Hey, it’s our anniversary again!

It hardly seems like it’s been two years, but the calendar says so, and who are we to argue with it?

We hope you’ve been enjoying the adventures of Captains Flemm and Greyhawk, because we’ve got more stories to come this year!

After we finish The Wannabe Pirates and the Curse of Greyhawk Island, we’ll start up The Wannabe Pirates and the Sword of the Rightwise King! This was the story that we were going to use for the animated project.

On the Starbucklers side, Greyhawk and the Starbucklers of the Caribbean will be ending at the end of March and we’ll start with our first new Starbucklers story in 13 years: The Starbucklers of the Caribbean: Universe on Fire! It will also be the first story in color!

We’re also working on releasing two books this year! In April, we’re going to gather the original 2D strips for The Wannabe Pirates and Henry Morgan’s Treasure! It will contain the first three storylines and some bonus stuff! In November, we’re going to put out a brand new 2nd edition of Greyhawk and the Starbucklers of the Caribbean! This will have the updated version we did for the website as well as some cool bonus material about the origin of the character!

McCrary and I are having great fun making these comics and we hope some of that fun is making its way to you!

As a way of marking this anniversary and saying thanks to all of you who take some of your time to read our comics, we’re going to have a drawing to give away a couple of cool things!

The first is this 20″ x 30″ poster of the Wannabe Pirates! Along with that, we’re going to be giving away a signed copy of the original 1997 graphic novel, Greyhawk and the Starbucklers of the Caribbean!

Entering is easy! Just send us an email at mail@thewannabepirates.com with “Contest” in the subject line! We’ll take entries until the end of the month and randomly select a winner on the first of March!

Thanks again for coming on the journey with us and we’re working hard to make this 3rd year the best yet!

Wow, we’re up to part 50 on Curse of Greyhawk Island and Part 80 on Greyhawk and the Starbucklers of the Caribbean!

If you haven’t been reading since these storylines started, I thought it might be helpful to point out some of the navigation tools in the new version of the site!

There are now sub-categories for the comics, named after the storyline of the comic. So, for instance, if you click on the dark red “Curse of Greyhawk Island” below the date in the strip’s title, you’ll be taken to an Archive for just that storyline. It’ll start with Part 1 and go through all of them.

Similarly, there’s a “Storylines” dropdown menu on the right sidebar, that will let you pick from any of the storylines!

Of course, you can still click on the “first” button and go all the way back to the very first comic.

Hope this helps you find your way around!

Addendum: I’ve adjusted the names so that the Wannabe Pirates stories now appear in order. Thanks to Arlene for bringing that to my attention!

Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays!

Things have really been busy for us, but we’re excited about 2010!

We’re well into The Wannabe Pirates and the Curse of Greyhawk Island and Greyhawk and the Starbucklers of the Caribbean is barreling towards the end, with a brand new Greyhawk adventure to follow!

February 1st will mark our 2nd anniversary! We’re talking about doing something to mark the event.

Heading into our 3rd year, we’re confident the best is yet to come!

Thanks for joining us on the journey!

Hello! Largent here!

As we’re getting closer and closer to Christmas, things are going to get busy for us …and you, too I’m guessing! We’d like to wish everyone a safe and wonderful holiday season!

Thought it would be appropriate to bring this back out again. The animated Christmas Greeting I did last year as my Christmas card!

Enjoy and Merry Christmas!

Hi-there! Largent here!

Chickens are going to be playing a part in the story later on and I just had to share this image of them! I don’t know why, but I find cartoon chickens very funny.

I also wanted to say a big Thank You to the folks who came out for the Dallas Webcomics Expo last Saturday! It was great fun meeting everyone! I passed out a lot of postcards! We’ve made it up to three readers and I’m hoping that one of the people I met there will volunteer to become reader number four!

I did manage to meet a few of the other webcomickers and they were all great!

I met Brian Powers of liltoon. He’s got some ideas about adding some animated content with his characters which sounded very cool to me!

I also met Hannah Scott of After Lily, who was nice enough to let me read one of her books!

And I finally got to meet Samantha Wikan of Life’s a Witch, who made the whole day for me by telling me that she printed out copies of The Wannabe Pirates to put in her kids’ lunchboxes! How cool is that?

I didn’t actually get to meet Barry Buchanan of Don’t Feed the Geek, but the rest of his family stopped by and were great!

I spent several minutes talking to Bill Hinds without ever realizing that I was talking to *the* Bill Hinds who has been drawing Tank McNamara for 35 years! Maybe it’s good that I didn’t know, since I might’ve been too star struck to talk.

Big thanks to the three guys who organized DWEX: Jonathan Caustrita (of Tiki Coladas), Michael Moreno (of Ted and Zed) and Thomas Overbeck (of Times Like This)

And a special thanks to my sister Becky and my friends Terri & Xanthy who helped me man the table all day!

McCrary and I want to find a convention that we can both attend sometime next year. We’ll put the info up here as soon as we can work it out!