How’s everybody doing today? Punch any ocelots lately? ’cause they deserve it. Twice.

Anyway, lots of stuff to talk about. First of all, it’s my pleasure to report that as of right now, we have nearly 1,460 likes on Facebook! Yam and I are delighted that so many of you brave ocelot punchers are keen on reading a thing about hungry walking eyeballs, living stuffed kitties and beer-swilling weirdo farmers. You are good times!

Speaking of weirdos, I think it’s about time I told you about how we’re doing things around here.

Unlike most online comics, we won’t be updating continuously forever and ever. Instead, we’re doing DR in batches, or “series” as we’re calling them. Each series will consist of a certain number of strips. When we reach the end of a series, we’ll be taking a break for a few months to prepare the next one. We’re doing this mainly because of how long it takes to make them, since they’re all done the old-fashioned way, with real ink, paper, markers, sausages and whatnot. But don’t worry! We’ll have plenty of fun stuff to hold you over while we prepare the next series, including sketches, concept art and another secret dealie I can’t talk about just yet. Trust me, it’ll be a thing.

How will you know when we’re preparing for the next series? Easy. Let me introduce you to our ever-present activity indicator, Trafficolo!

You’ve probably noticed these little guys living in the top-right corner of the page. Not only do they look like traffic lights, they light up as well! Since we’re in the middle of our first series, the green one up top’s lit up. When we’re busy getting the next series ready, the red one on the bottom’ll light up, along with a message saying when we’ll be back. Red means stop, green means go. Simple, right?

This first series consists of 50 strips. Since we’re a little under the halfway point, there’s plenty more good times to be had. We hope you’ll stick around!

Finally, Yam recently set up a tumblr blog to display her wonderful art things. My partner’s not much on self-promotion, but fortunately, I don’t have that problem. You can check it out here!

That’s all for right now. Take it easy, and watch out for vengeful South American cats!

-GM

Hello, everyone! It’s GM again.

I hope you’re enjoying the strip so far. By now you should be acquainted with our friends Baxter, Steve, Tammy and the one guy with the Pixie allergy. We’ll be cycling through them every week, so we hope you’ll stick around and see what they’re up to.

Also, our Facebook page is online! Check it out here, or visit our You Followin’ Me? page to find even more ways to connect with us.

Happy Ranching!

-GM

Well, here we are.

Greetings.

I hope everyone’s recovering nicely from their new year’s celebrations. We’ve got the whole of 2012 to look forward to, and with a new year comes a new online comic strip. And by “new online comic strip” we mean “the thing you’re reading right now.”

This does look like a comic strip, doesn’t it?

It’s colorful and has a lot of weird-looking people and monsters in it. Close enough.

Indeed.

Anyway, welcome to Dingus Rancher, the webcomic chronicling the lives of oddball farmers and their weirdo livestock. I’m GM, the words guy. And this here is my partner in crime, Yam.

Yammo here, drawing with sticks.

Those are some sticks, Yam.

I try to put them to good use.

And how!

We’ve been working on this comic for quite some time now, and we’re both very excited to finally show it off. It’s based on a video game, but unlike other game-centric comics out there, you don’t need to know anything about it to enjoy it. Just sit back and have fun!

We have a lot of great strips coming up in the months and years ahead. I hope you’ll continue to visit as we explore the strange world of Dingus Rancher.

To get things moving quickly, we’ll be starting off with some Wednesday and Sunday updates for the first couple of weeks before settling into our Sunday update schedule. We hope you enjoy DR as much as we do working on it.

Thank you for taking the time to check it out. I’ll do everything I can to make it amusing, and hopefully I’ll improve along the way.

No question about that, Yamzo!

If you wanna learn a little more about Dingus Rancher, please check out our About DR page. And if you have any questions, suggestions, or just want to get in touch, take a gander at the You Followin’ Me? page for a few ways to get ahold of us.

Happy Ranching!

-GM & Yam