Since the beginning of The Life of Nob T. Mouse in 1996, I have been using a Microtek Phantom 336CX scanner to get the hand-drawn comics onto my computer.  I bought the scanner around 1995 to make producing my first comic, Portly Stoutmaster’s Journeys, much easier.  It has worked flawlessly until a month or two ago, when the drive belt started failing.

I am sorry to say that it has now failed almost completely.  As a consequence, the sketches I have produced for both comics (Nob Mouse and All over the house) cannot be ported onto the computer for inking and colouring.  This is making comic production difficult.

I will get back on track as soon as I can but in the mean time, please forgive the delay; which is totally out of my control right now.

While this does not pertain to All over the house itself, our resident artist and co-writer, Zoë Robinson, won an Editor’s Choice Award at Suite101 yesterday for her article on The Webcomic List Awards, which are running at the moment. You can find the article in question here.

This is a first for All over the house: a long-form, multi-part comic. I hope you like it, I really do.  Jenny also hopes you like it, because me drawing this is taking much longer than me drawing a normal comic for the site; so it’s a labour of love and it means she sees me less.  Whether that’s a good or bad thing is open to debate, of course.

Today’s comic is taking a long time to produce, because it has a lot of complexities in it; from bookshelves to Derrick to other stuff as well. As a consequence, I’ve fallen behind in its production because I didn’t expect it to take this long. It’s more complex than I had planned, but at the same time I think it’s going to be something you’ll all love. I’m certainly loving it.

By way of saying “sorry, everyone. It’s going to be a few more hours”, here’s a quick peek at one of the frames from the story. There’s no shading or lettering on this because they’re still to be done, but it’s all coloured and it’ll give you an idea of what’s to come.

I’ll post the finished product in a few hours. Enjoy!

The comic will pick up where it left off on Tuesday 13 October. Sorry for the delay.  Normal service shall be resumed forthwith.