We are still a little over 2 months away from the (unofficial) birth month of Astray3, and the (pseudo-official) start date in October. But, it’s never to early to start prepping for a monumental month of A3 goodness. To help celebrate this landmark, I want guest strips! I will run guest strips every Saturday throughout September up until I run out. Now don’t worry about fitting into the plot of the comic. Feel free to be funny, sarcastic, serious, thoughtful, etc, long as the comic is A3 related and within a PG-13 rating, it’s fair game to be published on the site. All guest creators will get the proper credit and plugs. (If you don’t feel like producing an entire strip, I will accept fanart submissions.)
What will I be doing in the meantime? Well I will just be chillaxing by the pool drinking Tang, you now kickin’ it….by working EVEN harder on the strip. Astray3 will return to it’s inaugral schedule for the month of September. THAT IS RIGHT!! 6 updates a week, featuring the normal Mon-Fri schedule, plus a full color edition of the first A3 sidestory on Sunday! This all adds up to a 7 day update schedule thoughout the month and up until I run out of extra content.
And if that wasn’t enough already, there will be prizes! I don’t have any shirts or chotchkeys to hand out yet, so I’m gonna have to use something else as prizes. ( Hint, I have a whole drawer of the things collecting dust. )
I will be setting up a special email for submissions and prize entries soon. Until then, feel free to contact me through comments@a3classic.com.
Please, help me to help entertain you throughout the month of September.
Thanks for sticking with Astray3,
-Eldon.
Hey, It’s progressing wonderfully. Can’t start my day til I get a good read of my Astray3. Sorta like morning coffee without the milque toast-Spelling is correct I hope. BTW did you know that Chrono Trigger came out for the DS?
Geez, Eldon, are you trying to make the rest of us look bad?
The strip, as ever, is PHENOMENAL.
Thanks David, that is high praise indeed!
My goal is to work so hard I can call other artists lazy, then die blind and crazy when I’m 35…
The usual English rendering of the Yiddish word is “tchotchkes”, I believe. Love the artwork, especially the multilimbed folks with the eyes on their noses, whose house the heroine hides out in.
Well that explains why I never found the correct spelling. Thanks for the tip Otookee. And thanks for reading Astray3.
I’ve been reading back to the beginning since yesterday. I still can’t get over the speed at which you produce those finely drawn strips and all the dialogue, the texts that go with them. Not to mention the visual inventions! The adventures of Navis in Sillage (Navee in Wake in English but the US translated editions are smaller and inferior in visual quality) are the closest thing that I find comparable, but the team of Morvan and Buchet (together with their pro colorists) barely manage to make one 46 page Navis album a year. I mean comparable in terms of drawing imagination and quality and the text that goes with it. There are other French BDs that come close to the idea, in terms of having a young lady caught up at the heart of a fantasy epic but only the first album of the entire “Alef-Thau” series (by Arno and Jodorowsky) is really worth its price and Tessa agent intergalactique (by Lamirand, Mitric and Louis) is full of flaws right in the first volume of its series.
Thanks Alain, it is high praise indeed to be compared to those artists. I make no secret that A3 is inspired by French adventure comics. I’m overjoyed that you like my work and I hope you will keep coming back as it continues.