Previous News08.08.2006 - Terrence Marks:Isabel's taking a "blah" day. She's feeling too well. She's not sick, but she needs a break. She promises double comics tomorrow.07.24.2006 - Isabel Marks:With only one week to go and the total so low, we here at ND Unlimited are wondering just how we can serve you better. Please feel free to drop us a line, we'd love to hear from you.
Well, not too much more news than that... still not doing 100% as a result of food poisoning, I'm wondering just how (and if) I'm going to make it through the Summer. The cover for "Auditions" is penciled, but I usually like to wait till at least $300 before even getting as far as making the cover... but it looks like I'll have to make an exception.07.17.2006 - Isabel Marks:"Girlfriends", last month's bonus book, has been shipped out (some of you may even have it right now!), thank you for your patience. I'm doing a bit better, but poor Terry is still fighting a cough (and yes, he has seen a doctor and is taking prescribed medication for it).
As some of you may know, last month's bonus book is to be the last physical book sent to $10 donators. From now on all books will be viewed on-line over at Namirdeiter.net. Some of you might be wondering why we are changing the format... the answer is simply this: time. It would take the two of us days to get the books made and shipped. Add that to the money it would cost to print the books (not as much as you'd think, but it was a factor). If it was just time or just money, it wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately the two combined along side a few financial set backs made us finally decide on the matter. I hope you all will enjoy the digital versions, which will be all in color and, since you don't have to wait for shipping, will be available much sooner to you!07.17.2006 - Terrence Marks:Syd Barrett died last week.He was the first frontman of Pink Floyd, which is why most of you have already heard of him. He was kicked out of the band years before they made any of the albums they're famous for. He was immensely talented. He started out strange and he kept getting stranger, until he could no longer function. Then he released two solo albums and went into seclusion.
"Opel" probably wasn't the first album I bought, but it's the first album I remember buying. I still have it. I learned to play guitar to his music - and it was obvious to anyone who heard me. Some guitarists have that unmistakable "sits around playing along with Hendrix" sound to them. I had the "sits around playing along with Barrett outtakes" sound.
His music meant a lot to me, a lot that can't be explained quickly or easily. It's why I joined an online community that I spent a decade in before leaving last year. It's what got me into a lot of the other music I listen to. It's why I listen to huge amounts of psychedelic music, hoping that if there is anything else that sounds like his work, I'd find it. It's a lot of little things that I notice about myself that I'm sure aren't obvious to anybody else.
He's also the inspiration for Brisbane's ascot.
If you have never heard Pink Floyd's "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", you should. I cannot describe it well, except to say that it does not sound at all like any other Pink Floyd album and that "psychedelic" isn't a strong enough word for it.
For the last fifteen years, I had heard rumors about his physical health being in decline. His mental health, well, I hadn't heard anything good about that in my lifetime.
He hadn't recorded anything - he hadn't *done* anything - for over thirty years. He lived below the radar. There were a few zines about him that ran a couple issues and stopped because he wasn't doing anything of note and they'd already discussed everything about him that they felt was worth discussing.
I was afraid he might die and nobody would notice. I was afraid I wouldn't find out about it until months or years after the fact. So I was saddened by his passing, but I was glad to see it made the front page of all the news-sites I visit. Because he deserved it.
07.10.2006 - Isabel Marks:Hey look everyone, news!
I'm really sorry I didn't get that "Girlfriends" status progress up. It was on my to-do list, really... but truth be told, I thought I would be feeling a lot better and thus have it done a lot sooner than I actually did. Here's a mini-status on things as they are now: All 12 pages are drawn and inked. The files are open right now, I just need to get to them... I'm still tottering around under "a bit too sick", but truth be told, I haven't been on "I'm passing out" status yet, I just have been feeling on the verge of it for the past week. Sorry everyone!
Over at Namir Deiter... I finally updated the archives page, and added the story arc "White noise" a story arc a few months back that seems to have fallen through the cracks.
I went through the links to the left of the news and took down a couple of them due to either being dead links or sites that haven't updated in years... and I also finally added Kevin and Kell, only took me how many years? Sorry, Mr.Holbrook. Still need to update You Say it First's page, and Spare Parts (in fact, me and my flippant self is already thinking of re-designing Spare Part's page)
In You Say it First land, the FAQ and the archives page have gotten a desperately needed updated, please check it out!
As some of you Namir Deiter readers noticed, there is a new web comic in the works called "Ten Minutes too...", there isn't too much news up on it yet, but once I get some of these commissions I have on my plate from a few months ago (remember that donation thank you? XD) I'll work on it then.
Also, speaking of donation thank you items... this month's bonus book (which will only be on-line) will be the first in hopefully many ND Unlimited stories featuring various characters from all our stories that are completely uncannon in the best way possible. Terrence is the one who will be writing this story, so I'll have more info on this once he gets the time to write.07.03.2006 - Isabel Marks:There is a special poll up at namirdeiter.net, if you're a donator, please vote to decide what the bonus comic will be next month. As such, the bonus comic will air on Thursday and Saturday this week, thus giving me a bit more time to write this month's scripts. Thank you so very much to everyone who has donated, past and present, you all are the reason I keep going. :)As some of you may have noticed, we thankfully made our goal for the month of June which means we're back to 7 days a week of Namir Deiter, 6 days a week of You Say if First and 2 days a week for Spare Parts. This month's wallpapers are done and last month's bonus book (Girlfriends) is nearly almost sketched (I'll be sure to put up a status on namirdeiter.net once I feel a little better). Also, since I'm feeling a bit sick right now, wallpapers and the bonus book might be a little late (as I plan on giving some pages to last month's book to $50 .net donators as a bonus thank you) as it's really hard for me to draw right now (quite honestly I'm surprised I got what I got done). As soon as they are done, I'll be sure to post them and let you all know!
And, as if you all are not sick of seeing this, if you're on MySpace, please be sure to check out my page!06.26.2006 - Isabel Marks:It's been a somewhat slow news week here over at ND Unlimited. Hopefully once things pick up after the summer I'll have lots more stuff to talk about. :)First off, last week over at namirdeiter.net we had our very first live chat! Thank you to TGIF, Tyler (who organized all of it!), Arctic Fox and Terry for showing up! It was a lot of fun and hopefully we can do it again (hopefully with more people and less technical difficulties).
Also on the namirdeiter.net front, we have less than a week left for the month and we're still a bit from our goal. This is going to be the last book we will be mailing out, all thank you books from here on out will be digital! So this could be your last chance to have a thank you book sent right to your door. For those of you who did donate this month or other months, thank you so very much- I wouldn't want to know where I'd be without all your help.
Speaking of books being sent right to your home, Namir Deiter Book 2 is now for sale! Please don't forget to pick yours up today over at the ND Unlimited Store (you get tons of free swag with each order)!
Don't forget to check out Spare Parts which, for the time being, is being written by myself in order to give Terrence more time to enjoy life. :) -Isabel