So, this is the second time I’ve had to write this because I am an idiot, and tried to publish this entry without actually adding the comic. Not a good idea, it turns out.
Anyway, sorry the comic is a bit on the late side. I’ve had a bunch of side projects lately, and excuses aside — I really need to get a comic or two ahead. Especially by this summer when I’ll be moving 1200 miles back to the midwest. That kind of thing tends to cut into the free time a little bit.
Speaking of side projects — have you checked out the RareBits blog yet? It just happens to be the neatest little thing this side of a Jace and the Wheeled Warriors remake (best obscure cartoon and toyline ever). It also happens to be the online home of the comics collective I belong to. I’ve been having tons of fun lately writing articles (with illustrations) for the blog, not the least of which is the one I wrote today. I won’t ruin it for you, but let’s just say it involves Roseanne’s short lived Saturday morning cartoon and and Aliens VS. Predator Babies drawing – among other things.
Alright! I’m off to a meeting of the minds with my compadres.
Later,
J.
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Hey all, look for a new comic tomorrow in the AM. I’ve got it about a third of the way inked, and plan on finishing it up tonight.
In the meantime, I posted on the rarebits blog on Monday, and it’s fairly readable. And I talk about videogames, which everybody likes.
Later,
J
Hey all, just dropping in real quick to say that there’ll be a new comic later tomorrow evening (eastern standard time, of course). I’m splitting my drawing time right now between Billy and a really cool side-project. I can’t show anything right now, but I’ll have a couple of pieces to reveal on the website sometime in April.
In the meantime, hang in there and have a good weekend!
J.
Hey all, the new comic is coming, but in the meantime, find out about some of my problems with this one, and the solution over on the rarebits blog.
Just posted on the Rare Bits site. It’s mostly a short ramble about giant monsters and Daimajin, with a little doodle sprinkled in for fun.
New comic on Wednesday!
Later,
J
Did you know that’s really how you can spell reestablished? It looks odd to me. I suppose I could hyphenate it, but somehow I don’t feel like it would be right. Sort of destabilizes a word to shove a hyphen in there.
Alright-Now that the aesthetics of hyphenated words is out of the way … Hooray! my semester is essentially over! I’ve had to do two presentations in two weeks, one of which involved building a whole new website, and the other which needed to sum up what I’ve done with this comic and website over the last six months (and for that matter, ten years of fiddling around with this world I’ve created). But now it’s over. I’ve just got to show up to class today, and watch the second batch of seniors squirm like I had to last week.
For those of you don’t know, I’m in my second year at The Center for Cartoon Studies, located in beautiful White River Junction, Vermont. It’s fun, but pretty grueling. The second year of the two year program is made up mostly of a thesis project, and MAN O MAN am I glad mine is this comic. I don’t have to worry about finishing enough work – at two strips a week (um…well, mostly. Sorry guys.) my thesis is piling up behind me as we speak.
And speaking of that new website I made all by myself, check out the Rarebits blog! I’ll be posting on it once a week or so, along with the other members of the crew (we’re all either current students or alum of CCS). It’s going to be a pretty soft start, what with the holidays being next week and all – but it should get rolling full steam in the next couple of months leading into Convention season.
Also, I tried to make a puffy sticker in photoshop:
I don't actually smoke anymore. This is just the best picture of me ever.
I think it’s a pretty good first try, but if any of you have a better way, let me know. My future may be contingent on my ability to produce credible puffy sticker effects.
Well, I’m off to work on the next comic. I’m frickin’ praying I can get it up before bed tonight, but it may be tomorrow if the inking causes me problems.
Hopefully in a couple of weeks this won’t be an issue any longer, because over vacation I’m hoping to achieve the holy grail of Webcomickers…the buffer…
Later,
J
