So I’ve left Nat Gonella here, in the laboratory of mad Doctor Rognvald – more or less – because my current stint on the illustrations for Part Two of The Toaster With TWO BRAINS has come to its end.

For the past week I’ve been working on another web project that’s still a ways from being ready for prime time. That one’s a commercial site for all of my Celtic art merchandise, just as I did with the Retropolis site for the retro-futuristic side of my brain.

I had meant to finish the Celtic Art Works site before the holidays last year… but Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual just wouldn’t let me go. This year, I’m making a stand.

A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

But on Wednesday I plan to sit back down with The Lair of the Clockwork Book, where I’ll remain for a couple of months as I keep illustrating weeks out ahead of what you see on the Thrilling Tales site. With the occasional diversion into the ten million sidebars I have to write for The Celtic Art Works, I should get where I need to be on time, on all fronts. I think.

I hope to be able to (soon!) show you a pretty neat thing that I hinted about back in April – a tie-in with something that’s so much more popular than I’ve ever been that I feel a little funny about showing up with it at the dance. Shouldn’t be too much longer. I’m sure I’ll have this cummerbund figured out by then.