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5 thoughts on “Issue 22 Cover”

  1. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    Ooohhh … He looks – desperate.

  2. Zombatar

    No hat. He lost his hat. Which had a lot of his personality. Alert! Alert! We have a Lost Hat emergency! This is Not a Drill! Alert! Alert!

  3. Scarsdale

    Hang in there, I’m a retired fireman, and those pictures/videos have me sweating… The closest thing to a forest fire I ever fought was when a stupid tried to burn raked leaves on a windy day. 4 houses! Mostly grass and bush fires but, yeah.

  4. Clint

    Good news, we are back at home and there was a home to return to. It’s been a crazy week and a serious near miss seeing as several other homes on our block burned. Terrible stuff but the Ranch persists.

    1. Honzinator

      Welcome back.
      My mom’s whole town, Monrovia, seems to have survived so far, too, but it ain’t over yet.

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Issue 22 Cover
Posted on January 8, 2025 by Dawn

Traditional post-issue comic cover! Episode 23 is currently TBA but we're hoping to have the first page out on January 22nd so as to not leave y'all hanging from the proverbial cliff for too long.

[1/9/2025 NOTICE: Some of you may know we live in the Greater L.A. Area and if you've heard about the wildfires here: yep, we're currently evacuated from our home and still unsure as to its fate. We grabbed our computers and backup drives so whatever happens we still have our files, but definitely expect some delays and cross your fingers that the worst we're going to end up having to do is throw food out of the fridge due to power loss.]

[1/11/2025 UPDATE: Good news, we are back at home and there was a home to return to. It's been a crazy week and a serious near miss seeing as several other homes on our block burned. Terrible stuff but the Ranch persists.]

[1/22/2025 UPDATE: In the post-fire chaos we forgot to mention, no comic this week. Things are intact but there's still cleanup of smoke and ash to do, insurance to wrangle, etc. We had a really close call.

Since we're between issues anyhow we're going to push the start date of Episode 23 back to February 26th. Gives us some room to breathe (literally!).]

A long, strange inbox trip…

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Clint
“Bags, bags, bags…” Dawn likes to watch various shows while drawing. As she was putting the finishing touches on the Issue 10 cover, she had chosen to binge watch Broad City. It is a funny show. But I’m not writing about the show, except for the fact that I looked over and saw that two characters had gone to Chinatown and were being muttered at by a Chinese woman selling handbags, apparently illegally obtained discount handbags. Bags, bags, bags… This was a rather coincidental occurrence considering something I’d recently posted on my Twitter account:

Going through old spam, I’m becoming convinced the greatest black market on the planet is for illicit handbags.

Seriously. Our filters catch most spam before it pollutes our comments section, but we still get the messages and in the last few days I must have cleaned out over a hundred instances offering Louis Vuitton purses, each containing many, many lines of repeated keywords. Bags, bags, bags… after hours spent on inbox purging, hearing that repeated on our television was downright surreal. Actually the whole experience was a bit on the surreal side, as I combed back through all the email I’d ever received for Zombie Ranch over the years looking for contacts to hit up when the Kickstarter launches. More than one interview exchange would end with the interviewer asking us to please keep them updated with any news. Rightly or wrongly I hadn’t really considered us doing anything particularly newsworthy since, but finally getting the Kickstarter going? That seemed downright newsworthy. So I’m making a list, checking it twice… and, alas, finding a lot of those sites and projects are either no longer active or are outright gone. That’s a weird feeling, to still be around. I won’t go so far as to call it survivor’s guilt, because the web is the web and sites and comics that stay active for more than a few years are more the exception than the rule, but still, going sequentially through messages like I did sometimes gave the sense of a site flaring up and then flaring out in a time-lapsed fashion, from initial exuberance to abandonment, or even the black hole of a 404 Not Found. One site domain had reverted to a page full of Chinese characters and product images. I think handbags might have been among them. But yeah, I guess it’s kind of like looking at old photographs or a high school yearbook. Where are they now? What are they up to? Some folks I’ve kept up on through Facebook or still chime in on here from time to time so I know they’re still about even if their webcomic or news blog isn’t. Others, well, I had some great conversations back in the day, but I wonder if the email address I have still works. I guess I’ll find out soon enough when I try to spread the word of the Kickstarter, although madman that I am I’m also planning to try to personalize each of those emails so that it doesn’t seem like I’m only getting in touch again for commercial purposes. I mean, technically, I guess I am, but I’ve been saving up a lot of shamelessness since 2009. Soon I’ll cash it in, assuming I don’t go insane first from sorting out the wheat from many moons of accumulated chaff. Bags, bags, bags…