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A brief intro, and the cover

Part-Time Dog is the story of a PhD candidate in philosophy in need of some extra cash. A rich couple in Brooklyn Heights hire him to pretend to be a dog for their kid, because they don't want a real dog peeing all over their rugs. It is not uplifting.

Enjoy today's image, the cover! Click on the preview for a larger image. By the way, please tell me if you think the enlarged image is too small. I can always upload a larger copy.

Free bonus fun!! Count the number of individual brushstrokes it took to render the dog hair in this image. Then try not to think too hard about it. Then don't feel your fingers start to cramp up. Then take some aspirin.

Welcome to the Daily Dog

Hello and welcome to "The Daily Dog," where I'll be posting daily (pretty much!) pages from my first graphic novel, Part-Time Dog.

For me, the purpose of this blog is fairly straightforward: Without deadlines, I have a tendency to draw and re-draw everything until the paper melts into a pulp of eraser shavings, white ink and despair. I'm hoping that you readers will prod me to keep for God's sake moving ahead.

But for you, the purpose is fourfold: 1) You get to read this book as it comes out, page by page; 2) You get to download preview PDFs of the book as it is assembled; 3) You get a complete printable PDF of the book when it is completed; and 4) best of all, you get a chance to win a piece of original art.

Here's how it works: Every person who received an email invitation gets entered in the pool (unless you choose to opt off the list, in which case you're probably not interested in the art anyway, nu?). If you forward that email to someone else, and they send me an email or post on the blog, they get one entry and you get another entry (as long as they mention your name, please. I'm neurotic, not psychic.) So if you get fifty people to sign up, you get fifty entries. I'll be giving away three pages of artwork, and the grand prize winner gets first pick and an original sketch.

So thanks for reading and start posting comments! Say whatever you want, as long as you remember that I hate criticism.

-Tom Seltzer
Principal, Seltzer Studio Graphics