I think I must have been coming down with this random mid-spring ailment as early as two weeks ago- I just didn’t have the energy to do a complete strip, but I figured I’d be able to do so much work on my vacation between Memorial Day and now that it’d make up for it. Instead I was struck down with some gnarly cold/flu thing, and I spent most of my vacation lying on the couch with a high fever, a stuffed head, and a bad cough.

I’m feeling much better now, but sadly I didn’t do any of the work I had intended to do while I took time off from my dayjob. But I did say when I was relaunching SnoogleZoo that I wasn’t going to adhere to a strict update schedule, so I’m okay with that. It’s what’s going to keep me working in spite of this little setback. Tune in next time, and the gang will be well on their way in the quest for the unicorn of the North Woods.

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Half a Page today. The rest is forthcoming.

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I want SnoogleZoo to be a safe place for kids to visit, so I am absolutely ruthless about comment approval, and my blogroll lists only comics that I think I could show my young cousins without their mom kicking my butt. And I now realize that I need to extend that responsibility to the approval of ads, because the ostensible rating of this site apparently doesn’t dictate for other people the rating of their ads.

I got sick this weekend, but with one minute to spare, I made my update on time, dangit!

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Wow, I have completely forgotten how to use ComicPress!

Um…hi everyone! Welcome back!

I should explain what’s going on here. I started a storyline back in February 2009 in which OMG Panda, Tanuki Nuki, and Charlie Raccoon go exploring in the woods, and I completely lost momentum and abandoned it. I pretty much abandoned the whole strip, or so it would seem.

I am rebooting the series now, with slightly tweaked character designs and a new format. And I’m returning to that storyline I dropped, but I’m not picking up precicely where I left off. Updates are going to be roughly once a week, so subscribe to the RSS feed or my twitter if you want to get the latest updates as they happen.

Enjoy the comic!

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I’m picking up more or less where I left off, but the format is changing and the update schedule is going to be somewhat looser than it was when I was working on it regularly. The comics are bigger (rather than a newspaper-style strip with three-ish panels they are closer to 8×10 and six-ish panels), and they are penciled and inked by hand. I’ll still be doing colors and lettering on the computer.

I’m shifting my focus to quality over quantity. Back when I started I wanted to meet the update schedule no matter what, and I ended up writing lame jokes and making hasty drawings that I wasn’t proud of. I’m not entirely sure how often I’ll be updating just yet, as I’m still working on the first comic, but it might be as frequent as once a week. What I do know is that I’m working on it every day, and pages will go up when they’re done.

I can tell you that even though it has been over a year since I posted a new comic, I never stopped thinking about these characters and this world. Things have grown and changed somewhat, and the world and the gang’s place in it is more solid than it was before. I’m so excited to get you guys reacquainted.

Sorry folks, I’ve been a little distracted lately and my schedule for updating the comic kind of fell apart. Taking time off kind of hurt the rhythm of working on it regularly, but thank you for bearing with me!

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This was going to be the whole map, but it got complicated, so I’m going to take my time on it rather than rush for the deadline. It’s going to be really cool. And, as if you can’t tell, we’re going to see Scruffy again on Friday

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This is the first time the camera has faced away from the coffee shop.

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I was waffling between ending this two different ways. The punchline I didn’t use indicated that Pan had never been to the cafe early in the morning (during the morning rush, when all the regulars we haven’t met yet are there), but I had no good reason why he’d be there early today, so I went with the “triple whip” punchline instead.

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