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Other Comics: Bastard of a Year

by Jon Cairns on May 23, 2011

So I figured I might as well link to the other comics I do/have done, so there’s more stuff for you guys to read while waiting for Alpha Flag. If you guys follow my various other sites (deviantART and Twitter and the like), you’ll probably be aware of these, but I figured I’d link

This first one is part of a sort of game I play with some of my art friends. One of us draws a first page, which generally locks in a character, the setting, and the genre, then the second person continues to story with no input from the first. Generally, we don’t talk about our intentions for the pages/stories/characters, and just let the other person interpret and continue it however they think it should go. Also, a very important rule is: do your page whenever you feel like it/have time. So basically, it could be days between pages, or it could be months (years? Never?). This is to underscore the “doing it for fun/practice” aspect of the exercise. And really, it is fun, and it is great practice!

So, Bastard of a Year? It’s a science fiction collaboration between JD Smith (he’s the creator/artist of the teenage superhero comic Acrobat. He’s drawing issue 30 now. THIRTY!) and me. I’m on the odd pages, and he’s on the evens. I hesitate to describe the story, because that might influence the outcome. You should read it, though, because it’s pretty sweet.

New pages in: whenever they happen. Just preparing you for disappointment when you want it to continue, here!

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Regarding the Bravo Cover

by Jon Cairns on May 1, 2011

So the cover for this chapter was entirely drawn and painted by Renee! It is gorgeous, you guys. I’ve been waiting for an appropriate break in the story so I could post it for a week, but you guys have been so cool to us lately with all the comments and buying the Alpha chapter digital file and so forth, that I’m going to do a double update this week. Renee’s cover tomorrow (!) and then Bravo 03 as usual on Thursday.

Double Alpha Flag for the first week of May. Get on it. (Also, thanks for all the support!)

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Bravo Begins Today

by Jon Cairns on April 21, 2011

Today’s post was going to be the cover for Bravo, the second chapter of Alpha Flag, but I figured you guys would enjoy actually seeing some explanation of what’s actually going on sooner rather than later. So enjoy words! Words in English!

Look for the chapter cover in a future update!

(P.S., dudes, thanks for buying/downloading the first chapter. Renee and I really appreciate the support you’ve given us! The store might change this week, too, so if things get different, it’s intentional. Also, thanks for reading!)

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First Chapter for Sale, Piracy, Rights, Etc.

by Jon Cairns on April 13, 2011

That title is perhaps a bit scarier than I intended.

“Alpha”, the first chapter (the twelve pages of comic and cover!) of Alpha Flag has been collected neatly into digital form and is available for purchase, starting today! Get it in the header (how neat is that javascript?), or in the Store tab.

It’s got some extras in the back that won’t go up on the site, as far as I’m planning now. It’s even got the page that’s coming out tomorrow in it as a pre-thank you for testing this system. Basically, it’s a sweet little condensation of the art side of this site, not cluttered with blog posts, comments, ads and all of that excitingly internetty detritus. You can read it offline, in a comic reader, or on your various digital devices (provided they like CBZ or PDF files)! What’s it cost, you ask? Well, that’s just the thing…

It costs whatever you want to pay for it.

I’ve never been too comfortable pricing (or swallowing pricing of!) digital goods. All of the hours involved to produce the digital file have value, but the fact that the finished product is infinitely reproducible and costs functionally nothing to store reduces the value of it (in my mind, at least) to zero. That’s not to say that the ephemeral comic that’s represented by an incredibly specific array of flipped bits has no value. Just the file.

The price of the file is set to a dollar, but mostly because the storefront requires a number. It’s freely editable from zero up to infinity, I assume. If you want to pay me infinity dollars, I will gladly be your drawing slave for life. The value you enter, is basically just what you feel like paying for the time we’ve already spent making the comic. If that’s zero, I won’t hold it against you; I would greatly appreciate something more than zero, though. Every little bit helps keep the wolves from our doors. Even better, any sort of money helps to keep our fathers from offering us even more unsolicited career advice. (If you don’t want to buy it, that’s cool, too! Please keep reading, and hopefully enjoying it on the site! Thanks for that!)

Not that piracy of a webcomic is really that much of an issue, but I’d just like to say, formally, that I’d love it if you shared the file with your friends if you so desired! Fanart is more than welcome! In fact, if you’d like to cut up the images and use them for avatars or signatures or collages or toilet paper or highly negatively critical posts about me, feel free! Just don’t make money off of the stuff I’ve produced and you and I are way cool. (If you can somehow make money off of fanart, I should probably hire you as a business partner, anyway.) I just ask that you link back to the site whenever appropriate. Here’s my creative commons license. Check it:

Creative Commons License
Alpha Flag by Jon Cairns is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.joncairns.net

I think that’s all I needed to say. Here’s an itemized tl;dr, though.

• First chapter (of 12 pages) available as a digital download
• Pay what you want for it
• Alpha Flag is Creative Commons licensed for now
• Thanks for reading and participating. We really appreciate it.

Jon

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