Well, now! How about some side art?

I suppose that I don't really post much aside from the comic pages themselves here, so I'll take advantae of the journal to announce side art, for those who don't follow on DevaintArt.

• Character sheets/pre-production art!


.:End of Infinity concepts 1:. by ~madmen on deviantART

.:End of Infinity concepts 2:. by ~madmen on deviantART
• Poster!


.:Werewolf Postal Carrier:. by ~madmen on deviantART

Enjoy, and thanks for reading! :]
Love, MiX.

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Long time, no journal! <3

• Pages!
I've concluded that my method for pages with an "aged paper" appearance was too manufactured, sloppy, enveloping, noisy, and cluttered. I spent an entire day making a batch of paper textures to use and reworking my page-making method. I've redone all of the second chapter to match. I'm a bit too lazy to update the first chapter, so I'll leave it as-is. Next on my schedule is to make corrections to the Phantasmagorian page method. Last will be the Dream method, which may see less drastic modifications.
Before and after...

• Thank you!
I wanted to post a formal thank you to everyone who has helped me so far with critiques, comments, suggestions, and recommendations. I greatly appreciate all of your help, and am throughly grateful for the improvements that couldn't have come without your time and effort.
This includes everyone from the critique exchange in ComicCue as well as passerbys of the mirrored posts on DevArt, and the friends/colleagues who have lent me a few of their moments on occasion as well.
Your help has all been very generous, and I hope to have more feedback in the future. :D
This is an ever-evolving experiment, so let's make it the best there is!

MiX over and out.

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New page, DevArt Group, and cover art!

• Page!
Sorry for the long wait guys. :) Tis the season. The new page is posted, so please enjoy, and happy belated season's greetings!
• Group!
Yes, boys and girls, there is now a handy dady group on deviantArt for those who want to subscribe for nothing but EOI. you can find it Here
• Cover!
That's right! There's now a cover posted over Here! Click on the book's title to get a sweet closeup. Click each page to "flip the book over."
There still is some work to be done on it, like adding the back image and some more flare, but its a mighty fine cover, if I do say so myself. And I do!

MiX over and out.

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Start of chapter 2! Back on schedule. New server soon?

• HUZZAH!

In case you guy's haven't noticed, chapter 2 started last week. :D I haven't really taken the time to update the journal, so this is a bit belated. Though, twitter folks should have heard by now.
OMG CLӒUS!! Yes, our hero finally makes his appearance. And guess what, it's in color. Well, still with a sepia feel. But there's still color aside from red, yellow, and brown. ...like blue and purple.
SEPIA RAINBOW OMG.
• REGULAR!

Now that things are all settled, and I have a roof over my head and a stable job, I'll be back to the page-a-week Monday-posting grind. :)
• SILVER!

I'm trying to get my servers set up, and one of which is going to be dedicated to EOI. Sweetness. It's dubbed "Silver." Ironically, it acts just like the name implies-- a whiney little bitch that's too temperamental to cooperate. Fuck you, Silv-Serv! :D Why don't you go hog chapter 2 with your "oh, I don't want to use SATA drives" attitude while your at it!

With love,
MiX

End of chapter 1! Hiatus! Sketches!

• epic win!

The next chapter is coming up as soon as I get to Utah and find a place to live. I found that using a Pods-like service which gives me a massive crate that they ship to my destination was the cheapest solution. So, all of my things will be in storage within said crate until I can get situated with a home. My work has an apartment used for visitors from the UK office, but they're letting me rent it int the meantime. I don't think it will take more than a month to get move into my own place. So, counting this last month and this upcoming one, I have two months of hiatus to apologize for. So....
• epic fail!

So, it would seem that this whole "moving from Chicago to Salt Lake City area" thing turned out to be one big fat mess. I've been unable to make any new pages because all of my supplies are in boxes and I've been scrambling to get everything organized. Unfortunately I cannot replicate textures very well digitally, so I can't make any more pages until I get to my scanner. Thankfully this happened right at the end of the first chapter, so the damage isn't too severe.
• mediocre amends!

I'll be drawing up sketches digitally to add as an end-of-chapter bonus. A way to apologize for this terrible hiatus. :(

With love,
MiX

Extra pages this week?

For those who actually read this and not the DevArt journal or Twitter:
I have the BEST luck, because the Chicago MidPhase office I worked in was shut down last week. :( We all lost our jobs, so it looks like I'll have a bit more time to do eoi pages. *sigh*

I'll probably me moving to Utah to work in the remaining U.S. office, but that's not been decided on yet. But until I either transfer or find another job, I'll be free to dedicate more time to EoI. ...It's not like I have anything better to do now. :/

At least this will help make up for the lame character sheets I posted in lieu of a page last week.
Enjoy.

-MiX

multilingual support, color character sheets, comic content search

• multilingual support
OMG NORLY? YESRLY.
I'll be making a version of the site/pages in Spanish, French, and Japanese. Thankfully I managed to blackmail ask nicly for Cy to help with the Spanish version. It should be here... sometime soon. Whenever we get around to it. God knows I pester him enough as it is. Ehhh...

But! As for the French and Japanese versions, I'm still asking around for my friends who are fluent in those. Hopefully I can find someone who has free time to help. Mostly so I don't butcher the translations myself. :)
• Full color!
Well, as much as everyone would like another comic page, I've been meaning to make these character sheets for a long time. I finihsed them a little while ago and posted to DevArt, but have been putting off updating this site because I wanted to correct the Characters Page to include these but have been lazy. I hate code and don't wnat to pester Cy every waking moment.



And this last one is still in-progress...



• comic content search
lol, Cy has been helping me a lot with some new tweaks.
You might notice the new randomized banner at the top. As I make more color art, I'll add in some more to the blend. Hopefully it should brighten up the site so its not just OMG SEPIA RAINBOW LOL.

There is also a new Search function we're implementing. This niftly little toy will allow me to transcribe each page and let you guys do a quick search for any phrases/wording of ANY and ALL pages.
More work for me, easier referencing for you.
There's even a nifty little text-only page index now.

-With love, Mix.

Ok, ok. This week's post was a little late.

I've been doing hardcore condo searching, which is eating up my time.
Found three that I totally dig and one of which I've nearly fallen in love with. Though, I'm having trouble with my bank now that it's time to hash out some solid numbers.
Thankfully I've found a fantastic Realtor who has been helping me a lot. If anyone's ever searching for a place in Chicago, then this is your man. Drop me a line if you want his info.

Don't ever go with Chase if you can avoid it. They ate up my poor little WaMu so I'm stuck with all my seniority grandfathered into that shithole bank. :(

I think I might leave the journals less frequent and only use them for major announcements. You guys have Twitter and DevArt for page post notification. This journal doesn't need an entry for every page.

-Mix

Recolors/tweaks and Twitter!

• Recolors
I've made an effort to kind of cover over the drastic difference between the older pages (from before the 2 year hiatus) and the newer ones. Basically, just some rebalancing of the Sepia hue.
God, I love Sepia so much.
Aside from that, I've done some other tweaks ere and there. If you clear your cache, you will see that things like the pathetically old rating stamp and the "book 1 chapter 1" banner have both been updated. The last (and most time consuming) change will be the reorganization of the navigation bar right below the banner. That's going to be a pain in the ass, so I'll likely put it off for another eternity. Or, until the clutter eventually forces my Obsessive Compulsive tendencies to straighten that out some weekday at an ungodly hour.
What else do I do at 3 am? Sleep? Me? Hah.
• 

Some of you might have noticed that I've been announcing the new pages on my Twitter account.
I don't use it much, but I've given a trial run of shouting out the page announcements there. So, if Deviant Art isn't your cup of tea, you can use that. I'll probably set up a mailing list later for the super old school guys out there.

I'll have another page posted this week. Dedicating tomorrow to that. This is officially a one-page-per-week manga with a bonus second page most weeks and sometimes a third if you're lucky.

-Mixiekins over and out~! <3

Downloadables and Page 17

So, page 17 is done and posted.
A tad late because I was messing around with colors. It doesn't really seem to fit, to be honest. I originally intended for the rest of the story to be in color, and only the dream/flashback sequences to be Sepia. Not only does color feel out of place, but it also take a lot longer to do. :/ And I suppose if this ever does go into print, it would be cheaper and less of a dramatic change if it was Sepia to Grayscale.
Just for kicks, here's the page in half color and full color:

As for the Downloadables, I've tossed together a rather spiffy wallpaper.

Well, I think that about does it for me this week. Well, for you guys, its already this next week. But I have Sundays and Mondays off from work, so Monday is the end of my week. So there.

Hugs and Kicks ...in the faces.
Mixe-poo

Page 16

Ahahah, I actually ended up staying awake until a bit past 2:30 am to put on the finishing touches, so its technically a post for the 15th. But oh well. :) I plan to make another one "tomorrow" or, "later today" ...whichever sounds best. Look, I only took so long because I got sidetracked by Start Trek TNG. :S So sue me. DATAAAA! kick Lore's ass!

Oh man, Silver is doggy food now. Oh, the suspense! Maybe I should take a little break, just to be mean... ehehe. (joking.)

With love. >:D

-Mix

Three in one week~! <3 Pg 15 done.

Well, then! It would appear that I'm capable of making three pages in one week at this level. Whee~! :D

I think I've finally gotten into the swing of things here, so hopefully I'll be able to keep this up. I plan to do at least One page a week, probably posting on Mondays, but I'll do extras if I have time. So expect anywhere from one to three pages a week. :] Thank goodness, too, because I'm sick of seeing nothing but Silver and Black. ...in sepia. Ha, color joke. Not funny.

I hope Claus "Jasz" Joplin shows up soon. He's the hero after all. This is boring!

-MiX

Page 14 super early, to make up for the slowness.

Super duper awesome time. I think I'm on a bit of a roll now. Hopefully it wont let up. (ha, that's not likely.) I'll be off doing other things tomorrow (well, technically "later today" as it's currently 12:22 AM), so the soonest I can get to work on the SUPER ACTION PACKED page 15 will be........ Survey Says: *DING!* Friday.

Though, seeing as how I usually stay up til midnight working on these pages (or so the trend has been progressing), It might not post to the site until Saturday. lol

But yes, I'm off to go look at apartments! Whee! Can you believe it, I'm not even old enough to drink and yet I'm about to buy a house. Where the hell did that come from? Ahahah, usually "kids my age" are out going to college or buying their first car... but that's not how I roll. Nope! I want a door-knocker, not a honk-horn. Beep Beep, vrooom.

-MiX

New Page: 13, sorry a bit late!

Really late on this next page, sorry! I've been doing a lot of research and work to prepare for the later chapters in book 1, so I'm a bit behind this time. I should be able to do at least one page a week for a little while now. I'm happy to say that I'll also have some finished color character sheets to post in a little bit. :)

Cy is also busy working on a project that will update Twitter every time I post a new page. Make sure you all add the Twitter name "mixiekins" to your list. And as always, I'll echo these posts to my Deviant Art "madmem" account. We'll look into a mailing list later, for you old-school guys. As for RSS feed, you guys can jsut use the one on Twitter. lol

Thanks, everyone and I hope you all enjoy page 13! Creepy creepy, and ohnoes!

-With love, MiX

New page: 12

Well, it seems that after a year (I think?) of no new pages, here is the next one. :D

Geez, I thought I'd lost my train of thought by mow. Ahahahaa. Well, I'll be posting more pages, and trying to be frequent. Maybe I'll stick to a schedule soon. Ughhhh.

I'm trying to do the "grainy" texture of these pages a bit differently now. Perhaps later I might go back and redo the first few pages. ....sigh....

Big thanks to everyone who is sticking around, and those who are new, and super thanks to Cy for helping me so much by making this awesome set-up for the new site. Whee~!

-Cari "MiX" Garafalo

1-2-3 Testing...

WELCOME TO EOI'S NEW SITE!!! Generated by our ubber-awesome custom software called "muse", programmed by me, cyborg_ar ;). And sorry if there are some bugs, we're still in beta :3 Also, there are sections with missing content, we'll be filling those ASAP, be patient.

PS: if you happen to find a bug in the site notify me at jose.cyborg at gmail dot com :3 ktnxbai.

~ José I. Romero (cyborg_ar)