Raw scans of today’s WIP. I’m not sure I’ll ever fully flesh it out, but Faye and Three’s motorcycles vs mountain bikes debate is an important part of my head canon, which, as I’m the author, is also legit *canon* canon.

Raw scans of today’s WIP. The top half fully inked and pencils done on the bottom. I’d say something about Zeke playing a dangerous game, but that would just get “Nobody’s Side” from Chess going through my head.

Raw scans of today’s WIP. More than a single panel inked, which counts as progress. Two dogs apiece, and Alcide’s already bending rules. I’ve played up the jackass factor with the idiot twins calling him LC, but, full disclosure, the first time I heard the name Alcide, I was that exact jackass.

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Raw scans of today’s WIP. Another one panel completed day, but I had enough time for some pencils and the last of the tedious digital nonsense is digitalized, so this should be the last of those for the foreseeable future. (I hope.)

Raw scans of today’s WIP. Just one minuscule panel completed, but I got plenty of tedious digital nonsense done, so that’s something. In other news, Three is totally relaxed and chill about eavesdroppers.

Raw scans of today’s WIP. The ‘cover’ of The Problem of Michigan Volume One, fully inked. Layout, layout, layout! It’s just one of those situations where I have to see the color background to figure out what I need to move around. Thank both the gods for photoshop.

Raw scans of today’s WIP. I spent most of my day on tedious digital nonsense, but managed to get pencils done for the cover on Monday’s pdf download. I suppose ‘cover’ is a misnomer, but you gotta have some eye-catching image for the thumbnail and/or top of the scroll down.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. The final two panels of the interlude, inked but lacking any of the white media that will define the background. I don’t know if it’s ominous exactly, but that spilled pill bottle doesn’t bode well after her drunken stumbling around and mumbling.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. The middle of the current page. She’s obviously doing so great that she doesn’t need bereavement counselor, or to worry about taking care.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. The top two panels of page 2, inked. Turns out it must be paranoia on the mother’s part, because we all saw Lily bump up the price on the pelts when the kid told her there wouldn’t be any more for sale. The emotional wedge is just gravy.

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Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Completed inks on the bottom of the current page. Maybe she’s paranoid, maybe claiming that your neighbor is a werewolf who ate your husband just sounds too crazy to believe. Either way, the liquor’s sure to help.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. The middle two panels of the current page. She might not *need* it exactly, but a little bereavement counseling would do her some good at this point. (She totally needs it.)

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. The top three panels of the current page, fully inked. I wouldn’t say Mis’ess Lennox is doing well exactly, but she’s no longer emanating flies and stink lines, so that’s something.

Raw scans of today’s WIP sans thumbnails. A full page of blues, but just one panel inked. That’s okay though, as I also cleared a tree that had fallen across my driveway, because apparently post blizzard clean up is now just a continual state I exist in.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Finished inks on the last 2 panels of the current page. Lily’s spent plenty of this page smiling over her shoulder, but there’s some more emotional depth in the rare moment when she’s not meeting Three’s gaze.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Finished inks on the top of the current page. Three isn’t *that* much older than Lily, it’s just that she’s done more of her aging in dog years.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Yesterday’s roughs, fully penciled with a little more ink. The layout is a bit weird on this one, but that’s all in service of Lily’s ambivalence, character wise. No one does call her Lily anymore, it’s Princess or Widow, depending on emotional intimacy.

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Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. The final page of the chapter roughed out with some pencils and a smattering of inks. I hoped to get more done, but discovered the fish in my fishpond had died over the winter and, as one of your sensitive artist types, spent the rest of the day sulking.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. The bottom of the current page fully inked. I haven’t talked about Three much, but suffice to say I’m one of those pervy weirdos who finds a scrawny old lady in a wife-beater *very* attractive, and that’s not even mentioning the missing fingers.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. The bottom of the current page fully penciled and 1/4 inked. The second panel isn’t exactly The Creation of Adam, but there’s some hands ’n’ clouds stuff going on and I wanted to get it inked.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. The top of the current page. ‘Miss Widow’ is one of those little touches of lycanthropology, making evident that that their idea of widowhood isn’t entirely dependent on marital status.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. The completed bottom of the current page. Lily has reached that level of notoriety where no one offers to help her because she’s obviously too cool to need any help, so bonus for her.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. The top half of the current page. There’s no way Zeke’s getting any popcorn off a third trimester pregnant woman in her third trimester, no matter how he reaches for it.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. A single mid-page banner panel. The eyeflow/reading direction is a little weird, because that’s how I roll with the mid-page banner panels.

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Just yesterday’s pencils inked, which doesn’t really reflect how EXTREMELY PRODUCTIVE I felt today, what with the time change.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Yesterday’s pencils inked and today’s pencils, well, penciled. Anyone who thinks Zeke getting through this without finding himself in dutch with the widow hasn’t read my stuff very closely.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Pencils on the top half of the current page but no inks at all, which feels like failure. In other news, I was able to venture forth from my house for the first time since the blizzard struck, so the artist shall be in his cups for the evening.

Raw scans of today’s WIP. I spent most of my day lettering and re-lettering ad nauseam, but did manage to complete the one panel presented here, devoid of any context. This isn’t the sort of strip where secrets fester until a final revelation, but Zeke’s got some stuff going on.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Completed inks on the current page. Can’t really say why I did the top last, but here we are. Tee shirt stuff again, which will become more pertinent as the story progresses.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Roughs up top, finished inks on the bottom. There’s a mullet joke to made somewhere in there, but I can’t quite get to it.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Just the lower left corner of the current page, where you’ll find some *heavy glances* being shot, if not exchanged. It’s been a week since the blizzard, but driveway stuff got in the way of drawing any more.

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Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Completed inks on the current page, and it’s the first of the month. That usually feels like a good omen, but given everything going on nothing feels even slightly good lately.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Full pencils on the current page with some inks at the bottom. It’s not that Alcide isn’t trustworthy, it’s that Zeke hasn’t known him long enough to be sure of his guarawnTEEs.

I know we all scoffed, but that Nobel Peace Prize is about to award itself at this point.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Blue/purple (bruisetone?) roughs on the current page. I had no idea that werewolf Joe Manganiello played on True Blood was named Alcide, I was thinking of Antoine’s son from Treme. And of South of Midnight a little, but that’s lycanthropology stuff.

Raw scans of today’s WIP. Finished pen work on the bottom of the current page and a couple of panels roughed out in blue from the next. Might not look like much but they lightened my mood after the tedium of lettering.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Full pencils with spot blacks and some complete line work on the current page. We had some further power loss adventures this morning, but I remain undaunted.

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Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. I missed yesterday due to blizzard related power loss, but did manage to get some lettering and blues down in amid the fimbulwinter concerns. Lily Doesn’t mind being ma’amed, the fact is she’ll demand to be addressed as Miss Wilcox, if you’re nasty.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Finished inks on the current page, as permitted by a pre-snowstorm trip to the supermarket. It was very relaxing and stress free, but I did find myself considering a couple of drinks at the local axe bar afterwards.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. I got the brushwork and spot blacks done, but spent most of my day doing snowstorm preparation. I prepare for snowstorms by trying to convince myself that it will stay warm and rain enough to wash away the snow from the previous snowstorms.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Full pencils and a soupçon of inks on the current page. Lily hasn’t quite risen from werewolf princess to werewolf queen yet, but she’s grown into herself enough to get away with scolding the cops when necessary.

Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Blue/purple roughs for the page 2 of the current chapter. I decided to expand the first 3 panels into a slower introductory page, which required some layout redesign, but the thumbnails are hardly set in stone, right?

Finished inks on the top of the current page. I’m honestly not sure if Vollwerth & Co sells to individual purchasers (or what the front office looks like, for that matter), but artistic license will take its license, artistically.

Raw scans of today’s WIP. Blue/purple roughs up top, finished inks down bottom. Yes, you can re-inflate a flat tire with a cheesy bicycle hand pump, I’m living proof. I’ve even been reduced to doing it in a parking lot once or twice, true story.