Daily News Features Not-So-Daily Dog

Just a quick note: Today's New York Daily News features an interview with me on Part-Time Dog.

If you want to fight the trend of declining newspaper circulation and buy the paper, you will be treated(?) to a photo of me holding up a sketch of Cuba, a lovely Havanese, on page 13. That we have approximately the same hair is mere coincidence.

To read the text, you can just click here:

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/10/27/2009-10-27_illustrators_dogged_pursuit_to_draw_perfect_pooch.html

Thanks for supporting this project so far. I received my first new dog photo submission at 8:45 this morning, so if you have a dog photo you want to send in, the sooner the better, please.

All New!! All Different!!

Welcome back to the brand new Not-So-Daily Dog. Sorry for the long layoff. Around the beginning of April, I suddenly found with the urge – no, more of a compulsion – to do my taxes. That done, I had to dig myself out from under my actual paying work before I could get back to this book.

The break gave me a chance to re-work the book a bit. The most radical alteration was that I changed the book into a square format. This required reworking a couple of pages, most importantly the cover (see above. Ain't it pretty?) I'll be unveilng the new look over the next couple of updates. 

I've also changed this little email blast. No more hopping to the blog to see the complete post, and I'll be featuring all the text in legibly sized type right below the picture. I know, I know, will the innovation never stop?

More soon, I promise. In the meantime, please, please send me emails or make some comments on the blog.

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