Damn shame if you ask me. There was a lot of mileage in the concept.

This is such a wonderful figure. David did a fantastic job in making this. :)

Wow, that is awesome. I think though I would have gone with a different method of painting the body myself. A spray chrome with a "Candy" magenta. The effect is spectacular for this sort of suit, very shiny.

You could easily make money with Bea, just use the Jay Naylor model. Put up a bi-weekly web comic then sell portfolios, adult art, t-shirts and assorted sundries. You have enough material already drawn to start up and build a following, cranking out some Bea artwork to sell, adult stuff will always sell and ask for donations :p It certainly can't hurt to try it out.

I need a real internet connection, with web space, not the cheapo dial-up I have. But I recently lost my cable TV for benig unable to keep up the monthly payments -- I certainly can't afford to double what I pay for the internet. Worse, I have no idea how to create a web page. I have a vague idea it can be done with Adobe Acrobat, a program I have, but no clue how.

Not necessary to have a real internet connection. Remember, broadband is a recent addition, the web was build on dial up. What you need is a webcomic host who has a fast internet connection, not you specifically. You just have to load the comic to their server which, in essence, is exactly what you do here. Here is the address to one after 10 seconds of Googling. http://comicfury.com/

You are an elder god of the furry fandom, the furry fandom is largely made up of IT professionals, I imagine you could ask for and receive all the help you could ever want in exchange for some custom artwork or what have you. Start small with no initial investment and see if it catches on. What the heck, if it gets you a commission or two, it would be well worth the time. If you like, send me a note and I will help you as much as I can.

AAAAND 20 minutes later you have your first installment of Beatrix Farmer up.. Really not hard at all. http://magenta.thecomicseries.com/

You realize that doing Bea on a regular basis, even only a page a month, would probably mean discontinuing much activity on FA?

I'll try to look into this in the new year.

But one thing I don't want is commissions. I still get a few, and its about all I can handle. While I might find energy to do something good, like new stories, or art with characters of my own doing things I want them to do, I'm just about totally burned out of realizing other people's fantasies. It might be different if I was chargine $500 each, but the market won't bear it.

That is a professional work of art. The sculptor did your (collaborated) creation proud. :)

That's truly awesome.

It's a shame the character and concept didn't go farther. I'm pretty sure I have three publications with her in it in my collection. I forget the exact titles but there was the first Tales of Beatrix which was then reprinted in colour, and then another afterwards . . .I think. I should pull them out being a rabbit fan and all and reintroduce myself to the copies I have.

There were two issue #1's -- Mu Press's was in b/w only, but has the preferred version. The Vision Press number one has the short story that precedes Bea getting her suit, which makes it indespensible, but the colour story is bowdlerized somewhat, and shortened by about a page. The second Vision issue went back to b/w and is two short stories. There was a third short story in Valiant Varmints that's part of a longer story arc involving other characters I had no control of, but the Bea segment stands on itself well enough.

There were also two stories written by Fred Patton that weren't very good, and illustrated by Terrie Smith. She does a good job, though everyone is too "pretty" for my taste. If there were any, even the bums asking for hand-outs would have looked like fashion models. Steve illustrated one Beatrix story himself, mostly about a hot tub. All the stories I *didn't* do are pre-suit.

Hmm, maybe I have more than I thought, I don't recall having any of the Terri Smith drawn versions but I'm near certain I have a B&W 'Vision' with Beatrix.

I don't recall with certainty, but the Terrie Smith/Fred Patten stories (two of them I think) were likley in Furrlough or Genus or Wild Something (all by Antarctic).

Now I'm going to have to go wade through my back issues of Furrlough and Genus.

I guess I'd better look in my file boxes for the information, or you'll spend a week looking in the wrong place, probably.

"The Early Years" is the hot-tub story by Steve. It was in Wild Kingdom 1, May 1992.

"Moving Day", the first short I worked on was in Albedo v2n7, in Dec. '92.

"Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho" was one of the Patten/Smith collabs, and was in Albedo v3n2.

"A Favour For a Friend" is the other collab, and appeared in Albedo v3n4 in Jan. 96, a month before Beatrix #1 is dated.

The next story was to have been called "None Answer", to follow up "Duty Calls".

Many thanx - these seem to all be in various issues of Albedo, aside from one in Wild Kingdom, which I have, and no Furrloughs or Genus.

"The next story was to have been called "None Answer", to follow up "Duty Calls"."

Duty should have knocked harder. Or put the phone on auto-dial :P

Now that is a lovey bit or work, that is! Count me as another Beatrix fan; her books were fun stuff.

Impressive sculpture! I enjoyed reading the Beatrix comics =0)

I have the Beatrix comics and have always enjoyed them. :) That's a lovely statue of her.

Excellent sculpture of Beatrix by David. Beautiful from all views.

very nice!
sometime ago I had the idea to make the same with my characters but I drop it because of the price!
but if someday I win the lottery I still want to made their models.
and too bad you couldn't keep on with Beatrix, I really like her.
maybe, if you let me, I could use her inside one or two of the Moon Bunnies comic strips. I just have to figure how.

It probably wouldn't be too good an idea to add Bea to other stories. There's Steve Gallacci's permission to think about, and there might be later copyright complications should I ever revive the series.

that´s okay.

I want her! I want her! I want her! I want her! Am I alone with this?