After an extra week delay due to illness, there will be a new page up tomorrow. Sorry for the delay! Enjoy!

Today’s page is delayed due to health issues of the cartoonist. But it will be up Friday. Sorry for the delay. Thanks for reading!

Tomorrow’s Wanderlost update for 11/2/2011 will be late. Combo of Halloween festivities (I got kids, man) and my unpredictable health issues have slowed things down. Fear not, the page is inked. It just needs color and words the animals speak to make the pictures make sense. Sorry for the delay.

Apparently, I can’t read a calendar. (Duhr.) In my last post I said I would update a new Wanderlost page on Wednesday, August 29th. The day was right, the date was wrong. My bad. But otherwise, everything is right on schedule for a new post tomorrow. See ya then!

I have started cartooning again. Evidence for this is a guest strip I did at Modest Medusa by request of Jake Richmond. If you are not familiar with MM or Jake, both are a treat. Check ‘em out!

New Wanderlost pages will be up Wednesday, August 29th!

Hi, all. Just dropping a note to let you know of my progress, health-wise. I wouldn’t be offended if you totally ignored this post.

So I saw an allergist this week. He took a culture from my nose and recommended a CT scan of my sinuses. The theory is that I have maxillary sinusitis, so he drew up a regimen of anti-biotics, nasal steroids and maximum strength allergy medication. All of which sounds fine, but I have to have the CT scan first before I can start the regimen. Meanwhile, I can’t take anything. This means that at night I can’t breathe through my nostrils, affecting my sleep, and making me exhausted during the day. On top of that, some creepy virus is going around my house. I was in bed most of yesterday. My son is under a pile of blankets right now, also sick as a dog. My daughter is coughing. My wife is over-taxed.

Whine, whine, whine…. What annoys me the most is how much this disrupts my cartooning. I am bored out of my mind. And a little frustrated.

Hope you all are in good spirits and health. Enjoy the start of a new summer. Get that fresh air, go for a hike, dive into your local watering hole, laze on the beach, get an ice cream cone — whatever it takes to live life in the outdoors.

To any of my readers that remain: I am sorry for the lack of updates lately. A series of colds, allergies and sinus infections that have made even normal activity difficult, let alone comics creating. I appreciate your patience. I can’t give you a time when the next update will occur. I want to overcome these sinus problems before I do anything else. I will keep y’all posted on the progress. Thanks!

Fresh from the printers, Up in the Air is now available in digest comic book format. Above is the front cover. Below is the full cover, front and back. Click the image to see it at full size.

Specs:
$3.00
Full color cover; B&W inside; 28pp; 5.5″ x 8.5″; saddle-stitched

About: Sheldon joins Chloe as she takes flying lessons from her father, Dr. Guzek, who is determined to make a pig fly. Things quickly get out of hand.

The National Bison Range is about an hour north of Missoula, Montana. It protects some 400 bison, several herds of mule deer, elk, big horn sheep, as well as black bear, and several species of bird. On our visit we saw only herds of bison in the distance, as many roads were closed for the Winter Season, a pretty late event in Montana. And this is as close as we could get with a telescoping lens. Still, Sheldon got closer. Perhaps too close.

Here is a view of the Blue Mountains from U.S. 395, somewhere around the Umatilla National Forest between Long Creek and Pendleton.

Sheldon though he would enjoy it better via parachuting. He was wrong.