Hey! Second comic in…60 days! Plus or minus 2. Still beats the record for the past [REDACTED] years eh?
God bless Jack Kirby. The man had no fear of ink. His art astounded me in my youth, one of those signature styles that just kept your eye roaming all over the page.
Love! Exciting and new!
Make the day special, print ’em out, cut ’em out, hand ’em out, act shocked at the restraining order!
Hokey smokes. What was that? Two and a half years? For real?
Well, at least there’s this.
A new beginning? Hope springs eternal, indeed still in the face of the coming year.
“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope”
Indeed.
Once again the High Holiday is upon us. And so is a comic, for once in far too long.
If you find the spirit of Samhain upon you here are the past Halloween comics, as well as an archive of InkTober nonsesne.
Hello. Management is happy to report we are not dead yet. Always an upside when it comes to continuing to “get things done” as they say on all the popular life coaching cult accounts.
Who doesn’t love a good artisan craft micro brew? Made with hops named after some historic Victorian agricultural hero…water from a tiny mountain stream guarded by six generations of a rural family…labels lovingly painted by a manic outsider artist. Related: I am available to write your brewing company marketing copy.
Back in the ‘days of my yout’ as they say, before I acquired a liking for different kinds of beer, you’d sometimes order something you never head of and it was a game of chance with the devil. Once in a while they’d bring over that tiny brandy glass and you would think “Dammnit it’s a barley wine” but buddy it’s already on your bill so buck up and drink down.
Regardless. The comics continue, though sporadic. Hoping we can do something about that. Today’s is a swing at formatting for Other Viewing, so if you check it out on Instagram, you’ll get the idea.
BIGGER version below you can scroll through because you deserve good things.
Status report. Also testing out some new inks like a damnable caveman.
A culinary choice reflecting these turbulent times.
I think people fall into two groups……either during the lat few months you have been very very busy, or very very bored. I’ve been on the busy side mostly. No mushrooms on the belly yet.
It’s fair to day this has turned a corner into a “cast of characters and also other things I want to draw” type of comic. Weighed this back and forth and decided these things really have their own life and at certain points it’s best to let them be what they want to be.
This originally started as “practice” in a sense. The idea was to do SOMETHING – to make a comic on a schedule, feel out posting, the process, find the dips and challenges and so on. At the start I told myself there was no attachment to the characters and no long term goals, so I was free to just wing it.
Ten years later and still winging it. A lot learned but also I did end up holding on to these characters for better or worse. No fame, but still that drive to keep making these that only other people with the same obsession would relate to I suppose.
The internet has returned, as it is always wont to do.
Folks the internet really only wants whats best for you. Always.
So it’s happened. Color has entered the process. For why not.
When I began this it was an exercise limited to black and white, testing the waters. Eventually it became a Thing, and then some hatching and noodling was added. Eventually after that grey washes.
And here we are at the dawn of color.
To be honest the comic audience has been very….niche. So in the interest of shaking up 2020 and perhaps a new direction, trying something different. Partly to expand the comic itself, also to get my hands on this pen tablet that someone was so very kind to hand off to me and has spent far too much time languishing next to the video cabinet. It was done in ink on bristol, with a gray ink wash for some shading then colored in ye digital. Who knows perhaps at some point it will be soup to nuts digital, but I do so much love the feel of an ink brush so, hard to say.
I have been thinking about the future of this comic and discussing comic lifespan, weighing options and thoughts about where, if anywhere, this is headed. There were a few thoughts about putting the Pin of Fate on this and trying another comic, another format. Still uncommitted, but the other ideas may not be ripe so onward we go.
