My new comic Speak of the Devil has officially launched! You can start reading now over at http://speakdevil.com/!

Hey everyone! I decided to do a live creator commentary of the entire series! For about 4 and half hours I flipped through the comic start to finish, and talked about it with a live chatroom of readers. Enjoy!

Twitch archive with chat: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/262589821

Youtube archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PjG85qH0yE

Hello Readers! With the comic ending very soon, I wanted to say a few words.

I started this comic in 2009, with zero idea where it would go. It was perhaps, not the smartest career path. I gave up a lot of opportunities that would have likely been much more profitable in the past decade in order to keep making Supernormal Step. That is to say, I loved working on it, and even if it wasn't a huge success for me financially, that was enough.

I always knew it would end someday though. I know, "as all things must' and what not, but really, I wanted it to have an ending. Some comics seem to never end, or never plan to. If that's your thing, that's fine I guess, but it's not for me.

It's not the cleanest bow to put on the series, but this is where we stop following the characters. Finally you can assume whoever is left will get some rest, free from my torment. The world is a mess, but they'll probably get through it.

Supernormal Step has been a weird silly thing to try and wrangle into a full story, and it's time for me to move on. When I started I had never written anything substantial, it was all a learning process. The result of that is a bunch of weird decisions I got stuck with trying to justify for almost a third of my life. At least some I got to sweep under the rug and hope no one remembers, like unfortunate costume choices, but others I had to hang onto and keep trying to write around. I'm excited to finally take what I've learned since then and start something new with it. I have some sort of experience now, let's see what I can do with it.

With that said, i'd invite you to keep an eye on http://www.speakdevil.com

Right now, that leads to a Tumblr blog with a  bunch of concept art, but soon that URL will lead to an all new comic, Speak of the Devil, which you'll get to watch grow from the very beginning. The current plan is to launch sometime in July, maybe follow my twitter account if you want further updates, I'll also likely post another blog here when it officially launches.

Also, in the time between Supernormal Step ending and Speak of the Devil beginning, I'll basically have no job. If you'd like to support me in the meantime there's my Patreon and Ko-fi. I would really appreciate it, but if you can't, that's totally okay as well, I'll be fine.

Until next time, thank you all for reading, you're all beautiful.

 

I thought I'd toss an ad for my Patreon up here! If you'd like to support me and help my comics to continue, you can do so and get lots of rewards by going to https://www.patreon.com/MikeLLunsford

Hey everyone! For the first time that I can remember while making Supernormal Step, I'm gonna take a holiday break this year. 

I'm feeling sick and stressed and having a heck of a time getting this latest page drawn. So I'd rather take a brief vacation instead of breaking myself.  Next page will go up on the 28th

Hope you can understand. 

Happy Holidays everyone!

Hey folks! I'm helping out with Desrt Bus again this year!

Desert Bus is a charity marathon that raises money for children's hospital. Each year they livestream for a whole week, entertaining viewers in nerdy ways, having cool auctions for geeky things.  It starts Nov. 17th at 10 AM PST. 

As for my part, I've made posters for all 11 years of the event, and I'll be doing that again this year! I watch as much as I can and I draw all their antics onto a poster, which is then also sold off to help with the charity.

Tune in and watch! I always have a blast and I hope you do too!

I haven’t been doing great this year, so I’m selling my leftover ECCC prints finally! If you want one, you can get them for $10 each at my store here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PulpPunk

Once the stock is all sold, there won’t be any more made, so get them while you can! 

 

Hey everyone! I got to do a NSFW comic for Slipshine! (an 18+ Only Website)

It's called Zuzka's Hex Life (find it in the Artist's Showcase). It's a story about a naked boy who stumbles across a punky witch's house in the woods. Check it out if you'd like!

 

Having a comments section on the comic was great at first, but lately it’s just been making me more and more depressed.  I don’t blame anyone specifically for this, or really anyone who posted there, moderating them has just made me very sad, that’s a me-problem I think.

Either way, getting depressed every time I post a page, or feeling anxiety about posting pages knowing I will have to face comments, makes drawing the pages harder.  I needed to remove them for my own health and the health of the comic.

I hope you all understand.

Don't panic!

Okay now that that's out of the way, it's true. I'm planning to end the comic in about a year! Not sure exactly how long it will take at the moment, but I decided a while ago I need to start working toward the end of this story and move on to something new.

I've been working on Supernormal Step since 2009, and when I started I didn't know much about writing.  I've learned a lot since then, but with that comes the knowlege that I could do better with a stronger base to start with. So I thought I'd let you know ahead of time that this is it, we're headed for the endgame.

But just because Supernormal Step is ending, doesn't mean I'm done with webcomics. I'm already in the process of building a new world to play in.  If you want to see me going through that process you could follow me on twitter, I've been posting some concept art and stuff there for a while now.

Until then, we still have a whole dang year! Hope you enjoy what happens next!