Wednesday, November 30, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Days Twenty Three through Twenty Six

Four Day mega post, cuz I'm lazy.



Day 23. I don't actually care that much for talking in circles...



Day 24.



Day 25, which is a thing that actually happened.



Day 26. Yep.

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(All of these posted these at my main site too.)

Monday, November 28, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day Twenty Two



Thirty Days of Comics, day twenty two. Did I ever have faith to begin with?

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30 Days of Comics: Day Twenty One



I should have drawn panels on the ducks journal page in panel 2.

Day 21, only a week behind in posting these now!

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30 Days of Comics: Day Twenty



Ten to go in two more days.

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30 Days of Comics: Day Nineteen



I got a little behind on posting these. I was away from a scanner for a while, so now I'm playing catch up. Here's day 19.

Around this time I started thinking of these strips terms of parts to a whole rather than individual statements. That is to say, my approach shifted from thinking of this as a daily challenge, to thinking of this as a project. I started to think about how each strip I drew this month would fit together with the others, and how they would play off of each other in the end.

Not that I'd been really successful at making individual statements with each strip previous, but at this point I sort of stopped caring.


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Saturday, November 19, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day Eighteen



On the seventeenth of this month Rosalie Lightning, the very young daughter of cartoonists Tom Hart and Leela Corman, passed away unexpectedly in her sleep. The shocking and heartbreaking news has passed through the comics community this weekend.

Tom and Leela have touched so many, not only through their work but through their commitment to the community through support and education of other cartoonists. Recently the family moved cross-country - from New York to Florida - to start a new cartooning school, The Sequential Art Workshop.

Personally: Tom was the very first person to contact me, with kind words of appreciation, at the inception of this website. To have an established cartoonist of Tom's stature (as well as a cartoonist whose work I already admired) contact me, unsolicited, with such words of support... well, it meant a lot to me.

My heart goes out to Tom and Leela at this unimaginably difficult time for them. No parent should have to go through what they're going through right now. Cartoonist Lauren Weinstein has set up an emergency memorial fund to help them with whatever they need in their time of grief. Please consider donating.

Today's comics were drawn by my own children, Sophie (6 years old) and Jamon (4).
I love them very much and I feel so lucky to have them both.


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Friday, November 18, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day Seventeen



You ever have that feeling, you just know you kind of have things figured out?
What's that like?

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day Sixteen



Sixteen days in. Just over half way through.
I'm in one of those moods.

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30 Days of Comics: Day Fifteen



Too many late nights.

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Monday, November 14, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day Fourteen



Day fourteen. Almost half way.

This one is a riff off of days 12 & 13 and also a collaboration with my son.
I've done comics with Sophie before, but I think this is my first jam with Jamon. I think he did a great job!

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Sunday, November 13, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Days Twelve and Thirteen



Three pages (stitched together here), drawn over two days.
The comic itself is pretty self explanatory.

Days twelve and thirteen, and I'm all caught up.

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30 Days of Comics: Day Eleven



Playing catchup this weekend. Here's day eleven.

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30 Days of Comics: Day Ten

Day ten. Work comic. An altered text story born out of boredom, desperation, and bored desperation. Culled from a photocopied handout at work during some type of training where they taught us how to press buttons or something.

I am truly sorry for what you are about to read.



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Thursday, November 10, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day Nine



Thirty days of comics, day nine.
Yes, it's kind of culturally biased and logocentric. I know. Deal with it.

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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day Eight



Thirty days of comics, day eight.
I'd say the third panel is in tribute to Bil Keane, except for the fact that I drew it before I 'd heard of his passing. I'll still say it though.

RIP Billy Keen.

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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day Seven



A comic about raking leaves. I drew the panels on my cell phone. With my finger.

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Monday, November 07, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day Six



So I tried to draw a strip this Sunday and I just hit a wall. No focus and all thumbs. I tore up the result and made this bitchy thing with what was left. I kinda feel like a dick for even posting this. What a whiner!
I pretty much hate this one.

Ugh.
Gimme day seven. Quick!

Anyway, here's Thirty Days of Comics info.
And Derik has a roundup post of all the participants along with his own comic for today.

Follow 30 days on Twitter, #30dayscomics.

(Also posting these at my main site for some reason.)

Sunday, November 06, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day Five



Day five. Saturday's comic.
Not much one for craft this weekend.

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Saturday, November 05, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day Four



Day four. Talk.

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Friday, November 04, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day Three



Day three. Plus a detail of the second panel:



Derik Badman's Thirty Days of Comics info.

Not everyone participating is on Twitter, but a good portion are. Follow (almost) everybody at #30dayscomics.

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Thursday, November 03, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day Two



Day two of Derik Badman's Thirty Days of Comics. I will be making and posting one comic for each day over the course of November. Check out the link above to see the other fantastic cartoonists involved.
Other people will too.

Will be.


Doing this...


(Also posting these at my main site.)

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

30 Days of Comics: Day One



I'm participating in Derik Badman's Thirty Days of Comics This year. I will be making and posting one comic for each day over the course of November. Check out the link above to see the other fantastic cartoonists involved.

This is day one. I spent most of the day trying to work out whether I could wing a sustained narrative in daily installments, all written on the fly. I balked at the last minute, it was just too much work to get into right now to try a continuity strip. So I went back to my old standby, the comics diary mostly banal. I dashed this strip off quickly to avoid missing the midnight deadline. Not my proudest moment, by far.

(I'll also be posting these at my main site.)

(p.s. I did some screwy things with posting day 2, which may have screwed up any rss feeds and whatnot. So if you're reading this in a screwed up feed, I'm sorry.)

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