For those of you who are wondering…no, we didn’t get our Christmas cards out. It’s a long story, but we had a huge technical problem on a project we were working on. We had to burn 100+ dvds and had a major snafu with not only the burning software, but the burners themselves. It was a collosal mess we have been working on for a couple of weeks, and it put us behind on everything. Thankfully, the project is done, and we’re getting a little caught-up with other stuff, but as you can appreciate, the comic did come as a secondary priority these past few days. We appreciate your patience.

Any parent who has had to sit through the barrage of holiday specials can appreciate today’s comic (issue #104). Seems everyone has a Christmas tale to tell, and if you mashed them all together, they would make quite a piece of work. Originally I was going to have Dott go to talk to Harry in the kitchen, but decided I wanted to show off another part of the house–Harry’s home office. Even though these are pixel graphics, I spend a lot of time thinking about how a room should look and creating it. As in a set for a show, any creation I make is gonna be used a lot, so I feel it’s important to get it done right–even if it is ultimately minimalistic.

As for the blinking tree, I debated if I wanted to do it or not. Honestly, we had eventually planned on doing something like this in some later strips for effect, and since it seemed appropriate, went ahead and did it now. I think was the key was to keep the blinking rather slow so it didn’t distract from the strip. Weigh in what you thought about it in the forum.

I have it linked on the front page, but if you haven’t seen it yet, on my Pixel blog, I have linked up a bunch of movies and shorts from around the Web that my family likes. You may find quite a few on the list that you’ve seen before, but there are also a few you may not have watched. So, check it out HERE.

We ARE planning on having a strip up on Tuesday. See you then.