The Greys

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It's nice to see The Greys is getting some attention again, I enjoy your comics.

Thanks

We never stopped working on The Greys, we just haven't been able to put as much time into it as we used to. It's never made us any money - and after hosting fees are considered, it's actually cost me well over £1000 over the years - so our paid gig ("Elvie", for Linux Voice magazine) has taken priority. Add in a bit of real-life and our time to work on The Greys is limited.

We do have a handful of our old strips that we've "revisited", which are almost complete. We want to add a new Easter Egg to each of them, though, which is quite a lot of work itself given that most of our Easter Eggs are equivalent to an extra strip.

Summary: More Greys will be coming, but I can't guarantee when.

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A bit of thread necromancy to let you know that our Elvie strip has now been appearing in print every month for 5 years! Initially it was in Linux Voice magazine, then that publication got subsumed into Linux Magazine (Linux Pro Magazine in the US), but they kept the cartoon running.

To celebrate this milestone I've written an article about how we create our strips. It's in issue #220 of Linux (Pro) magazine, which should be on news stands now. Or you can order a copy (print or pdf) here: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2019/220

[KlaxonCow]

Congrats!

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It's been far too long since we posted a new Greys comic so here's something we put on our site a few weeks ago, to coincide with the end of Game of Thrones:



I know most people don't bother going looking for the Easter Eggs, but this one does contain one of my favourites to date.

[Little stoned kiwi]

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We're now on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/peppertop

Here's the obligatory pitch video:



If you like The Greys in particular, we plan to reveal the secrets of all the Easter eggs to our patrons. Every Greys strip has at least one Easter egg, and although the earlier ones are a little tame, later strips include stupid amounts of extra content - sometimes there's more in the Easter eggs than the main strip itself! If you don't want to become a patron, but still fancy finding some Easter eggs, we'll be making a series of posts about the techniques and software you'll need to find them, which will be generally available whether you're a patron or not. The first one, which gives a little history of why we ended up putting Easter eggs in the strips in the first place, is now on our page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/29383268

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Another new strip: this one is to celebrate International Thunderbirds Day (which is a thing, apparently).