About Sugarskull Comics' Current State of Affairs

Hi, guys. It’s a little embarrassing to show up after so long, but there’s a few things that need to be adressed. As you might already have noticed, we are currently undergoing yet another (agonizingly long) break. We don’t want to try and justify ourselves, but we feel like we need to explain our lack of activity:

• Our main artist’s tablet stopped working: It sound like a lame excuse, and it probably is. We were able to fix this and it’s currently working now, so we might start over and retake the projects we had going. The hard thing about this is that our main artist is right now our only artist, so if anything comes up with them, Sugarskull is brought to a halt.
• We’ve been having trouble with the software we use: Namely, Manga Studio EX 4.0. We are still reviewing this, as it is not completely fixed. It refuses to do several things that were vital for us and on top of it, it corrupted the files for TOP 10 Skeletons, so we are going to have to do those again.
•  We temporarily ran out of ideas as to what to put in Andy^2. We figured it was a very global and general idea that we could keep making short gags for during a very long time… But truth be told, as of now, there’s not a lot of kids in our families, and our main artist doesn’t work at the museum anymore (where some of the dialogues and outrageous funny lines came from).
• Our main artist wanted to focus on other things for a moment. It was rude, just leaving like that, but there are a lot of situations going on and we would appreciate if you show some support. Because that’s not only our main artist, but our only artist, it’s basically a one-man-show, and what goes on in their lives affects Sugarskull greatly. And, as of now, there are a lot of predicaments they need to handle.

Of course, we don’t want this to be just us giving excuses, so we’re going to tell you about the solutions we have in mind right now (feel free to suggest any of your own):

• Finishing the TOP 10 Skeletons however we can. We loved the use of Manga Studio because it is easy to use and our artist trusted it a lot with bright flat colours… But if we are not able to fix it, they’re going to move to either Paint Tool Sai (which they absolutely despise) or Corel Painter (which is their main tool right now, but takes longer and is not great with flat colours), which would change the whole artstyle greatly.
• Halting Andy^2 at least temporarily. We have no more ideas for it currently. We do have a few more strips, but that’s the problem: they’re just a few. After we post them, the Andy^2 strips are probably going to end at least for a short while.
• Reworking the schelude. Once again, this is another problem with our artist: they cannot always post stuff on Mondays. Not only that, there are weeks in which they are busy everyday, and other days where the situations they are undergoing completely stops them from doing this. The solution they proposed was posting once or twice a week, but not on an exact day, as it is not possible, but the idea is for Sugarskull to post more often, even if it’s not on a definite day.
• Finding more people to help out with Sugarskull Comics. From the start, what we wanted was to have a team that started with four or five people and could start growing and growing to have a lot more artists and writers that wanted to be part of us. We currently have a few people in mind, but we need to do a few arrangements before we can have them here for sure.

With this in mind, we’re pretty sure you’re going to have a lot of questions, so we’re going to do our best to answer some of the ones we find obvious. If you have any more questions, be sure to send them to us.

• What’s going to happen to TOP 10s if the schedule changes? The way we did our TOP 10s with Goth Girls and Skeletons was this: we made a few numbers down before we started to post them and worked on the rest of it as the time went by. As a result, we ended up running out of pictures by a posting date and had to pressure our artist to do it, rushing the drawing and going down on quality (like it happened with TOP 10 Goth Girls); or we had unexpected and unwanted things happening (like it did with TOP 10 Skeletons). So what we’re going to do is we’re going to work on everything and only announce we have a new TOP 10 after we have all the pictures done. This way, you guys don’t get impatient and we don’t have to pressure our artist so much. AND we get to post the results everyday for ten straight days.
• What will happen to Andy^2 then? It’s going to go away for a while. Sorry.
• If Andy^2 will be no more, then what will be posted weekly? We have a few more ideas for other comics. Some we have already talked about, some are just sitting there and collecting dust. Some are strip comics, some are series. We’re going to take a few of those projects all at the same time and posting them once or twice a week, alternating randomly between the ones that are going to be uploaded. Having only Andy^2 pressured us to think of stuff that could apply to only one topic, but having diverse comics will help us keep the ideas fresh and flowing.
• What is going to happen to Supernova, Ultimate Star Creators, and Noire? As of now, Ultimate Star Creators is not done, as it is being made with another tool that will take longer. When it is done or almost done, it will be posted to Sugarskull; we still don’t know if it’s going to be posted weekly, all together or a page a day. Supernova, however, is going to be one of the comic strips/pages that we throw in weekly, so you can expect that. Noire, on the other hand, is going to be an entirely different thing and it might not be part of Sugarskull Comics. Our artist really believes in this project and would like it published by an official agency of sorts, and we support that all the way and respect their decision of working on it on their own.
• When is Sugarskull Comics coming back, then? Soon-ish. We hope. We can’t tell for sure yet, but we do intend to have it come back as soon as possible. It depends on a lot of things, but we will be sure to let you guys know.

Sorry for the inconveniences and sorry for the long text. We do intend to come back to it soon and we will tell you immediately should any update appear. For now, you can send us your questions and check out our artist cosmicstunky on Tumblr and show them some support! We would really appreciate it if you send them some kind words of motivation! Thanks!

The Sugarskull team.

Andy^2 #10

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TOP 10 Skeletons

Hello! It's time again! Time for TOP 10 again! This time (because of all the pages these types of things generate in the site), we will be doing it all in the same entry and will just keep updating every day until we reach the end.

As sugested by someone on Tumblr (and the idea being supported by a few other followers), we decided to do the TOP on Skeletons. We had a lot of trouble remembering a few of these, but by the time we finished the list of possible characters, we ended up with too many! We're going to start now!

10th Place is a character that will take some of you down memory lane. It certainly did with us! From The Grim and Evil Show and later on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, we have one of Cartoon Network's most beloved characters ever: Grim (a.k.a. The Grim Reaper)

9th Place of the top! This character is a little less popular then our last "contestant", if we can call it that? Her name is Skelita Calaveras, from Monster High! A lot of you might not like the cartoon, but you have to admit the dolls and the characters' designs are amazing! This one is by far our favourite one! 

8th Place brings another recent character that has become super popular since it's debut. He's bad, he's mean, and he's absolutely cool! Say hello to Xibalba, from the movie The Book of Life. That movie was a complete masterpiece, we adore it to bits... And this guy is one of our favourite characters

7th Place, and we're going back to a less popular "character" if we can call it that. This little dude here is a skeleton-shaped doll called Spooky, from Jhonen Vasquez's comics I Feel Sick. We know, it's just a doll and not an actual skeleton! But it's one of our favourite characters/props ever, so we felt like we should have it on the list!

6th Place on our list is another lesser known character. This Magic Fairy takes a stand in Roman Dirge's Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl. More specifically, from one of his filler sections. This dude loves to fill up some of the pages with illustrated dark poetry or spin-offs of nursery rhymes; and that's the case of this character, being the villain in The Crooked Man.

That is all for now, guys, we will keep updating this same file, so please stay tuned for more uploads every day during ten days!

Andy^2 #9

Hey guys! We're back from our hiatus to bring you the newest page of Andy^2! We apologize for the sudden stop in activity and the extension on the date, we promise we will make it up to you, and here's how: we finally managed to finish the research for our Top10 on Skeletons! We investigated a lot because there were some characters that we had forgotten (and we got a memory refreshment by someone on Tumblr, too, so thank you very much!), but we're finally in drawing stage and will be posting the results next week (starting on Monday, so that means January 25th).

About this particular strip: when you have opposite gender cousins or siblings and spend a lot of time with them doing what they want (specially if they are younger than you), they tend to forget that you're not actually the same gender! This has happened a lot in some of our families, so we wanted to share some of our awkward family moments with you via Andy^2! Have a nice week, everyone!

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January Updates

Happy New Years, everyone! We're very excited to recieve this amazing and promising 2016 here on Sugarskull! Now, promises become debts... And as promised, here are the updates for this month!

First of all, we are very very sorry, but because of some happenings that are out of our control, the hiatus will be extended until January 18th, 2016. We don't like the idea of postponing this again, but because we don't want to do a half-hearted job and have irregular upload schedules, we need to take this break until things are stable enough so we can continue without interruption or weird upcomes. BUT! Once we come back from our break, we will be 100% ready for action and with new ideas coming.

Another thing that you might be excited to hear is the fact that The Ultimate Star Creators is already being worked on! :) We already have the storyline remastered and in sketching process. We still don't know when it's gonna be up and ready but we might show you some of our progress in our social media. Stay tuned if you're interested.

We are working on a TOP 10 currently. As suggested by somebody on Tumblr, we are making it about Skeletons in animation or comics. We have been working on this for a while and doing some research (because apparently nobody in the team can remember a lot of skeletons), so we would appreciate it if you sent some suggestions of your favourite cartoon or comic skeletons and we'll take them in consideration!

About the Supernova! strips we mentioned on our December Updates, we are currently trying to figure out the way we're gonna make them, because we have different ideas on the thing. We will be working on it and showing you what we do, maybe asking for your opinions on different things. The oringinal style will remain for this one, but once we start working with Noire, things will be a little bit different. We will wait and see how things turn out with the original one before we actually say or do anything about Noire in Sugarskull.

We're also thinking of making a new type of strip (that we've had in mind of a while, but we haven't talked about it) called Skulls Made of Sugar. We don't really know how well that will work, so we want to make sure we have full grasp on our other projects before we go into a completely new one!

So, in conclusion... This is what you guys will be seeing this January:

• An extension to our current hiatus (We will be back on January 18th, 2016)
• Sneak peeks to the development of The Ultimate Star Creators.
• Us, asking a bunch of things on social media, specially regarding our TOP 10 on skeletons and opinions on stuff we might do for Supernova!
• Maybe a couple things about Skulls Made of Sugar, we're not sure yet!

Happy 2016, everyone! May this be a wonderful year for you all!

Apology

Hello, guys. As you were able to notice, this week's comic was (once again) delayed. The explanation for this is that we were out of town and thought we could make it back in time to post everything but couldn't.

We don't want to delay ourselves as much as we have been, but we aparently will have to. Right now, we are considering taking a quick hiatus, starting today (December 22nd, 2015) and ending during the first week of January (Which means we probably would come back on January 4th, 2016). This is because, during this time of the year, we get busy with our family and friends, and also have some other important appointments that might interfere. The last thing we wanna do is make Sugarskull into a half-hearted job, so we will take a quick rest and come back full of energy to start the year at 100%.

Thank you for understanding,

the Sugarskull team.

P.S.

We will try to keep the upload schedule the same (Mondays), but in case anything changes that, we'll make sure to let you guys know.

Andy^2 #8

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Andy^2 #7

Nice Mon--err... Nice Wednesday, fellers! We're sorry about the delay, and we're certainly sorry about not letting you know in here. We had a complicated an unexpected situation on Monday and we weren't able to upload this then; so the plan was doing so yesterday. Unfortunately, things were still complicated and thus we are posting the new comic now. Here you go!

Sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused, and thank you again to everyone who has been supportive of the Sugarskull Project up until now. As a little side-note, let us tell you this strip is based on a true story. This actually happened to someone in the Sugarskull family (if you didn't think it was funny enough)!

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December Updates

Hello, everyone! We're progressing slowly, but the important thing is we haven't stopped moving forward. One of the intentions of Sugarskull Comics is to give you guys updates at least every month to let you know about changes we might be doing and what's coming next.

Everyone that follows Cookie in DeviantART will know about some of the projects that we're currently taking care of, which is Noire, the Supernova! spin-off. Most of you will not have any idea of what the original is about... So one of the ideas is that we will be posting here the Supernova! strips so you know who the characters are when the time comes.

Another project is the possible creation of another comic strip. We currently have a lot of different ideas, but we haven't had any as good yet. Also, we might be starting to remake The Ultimate Star Creators and/or Apfel Story. We know we've been saying this for a long time, but we want to make sure the story is on point before we begin sketching and it seems that we're now ready!

So, in conclusion, this is what we will be seeing in December and January:

•  More Andy^2 strips every Monday!
• Supernova! strips (schedule day pending)
• A remake of either Apfel Story or The Ultimate Star Creators

We have also plans of letting you see some cool artwork and extras, but the date is not yet established! Until then, please stay tuned to the page or any of our social networks, which you can find here.

Bye-bye!

Andy^2 #6

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Andy^2 #5

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Andy ^2 #4

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Andy ^2 #3

Have a nice Monday, everyone! Once again it's time for some Andy^2 to be uploaded! This time we bring you a very relatable strip!

We hope you like it, we will see you next Monday, as usual! Check us out on our social media too, follow us everywhere and stay tuned for more comics!

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TOP 10 Goth Girls

For comfort's sake, we're going to make the whole TOP 10 goth girls into only one post. Every time we upload another TOP 10, we will be just updating the same post, so we don't end up having numerous entries that can just be reduced to one. For now, we're gonna leave all of the previous entries, since they have all the descriptions, so if you wanna check them out, you're more than welcome to do so. Now with the top:

That is all for now, guys! I hope you enjoyed our TOP 10 Goth Girls as much as we enjoyed making it! See you later~!

TOP 10 Goth Girls - 1

We've finally reached the end of our TOP 10 goth girls, so it's time to award the first place to our favourite~! And she is Lenore! This adorable little missy is our most beloved here in Sugarskull: the main character of Roman Dirge's Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl, based on Edgar Allan Poe's Lenore!

Out of every girl in the list, she's the most adorable and happy-go-lucky! That's definitely one of the things that make this cute little goth girl so special! We're very happy to have finished our first top, and are really eager to go on with the next activities for Sugarskull!

Are you happy with the order of this list? What would you have changed? Who would you have included? Do you have ideas for another top? Let us know by leaving a comment!

TOP 10 Goth Girls - 2

We're almost done with our TOP, guys, and we're very excited! The 2nd place today is another very very VERY popular character! Not only beloved by many, but also very quoted by people in the gothic subculture (and everyone else, really). We're, of course, talking about Wednesday Addams!

Everybody knows the TV series The Addams Family, where this girl used to appear... But did you know that this was also a comic? The TV show is actually just an adaptation of the 1-panel gag series that came as a satiric version of "the ideal American family".

What are your thoughts? Are you happy with Wednesday on 2nd place? Who could possibly surpass this girl in our list? Let us know your opinion and leave a comment!

Andy^2 #2

Happy Monday, everyone!

As we've said before, every Monday we will be posting some Andy^2 comics, so here we go with the second page! Have fun, we'll see you later!

See you later, guys!

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TOP 10 Goth Girls - 3

The 3rd place (and first finalist) of our TOP 10 goth girls is Nemi Montoya!

Surely you have read one of this girls comics (specially if you're in the whole gothic subculture/fashion) since they are so relatable! She's the main character of a Norwegian comic strip that goes by the name Nemi and used to be published in newspapers. It's very common that every now and then you see some of her stuff on Facebook or other social media!

Do you think she should be in 3rd place? Who do you think are the last two girls? Please let us know by leaving a comment!

TOP 10 Goth Girls - 4

We're right about to end the top, since we're in 4th place already. This leaves us with just the first three places (a.k.a. the finalists) left. Today we bring you another character created by our beloved Jhonen Vasquez. Although Gaz is the most recalled and loved goth girl from Invader Zim, we have to admit this one is our favourite from the show: she's the most enigmatic, dark and merciless character. The one who could truly have destroyed Earth as we know it.

If you loved the show as much as we do here in Sugarskull, you will remember this Irken girl who came into our planet to take over it and torment Zim as a revenge for leaving her locked as Operation: Impending Doom II was right about to begin. Her scheme was unrecognizable even by Dib, and she got very close to actually meeting her goal! Even if her screen time was short, this is definitely our favourite character in the show!

Do you think Tak is worthy of the 4th place? Who do you think will be our finalists? Please leave us a comment!

TOP 10 Goth Girls - 5

We're back with the TOP 10, and this time we have a character that is a little bit more underground. "My mother is Satan, my father was a lawyer. I'm an evil incarnate", is what you can find as part of today's goth girl's description.

Of course, we're talking about Tabitha Sinclair, from Sandra K. Fuhr's Boy Meets Boy. We're not lying when we say that she's one of Sugarskull's favourites, not only because we happen to love all of the comics by Sandra Fuhr, but because this is a very deep and cool character. Despite being "an evil incarnate", she's actually a nice person with an odd way of doing things ;)

Did you already knew Tabitha? If you didn't, make sure to check out Boy Meets Boy on Keenspot, so you can get to know her better!

Are you satisfied with her being in 5th place? Who do you think is next up on the list? Leave a comment!