for the next few weeks – I’ve been snowed under with work on Prince of Persia and Batman & Robin, and I’m about to leave on a signing tour in Europe and the UK very soon. I literally have no free time and so I’m officially suspending Sin Titulo until I get back into a more comfortable schedule in December. Huge apologies, I know I’m leaving this at a suspenseful moment but hopefully that will just provide you with incentive to come back when I start the strip up again.

Thank you very much for your patience and understanding and see you in December!

Hey there everyone, unfortunately there will be no Sin Titulo this weekend or next, I’m up to my eyeballs in work preparing for the San Diego Comicon next weekend. I will make sure to get the strip up again upon my return!

If you are going to be attending SDCC, you will be able to find me at Splash Page Art (booth #4400) and the following:

1pm-2:20pm
Oni Press, signing with Ray Fawkes
4pm-5pm
Vertigo Comics, signing

Friday, July 24

11:30am-12:30pm
Disney Press: Comics and Graphic Novels (Room 3)- Jordan Mechner, Prince of Persia creator and writer of the upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time graphic novel, and artists Todd McFarlane (Spawn), Cameron Stewart (Seaguy), Bernard Chang (Wonder Woman), and Tommy Lee Edwards (Daredevil) for a discussion and Q&A session. Plus, get a sneak peek at the upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time graphic novel, and an advance look at the book’s connections to the secrets within the upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie.

Saturday, July 25

11am-12pm
Vertigo Comics, signing
5:30pm-6:50pm
Oni Press, signing with Ray Fawkes

Sunday, July 26

10am-11:20am
Oni Press, signing
3pm-4pm
Making Webcomics Panel (Room 4)- Join Ron Perazza (Zuda), Kwanza Johnson (Zuda), Kevin Colden (Fishtown, I Rule the Night), Cameron Stewart (Sin Titulo), Molly Crabapple (Backstage, Dr. Sketchys Anti-Art School ) and others for an inclusive, round table discussion about the advantages, challenges, questions, solutions, costs and benefits of making webcomics for fun and profit. Topics include working with a publisher, self-publishing, promoting yourself, best practices, style and moving from web to print (or vice-versa)!

I’m looking forward to the webcomics panel in particular. Hope to see you there!

Hey everyone, I’m having a blast at the TCAF show in Toronto but unfortunately I won’t be able to put a new page of Sin Titulo up on Sunday. I’ll make sure it’s done by Monday, though. Thanks for your patience!