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Hey everybody, last week I was a guest on the TGT Webcomics podcast! It’s a long one, clocking in at somewhere over two hours, but if you’re the sort of person that likes audio entertainment while ...
This is one of those weeks when I don’t have enough brain power left over to write something important (and I’m sure there are at least two things I should announce but I keep forgetting about). In...
This Friday is the first Friday of the month, but I think this month I’m going to call the Galaxion Halloween 2009 special my extra contribution, since it was nearly within the same week….
Apologies for posting this a few hours late, but better late than never! No costumes this time, but we got your ghosts and rats…. The original plan had been for something more along the lines of a...
This will be the last flashback of the chapter, I promise! Also, if you drop by the site on Saturday, Oct 31st, there might just be a little something here to celebrate Halloween… nothing fancy, mi...
In case you missed it: I am one of the guests on the most recent Girlamatic podcast! A whole bunch of my favourite Girlamatic artists and writers came to participate, and I really enjoyed the oppor...
Quick notes for the page-a-week-impaired (and I certainly sympathize with you): if you go back and read this page, Aria’s exasperated comment will make more sense.
If you would like, you can read this flashback from the beginning of the sequence. Or, if you’re really lost, you might like to start at the beginning of the chapter (a 24-page commitment).
Hey everyone, it’s First Friday of the Month, and while I don’t have a bonus page for you, I do have some bonus art! It occurred to me that I haven’t yet shown what the Survey Contact Team uniforms...
The General’s daughter. If you missed it, this flashback begins one page back. Word on the Street turned out to be– despite the gloomy weather forecasts– a really great day! It was super busy and I...
…Aaaand we’re into another flashback. If you like, you can read the last three pages in a row (starting here), and it will flow more smoothly. As you may recall from that handy Galaxion Timeline, S...
Hey everybody! Quick announcement– my last scheduled show of 2009 will be Word on the Street, in Toronto, Sunday, Sept. 27th. I’ll be at table FB3, which you can find with the aid of this handy map...
Yay! Welcome back to everyone who has been patiently waiting for new Galaxion pages! I hope you enjoyed our summer feature, Real Magic. Some quick notes: For those who need to catch up on recent st...
Hey, everybody! New pages begin next week, but in the meantime I thought you might enjoy seeing this one-pager I did for Comic Festival!, a comic that was handed out for Free Comic Book Day this pa...
I went to Fan Expo here in Toronto and had a great time! Thank you so much to everyone who bought a book (or a comic, or a button, or a post-it pad), or who just picked up a flyer and checked out ...
Galaxion has been on hold for the summer, and in its place we’ve been running Real Magic, drawn by me and written by my husband, David Tallan. This is the final installment– I hope you’ve enjoyed o...
Galaxion is on hold for the summer! In its place we present “Real Magic,” drawn by me and written by my husband, David Tallan. Read it from the beginning! This story will run for six weeks, every ...
Galaxion is on hold for the summer! In its place we present “Real Magic,” drawn by me and written by my husband, David Tallan. Read it from the beginning! This story will run for six weeks, every ...
Galaxion on hold for the summer! In its place we present “Real Magic”. This story will run for six weeks, every Tuesday as usual. If you’d like to read some of the regular Galaxion story, you can ...
Galaxion on hold for the summer! In its place we present “Real Magic”. This story will run for six weeks, every Tuesday as usual. If you’d like to read some of the regular Galaxion story, you can ...
Welcome to the first page of the short story Real Magic! It was first published in 1998 in issue #7 of the anthology comic Mythography (Bardic Press). It was written by David (my then-boyfriend, n...
Well, dear readers, I have some bad news, and I have some good news. First, the bad news. I’m going to have to take another summer hiatus. Waaaaaah! The freelance job I’m doing (for another educat...
If Vessa’s comment seems a bit cryptic, you can refer back to this page, and maybe a little of this page. And you can just extrapolate from there….
Welcome to the “First-Friday-of-the-Month” update (and apologies for the slightly delayed posting)! If you’re looking for the most recent Galaxion page, it can be found here. Yes, I am a great big...
Just in case anyone needs a reminder– Jeff Nelson. I’m in Virginia this week visting with my old friend and Galaxion co-creator Wendy, so I’m not sure yet what I’ll have for this Friday’s (”First-...
For those of you who recognized the Hiawatha’s bridge, the design of her engine room will come as no surprise. I actually liked this page better without all the tone, but I needed to keep up the...
david_tallan: @honeygolightly "It's only a flesh wound!" - That was our battle cry during budget cuts.
Zan is having flashbacks of a particularly bad moment from the launch of the Pathfinder.
This is probably one of these things that will only be obvious to me, but I took some inspiration for the design of the Hiawatha bridge from another famous sci-fi ship. Can anyone guess which one?...
The Galaxion Graphic Novel is here! The more eagle-eyed among you will have realized that this print collection has actually been available for a few weeks now, but here is the official announcemen...
Wondering where the comic pages are? This week’s update can be found here, or if you’re new to Galaxion you can start at the beginning! Here’s the backstory: I drew this sketch a couple of years a...
A quick update for you: we’re still working on fine-tuning our “Store” page for our website, from which you will be able to purchase copies of the new graphic novel. Who knew this would be so hard...
And that’s the end of that flashback. If you don’t know who Jeff is referring to in the third panel, that’s OK– all shall be explained in due course. I had a great time at Anime North this weekend...
I’ll be at Anime North here in Toronto this weekend, May 22-24, 2009. It’s gonna be a very different experience from the last show I attended… I’m looking forward to all the pretty costumes! Pleas...
Welcome! If you’re new to Galaxion you might be interested in the story so far, or you can also jump right back to the beginning. If you’re re-joining us after a break and wondering what’s going o...
david_tallan: Tara got a couple of nice shout outs in this interview with Michèle Laframboise: http://is.gd/x2xU #TCAF #Galaxion
This Saturday and Sunday, May 9th and 10th, I will be at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, more commonly known as TCAF! For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, it’s an event that only happens...
New to Galaxion? Looking for a story to read? You can start at the beginning, or work your way up to that by trying one of the short stories instead! Apologies if you came looking for a “First Fri...
New to Galaxion? Wondering what’s going on? You can jump back to the beginning of this chapter or skip all the way back to the beginning of the whole story! Pressed for time? Why not try out this ...
The “off panel” dialogue may make more sense if you flip back a page. On a completely non-comic-related note, I spent the whole weekend contra dancing! It was exhilarating and exhausting, the musi...
david_tallan: @joycejoycerson: 3.5 h Fri eve, 5 h Sat day, 3.5 h Sat eve. More energetic than the usual dancing. The band, Wild Asparagus, is HOT!
[Apologies for the slightly late posting here this morning.] I can’t believe it– I finally got to page 100! In terms of total number of story pages, though, including the various short stories and ...
New to Galaxion? Lost and confused? Get back on track quickly by starting at p.87, the beginning of the last scene. Who’s Hettal? You can find a reference to him on this page, and he had a support...
Yes, we have no hyenas. (Apologies to those of you who haven’t the faintest idea what I’m talking about!) I know many of you clever readers have already spotted the wide variety of possible proble...
My book is out at last! Actually, it was probably out months ago, but I only just got my copies. Here it is, my very first not-self-published book (yaaaay! *waves arms like Kermit the frog*) Ro...
First contact– harder than you think. I’ve got some more guest appearances of Galaxion in other webcomics that I’d like to share! In Between Places (a lovely painted-style fantasy story), one of...
New to Galaxion? Wondering what’s going on? You can visit the New Readers page for a synopsis, start reading at the beginning, or maybe you’d like to try one of our no-commitment short stories! En...
david_tallan: Just finished watching the complete Jeeves and Wooster. Now whenever I re-read my Wodehouse, that's always how I'll picture them.
david_tallan: @BOOBBREEYAR: Concert was great. Toby asked at one point why they were playing all of his favourite songs. My fav: Lukey/When I'm Up mashup.
If you have no idea what they’re talking about, skip back two pages to see what they’re all looking at. If that doesn’t help… well, there’s always Fusella’s 5-page Story-So-Far! Remember that blog...
A few months back a bunch of you all pitched in to help me figure out some FTL issues, and this time I’m asking for your scientific expertise on a subject a little closer to home. Er, sort of. I do...
t’s traditional to open a new chapter with a splash page, so here we are. Not much to say about this except I’m getting braver with my use of crowquill and similar nib pens. It sure is weird trying...
david_tallan: Just added a bunch of great comics folks to my following list.
david_tallan: RT @vasta RT @dacort : Looking for things to do? Use Twitter Search for "your city" + tonight, ie: http://is.gd/kHqU
Aaaand, with any luck, that little tense exchange between Darvin and Scavina a few pages ago will start to make some sense. Also, if you’re wondering if “Augustus” should sound familiar and are th...
To anyone who may be visiting the comic for the first time– or for the first time in a long time– and would like to know what the heck is going on here, may I suggest the synopsis on the New Reade...
Not Valentine’s Day, not Singles Awareness Day, no, the important thing here is whose birthday it is (though heart-shaped boxes of chocolate are always welcome). Not that Fusella is likely to let ...
To anyone who may be visiting the comic for the first time– or for the first time in a long time– and would like to know what the heck is going on here, may I suggest the synopsis on the New Reade...
I don’t have a usual First-Friday-of-the-Month update for you, but here instead is something you might find interesting– a lineup of most of the major characters that shows you exactly who is tall...
OK folks, first the bad news– I won’t be able to post a “First Friday” update this month. *sobs* I can keep my regular updates going, but after last month (and the month before, actually), I need ...
Oh, there’s Fusella! Welcome back to the plot, dear, I know how– ahem– patient you’ve been. I could also note for any Zan fans out there, we’ll be seeing a lot more of him from this point on. ...
david_tallan: @fuzzz: I'm a B, too. #changecamp
Here we have another one of those pages that really suffers from page-a-week publishing. Here it is out of context, and add to that the fact that we still don’t know what Darvin’s complaining abou...
That was, actually, a rather provocative thing for him to say. Dramaaaaaa!
Yaaay, it’s back to the plot! If you haven’t the foggiest notion what’s been happening on the Galaxion (and you wouldn’t be alone!), you can check out Fusella’s Refresher Course, which I posted on...
Note to early readers: we’ve got it all fixed now. Well, mostly. Apologies for any confusion. We’re still a bit shaky when it comes to posting multiple-page updates! Please click here to continue…...
When I first decided to do a little “Story So Far” to reacquaint everyone with the plot, I’d figured I’d stick to one, maybe two pages tops. But the fun part was really Fusella’s colour commentary...
Useless author trivia: I was falling asleep at my desk when I was in the middle of lettering this page. Notice how I began to lose it right around the sixth word balloon there? I took a quick nap ...
I should note that I drew these pages before I came up with the of the holiday strips. So if we ignore those, then we haven’t seen Fusella since… well, she had that brief appearance at Halloween… b...
Are your eyes crossing trying to read the small text? Sorry! Here is a slightly larger image. Also, if the snow is bothering you, remember you can turn it off using the itty-bitty button at the ver...
If this is your first time visiting, welcome, and let me tell you that you’ve wandered into our holiday specials– 3-panel strips are not the norm around here. I hope you find it amusing, though! F...
If this is your first time visiting, welcome, and let me tell you that you’ve wandered into our holiday specials– 4-panel strips are not the norm around here. I hope you find it amusing, though! F...
Hi everyone! I have to say, you guys took me a little by surprise by expressing so much interest in the details of engine speed and distances traveled! Here’s little old me writing what is unabashe...
If you’re wondering what’s going on, why not jump back to the beginning of this short story and read it all in one sitting? Complete at 15 pages of Sci-Fi goodness! That wraps it up for our little...
This is the third in a mini-series of three blog entries. In the first blog entry, I described Gov 2.0 as a world of “permeable boundaries”, characterized by crowdsourcing and collaboration, and de...
This is the second of mini-series of three blog entries. In the first blog entry, I described Gov 2.0 as a world of "permeable boundaries", characterized by crowdsourcing and collaboration, and des...
In this first blog entry I'll explore the main changes that Gov 2.0 will bring and the corresponding changes that will be needed in the style and culture of our leadership and organization. I'll ar...
Wondering what’s going on? Just pop back to the beginning of this short story (only 14 pages) to find out! Can you spot Zan in the second panel? He’s a wee little speck standing upside-down on the...
Can’t remember what’s going on? Hey, no problem! Just jump back to the the beginning of this short story. A mere 13 pages and you’re all...
Wondering what the heck is going on? The best solution for that little problem is to read this short story from the beginning! A mere 12 pages, no scary archive diving required (unless you enjoy th...
Confused? It’ll all make more sense if you read this short story from the beginning! It’s OK, it’s only 11 pages! …In one of those odd instances of life imitating art, we just did this kind of thin...
Lost and confused? Read this short story from the beginning! Go on, it’s only 10 pages!) We finally get to see a bit of the Pathfinder, mainly the underbelly bit. I’m not the world’s greatest ship ...
Confused? No worries– just start reading this short story from the beginning! Don’t worry, you’re only committing to 11 pages. Confessions of a webcomicker: In the previous version of this story I...
Confused? The best way to solve that little problem is to read this short story from the beginning! Don’t worry, you’re only committing to 10 pages. If you missed it on Friday (which is totally ...
Happy Halloween, everyone! (Wondering where the comics are? You can go here to start at the beginning, or here to see the most recent page.) I’m not saying that the crew of the Galaxion actually c...
Read this short story from the beginning! Remember that comic project I mentioned that kept me away from making new Galaxion pages all last summer? Well, I finally got permission from my editor to...
Read this short story from the beginning! Did you successfully navigate the panels in the above page? It’s a bit of a trick getting the eye to follow in the path I want– over to the panel on the r...
Read this short story from the beginning! This past week I received a surprise fan art of the tongue-in-cheek variety of awesomeness, and as soon as I was finished laughing my head off I knew I h...
It's been a while.I’m responding to a blog post that hasn’t been written yet. Yesterday an acquaintance tweeted “writing blog that info overload is not new. anyone read every book at their universi...
Read this short story from the beginning! I don’t think Zan can do anything without leaving a big mess behind. Is it a little weird, seeing Galaxion with all this grey tone? It may not be clear, ...
Read this short story from the beginning! If you pop on over to the Fan Art section (in the Extras section), you can see the latest creation by Galaxion’s co-creator, Wendy Linkous!
Read this short story from the beginning! You may very well be wondering why Zan is on the floor. Hmmm, I don’t want to give away spoilers, but if you reread Chapter One, you just might see a patt...
Hey everybody! We’re back to the new pages at last! We’re starting a new short story starring Scavina Nelson and her crew on the IP ship Pathfinder, back before they came to be transferred to the ...
And that’s the end! Hope you all enjoyed this short story (which you can read from the beginning). It was pre-webcomic, which means it was written before the tweaks and assorted changes I made to ...
david_tallan: #showcase08: So, all you OPS buds who attended. What's your top learning this year?
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
I know I usually post a new page on the first Friday of every month, but things are crazy with my other project and I think I’m better off extending my hiatus one more week so that I can properly ...
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
August 15th is Zandarin Wilder’s birthday, so please celebrate with us by checking out his retrospective!
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
July 19th is Scavina’s birthday. To celebrate, we’ve got a new retrospective up in the Extras section. Check it out!
I've been thinking a lot about this lately. It really stems from two things:Reading Jonathan Zittrain's book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop ItVarious blog posts like Jason Kottke's "Fac...
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
Last weekend we went strawberry picking.I love Ontario strawberries. I always look forward to when they are in season again. In between times, we make do with Florida and California strawberries, '...
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
Since reading "Why the old-fashioned TV is the best social media channel known to mankind" by Alexander van Elsas, I've been thinking about it. His point seems to be that TV (a one to many broadcas...
david_tallan: retweeting @mashable: "Facebook Becomes FriendFeed; Launches Commenting On Mini-Feed Items" http://is.gd/FK4
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
Let me begin with the obligatory disclaimer. I'm not a marketer. I'm not a PR professional. I work with them, and I am interested in what they do and how they do it, but I am not one of them. I'm a...
I've recently come across a number of articles and postings suggesting that our attentions spans are getting shorter. The first of these was probably an Atlantic Monthly article, "Is Google Making ...
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galaxi...
Reading Friendfeed this morning, I was directed to a Mashable post, "FriendFeed and the Web Itself as a Blogging Platform", written by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins. Mark mentions that when he was re-doing ...
Several news sources are reporting today that Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable will be either completely shutting down or severely restricting access to Usenet. The instigating cause appears t...
Should mention that the first page of the new short story is up: http://galaxioncomics.com/
The regular Galaxion storyline is on hold for the summer, while I work on another job (but a really cool one!). In the meantime, please enjoy this short story that originally appeared in the Galax...
I've been doing a lot more experimentation with social media recently, as I may have indicated. I'm tweeting and digging and blogging and commenting. I'm still refining my methodology for bringing ...
The official start of the “new” short story is tomorrow, but I didn’t want to have just the cover as the post for the week. So you get the cover today and the first page of the story goes up tomorr...
Well, everybody, at this point I’m afraid I have to announce another hiatus. BUT, WAIT! WE’RE STILL UPDATNG! During my hiatus I’ll be posting pages from a Galaxion short story that appeared in pri...
Sameer Vasta issued a challenge: Your resume in 140 characters. That's a challenge I find it hard to resist. My response (exactly 140 characters):I am a leader of innovation in the public service w...
Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools has alerted me to the cool LibriVox service. Essentially, LibriVox provides free public-domain audio-books. They are available through the website itself as mp3 files or th...
Not a lot to talk about today, and it's kind of late. So I'll just link to a few of the items that caught my interest recently.Cory linked to geeky balloon art on Boing Boing. This is just the sort...
And now… the moment you’ve all been waiting for… the winning entry in the Name the Hat contest is: Dave Van Domelen’s entry: The Feuerkraft Mark I! *cheers, lots of clapping* It was a tough choi...
Plunged as I am into "Web 2.0" these days, I'm starting to pay attention to the various trends that fall under that rubric. One of those is "crowdsourcing" - drawing upon the intellectual output o...
No blog post yesterday as we were out 'til midnight (and then I was up until 1 a.m. getting the Galaxion Birthday Retrospective ready to post on the new Galaxion website.We were out 'til midnight a...
No blog post yesterday as we were out 'til midnight (and then I was up until 1 a.m. getting the Galaxion Birthday Retrospective ready to post on the new Galaxion website.We were out 'til midnight a...
This isn’t a character birthday retrospective. June 1st is the birthday of Galaxion itself! To celebrate, we dug into the archives for all sorts of miscellaneous goodies - earlier designs of the sh...
I've noticed recently that Toby has his own reality.This is not surprising. Many kids do. Imaginative play is to be expected, and we encourage it. And we can't expect the kids to have worked out th...
Cabinet Office Communications has a new Manager, Strategic New Media Office - Zeena (I won't give her last name because she likes to keep a low Internet profile). When I first met Zeena she was an ...
I went to see the new Indiana Jones movie last night. I really loved Raiders of the Lost Ark when it came out. It was probably the first movie I saw again and again. Temple of Doom didn't thrill me...
I'm going to make a real effort to update this on a regular basis. It won't always be with deep thoughtsd of my own. It might just be with interesting things I find on the web. But at least it will...
This page is dedicated to the crowd of very smart people who all very kindly stepped up to the plate to help keep me from sounding overly stupid. Thank you muchly! Also, this is the last day to ent...
Aria’s finally asked Fusella the question that’s been bothering her for a while: “Why did you break up with Darvin?” (”…and is there something I should know?”) You’ve only got one more week to Name...
Page-a-week cliffnotes: Don’t forget “charming”. (Well… don’t you get suspicious of guys who seem a little too perfect?) Gentle reminder: Hat Contest! Finally, I’ll be a guest at Anime North this y...
Aria seems to have something on her mind. Don’t forget, you have until May 27th to Name The Hat! There’s original page artwork up for grabs!
If you didn’t get a chance to see it yet, you should go have a look at the GAM cover page this month. Trying to colour something in Photoshop is still a big deal for me (at this moment I cannot eve...
You may notice that something’s missing in that last panel’s word balloon. For a long time I pondered what kind of crazy hat Zan could possibly have picked out for himself. Nothing that popped into...
Allow me to add some continuity for those you stuck reading at page-a-week pace: Darvin’s comment in the third panel might make more sense if you remember what was going on the last time we saw Zan...
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