Hi from North Carolina! I’m on the road to my Florida vacation this week. There will be one more update – the final update – for this storyline, most likely in the new year. A little late for my December update quota, but I hope y’all will forgive the holiday slowness. Thanks for reading and see you in 2015.

• 12/25/14

  
  

  Merry Christmas! Hope you’re having a lovely day, wherever you are.

  I try to cobble together a little Christmas comic or animation every year or so, and it doesn’t always happen. So here’s a few Octopus Pie Christmas specials from previous years:

  It’s a Christmas Miserable - A short story from 2011 where Eve is dressed as a Santa for work.

  Octopus Pie Christmas Special 2009 - Reach back into another decade with this animated artifact of time. This ruined the song for me, mostly, but that’s ok.

  Octopus Pie Christmas Special 2013 - A little animation from last year. Eve is depressed! Wow!

• 12/23/14

  
  
  During my two weeks in Denmark teaching at The Animation Workshop, my students created these short stories and websites for their comics.  They were based around a common mythical universe that the students designed.  

  
  

  The program was a very intensive one, where the individual needs and skillsets of the students were emphasized.  I loved this method of teaching and hope to apply it to my own classes in New York.

  
  

  I think the students did a fantastic job.  You can read their stories here.

• 12/23/14

  
  
  Here are a few sketches for a comic that Mike Holmes and I worked on together, which will be going into Wacom’s Pressure/Sensitivity comics anthology.

  
  

  The anthology will feature original short stories by comics creators, including Ming Doyle and Giannis Milonogiannis, with cover art by Ulises Farinas and colorist Ryan Hill.

  
  

  Pressure/Sensitivity will be available as a free, 32-page digital comic in January 2015!