Jun 16 2013
I was able to finish up a Calimbo page (although I still need to letter it!). I got started on another page, as well. This is the pre-sketch sketch. Here I’m trying to figure out how things will work in real-size. Depending on how I feel, I may do some tracing when I put this …
Apr 09 2013
Here’s the thumbnail: Here’s the pencils: And here’s the finished product. I may have overdone it with the blacks. I’m not sure that everything is especially clear. I also started using white paint for clean up and some outlines. It’s the kind of thing that you can do in Photoshop, but I really want …
Mar 19 2013
Here’s another page that’s around the 28 area. I can’t be expected to know what page number I’m on! This page came out a little less cramped than I expected it to. That may be good, as I don’t want it to look too much like the previous page “Montressor trapped in the water carafe” …
Mar 12 2013
Another week, another page. Okay, I’m not quite managing a page a week, but my pace has picked up from the 1 page/year that it was. This will roughly be page 28 once all is said and done. Here’s the thumbnail sketch: Here’s the actual pencils: And the final inked page: You can see that …
Mar 05 2013
I think this is page 30, or maybe it’s 29. It’ll all work out in the end. Here’s the thumbnail. Here’s the sketch. Here’s the final. I may do some more to arrange the text better. There’s a lot of words and it gets cramped. And here’s a link to the thing so far …
Feb 12 2013
Here’s the thumbnail: As you may be able to tell, I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted in the top right. As I was sketching the actual page, it sorta came to me that maybe there could be a contrast between the 2 men; a contrast in colors (black and white colors) and more hands. …
Jan 29 2013
The Thumbnail: The Pencils: I wasn’t quite happy with the layout, so I made it so Colimbo advances on Montressor (visually in the lower half of the page) while Montressor gets closer and smaller at the same time (upper half). I also made C’s hands more prominent, since “hands” is the point of this page. …
Jan 14 2013
First the thumbnail: Then the completed page. I think the thumbnail had more of the humor in it, but it’s done. Do you think the menu needs to say “Menu”? or is it clear what’s happening? Words may just clutter the image. The goal is to get this sucker finished this year.
Dec 26 2012
Click on images to enlarge. STEP 1: THE IDEA The first step is probably the hardest. How do you come up with an idea that will be fun and fit on a card? There are thousands of Christmas cards out there already. After some random doodling, I got this idea. STEP 2: THE SKETCH Next …
Aug 19 2012
Roughs for 23, 24, and Interludes p1: SFX: the car is coming closer, closer; breaks panel; the “big foot” restaurant underscores M’s crest and the fact that his footprints will be his downfall p5: extreme close up on face? panels widening; C coming closer, closer as he walks through restaurant; smoke breaks panel this page …
Aug 12 2012
Roughs for pages 19, 20, 22: p1: smoke breaks pane and leads to p2 p2: M in front of fireplace; items on mantle will point toward M p3: not sure about this panel; thinking C’s hands, but something that indicates his meandering style p2–>4–> 5 close in on M p4: items on mantle point toward …
Aug 05 2012
Roughs for pps. 14, 15, 16, 18 —————————— —————————————— Text runs along left and right sides. As they speak, there are images of hands, trowels, bricks interspersed in the text ———————————————– going, going, going, but not quite gone! smoke breaks panes
Jun 28 2012
Here’s some background on page 1 (part 1, part 2). Page 2 took me about a month to color and letter. Actually, it was more like 8 hours total; but there was about a month between finalizing the line art and actually getting it all finished on the computer. I let so much time go …
Apr 11 2012
And then the coloring process, which always seems like it’ll be quick. And then it takes 10 hours… Backgrounds and then blues (Outrageous’s shirt). Some darker blues (gloves)… Time for some red (Hot Head) Yellows (Hot Head) Flesh! And then another 5 hours of backgrounds and shadows (not shown). All for a page that takes …
Mar 29 2012
This one began about 20 years ago on some loose leaf paper. Twenty years later, I started on the actual work….
Mar 22 2012
Burning Question started as part of a discussion. I say it was a discussion; in reality, it was one more instance of someone “proving” to me that global warming is a myth because it wasn’t 100% understood, there was still debate, and some scientists had lied about it anyway. Although I think that these “points” …
Jun 21 2011
Even using a program like Photoshop, coloring a comic is a pretty time-consuming process. One of the ways that I speed up the job is to “paint” one color at a time to every place that needs it on the page. I usually start with the background color and/or the most prevalent color and move …
Jun 14 2011
This one had been in my head for awhile (1-2 years?), and the dialogue kept changing slightly. I realized that I needed to write it down before I completely forgot it. Comics that consist entirely of talking heads are always a bit of a challenge, because you want the images to stay visually interesting even …
May 02 2011
Creating the Red Scare T-Shirt was a collaborative effort. Honey Love came up with the Red Scare name, which was approved by popular vote of the team members. I came up with the tagline. It just seemed obvious, although no one quite seems to get the pun. I guess the Cold War really was 20 …
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