MSW 2026
While my break is drawing to a close, the hiatus won't hit the website until June 22nd, when an eight-week wave of interminable reruns will hit the shore. But it's the best possible rerun I could do, the Murder She Writes 15th anniversary edition that I had intended to print, with some tiny visual tweaks (let's call them "rectifications of slapdashery") and a new cover, which I drew this morning.
Addendum: in the comments, someone mentions an image that ran on the website before MSW started in 2011.
Comments (13)
I have not been able to see the website the last several days. I keep getting the message "Request Header Fields Too Large The server refused this request because the request header fields are too large." Is anyone else getting that?
Clear your cookies Patrick! Sorry for the inconv etc
Are there any other one-shots you’d want to remaster or re-release online? I’ve noticed that compared to all of your other stories, Heavy Metal Hearts + Flowers isn’t available anywhere right now.
THAT, Expecting To Fly, Murder She Writes are all worthy of a reprint. I don't like Heavy Metal Hearts + Flowers. It has aged poorly.
What a lovely new cover! Also hoping a reprint will be worth the time and effort!
I still have the "original" original pre-publication cover image that never made it to an actual release. It's been fifteen years, I can't even remember where I got it from, but I thought the visuals (a bloody red track in the snow, color matched to Shelley's hair) incredibly striking. I wonder why it was never used.
I know the image you're talking about, I just dug it out. It wasn't a cover, it was a half page image to flag the fill-in for Bad Machinery when it originally ran. It was very hastily put together! Looking at the file dates, when I drew it, the story in question only had five pages and no others had been written! Slapdash times. I've added the image to the post so others can see.
The comic that introduced "putting me off my 'grams" to my personal idiolect!
I love this story so much, I do hope that you decide it does warrant the pain of printing it again.
It's just a question of whether I have a big unsold box of them in my house, there are a lot of boxes on the shelves at the moment
Lovely to see Shelley and Lottie share the cover this time around! Striking title font too, with the character coded colour switch. I'm looking forward to reading this once again, and seeing how many tweaks I notice.
With the exception of one page where I added some new drawings to make it up into a "proper" page from a filler done for the print version, it was mostly filling in little bits I hadn't coloured properly and tidying up loose lines drawn with a hot pen.
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