I post stuff regularly at my page over at devianART, but it’s not often that it’s something that I feel like all the fans need to get.  This weekend, however, I did a mini comic about Thomas Knowlton and his wife that was so precious that I thought I’d pass it on to all of you. 

   It’s a little, one page story about the last time Colonel Knowlton saw his wife before the events in The Dreamer take place.  She’s not happy to see him go!  Read the whole thing here. 

So what’s that old adage?  Don’t judge a book by its cover?  I guess I needed to hear the 21st Century version of the saying, “Don’t judge a PDF by its cover.”

Months, and I mean, months ago I downloaded a small pdf on Thomas Knowlton and opened it up.  The front cover had an awful rainbow gradient background and in front of it was a horribly pixilated and poorly cut out image of the Col. Knowlton statue from Hartford, Conn.  Well… it honestly looked like a high school book report, so I tucked it away in a folder on my computer labeled “Revolutionary Heroes PDFs” and thought I’d flip through it at a later day.

For the past few months I’ve been ravenously trying to find as much information as I can find on Knowlton’s Rangers and the Battle of Brooklyn.  I just finished a massive 120 year old tome from the library that was so boring that it took me months to read just the first half of it.  (I got sick a few weekends ago and had no energy to do anything but finish reading it! ha ha!)

Tonight, I was looking for the age of Knowlton’s wife in 1776 and remembered the before mentioned pdf and thought I’d open it up and give it a gander.  Only to find it to be, no joke, the single most informative and well researched piece of literature on Knowlton’s Rangers that I have found anywhere.  Anywhere.  The ten page pdf had more useful information pertaining to the Rangers role in that battle than the entire 800 page book from 1885!!

So facts that I’ve been beating the bushes and driving to the ends of the earth to find have been, for months, sitting here on my hard drive just waiting to be read! O_o

So yeah, that whole “don’t judge a book thing,” they mean that…

I apologize that Issue #3 won’t start today as promised.  I had some personal stuff come up, which compelled me to take on some freelance work.  The project seems to be wrapping up, and I’m hoping desperately to get back to our normal schedule next Friday.

If you follow the link, it’ll take you to the roughs for page one.  It’s as far as I got before I got the phone call!

If you need more of a Dreamer fix than that, I’ve been posting my travel journal from a research trip I took to Colonial Williamsburg in May, not long before The Dreamer went live. You can read the first entry here, and follow the links. There’ll be five entries in all when I’m finished posting them.

And if you missed the previous blog entry, we put some new updates on the website and there’s a new voting incentive this week!  Scroll back and give it a read.

Thanks for voting, and we’ll see you here next Friday… fingers crossed. 

Some of you have asked me for Dreamer banners, and so we added some to our Downloads Page.  If you’d like to link to us from your website, feel free to use one!  We made some with Bea and some with Alan, so you can take your pick.

We also added a new section, Press, which has interviews and reviews.  We’ll be adding to it as new stuff comes up.

Finally, new voting incentive this week!   I had a contest on deviantART, and the winners got a free sketch of their favorite character.  The first winner is Rachel who picked Dr. John Warren.  If you follow me on deviantART, you’ve already met him but he has yet to make his debut in The Dreamer.  The sketch I did for Rachel is this week’s voting incentive, as well as a short Issue #3 spoiler on the TWC page.  So vote, and check it out!