Comic 20060528

This was one of the first full page strips I plotted out when developing the comic. It was interesting getting here. There are a few more episodes to finish out this arc then it is onwards to a simple little action yarn.

Comic 20060315

Lunch Room Antics. A quickie comic .. was it good for you? Since I'm skipping through things fairly quickly I need to establish relationships in a fast and dirty way. Before Mable and Sarah meet again in story I had to set their previous dealings.

This is another comic that I hope to go back to and expand. I want to build a pivotal story around Mable and Sarah becoming unfriends to back up this generalized comic.

Published out of sequence.

Comic 20060521

Another Cardboard creation. Things are moving along. I think this is the last of the old set of strips I had for this. I will be making more in the future in this rough style. It is very liberating to work with throw away materials.

Comic 20060517

Mid-Week Comic. One of the first set of cardboard drawings I did when fiddling with comic ideas. I decided to use this one and another in this arc because I'm lazy. It does fit into the false fourth wall motif I'm trying to build. I'm a clever fellow, capitalizing on my poor work ethic.

It was intended that Q2 and Sarah be talking on the phone, hence the electric slash in the first frame, but I forgot to draw the handsets.

Comic 20060514

Happy Mother's Day. Another holiday sneaks in without a topical comic. With a mother like Shub there is plenty of material for a good Mother's Day romp, but instead there is this comic that doesn't look too great.

It was my intent from the start not to color anything except the visual thought balloons. It was not my intent to have the line art look so sloppy.

This starts one of the first little arcs I started working on when I was first putting the comic together so it is nice to finally get to it..

Looking for Artists

I decided over the last couple of days that I do not have the time to get comics out as quickly as I would like. I can make the sparse weekly schedule I've set, but it won't get story points done when they need to be done. I have a few things that I would like to get completed by certain dates in the comic.

I'm looking for people to either draw individual comics or do some small story arcs. The artist will work from a blue pencil rough and a script. I'm looking for a style that would be close to what I have up, but this isn't required. Anything that isn't manga or overly cartoony would be fine. I'm concerned most with flow of action and atmosphere. I plan on still making completed comics.

With a little ramp-up time I can keep pace with a 7 day a week writing schedule and I might consider working with a few artists at once.

There will be some very adult situations, and graphic detail. Not much of it has shown to date, but it will be coming. Anybody who is interested can email me at newsarray-at-gmail.com. Link me or send a sample of work, and how much you would be willing to do. I'm interested to work with a variety of artists and explore different styles. I can write and block to suit most sorts of page formats.

Comic 20060301

Professor R'lyeh is introduced to his honors Ancient Society class at university. This happens to be one of the first bits I drew when fooling around with this comic idea. My prefered medium was indelible marker on cardboard.

Published out of sequence.

Going Back in Time

I have a few story lines that are dependant on the date. I also have some things I wanted to do but didn't have the time, because of the schedule of the comic and the fact things had to progress because of the date dependant story line. The solution to the problem is to cheat. I will do what I can to keep the Sunday updates, but I will also start going back and inserting strips into the story line archives when I have the extra time to do that.

This is one of the advantages of working in a digital media.

Comic 20060423

My mother the Pimp. Here is young Sarah, not too young, mind you, getting ready to pay the rent. Sarah's mother wasn't drawn that way for a reason, but there is a reason why I kept it like that.

Comic 20060416

Not an Easter Comic. I had a little comic sketched out for Easter. I'll have it done by next Easter if it still relates to the comic by then. /That's/ working ahead.

Not so many details in highlighting and shading. I still took way too long to put it together.

Comic 20060409

More real world problems. Again trying to figure out the real from the fantastic and the horror from the comedy. I'm not sure where this little arc is going to end.

This is the first full on graphics tablet episode. I did the basic sketch layout and ink on paper, but then practically redrew the whole thing on the computer. The middle panel of Shub is a photo-reference of my wife. The office building /sort of/ looks like one near me.

Comic 20060402

A quick comic done with the graphire and photo-references of my wife in our car. I regret the speed lines outside of the side window, but the way I had things layered I didn't have time to fix them.

This is mostly cheat. I cut the photos up and drew diretly over them.

Comic 20060401

First day with the Wacom. I found a graphire 4x5 for around $50. Since I was keeping to my wide schedule I thought I deserved to get something to make things easier.

The art itself was just a experiment in perspective. The graphics tablet made it much easier to move lines and change shading to try and get the look correct. It came closer than it would have otherwise.

Comic 20060326

The action is .. stiff. For this and a few others I scanned in a basic inked lined art, cleaned it up a little then printed two b&w copies. One I continued inking, adding some crosshatching. The other I colored with colored pencils. I scanned both back into the computer then overlay the lines over the colors. The process worked fairly quickly but I lost a lot of the line dynamics with all the processing.

Comic 20060319

This is one of the first things I put together for this project. The actual germ for this mini-arc won't be visible for a while. This and a few others were drawn on cardboard with an indelible marker.

Comic 20060317

Sometimes I get frustrated at work. Most of the time it is good exercise and I like to hang out with a lot of the people there. It gets me out of the house. But, sometimes it can be very stupid.

Comic 20060312

Some more cut and paste cheating and some strange vertical lines. I think the Archiver's comment says it all. These are powerful beings and there is no reason they souldn't know about the basics of the world in which they are living.

Comic 20060310

A poorly drawn, pointless comic. A good wrap up to the first day at school with a little cannibalism shoutout at the end. I threw this together; copy and paste is my friend.

Comic 20060305

A poorly drawn racist comic. Er, not racist, but with racial commentary. It is more than likely something that is more understandable in a rural community that doesn't see very much outside blood. I will not make an obvious inbeeding comment here.

Comic 20060226

The First 'full page' comic was a pain. I struggled through it and didn't have time to get it done the way I wanted. I took on a little too much at once in the limited amount of time I had to finish it.

This is Sarah's introduction. She is worldly wise, which is good, except that her world is fairly small. I have things planned for Roland also. But I don't know how much character developement or back story I will be able to do for him.