From next week on, there will only be one update per week instead of two, and I’ve decided to keep Tuesday and skip Friday.
The reason behind this is that I’ve started a new full-time job and simply don’t have as much time for drawing. I think I’ll manage to finish one strip per week, but not more than that.
The good news is that the comic is at least not threatened of being cancelled due to starvation of the artist.

I know, there should be a new episode, instead, I just give you words. Well, not exactly, you do get to see some strips, although not really new ones.
The thing is, that starting last strip, the two ladies reappeared on the parking lot they had left a few hours (or aeons, regarding the fact that they were travelling through time and space) earlier. Since I knew I had to draw many cars for the following scene, and since I suck big time at drawing cars, I decided to make my life easier by not even attempting to sketch them free-handedly, but to use photos and just trace them.

“Just” and “easier” were the parts where I went totally wrong.

First of all, you have to search for A LOT of car-pictures, because you have to get one and the same model from different angles. Second, you have to compose a more or less credible perspective out of a handfull of different cars. Third, you have to try and make it not look too much like a traced photograph. And last but not least, you have to go back to the old cars you actually drew all by yourself (and which now suck even more, compared to the traced ones) and correct them. That means, you’re spending many hours of hard work just refurbishing your old stuff.

The reason I’m writing you all this is to hopefully make you understand why there’s no real update on the story today. I spent so many days on those darn cars that the pace of the original German version of this comic got significantly slowed down, compared to the regular 2-strips-a-week of the English verison. So, in oder to help me catch up a little, today I’ll only present you the new old strips. Horrible cars have been replaced by better ones that more or less fit the perspective. It all starts here and includes the following 3 strips.

Is anyone missing his/her comment? I just deleted a post that had been marked as spam without really looking at it, but just as I hit the “delete”-button, I saw something like “is that the maiden?” written in the post.
So, if you asked a question about the maiden but can’t find your post anywhere, please write it again or write ME. Sorry ’bout that.

Welcome to the relaunch of my comic Death and the Maiden 2!

The relaunch was made in order to transfer the comic into a weblog. For readers of part 2, there will be hardly any changes, other than the updates will be as regular as possible. Meaning, as long as I continue drawing the German version, the English updates will come every Tuesday and Friday. The only possibility for me to miss an update now is if I fall sick or die and therefore am no longer able to draw.

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For your information: Also part 1 has been relaunched. This means that the whole story will be re-published until the end of 2009, which is why it is no longer fully accessible for reading, but will be updated with one strip per day. The reason behind this is that I hope to attract more and new readers. Please be patient, in less than a year you’ll be able to re-read the whole story of part 1.

The background informations that have been displayed on seperate pages until now, are now packed into the referenced blogposts, so the information connects much more easily with the story.

Since the whole Death & Maiden section has once been part of my website Cartoon Tomb and there are a few pages that have not been transferred to the blog yet, you can still find them in their old place, along with the old layout. You’ll find the links to those pages in the right side-bar under “Misc”. Be warned that you will leave the blog by clicking there - not that anything spectacular happens then, but the layout slightly changes along with the linkbar. Don’t worry though, you can’t get lost.

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