Because I am nearly finished with Sorcerer’s Apprentice, I had originally planned to use last weekend to finish the book and postpone Midnight Menagerie until Friday instead. That was at least, the initial plan. However, the other thing that happened this weekend was that my tablet failed. Now, you have to understand, that for an artist who works digitally, your tablet breaking is tantamount to running out of every piece of paper, pencil and crayon in your house all at the same time. I’m currently working on getting it fixed, but it’s going to take a day or so before the tablet company gets back to me. I would love to get a new page of Midnight Menagerie up this week, but right now I’m sort of up a creek without my paddle, and no idea when I’m getting it back. Please be patient. As soon as the tablet is working again, the page will go up. Whether that’ll actually be Friday or not is still TBD

This Wednesday marks the first anniversary of Midnight Menagerie. Oh man, how time flies, I didn’t even realize it’s already been that long. I know I’ve missed updates last week, and there will be no page update this week either. I’m very, very close to finishing the next volume of my other series, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, so I’ve decided my time will be better spent just getting that finally out of the way and making up the missing pages at a later date. So you’ll get the pages that were missing last week and this week and get them next week.

But fear not! You won’t totally be devoid of Shawn and Romero goodness, you will get a special anniversary picture on Wednesday, December 11th, to mark the 1st anniversary of the series.

And to the readers who’ve been giving this series a chance, thanks and I hope you’ve been enjoying the ride.

Last Friday I caught a cold after going to the dentist so I didn’t do anything all weekend except try very hard not to die (that’s certainly what it felt like even if I was in no real danger). So unfortunately that means there isn’t a page ready for today. And also because I have my hands so full with Sorcerer’s Apprentice v.2 I won’t have any time this week to work on it either. So the page that was supposed to go up this week will just get bumped to next week. I’m sorry for all of you waiting with baited breath to see what happens to Shawn, but life just gets in the way sometimes, you know? Good news is the missing week is happening this week instead of next week. The upcoming page will be especially cliff hanger-y.

I’m much better now, thanks for asking, so until next week my darling little deviants!

I’m really pleased with the response the series is beginning to get. I know I haven’t been doing it for too long yet, but it’s always nice when people leave comments begging to know what happens next. That’s why I’m trying extra hard to get pages on deadline and posted on time so I don’t make you guys suffer more than you have to.

So far Midnight Menagerie has been all about atmosphere and lulling you into a false sense of security. The pages set during the day are bright and colorful, there is a lot of humor and Shawn is an adorable ball of ginger goofiness. But that’s the point. That being said, Midnight Menagerie *is* a horror series. There are going to be some scary, violent, surreal and crazy things happening. Shawn will continue to be an adorable ball of ginger goofiness, but his life will be threatened by by all sorts of things. I put a trigger warning this week for needle phobias, but in the future be aware some things I draw/write may go into all sorts of things that people find scary and disturbing. That’s the point, too. I won’t go too far since this is a PG-13 story, but I thought it would be nice to remind people what it is they’re actually reading.