
Here it is, the first of a series of jokes that will appear on the site until Halloween. I wanted to make a short story about Halloween because Halloween as always been my favorite holiday (yeah, sometimes more then Chrismas!) and it's also important because this website was created last year on Hollow's eve. Meaning this is also for the website's birthday! ^^
I'm also trying a different format for the website for the coming year. You might have noticed a gradual change here. It used to be mainly drawings, and it gradually became mainly comics. I'm going to keep illustrating days of my life with these comics, but i'm also planning to make a few "comic short stories" that might go on for a few weeks every once in a while (kinda like the Zel stripping series or the Party while i'm in Toronto joke). The short stories are most likely going to be completly made up, like this one, but using all the characters from the site. I'm trying to get a bit more of a webcomic feel into the site without loosing what was first great about Secondlina: the diary aspect of it. So both composed stories and pages about my life will be posted from now on. And don't worry, you'll know which is which XD
I'm not thinking about changing the drawing quality or medium. Yeah, it's a bit sketchy and yes, pencil is a witch, but I think everyone is pretty used to it by now and have associated it with the site. I will try to make a better/colored drawing more often, but let's not kid ourselves. The pencil medium allows me to update relativly often despite my somewhat tight schedule. (Not that tight, but tight enough for me not to want to waste 8 hours in making the perfect comic page) So i'm sticking with pencil. Besides, it's all about humour here, not me showing off that i'm a great artist or something.

This scary encounter (perfect in Halloween spirit!) happened yesterday. Lorraine is the owner of the bookstore for which I write up a list of comic book orders. I basicly take care of what goes in and out of the comic book section. She completly misunderstood my personal orders (made two weeks ago) with the store order list (made two days ago) I think it's weird that she did because I never ask about the store orders (I just come in when they do because she calls me). I was wondering about my personal orders because two weeks is kinda long. And now apparently it's gonna take three?
I know the editing compagnies don't take us seriously because we are little, but this is ridiculous! No wonder people forget us and go to Chapters or Nod books! 3 weeks of waiting for something that as been out for a while is a bloody outrage. It's not even that new. I ordered a relativly new book and an older one from a different series...Anyways...Dealing with publishers is a pain in the ass.
It's the first time I see Lorraine yell at anybody. I think she is most likely tired. I din't really enjoy getting yelled at like that though. Especially since I was a paying customer and not a worker at the time...She really raised some demons! Eeeeek.
-secondlina