Well, it's over. I'm not sure what to say, and I don't think I should say too much, but here goes.
First of all, there's a bunch of people I want to thank. Joey Manley and Tea Fougner at Webcomicsnation, who not only made me feel welcome, but made my comic possible. Spike, Matt and the Iron Circus people, who are super cool and talented and probably directly responsible for whatever readership this comic had when it began. Mary Shyne, for being cool and drawing a great comic I can't wait to see more of. Kris, for being something of a Webcomics Mentor, and a good friend, and Erica, for being as welcoming, supportive and funny as any person could possibly be. And my mom, my dad and my brother, for not thinking any of the characters are supposed to be them, among other things. And of course I have to thank every single one of my readers, all of whom made this totally worth it.

What I'm going to do now is step away from The Good Crook for a while, and just not think about it. Once its sufficiently left my consciousness, I'm going to go back in with a fresh perspective and edit this thing. And then, I'm going to do my damnedest to get it published. What you can do to help me with that is to tell your friends about the comic, email it around, etc. I'm not done with this yet, even if I've gotten it all out of my head.

Now that it's complete, I hope you all go back in and read it start-to-finish, as it was meant to be read. And thanks everyone for sticking with me on this for a year and a half. I would be happy with myself for finishing this thing no matter what, but you guys make me proud to have done so.

The end is near, guys.

Including Monday's, there are five pages of The Good Crook left.

Instead of having it end next Wednesday, I'll be running the comic on Tuesday-Thursday as well as MWF this week. Which means its the last week of the comic.

I have a lot of people to thank, but we'll save that for the final page. Needless to say I'm incredibly grateful to every person who ever read this comic, forever. (Also its my 21st birthday on the 31st. In case you were wondering.)

Hey everyone. Christmas is fast approaching and I know what everyone wants for Christmas- a huge update to the fanart section! Go check it out, there's a TON of really good stuff there.

Also, you may be able to tell that this comic is coming to a close. I haven't said anything about it because I have no idea what to say, except thank you to everyone who's been reading for this past year and a half. Have a great holiday, you guys, and I'll see you in the new year!

Hola amigos. I know it's been a while since I rapped at ya. I've been busy with schoolwork and with my new comic Bobwhite. I'm thinking of putting together a book of Good Crook's first hundred pages or so. Is that something any of you might be interested in? I'll probably do it through Lulu since I'm not entirely ready to take the Seriously Published plunge yet.

Guess what, everybody. I have a new comic strip! It's called Bobwhite, at bobwhitecomics.com. I know right?! This one's gonna be four panels, five days a week, still in full color. Are you as excited as me? How could you not be.
Good Crook's still going up three days a week as scheduled, but now you get more than double the amount of comics you were getting before! Crazy!

Also, there's 31 strips already in the archive, so read away!

Oh shit guys! Do you know what today is? Today's the first anniversary of The Good Crook! Did you get me presents? No?! God damn you, guys. Seriously.

No, I'm kidding. This past year has gone better than I'd ever hoped it would. A few days ago I finished drawing the last page of this comic (minus color- I'm only a couple dozen ahead with the color pages.) I feel really great about, and I can't wait until I get to post that page here. The comic online is more than halfway done. But I've got a new comic that I've been working on. If all goes to plan it should debut next week, on Monday September 8! So stay tuned! And thank you for a wonderful year of misplaced guns, carjackings, the mafia, and little girls who are probably too smart for their age!

Con was FUCKING AWESOME. Also I'm back in New York- my internship is sadly over. I'll have a better report on all that stuff up soon- I just wanted to get the post announcing "Comicon! It's comin' up" off the top of the blog. So, yes.

Comicon! It's comin' up. On Tuesday Kris and I are heading out to San Diego! Here's what's going on:
I'll be wandering around with flyers and hanging around the Halfpixel booth (2107!), so stop by and see me! I'm dying to meet you guys (really!).
Here's the crazy exciting part- When you get to booth 2107, you can buy a Good Crook minicomic or some of my original art! This is the first time I've tried to sell any of my work so I'm really excited and a little nervous about this. The minicomic has the first twelve pages in grayscale, with many of the panels redrawn to not be so terrible. You're basically getting brand new, never before seen art which you won't find online! Of course you can also get that if you want to grab one of the Good Crook original pieces, which are one of a kind. I'm pretty happy with how they came out and I hope you'll like them too.
Also get some Starslip stuff too, it's pretty great. There's gonna be a whole bunch of awesome stuff going on and we've been getting ready all week, so I hope to see you there!
Also- I've also put up a new page in the Extra Comics section, which you might like. The comics that are up there are all little stories about the Good Crook characters that don't directly relate to the main plot, but I hope they add a little something after you've read them. This one is no exception but its probably the most direct "prequel" so far.

When I was a kid, probably eleven or twelve, I bought an Adam Sandler comedy cd. My dad immediately gave me a copy of George Carlin's You Are All Diseased, saying that if I was going to listen to that kind of thing, I might as well listen to the good stuff. From that point on, George Carlin was my all-time favorite comedian.

George Carlin passed away yesterday and I just wanted to write a little bit here about what he meant to me. What does this have to do with The Good Crook, you ask? Well, George Carlin's bit about how he prays to Joe Pesci (because he looks like a guy who can get things done, and the results are the same anyway) was a big part of what got me interested in mafia movies in the first place.

I'm still a little shocked about this. RIP, George. In one of his routines, he said he believes that when people die, they go wherever they think they're gonna go. I hope he thought he was going somewhere good.

Remember when I said I was gonna put up a forum? I totally wasn't lying. There's a link to it up now, and I've started a couple of (hopefully) fun threads! Please come hang out with me there. It's up to you guys to make this not suck.

Hey guys! Guess where I am right now. Okay, I'll just tell you- I'm in Dallas Texas, working with Kris Straub (and Erica Stephens) of Starslip Crisis! I have a blog post over there about it and there will be a few more over the month and a half I'll be here. Starslip is also one of my favorite comics so check it out if you haven't already. I'm learning tons about the webcomics business, and hopefully I'll use it to make this site and this comic better. Everyone wins!

Also, I'll be with Kris and some of the other Halfpixel guys at SDCC, so come visit me! This will be my first time actually working at the con so I'm really excited. See you there!

Hey guys! A few quick things-

Site updates: I've made some changes to the cast page. Check it out if you're interested in that kind of stuff. I'm gonna be fixing up most of the "extras" pages over the next week so they match the rest of the site, especially the "about" page which has been down for a little while. So NOW YOU KNOW.

Forum: I'm ... thinking of putting one up...? There's nothing sadder than a forum with no posts, but I think there's enough of you guys around by now to make it worth the risk. So... y'know, look for that. In the meantime, you can follow me on Twitter if you want!

Cons: Again, I'm gonna be at MoCCA and SDCC. So say hi! I'm told I'm a very nice person.

There's more big news coming up, but I'm not sure when to talk about it. Stay tuned!

It's my brother's birthday today. Happy birthday, Delaney!

Right now I'm excited because I'm done with school on Wednesday. I have to pack up all my crap by then. Wish me luck.

I'll be at Mocca this year, and also SDCC. For Mocca I'll just be wandering around, possibly with my mom, so I guess say hi if you see me? Seriously e-mail me (magnoliaporter@hotmail.com) if any of you guys in New York want to meet up there (Hi, Mary!). Unless you're crazy murderers. Anyway, it's gonna be awesome.

Okay so, that short story in Extra Comics is done now! You can go ahead and click "back" on it to read the whole thing on one page. It's pretty short so it won't take too much time, and hopefully it should contain some interesting information.

Also this car scene is wrapping up and I'd love to know how you guys felt about it. I was gonna talk about it but I decided it's a little too early to do that. I'm gonna wait for the deluxe hardcover book edition that costs sixty bucks and is sold out everywhere and has a gushing foreword by Alex Robinson. (totally gonna happen)

Good morning! I just want to quickly announce that a Good Crook minicomic will be running M-F this week and M-W next week over at Short Stories section. We won't be seeing Jackie's friend Rico for a while so he has a starring role in this one. (It's a flashback!)

My 24-hour-comic "Mickey Rooney" is also up there, you can read that one too if you haven't yet. In fact I would recommend reading that one first. It's not vital, but that's how I would do it.

These extra comics aren't hugely important to read to understand the story, but these characters go other places in my head, and do things that don't really have a place in the main comic. (I'd make a joke about how "LULZ cartoonists are crazy!" but I'm sure you've all heard people say stuff like this a million times before.) I do these extra comics sometimes just to try out these different stories. So maybe you'll like them too...?

Someday I hope to be remembered for writing such sparkling dialogue as "Get the fuck away!" and "You fuckin' get away, man!"

Now I know how Oscar Levant feels.

Anyway, I really want to talk about this part of the story, but I guess I'll wait for the scene to be over. CARRY ON.

Oh man, I totally forgot that we passed the 100-comics mark a while ago! Oh well. So, um, hooray for me.

This is the last page of probably one of my favorite scenes. I hope you guys liked it too. Fortunately I had kind of a small jump in readers during this scene- I'm glad people came in for that part of the comic. Anyway.

I had a great time at NYCC! There's new fanart up from Mary C. Shyne, who I met at the con. It was totally awesome discussing the women there walking around in leather underwear with her. (For real, con-going ladies, let's be serious for five seconds. )

I got a sketch from Alex Robinson too, and I was so nervous and excited I can't even tell you. He gave me a really good sketch but sometimes its weird getting drawings at conventions. I'm never sure whether to talk or not when they're drawing; I don't want to distract them, but there's also this awkward sort of silence. Oh well!

There was only one bad part to all this. When I got back from New York, I found out that Martin Scorsese had done a lecture at Brown that weekend, which is right next to my school. And I missed it. Noooooooo

Hey guys! I'm going home for NYCC. If any of you are going, maybe... maybe I'll see you there?

This is going to be awesome.

I loved drawing this page. I think this is a good one for new readers to come in on, if only because this is kind of the closest I've gotten so far to making The Good Crook EXACTLY what I want it to be. Does that make sense? No? Okay.