I'm excited to announce the new graphic novel I'm working on with Lindsay Cibos! It's called
The Last of the Polar Bears. It's one part fable, one part coming-of-age adventure epic. The story takes place in the near future, told through the perspective of a mother polar bear and her two cubs as they struggle to survive in a rapidly changing world.
Work on this project started back in March 2009, almost immediately after we finished up
Draw Furries. It's only now (almost a year later) that we are at the point where we can share our story with the public. While the developmental work is finished, the long grueling task of drawing the comic is just beginning.
Around the first of the year, Lindsay started roughing out the first chapter of the tale. And although the finished book is still a long way off, we want to start getting the word out about this new story. As part of our efforts, we put together a promotional postcard featuring Lindsay's art of the polar bear family. We're offering the card from our website. Here's the link! (
www.jaredandlindsay.com/polarbear.html,) Just enter an address on the form and hit the send button to received the card in the mail. I have a stack of 500 of these postcards and I want to give every one of them out to people, so please participate!
On a different furry topic, I'd like to extend my thanks to those who picked up a copy of
Draw Furries - How to Create Anthropomorphic and Fantasy Animals, and a double-thanks to the people who
left a comment about the book on Amazon. You guys are
great! Every positive review helps improve the chance that people who can benefit from the content will check it out. It also improves the chance that the publisher will contact me about a sequel (something I'd love to work on).
If you're interested in drawing, furries, or drawing furries, please give the book a flip through next time you're down at the bookstore. If you bought a copy and it's helped you improve as an artist, then please drop a comment on Amazon and others know how the book has helped you.
Finally, I wanted to point out a couple of new posts on my blog--
Quasi Educational, featuring character designs from the
Tiamat's Chosen picture. Give 'em a look-see.