ROUGH PENCIL After thumbnails, I work to size, with a #2 pencil and a smooth lightweight paper. No more small stuff, I rule out my page, and panel edges. I work from loose scribbles, slowly tightening and erasing. Dialogue is quickly scribbled in, to give me a sense of how much space it’s going to take up. Hopefully by now …
Nothing like a Charger to totally wreck your evening. Sort of like a mid-season finale. Speaking of zombies and mid-season finales… I miss “The Walking Dead” (That’s how you segway people). It’s not so much the mid-season finale that has me bummed out as it is that I’ll have no weekly Zombie programming to look forward to until February. *SPOILERS FOLLOW–Both …
Every Monday Jim sends me a new finished strip, and every Monday I tell my wife, “This is the best one we’ve done!” No doubt, I’ll say it again next Monday, but for now this is certainly my favorite. It’s tough to tell a complete story, minimize dialog, and keep it funny in under a page–my hats off to my …
Happy Halloween! Or Jesus Ween, if you’re so inclined. I love the idea of Jesus Ween because I love double entendres! And I particularly love it when people are oblivious to them. But my favorite form of celebration this time of year has to be the Mexican form. Sugar skulls, papier-mache devils, good food, good drink– Dia De Los Muertos …
Cats have a natural attraction to the Big Gulp. Poor Darryl is fighting a battle he’ll never win. With that cleared up… Johnny’sCake is the character I most associate with my own experience. That’s not to say Unicorn Soup is autobiographical, it’s not, though dashes of reality creep in. So here’s a dash, perhaps a Mrs. Dash—I always play the …
