It was about 6 months ago that girlycomic suggested restarting MCR, the Midwinter Comics Retreat that badasstronaut had famously run. It would be in memory of Debs, and all the fun times we had at this marvellous weekend. In fact, it was through MCR that I first got to know Debs. I'd gone to my first Caption in about 10 years, and I was told about this mysterious individual called Debra who ran a yearly weekend in the back of beyond, where a group of comics creators would meet up and draw comics together - while Debs fed them amazing food. This sounded like heaven to me, and in spite of the fact that going to MCR would involve me staying a weekend almost entirely with strangers - I resolved to go, ended up becoming friends with Debs (and many other awesome people!) And the rest is history. Sniff!

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I'm back from MCR. I had a fab time, being royally wined and dined by the fabulous badasstronaut.
14 chums of coolness locked in a remote cottage for a weekend, buried under vast amounts of amazing food and superb booze and not allowed out until we've made a comic. Frankly, it's my idea of heaven.

This time I'd been practicing beforehand and intended to make a real stab at drawing up pages. Managed 5 in the weekend. Woot! Don't yet know how many we made between us (some still in progress, including the rest of mine that need a bit of clean up) but up to 25 pages I believe.

2 of mine below the cut... one of which could be considered not worksafe, sort of. Though technically it is worksafe. (Cough.)
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The full comic should be going online at some point, when fully finished. Will linky when it's up!