I’m sad to say that Endstone is almost over. Unfortunately, and perhaps even sadder, I have to go on hiatus until August. I have a family vacation planned for July and I was trying madly to finish Endstone before then, but it’s just not going to happen.
So, be sure to subscribe to the email list (the link to the right of the comic) to get word when Endstone returns. Also, I’ll be revealing news about the fate of Endstone and future projects in August too.
See you soon.
Tony
I’ll have to wait until Endstone is over for good? Gosh.. how will I ever manage? 🙂
Enjoy your vacation, Tony!
Thanks, Shadowydreamer. 🙂
For me, this last comic could be a great ending. I know that there are many things to be explain or resolved, but this picture was perfect. The face of various characters is great. Tony, I want to say thanks for the ride for all these years. Enjoy your vacations.
It would make a decent ending, but there is one last twist. 🙂 Stay tuned…
August?
WAAAAAAAH! I’m too impatient to wait until then!
Mrrrrrrrr. Well, you’re a person too, so you need a vacay! Enjoy it. I’ll probably check the comic every day anyway, just because I want to. And unlike you, I don’t have a life! 😛
We eagerly await your return and the final conclusion!
Shhh.. or he’ll catch on to our plan to chain him to his art desk for the next story..
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Tony, ever since I found your story all those months ago, I’ve been impressed as hell with your artwork and the storyline. I’m sad to see this ending but understand and am looking forward to what is next percolating in that grey matter of yours…after your well deserved vacation!
A Job Well Done!!! 🙂
Thanks so much my friend. The pleasure is mine. 🙂
You’re talking about the end of Endstone, but you said you had plans for future story arcs once this one is over, plans involving Primrose as a full fledged villainness and using a new US city as the real of necromanticon for stoners. I do hope you intend to start those eventually and not stop Endstone completly. 😉
But for now, vacation more than well deserved, i say. 🙂
Yes I do have ideas and plans for future Endstone stories. I’m glad you’re interested too, DK. 🙂 It means a great deal to me. I’m just not sure how much of my life I want to invest in webcomics at this point.
Endstone is a weird thing for me. On one hand I have loyal readers, some who have been with me for years so this tells me I’m doing something right. On the other hand, Endstone is not a hit, and when I put it on sites like Comic Rocket or Topwebcomics, or Twitter, or Facebook, my comic just languishes. So that’s telling me something different.
Also, if I factor in the cost of coloring it actually costs me a little bit of money every year to produce the comic. 🙁
I do the comic because I love it and I love entertaining you folks. Can I do this for many more years? I am wrestling with that at the moment. I could continue Endstone as it is. I’ve been thinking about rebranding it as “Stone Rocker” (to throw off the large archive) I’ve also been considering rebooting it, with tweaked characters and art.
I’m just not sure. I’ll let you know when I decide. 🙂
And what it tells ME is that Endstone is a great webcomic that suffers from a not so great advertisement. 😉
You probably need to change advertisement strategy. Have you tried asking a comic book reviewer to give your webcomic a try ? Getting talked about by someone like Linkara on his show “A Top the 4th Wall” would surely boost your reputation. 😉
Once you have increased your fan base this way, the money you get from ads will skyrocket too, covering your current expenses.
“Not so great advertisement” indeed, I think the only “ads” I’ve ever seen for Endstone are a banner in someone’s signature on some old forum I went to for help and the occasional sidebar on other webcomics.
The root problem with advertising is that the annoying majority of “hey check out this cool thing” flows through The Grapevine, making simple ads effectively worthless for us little folks beyond getting that first start towards a greater fanbase.
That being said, Endstone is perfect as it stands (at least, well within acceptable margin of brain-to-paper error/time constraints). As one artist to another, trust me – there will ALWAYS be something to nitpick if (when) you look for it.
Yep, I’mma post this now before it gets any longer.
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That’s why, rather that pop-ups and banners (which are often blocked anyway, by the way), i suggested boosting reputation through other, better known mediums. Linkara, for instance, is a very popular comic book reviewer that has been doing video review of various comic books for years and has ammassed so many fans and views per video that he’s started producing DVDs and selling them.
If someone like him were to do a review about Endstone, even if it’s not his usual “officially published comic book” format, would definitly skyrocket Tony’s work’s popularity, making the Endstone more often seen and making the ads bring in much more money. 🙂
What are these “pop ups” and “banners” of which you speak? 😉
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I take it you’ve been using Adblock for a very long time ? 🙂
So have i but i do have whitelisted some of those used by this website, they’re not too intrusive. Still, your comment underlines how ineffective that advertising strategy is.
Hence why I said it.
At this point, I’ve got the vast majority of ad hosts blocked as far up the chain as my DNS server, aside from a handful of the less unobtrusive ones such as Project Wonderful. Artists need to eat, and I’m well aware of how much of a time sink art production can be. Cue the auto-clicker!
Also, it saves me the bother of messing with the HOSTS file on my gaming boxes. 😉 On an entirely completely unrelated note, do NOT try to get a gaming rig to dual-boot BSD, it’s not worth it.
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hey, don’t get confused with competition and cooperation. your fans are the cooperative aspect of success, and the most important volume thereof. Without fans, no amount of competition and votes and statistical glory can amount up to squat.
don’t compete with other artists, compete with yourself. THAT’S why you have fans! that’s why YOU have friends in your readers!
Bummer! Looking forward to the end.
Thanks for your continued readership down the years, Insectoid. Stay tuned . . .
When did Herod get his H back?
He got his “H” medallion and trench coat back a few pages ago when Kari Thorson tweaked the control panel of the SPIRE. 🙂
I will wait restlessly and get shadows under my eyes. Enjoy your well deserved vacation an note how i tried no so subtly to riddle with guilt for the time you will spend far from your desk.
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LOL. 🙂
You should see my the shadows under my eyes…. 😉
So that *was* Gog, not Primrose. I thought it must be; Prim would be a small, madly yapping dog that substituted Jon for a hydrant.
Enjoy your rest, Tony.
Oh, and I’m glad to see Quantrel alive and holding Primrose’s leash.
When this is over, maybe he needs to cowhide her with it.
Yeah Quandel is back. I had a scene where he was restored but I think this will work more economically story-wise. More to come…
Ahahahaha… you pulled a quick one on us, didn’t you Tony? That was good. Can’t wait to see the ending now. Enjoy your vacation!
Thanks, Lurker. 🙂 And there is a reason for this scene… stay tuned. 🙂
Well what is this, you have been busy since the last time i checked around!! And now that i’ve gotten hooked up to the web, you’re gonna go on hiatus??? well isnt murphy a little prick today?! whoever decided he could make his own laws really dropped the ball! hah!
But nevermind that, im hella glad to see this thing wrapping up so nicely!! it has been a beautiful experience, and now’s the perfect time to go back and do it all again from the start! 😀