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Recent NewsSun, May 20, 2012 STORY UPDATE TIME: Sandra was turned into a demon by mishandled magic. She started enjoying it too much, and her friends had to banish her to Dreamland, where she inexplicably became humanish. She's now on her way to the exit, hoping to regain her demonic shape, traveling in the company of Viv, a wise woman helping her work through her issues.
That was story update time. Also, there won't be a comic next week due to travel conditions. The conditions being the fact that I'll be traveling. Sat, May 19, 2012 The comic's on its way, just hang in there. Expect it tonight.
Cross your legs or something. Sat, May 5, 2012 Well I'm back! MOCCA Fest was great, I'd like to thank every one of you who stopped by and said hi. I'd like to especially thank Jim Whaley, who I sat beside and with whom many great laughs were had. I encourage any and all of you to check out his own transformation-themed web comic, Urgent Transformation Crisis. It deserves more readers than it has!
Now, I made a lot of introductions at the Fest, so, if you're a newcomer to Zebra Girl, you might want to check out my brand-new About page. It's a work in progress. Like the rest of the site. In fact, you regular readers may notice I've made some changes. For one thing, I've created a dropdown menu beneath the calendar, to the right there, for more easily browsing the archives. Each comic has finally been set into a particular category. All is subject to change at this point. I'm still arranging the furniture, as it were. But man, can you believe this one storyline has been going on since 2009? Well I can. Because I made it. I've also shortened the menu bars, removing the FAQs and Other Comics sections. It always bugged me how the links would get all smushed when the text was enlargened or on small screens, like Droids and such. Hopefully this will mitigate the issue. The FAQs and the comics will be incorporated into the Miscellany. Unless I decide to just put them somewhere else. Maybe DeviantArt. This site should belong mainly to Zebra Girl. She has no patience for freeloaders. Other than that, I'm just generally trying to streamline the site. I may even get the fan art section finished one of these decades! Fri, Apr 27, 2012 This week's comic is earlyish but also tinyish. It's all because I'm going to be spending the weekend in New York City as part of MOCCA Fest, so if you happen to be near the 69th Regiment Armory (on Lexington Avenue) on Saturday or Sunday, see if you can find me.
I bet you can't. Sat, Apr 21, 2012 I almost had Sandra say the Land of Ice Cream is pretty "cool." Or "sweet." But then I thought, man, forget it.
True story. Sat, Apr 14, 2012 The comic will be up a little later this weekend... boy, I'm glad I changed the headline. You wouldn't think changing it from "updated unpredictably" to "updated weekends" would be liberating, but it somehow is. Anyway, I've been graciously invited to a symposium at the Bard College. Plus, y'know, Friday the 13th. Slows you down, those ineffable supernatural forces, they do.
Sat, Apr 7, 2012 It might be cheap to finish the "Does Something" animations on an old pop-culture reference.
That doesn't bother me. No, what matters is that it's finally done! Are you disappointed? Are you?? I'll survive. What matters is that's one less monkey on my back! Now I can start working out my new donation incentive. Maybe sketches. Little Pony cast members? Yeaahhh... might make a note of that. Mon, Apr 2, 2012 I'm gonna tell you guys a secret... that April Fools thing? Totally unplanned. I honestly didn't even think of doing anything for this year. I'd just finished this whole comic and gone to bed when I was woken up in the middle of the night by the baying of dogs. And while I was on my way back to sleep it occurred to me... I had, apparently by sheer coincidence (or at the very least by machinations of which I was not overtly conscious), maneuvered Sandra into EXACTLY THE SAME SCENARIO I'd caught her in LAST YEAR. I could repeat the SAME JOKE on the SAME DAY. Hell, with a goblin riding on her back it was even better. And, I realized, I couldn't call myself an honorable cartoonist if I didn't capitalize on something so fortuitous. So, like I said, I dragged myself out of bed, drew up a new Pony-themed panel, and made the April Fools day comic in the same vein as last year (I was even at my backup computer, which just so happened to have the files I needed for the cut-and-pasting). Sometimes things just work out, don't they? A night's sleep is a small price to pay for making you happy.
You're happy, aren't you darling? So have the real comic now. And we'll just see if she gets turned into a pony again next year. I'm sure this is exactly the sort of tradition that Sandra would love to get started. April Fools. Sun, Apr 1, 2012 Okay, y'know? ...On second thought, my original plan for this part of the story was... frankly weak, and kind of cliche. And the comic I made was a let-down, especially after you waited for so long. So here, I got myself up in the middle of the night like a mad man, rewrote the story, and drew up something better. We're going with this from now on, and it's gonna be great. She reached in the box and now she's a pony. Sandra the demon pony and her new friend Shellshocked the Goblin riding off to magic adventures. This is the comic. I think it's for the better.
Yep. Sat, Mar 31, 2012 Sorry I left you hanging there, especially with a cliffhanger and all, but various factors conspired to slow my progress. My life is a labyrinth of shadow games played with mysterious, ineffable forces.
That said, I have a feeling this comic's going to earn me some enemies... hey, consider it an April Fools thing. Speaking of which, Angels & Aliens decided to flatter me today! Wasn't that nice? Don't give me that look. Sat, Mar 31, 2012 The comic will be up a little later than "usual" today. Because I know how you love cliffhangers, right?
Sat, Mar 10, 2012 To keep you on track, the hired killers Sandra's talking about were sent by Collywobble, a goblin merchant. He has reason to be upset.
While we're on the subject, Sandra also refers to the robots she battled in Sam's universe, the werewolf pack from which Wally came, and her showdown with Professor Broadshoulders. Man. Sometimes this comic really does feel like ten years. Oy! All comics, artwork, characters copyright © 2012 by Joseph England. All rights reserved.
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