I've decided to change the publish date for new comics to Saturday evening my time (so depending where you are, sometime between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning). Stay tuned.

This comic finally has its own domain name! It can now be accessed from www.the-artiste.net. No need to change your bookmarks though... it's just a forwarding domain designed to provide a shorter and nicer-looking link to the main page. So share it with your friends!

Also, regular weekly updates will be back soon, I promise!

While most of you lucky people are in the middle of vacation right now, I have no such luxury this summer, and I'm afraid It's gotten to the point that I'm much too busy to publish a new comic strip on a fixed day every week.

So what does this mean? Well it means that for the rest of the summer, updates will be sporadic and will depend entirely on when I can find time to draw. I have no plans to abandon this comic, but I may have to take a hiatus of a month or so to give me time to recharge my creative energy and draw up another large batch.

Long story short, there will be a few new comics published over the rest of the summer, but not many. Expect regular weekly updates to resume sometime in September. In the meantime don't lose faith!

Up until now new strips have appeared on Tuesdays (probably more like Wednesdays in some of your time zones), but I'm seriously thinking of changing it to a later day in the week. My theory is that it would cause fewer conflicts with my work schedule this summer, and therefore reduce the chance of late strips in the future. So look for a new strip on Thursday or Friday of this week, and hopefully there will be no further delays. Thanks!

I just spent the day changing the layout and design of this site, and you can see the result right in front of you. I thought I'd try to preserve the sort of hand-made style I had going in the old layout, but with nicer graphics and a layout that's even further removed from Smackjeeves' ugly default template. Hope you all like it! Feedback is appreciated, as always.

Starting next week (June 24), some Artiste comic strips will appear in a longer format (similar to Sunday strips in the newspaper). There probably won't be any real pattern to when these double-length strips appear, at least not at first, but there will definitely be at least one in every month.

For quite a while now I've wanted to do some gags and storylines that require a longer format of strip, as four panels is often quite limiting. The occasional 6, 7 or 8 panel story should be a real treat for the fans. So keep on reading!

So I'm happy to see that this comic has been getting around recently, and today I discovered that it's being read and enjoyed as far away as Malaysia! Apparently a forum moderator over there likes Janet enough to encourage his underlings to start following her adventures (see this thread at clickstartplay.com's forum). Thank you very much! Keep on reading and spreading the good word.

This comic will now be updated weekly on Tuesdays. Thank you for your feedback and keep on reading.