September 28, 2005

God, haven't updated this for a while now -- gomenasai.

STICKY #3 is out and will be the last one for the foreseeable future. Sales just weren't very good in pamphlet form. Currently talking about releasing 1 - 3 released as a book ,and thus available in gay bookstores where people interested in gay porn would be able to find it.

Not abandoning serial comics yet though. I have been working on the first issue of a solo title, which would collect old material alongside a longer, serialised story (No, not the one that I started and abandoned on this site last year. That's staying dead for the foreseeable future. mercy killing). The comic is going to be called SHIRTLIFTER, and was just chosen as the recipient of Prism Comics' first Queer Press Grant to get the first issue off the presses -- look for it to be available in January.

June 23, 2005

STICKY #3 should likely be available in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I've put up a couple of pages from Issue #3 here. You can still see preview of issues 1 and 2 here and here.

#3 is the last one we're contracted to do -- there'll likely be more at some point in the future, as long as sales warrant, but taking a little bit of a break for at least a few months to concentrate on other things.

June 2, 2005

The artwork for STICKY #3 has been finished and sent off, so should be out soon soon soon. It's going to be the last one for a bit -- if Eros is interested in more we'll probably continue, but sort of have to see how this first trilogy does before making any commitments. In the meantime, I'm going back to working on some of my own stuff, and changing continents -- leaving Japan after 3 and a half years living in Tokyo. I have a story coming out in an anthology about gay men's health that is being produced by AIDS Project Los Angeles. I'm also working on updating a few older, unpublished pieces for a couple different anthologies, as well as starting work on a longer piece. I'll post details as things get confirmed.

May 3, 2005

Finally not only an update, but yes--a domain of my very own. I've just been putting it off because I'm lazy and web stuff hasn't been a priority lately. But since STICKY started coming out it sort of seemed like an opportune time, so...here we are at www.stevemacisaac.com. I'm going to redesign it once I finalise all the files for STICKY #3, which is solicited for June.

#2 came out in March. Although it isn't up on the Eros website for some reason, you can also order from their toll-free number at 1-800-657-1100. Other online places that carry us include Last Gasp and Atomic Books.

Reviews for STICKY have been positive; you can find out what people think about it by clicking on any of the following.

Frontiers

Books To Watch Out For

FleshbotFleshbot

Trusty Sidekicks

LHLS

Bearcity

Gay Comics List #2

Gay Comics List #1

Queerclick

Gay Sex Blog

There's some more for number 1 that I am going to track down and put up here -- eventually I'll get everything on a links page.

OK, back to drawing.

January 3, 2005

Update on the front page -- yes, STICKY #1 came out in December, and is finally available for purchase. Number 2 is almost done as well. Look for it in March, with #3 coming out in May or June. We're contracted to do three issues, won't be any more than that if wedon't sell any, so if anyone likes my work at all I encourage you to check it out. Available through your local comics shop, or from Eros Comics in Seattle Washington. No image or information is yet up on the website, but if you do a "search" for STICKY, we're the only thing that comes up. You can also order from their toll-free number at 1-800-657-1100.

November 1, 2004

OK, I am a fucking liar. I'm taking down First Draft, because I just re-read it and it makes me want to kill myself and everyone around me, so let's just ease off the pressure, and remove it until such time as I can give it the rich evisceration and reassembly that it needs. I do think there's something worthwhile in there, but I don't have time to deal with it at the moment.

And why don't I have time is because, as mentioned below, I have a series of erotic shorts coming out from Eros Comics starting in January. The book is called STICKY, and while the first one is done there's revisions to be made to the second one and the third is still in pieces all over my living room carpet....There's a preview up of issue one here, some non-naughty bits--you can get it through mail order starting January or from your local comics shop. They generally don't do gay stuff so it would be cool if people actually bought a few copies of this, but I have a vested interest so don't take my word for it.

October 10, 2004

I know, I know -- I said a month. What can I do? Life fucks you up, but at least in this case it's in good ways. The next installment is almost done, and has been almost done for a while, but I've gotten real busy -- I'm back at work in Tokyo at my real job, and when I'm not working there I'm working on a couple of pieces with deadlines, so they take priority. Plus, Eros Comics is picking up STICKY, my and foray into erotica with Dale Lazarov, starting this winter, and getting that ready has and is taking up a not insubstantial chunk of time. So there will be another installment up, but I can't promise when -- I'm hoping for next month, but it may have to wait until the new year. Not that anyone's waiting with baited breath, I'm sure, but in any case...thereyouhaveit.

July 5, 2004

Finally another update for the First Draft-- these two pages have been almost done for a while now, but I've been having some strange glitches with the new version of some of the software I use, which has wasted a lot of the limited time I've had to put into this. So these two pages are rougher than I'd like at this point, but are more or less legible. This whole first section is gonna get revised at some point anyway -- it's too bloody talky and static -- so I'm not going to worry about it too much. Just bear with me. Next installment won't be up for another month, probably, but will be a little longer -- 5 pages or so.

June 8, 2004

OK, the next two pages took longer than I thought -- putting my life into little boxes took more time than I had planned it too. Also got complicated on this end by my new computer -- after years of Windows servitude, I just bought a Mac laptop, since I will have no fixed address for the next six months at least. However, getting my new system set up the same as my old system has taken a bit of tweaking -- particulalry the font I created that approximates my handwriting, which didn't seem to want to show up in Illustrator. Got things straightened away by converting it from a TTF to Type 1, but that took a little bit of doing. Anyway, things are finally more or less normal and the next two pages of the First Draft are done. You can start at the beginning again, or just view the new parts by clicking here

Also noticed on the new machine that the text on the comics index is muy fucked up. It looks fine on other machines I've tried it on, but is in all the wrong places on my new system. Don't know if it's been a problem for anyone else, but I'll try and get it smoothed out in the next couple of days.

May 23, 2004

I'm going to try and get the next two pages of First Draft up this week, before I leave Japan. They're almost done, but with me "almost" can still takea long time, as one revison leads to another leads to another etc etc. I'm in the middle of packing and getting my stuff in storage, because I'm leaving Japan for the summer, so if it doesn't happen in the next five days, it probably won't get up until June 5 or so, after I de-jetlag.

In the meantime, I've stuck up the first couple of pages from an erotic short story called Hold On, just because it'll be a while before it sees print, since I am Our-Lady-Of-Perpetual-Dissatisfaction. Even though I still don't think it's ready, I'm sick of sitting on it, so here's a sneak peak.

May 14, 2004

OK, first three pages of First Draft are up and running -- two more will be added in a couple weeks, which finishes off the first beat of the story. I'll be posting in two or three page increments for the foreseeable future -- going to be travelling around a lot this summer, so I don't know how that's going to affect my productivity -- probably it won't have any more adverse effect than working full time does...

Any feedback or comments welcomed, of course: flambe@chebucto.ns.ca. Please put something in the message subject related to the site or you're gonna get spam killed: currently I'm getting approximately 50 emails a day, all telling me that my penis is too small and that I am desperately in need of Viagra. As if I'm not insecure enough already....

May 2, 2004

This site has needed an overhaul and a redesign for a while, but it's been kind of low on the list of priorities. Whatever energy hasn't been taken up by my dayjob has been going into finishing up a comics erotica project that I am hopefully going to make some kind of announcement about in the next few months. Add to that trying to make time for an actual life, and presto -- instant cobwebs.

That is going to be changing soon, as I'm starting a new project -- a long story that I'm going to be serialising on the site for the foreseeable future. I've been thinking about doing a long piece for for a while, but I never seem to be able to get the time together to do it -- I tend to work really slowly, so the time commitment required to do anything of substantial length has always been a little daunting. However, when thinking about it again recently, I realised that it would work well as a series of short vignettes that, taken together, will build into somehing bigger. That's the idea, at any rate-- and it will likely happen, since it's less intimidating if I take it 4 - 5 pages at a time. It'll likely be easier to read this way, as well. The first installment is going up next week, and I'm hoping to post a new vignette every month or so. I was tempted to post each page as it's finished, but I don't think it would read very well that way -- better less frequent updates, but with larger chunks of story.

I'm calling this sequence of strips "First Draft", because that's eseentially what it is -- It's going to need further revisions before it becomes a coherent, finished piece. I've never done any comics this long before, so while it's pretty planned out, part of this process is seeing in what direction the strip and characters lead me, and letting myself take avenues that may wind up as dead ends, just to see where they lead.

So check back regularly, and if you like what you're seeing or have any criticism, constructive or otherwise, drop me a line at: flambe@chebucto.ns.ca