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Category Archive: AR Comics
Apr 30 2013
Calimbo p. 26
I’ve been jumping around with these restaurant scene pages. This will likely be page 26. Here’s the thumbnail (with added text): As you can (maybe) see in the thumbnail, I originally planned to have more of a long shot of the two men at the table. But I decided that there wasn’t much gained with …
Apr 23 2013
Calimbo p. 22
And another page down. Here Calimbo is reamed by his boss (for doing his job). The Thumbnail: The pencils: The inks. I wasn’t quite sure how to handle the table and backgrounds without adding a lot more lines or blacks which I thought might make the page harder to read. So I did nothing… And …
Apr 09 2013
Colimbo 23
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
Colimbo 28ishortherebouts
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 05 2013
Colimbo p. 30
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 20 2013
Mark! and the Manatee: Sea Cow Power!
During my latest travels over the wintry break from brain-washing the young adults of America’s community college classrooms, I visited warm, sunny, taco truck-laden Florida and didn’t want to leave. And I wanted to try my hand at fore- shortening, one of my visual arts goals of late. Needs work, right? I had photo reference …
Feb 12 2013
Calimbo p 27
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
Colimbo p. 19
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
Calumbo p. 25
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
How Did You Make That Christmas Card?
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 …
Oct 30 2012
A Brief History of Obamacare
Click to enlarge By their own admission, Republicans in Congress made keeping Obama to one term their primary agenda: not jobs, not fixing the housing situation, not getting the economy under control. No it was stopping Obama. So any legislative victory had to be prevented, even when the legislation was a gift to Republicans. That’s …
Sep 17 2012
Shana Tova from the Gefilte Fishermen at Work
Shana Tova! (originally published April 19, 2010)
Sep 15 2012
Calumbo p 14 & 15
Here are the (mostly) completed pages 14 and 15 (page numbers subject to change depending on pacing). p1: was thinking of adding some construction behind the fence, but may skip it and just keep pressing forward p3: think I might want a “SPLUPF!” sound effect here…not sure p6: badge was originally more elaborate, but I …
Jul 15 2012
Calumbo p 21
finished(?) page 21: Calumbo’s captain wants to speak to him… need to fix C’s name (spell it right…)
Jun 28 2012
Flashback: Dear Mr. President…
Let’s face it, the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. “Obamacare”) is a far cry from the public option for universal health care, and its provisions are practically straight out of the 1993 Republican playbook (how it went from “the conservative alternative” to “socialism” is beyond me), but it’s a good day when more people can get …
Jun 26 2012
Inventor
Superheroes are pretty pathetic if you think about it. And the more powerful they are, they more impotent they seem to be at effecting any real change. Let’s face it, instead of spending hours punching bad guys as Batman, billionaire Bruce Wayne could do more a lot more for Gotham by creating some Green jobs …
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