Life Interrupted

Howdy folks,

I've wanted to make this particular strip for some time now, as it is an issue very close to my heart... which might help explain why it's 2 weeks late.

Please support cancer research.

These days it seems everyone has been touched by this deadly illness, be it personally or through a loved one.  Medical science has made a lot of breakthroughs over the decades, making it possible to cure certain cancer types, and provide improved quality of life of those who are terminal.

Wherever you are in the world, there are many ways you can contribute to this great cause.  Here in Australia, we have a fundraiser for men's cancer research called Movember.  The idea is that for the whole of November, men do not shave their moustache to raise awareness, while people donate towards their team to raise funds.  If you would like to donate towards Movember, there is still time left.  Following the link below will take you to my Movember page where you will be able to donate towards the team of Mo-bro's that I am in.

http://au.movember.com/mospace/2859629

Together we can save lives, pretty cool huh?

Regs,
Waz

A quick shout out

Hi everyone,

I thought I'd take a moment to give a quick thanks to all of you for reading and passing on the word to your friends and family.  Minions readership has been growing exponentially over the past 3 weeks, and so I thought I would give a quick acknowledgement to my growing but loyal readers in Finland!

Wherever you all are however, it's great to have you on board.

Till next time.

-Waz

Intermission

Howdy folks,

Firstly a big thanks to all of you who have laughed along with the beginnings of Minions.  Starting a comic definitely had some ominous foreboding clouds hanging over it... will people read it?  will it miss the mark so badly that people go off their food?  Gladly the feedback says otherwise.

So where to from here?  Well now that the basic premise of the story has unfolded, our 2 buds Steve and Marty have been introduced.  So from here, be on the lookout for new characters and story lines, and be sure to tell your family, friends, pet hamster, café owner and co-workers about Minions.  Once the reader base increases enough, I'm also planning on creating a reader-directed "Choose Your Own Adventure" sub-story line for a bit of fun.

For those interested, the colour scheme I've chosen for this comic is the standard EGA palette along with 320x240 pixels per frame.  What's the significance of this?  I grew up playing games with CGA, EGA and VGA graphics, most of which in 320x240 resolution.  In case you're not quite the geek that I clearly am, these were the early days of computer game graphics.  Drawing anything during this time was difficult, particularly as nobody had the great graphics tools that we now have to make the job easier.  For Minions, I could have used a VGA palette of 256 colours, also known as "8 bit" to the retro crowd.  However 256 colours just didn't pose a big enough challenge.  EGA however has a palette of only 64 colours, and let me tell you it's quite a challenge to put them to use!

Thanks for reading, until next time.


-Waz