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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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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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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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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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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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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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!

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30 Days of Comics: Day Five

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

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30 Days of Comics: Day Four

Day four. Talk.

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30 Days of Comics: Day Three

Day three. Plus a detail of the second panel:



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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...


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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.

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(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.)

goin' to Minnesota with an achin' in my heart...

Gearing up for the long drive to Minneapolis, where I'm dragging my friend Chris to attend Minneapolis Indie Xpo and debut my book, "!".

Something else I'll have there are these handsome new prints based off of some artwork I did for Minneapolis natives (and really excellent band) Cloud Cult a few years back. Now newly colorized in three hand printed layers each.

These fancy show fliers, pictured above in their natural habitat, were exclusively printed for MIX (by agreement with the band), and are an extremely limited edition.

I'm planning on selling completely out of everything I bring to the show (that's how these cons work, right?) but If by some odd chance there are any of these left I hope to have permission to offer them for sale online, should anyone be interested. I'll keep you posted.

For now I'm off to Minneapolis. Wish me luck!

a real thing

Pictured above, viewed amongst varied detritus, set upon the desk that birthed it, is the physical manifestation of my own labors combined with a Xeric Foundation self publishing grant. That is to say, I've finally got my book, "!" all printed up!

I never expected this to take me so long. Some readers, if they've stuck around, may remember the original incarnation of this comic, which was serialized right here on this blog. But for the initiate: ! follows a handful of disparate characters, navigating their way through a day filled with trials and triumphs, expectation and disappointment. It's a love story (or several), or an adventure or a vengeful morality play. It all depends on how you look at it. It's also, by my estimate, the longest (printed) gag strip ever, clocking in at just over 35 feet long (but accordion folded to a more manageable 10" x 7 3/4")

For those who remember it's predecessor: this version has been completely re-drawn. It's like the original in scope and appearance, but edited and clarified (and a tiny bit longer now too, actually)

And of course it's also ready for you to take home and call your own.

I will be returning from the dead, or the unannounced hibernation (evidenced by this blogs recent lack of activity) to debut the comic at the Minneapolis Indie Xpo on Saturday, August 21st. But you can also order the book through my site right now for $15 (postage paid, US). You could also click on that paypal link below.

To those of you who've stuck around to see this, I thank you for your support. I've put a lot into this comic and I hope that it does not disappoint.



And to everybody reading this: we'll talk again soon.

strangersinthenight

Been pretty quiet 'round here lately.
Here's something I drew recently. It was for a thing.

blowingaway?

You know, I almost like the original prep-sketch of this last comic better than the finished one.


The progression seems somehow subtly easier in a way. It flows better.
I messed it up, somehow on the final rendering. Too much trying to wrestle with the materials (which, in this case were literally crumbling in my grip) maybe. Not enough attention being paid to the overall flow?
The final version seems to have lost something in the translation from sketch to re-sketch

Or maybe it's just me.

blownaway?

as seen at the yellowlight.

Well, this was supposed to go up last week (along with another truly tasteless gag which I thought better of than posting) but, whaddoyaknow? The Thanksgiving holiday got the best of me.

This is the last of the gag cartoons for a little while. I'm ready for something different.

I'll probably start with some simple sketchbooky-type comics and eventually start serializing short comics for a while.
I'm also now shooting for a weekly schedule. By "weekly," I mean one post a week. No set day.
So you can see why I'm calling this thing undisciplined.

Hope you liked the gags while they lasted. Should you ever wish to revisit these, they're archived at my site for easy browsing.

On to something else.