If the rumours are to be believed (they are) I have a guest strip up today over at the ever fantastic Corporate Skull! It’s part of a week of guest strips running over there at the moment featuring some really cool people, so have a root around.

I’ve gone on about Corporate Skull before here, so you’re probably all familiar with it.  If not, it’s on a break between chapters at the moment so now is a good time to catch up.  Skull’s hilarious creator Jamie Smart is a prolific guy, so if you like what you see head straight over to his hub site Fumboo for more, or start with my own personal fave Whubble.

Big HELLO to anyone dropping by from Corporate Skull; there’s lots to see here, do stick around

Al

Looky looky – I’ve done a quick Q&A for the excellent Irish Comic News site!

Hey folks – how about that, it’s three years since this comic went live on the ol’ innernets. Big thanks to you all for reading, commenting, emailing, correcting spelling mistakes etc. Feedback is great – keep it comin’!  Thanks also for your patience over the last while, I know the site’s been updating on average every other week in 2011, but I still love making these comics and there’s always something new in the works, even if it’s not hitting the site as regularly.

Remember you can always subscribe to the RSS feed, ‘like’ the Faraday Facebook page or follow on Twitter and never miss an update .

In time honoured tradition here’s a little rundown of the five most popular comics on the site from the past year!

5. Hip to be Square

Hipsters eh? Braces, pomade and pencil moustaches, loved and loathed in equal measure.  More power to ‘em says I.

4. A Remarkable Sunset

The most recent entry in the list.   Another one of those strips that I was unsure about right up to posting that ended up being way more popular than I imagined.  Must be the keytar.

3. Cat’s Outta the Bag

Cats! The innernet loves cats, so this one did well depsite being more text than drawing.

2. Mr. Elf’s Bad Day

Glad to see this one doing so well, as it’s one of my own favourites.  Nice and simple, it still contains some of my favourite panels I’ve drawn.  Poor old Mr. Elf, he just can’t get a break.

1. Bongo Bongo Bongo

A surprise entry at number one – an old strip about the video game ‘Fallout’, which is a post-apocalyptic RPG.  This one was rediscovered by Reddit around the time of the release of Fallout: New Vegas’ and has been linked around the place ever since.  I am particularly proud of the last V.A.T.S panel, and still hear the sound effect every time I look at it

Conclusions: The key to webcomics success seems to be pop-culture references, video games and cats.  Who knew!  Expect nothing but this, relentlessly and forever more (not really).

Thanks for clickin’.

Well would you look at that – I’ve got a guest strip up over at the mighty Spacetrawler today! Most of you probably know Spacetrawler already, but just in case you don’t, lemme tell ya – you’re in for a treat.  It’s a long form Sci-fi epic with a great cast of characters that manages to of stuff in as many jokes and visual gags as possible while still telling an engaging story.  And I love the art – as a cartoonist, browsing the ST archives can be inspirational – check out the crowd scenes here for example.

I’d recommend starting from the start.

I’m a big fan of Spacetrawler so when its creator Chris Baldwin asked me to help out I jumped at the opportunity.  My only regret was that I couldn’t fit more of his regular cast into the strip, but honestly, the plot moves so fast that I didn’t want to risk being overtaken!  I had great fun writing the Wrls though – I came up with so much back story for them that the hard part was paring the script back to one page – maybe they’ll be brought back for a future comic round these parts…

So there you go – it’s not a Faraday comic, but it’s an update of sorts.  Faraday should return this weekend!

Also: Hello to anybody dropping by from Spacetrawler for the first time – welcome, hope you find something you like here

This is blob fort.

As you may/probably have noticed I’ve been updating FtB.com ninja style lately – chucking a comic up without warning under cover of darkness and then melting back into the shadows again for a week or two.  This is because, also ninja style, I have moved house again (never sleep in the same place two years running!) and my computers and miscellaneous drawing things are variously buried in and under small mountains of cardboard boxes.  Oh yeah, no internet either which doesn’t help :/

So there probably won’t be a new comic this week, but hopefully I’ll be able to excavate my desk and get everything sorted really soon – I’m really looking forward to getting stuck into making comics regularly again.

In the meantime, thanks for all your patience and comments .  Feel free to give out to me by email if you like!

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Ps: The mighty Crowbar has a new book out – Go see!

One of my absolute favourite cartoonists, the amazingly talented and productive Jamie Smart, has just launched his latest webcomic, Corporate Skull.  It’s only just started, but Jamie reckons he has the whole story worked out from start to finish – all six hundred pages of it – so now’s a good time to hop on board and follow what looks to be a really funny comic from the vewwy beginning!

Sorry about the lack of updates lately, folks  – crazy busy round these parts.  I have another project finishing up in the next day or two, so normal service will resume next week!

But hey, in the meantime why not look through the archives if you haven’t already, or get your comic fix from any or all of the fine webcomics listed in the auld links over there (and down a bit) ->

Because nothing says ‘I Love You’ quite like excessive gore, disembodied viscera and talking green spheroids, I’m pleased to present this weeks comic tweaked and reformatted as a DIY Valentine’s Day card for that special (or maybe not so special) someone in your life!  Just download the handy PDF below,  print onto card stock or heavy paper, cut from corner to corner where marked, fold along the dotted line and voila! a low cost and unique Wuv Day token for him/her/it!*

Click the pic:

Oh you’re welcome.

*Warning: May cause awkward misunderstandings or stony silence if not used correctly.