–EDIT BLOG UPDATE 9:30 AM EDT–

I’ve added a brand new voting incentive strip AND a brand new poll. It’s a fun one, suggested by BMSer Frostbite. “If you could own and operate a fully operational Star Wars vehicle, which of the following would you choose?”

As for the poll that just ended… We managed to get over 1300 votes after leaving it up for well over a month. The results are interesting because they suggest the age range of our readership as well as which of the films has the most nostalgic importance.

If anyone is interested, both Leanne and myself saw Star Wars in a theater for the first time in the 90s: the Star Wars Special Edition, or “A New Hope”. It wasn’t our very first time seeing the film. I saw it when it aired on television in the UK when I was about 3 or 4 years old in the early 80s. Leanne saw it on video in her high school years.

BLUE MILK SPECIAL HIATUS UNTIL MAY 4th, 2011

The following bit of news will disappoint many of you, but we have to take an unexpected break from Blue Milk Special, beginning with today’s strip. We won’t be back until May 4th. Yes, we’re taking all of April off in order to focus on the projects that put bread on our table. In the meantime you can perhaps look forward to one or two new incentive strips over the next couple of weeks.

Hope you liked today’s strip. Please let us know in the comment thread.

Oh, and I’m looking for a good site to download anime. If anyone can help then shoot me an email.

MANGA ARTIST NEEDED FOR SPECIAL PROJECT

If you are a manga artist looking for a project, shoot me an email. If you like Record of Lodoss War that would be a bonus. I have a fantasy comic (elves, dark elves, warlocks, undead, barbarians, exiled imperial guards, monsters, romance) that just needs the right enthusiastic and talented artist to collaborate with me and bring it all to life in visual form.

I have written for the 2x Harvey Award winning Mice Templar with Mike Oeming and Bryan Glass, and self published Once Upon a Super Hero my creator-owned book. I also write for the 1980s Animation magazine Cereal:Geek and, of course, produce an ongoing Star Wars parody webcomic with my wife, Leanne Hannah called Blue Milk Special. Leanne has illustrated for Tod Dezago’s Perhapanauts, Casper and the Spectrals, several indie titles as well as working with Rob Zombie on his book, “Whatever Happened to Baron Von Shock?” as editor and illustrator.

I have contacts that can benefit myself and an aspiring artist. My goal is to find an enthusiastic collaborator to visually realize a high fantasy story for our mutual benefit. I am leaning towards either a one-shot sized book (minimum 22 pages) or a single graphic novel which would be self published online and in print. This project would be a great opportunity for an aspiring manga artist to make some good connections… and who knows? Maybe the book might even sell!

I am currently considering a manga style as a way to go. This specific project requires a rather serious style of art (less cartoony). I am still open to more traditional western comic styles as well, so if you’re enthusiastic then try me. However, I have other projects that I may want to develop with other artists with a more fun style too. Basically, if you know anyone who might be interested, let me know.