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Exciting news, everyone: the pre-launch page for the upcoming Kickstarter is now live!! Check it out now:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seanwangart/runners-volume-3-graphic-novel

I am still working on the actual campaign page, which I am looking to officially launch in early August. But in the meantime, you can visit the pre-launch page and sign up to be notified. As always, getting lots of backers early on is really beneficial for a campaign’s success, since it shows a strong likelihood of getting fully funded, so I hope you will sign up now and pledge early when it launches.

And as always, please help spread the word! It’s been a long road getting this volume done, so I’m very excited to finally be at the stage of getting it printed and into your hands!

(Just a quick note: there is a slight delay in new page postings as I am waiting to get back pages from my colorist. He had a bit of a packed schedule already when I belatedly got him the pages, so it’s a little backlogged right now. But the final pages should be forthcoming soon.) But not to bury the headline….

I am super excited and honored to announce that I am one of three nominations for the 2024 National Cartoonists Society Divisional Awards in the category of Online Comics – Long Form!! Woot woot!!

It is really amazing to have the series acknowledged in this way, given the amount of work that I’ve put into the series for all these many years and the ongoing struggle to get it seen in a world filled with so much content. Whether it wins the award or not, it really is so nice just to be recognized. Although a nice shiny plaque would be pretty cool too. 🙂 It is also very cool to see David Milgrim, a local friend and great artist, also nominated in the same category for his work. Fight!

Winners will be announced at the 79th Annual Reuben Awards in Boston on August 15, 2025. In unrelated news, does anyone have a tux I can borrow that they don’t mind me getting lots of powdered donut dust on? Ha ha.

It’s been a long while since the last page upload, so I wanted to pop in for a quick update and apology for the long delay. Rest assured the the next chapter is still on its way! About 2/3 of the chapter is fully penciled and inked, with the first batch at the colorist. The original plan was to start posting pages back in early December 2023, but I guess the art is a bit complex, and one of the colorists I work with is taking a longer time getting them done. At this point, I’m waiting to have enough banked so I can post again without interruptions, but I honestly have no idea when that will be. Hopefully soon.

On top of that nebulous production delay, this past November and December were filled on my end with the usual holiday-related interruptions and travel time sucks. And a portion of January was spent dealing with things related to my mom’s health issues and taking care of things pertaining to her house.

So time has been short the past few months, on top of a 2023 filled in general with other mom-related tasks that needed doing. But production continues. I am about 7 pages away from finishing Chapter 6, and then I move onto the FINAL CHAPTER of Volume 3. Then Kickstarter time to get the book printed!

Thanks as always for your patience. I’m hoping most of the major time sucks are over at this point, but life tends to have other plans. We shall see. In the meantime, I’m hoping to start getting those colored pages soon. The next batch of inked pages will soon be going to a second colorist, where I expect turnaround to be much quicker, fingers crossed.