Rag the Viking: The Cubicles of Valhalla is the first joint effort between Tom Dell’Aringa and Steve Ogden. This fun minicomic tells the story of a typical office man who has dreams beyond his mundane daily experience.

The cost, including shipping is $2.50 to the US, $2.75 to Canada and $3 anywhere else.

You can buy it now at the store page.

Preview Images

Development Art

Here is a loose sketch sheet that resulted from a quick design meeting the other day, which led to the overall design approach for Rag.

My wife made something super special for me on Valentine’s Day – Marooned character cookies! She got up early and spent two hours making these. How wonderful is that? I think they came out awesome looking – and they taste even better! Is the the best or what? Check out the pics. (If you want to see headshots of the characters, you can look at the about page)

Seems like the old theme song link died, Aviary changed some things on their site. Anyway, it’s been awhile since I posted this, thought some of the new folks might enjoy it. Here’s the Marooned theme song!

Don’t forget, new readers can win some original art – only accepting entries through this weekend!

I hope you guys are enjoying the beginning of our trip into Mars’ past. Those of you that have been around for awhile may remember that I posted three side story strips called The Unbelievable Adventures of Dr. Ugofandian. I even linked to the first one in the comments this week.

I realized that posting those strips earlier could be somewhat confusing. In addition, there were a couple of small fixes I needed to make. So I took those strips down and updated them a bit. Nothing huge, just a few touchups and updates that needed doing to spruce them up.

Now is actually the perfect time to take a look at those strips. So starting tomorrow, I’m going to post all three of the newly renamed “Dr. Ugofandian’s Unbelievable Adventures” strips. They interweave into the current story nicely, especially since we will be taking a little trip into the past ourselves.

So look for UA#1 on Friday the 12th, regular strip (#176) on Monday the 15th, UA#2 on Tuesday the 16th UA#3 on Wednesday the 17th and then back to regular strips (#177) on Thursday the 18th – which will be our first look at the Martian High Council.

I’m beginning to accumulate a lot of backstory material. Once the story is told, I’m thinking of putting together some kind of book (probably a floppy) that would publish things like maps, discussion on Martian races, names and so forth. A lot depends on if I have enough and if you folks are interested. It would definitely include some artwork. That’s a ways away, but I figured I would mention.

So make sure you stop by tomorrow for the re-release of UA#1!

Just a reminder that I’m running this little contest until the end of the week. If you are a new reader, all you have to do is answer 4 short questions in the comment thread and you are eligible. Your input will be extremely helpful to me.

Go here for your chance to win.