Comic 20060917

Wet Spot. This was one of my ideas for Keenlace .. site to be announced .., but obviously it was a little too .. naughty for that. So I got a free comic out of it.

So here is Shub in her day to habits. The alternate title for this was 'If you meet a strange woman and she has a iron bar bolted to her headboard you are in for a very good time or a very bad time'

Comic 20060524

Long Walk Home. A pretty crappy looking comic today and again i'm not happy with the dialog. I have a good bit more with this story line. Only a couple pages more and I'm freed up with Marla for the coming school year. There are more in this story line, but only a few more that /have/ to be posted so more current comics make some sort of sense.

What Goes on?

Seeing that I haven't posted a comic in chronological order in months I should explain how things work around here. Two factors determine what I work on and when I work on it. The first is the simple fact that I do not have much time to devote to the comic. More accurately, I do not have much time to devote to polishing the final product. I've plenty of script written and tons of thumbnail drafts put together. Mostly because I work them all out in a composition book or a sketch book. These I can take with me wherever I go. Peaceful, alert time at the computer is the main limitation.

Secondly, I am trying to keep the story within the confines of the dating system at comic genesis. Keeping the comic 'dates' the same as the dates /in/ the comic. This had me doing a lot of jumping around trying to a get a fresh comic up. Right now I've 4 story lines rolling around at different times that I'm back posting. While I'm doing that I'm trying to get the stories that are supposed to happening /now/ completed.

Anyway I'm having fun trying to piece things together from different directions. Hopefully it is an interesting read for anybody trying to figure out what is going on.

Comic 20060823

Suicide Watch Iv It is dramatic coloring. sort of. I have one more sort of sketch for this and the Suicide Watch is done. That will leave then 3 subplots to resolve and a few more to start. I do like the read in this. I finally figured out the simple way to get that sort of texture. I will be overusing it a good bit now. If I was doing this over I would show more of the blade coming down. Maybe re-arranging the whole page. It is weak in some areas.

Comic 20060822

Suicide Watch III. Things are looking different for our young couple. With all the different things I fiddle around with making pages I think this particular technique works best. It looks as good as anything and is fairly quick to get done. There is one more Suicide Watch and a epilouge. I'm trying to wrap up some of these half stories before moving on with more things.

Comic 20060523

Last bus ride. Another Marla Comic. I set myself up so I have to finish a great many of these and a few from another story arc before I can post many 'current' pages.

Comic 20060522

Final Grades. Yes, Cutethulhu has rocketed to the top of the Biology class. This comic and several others are ink and colored pencil with digital color added underneath. This particular one did come out very well. It was done in a hardbound sketch book and I couldn't get it on the scanner. So, I took a digital picture instead. This would have worked out fine if I had taken the time in the initial processing to correct a few simple things. It is readable and the art isn't so horrible that there is confusion, er no more confusion than usual.

There are three of four more pages in this particular story line done this way. I will do a better job getting the others posted.

Comic 20060511

Marla Makes a grab. Really, She is shy and retiring with everybody except for Roland. I wonder why that is?

Comic 20060311

Marla Jenkins on a bus. So this is a character make-up .. In her introduction she did something a little out of character for what I developed for her later. But, teenagers do lots of OOC and stupid things. So here she is a little mortified at what went on that day.

Comic 20060227

Marla Jenkins. This comic page is nearly about 10 months behind schedule. There is a perfectly good reason for this slow turn around. I'm hopelessly lazy. Or I spent a lot of time thinking about how included in the comic Marla was going to be. Originally this was going to be it, but things expanded and I wrote a little story for her. I didn't want her to start interacting until I figured out what was going to happen to her so she was set aside.

I've been doodling around a great deal and decided to try and produce directly from my sketch book with ink and colored pencils. Any person can tell the original was taken with a digital camera while being held on my lap. I've got a good many more that will be put together in the same manner, but hopefully I will have somebody else hold the book on /their/ lap so I can look at the view finder while taking the picture.

While Christmas shrunk my free time to nothing this was the sort of comics that I started getting interested in, small heavy panels. I hope I will get better at it.

Comic 20060731

Last Fight. I trimmed the fight down a little bit. There is still lots of action to resolve.I'm still working in a quick and dirty style. The next page will have a little more thought and time spent on it. It is one I've had inked for a while, waiting to get to it. I want to give it due time to make it look like I want. There area a few elements that are going to be experimental to me, so I'm not sure how it will turn out; maybe as crappy , more crappy or less crappy than usual.

Comic 20060729

More Fight. It is looking grim for the four. Mabel's training, Roland's smarts, Sarah's good lovin' and Q2's standing around may not be enough to save them! I drew this and decided I would not edit the line work once I scanned it in, it is the only way I can get something done if I stop fiddling with it.

It goes more poorly as the fight goes on.

Comic 20060314

Bio Wiz is one of the many small pieces that has been floating around in one form or another for a while now. I finally just bullied through and finished it almost 7 months out of the continuity.

Instead of trying to keep pace with the weekly updates, at least through the holidays, I'll be working on these skipped piexes and scripts and character sheets to try and lure more people to do some bits of the whole.

20060921 Website Updates

Well, it has been a hectic bunch of days and it will more than likely be this way until after Christmas. Had two craft shows over the weekend. Then, Monday afternoon our dog passed away. We are looking for another puppy or dog and it is taking up a lot of the little comic time I have. What we are looking for is something particular, a breed or animal that will fill a lot of particular roles. It will take a bit of searching and training to get what we want.

Anyways, The point of this post is I've updated Characters a bit; adding Mabel and Roland to the roster. I drew sketches for both at one of the craft shows I tended a table for over the weekend. I finally had a bit of time to scan and Mabel a bit.

Sleep

failed plans

Another incredibly busy week leaves me with another update that is going to be late. My wife is a crafter and I'm helping with a show over the weekend. I was hoping to find some time to sketch something that hope was misplaced. We got back from our shows and I had to dash off and do some wiring for a couple hours. I'm bone weary right now. It is a struggle to get through this post.

I'll try to do something tomorrow and update. It may only be a character page update or some other site design thing. I doubt I'll get more of a comic done tomorrow than I did today.

One thing I'm working on is a script and layout thumbnails for a small series I hope to get done in the spring. I'm paying a little more attention to the script because I hope to coerce somebody else into drawing it for me. The story is sort of a stand alone, with Roland and a few secondary characters. It will be straight horror stuff.

I do have a real world time table for wanting to get through my story. Even if I can't meet that schedule I will post date to submit things to meet that schedule and try to contract people in some way to help draw things.

Comic 20060914

Angel. I will regret not saving this for the regular sunday update. I had the desire to color this and I made clouds. I think this what is called foreshadowing. and if it is unclear, the angent of God shat on her head.

The generic quote for this was going to be 'Who sez angels don't fly' but wasn't where I got the idea for this for those of you who might recognize it. does that quote date me? I'm not sure.

Comic 20060910

My Bodyguard has a little bit of action. The 'pain is weakness leaving the body' was something that came to me some time ago and I'm glad I remembered it and had a way to use it. To put the phrase in context it is often used by athletes when doing their thing and generally focuses on mentally overcoming fatigue pains and exhaustion. I also relate it with military training.

The art is sucky for this. I haven't really done anything this bad in a while. I was sick most of last week and was trying a different way to construct the image from scanning to final product. The process worked except that I really rushed through it.

This was uploaded late, about 9 hours after the regular sunday update deadline.

General Update

Illness has struck me. It is the head cold. The 'having children in grade school first week of school' sickness that we go through every year. I'm taking a few medications which are confounding my meager brain powers. I'm hoping to have my weekly update done sometime sunday. This will be the first time I've missed a update on the automatic saturday/midnight script. except for the one I missdated .. and the one I forgot to upload. I had an idea for a simple comic that would foot the bill, but I realized it was more involved than I thought at first. So tonight I uploaded Dress code which fits in the archive at the end of August.

I hope I'll get something put together sometime tomorrow; in between medications and a picnic. Working on this sort of drawing in the company of others is socially a little risky so I can't work on anything /at/ the picnic.

Comic 20060829

Dress Code This comic was done fairly quickly. I have a few first week of school things thought out, but not much time to draw them. The comic seems to be falling more and more ont Sarah recently. She is the easiest to draw in some ways, and the easiest on the eyes.

Comic 20060903

Removal is another crass comic. Well this was done sort of on the fly, I had a little less time than usual to do the art, which made deciding what to draw difficult. So I picked out something fairly basic in my small stock of gag-a-day type scripts. Then I drew like the wind.

This is a straight scanned 4b 9mm mechanical pencil with graytones in the GIMP. I wanted to do some white highlights on Mrs. Wu's shirt but I ran out of time. Next time I'll scan it a bit darker. The lighter lines made darker shades look a little off. If i was better with that end of things it wouldn't have mattered as much the gray 'coloring' would have been enough.