comics

drawergeeks‘ theme this week was galactus so i drew this little comic. :)

i identify with galactus a little bit right now. not the whole “devouring of worlds” part, but the “not eating what you want” part. i’m trying to lose a little bit of weight right now and it’s tough to go for that bag of carrots when what you really want is that tub of carmel de luce ice cream in the freezer. mmmm… ice cream…

once again, february 1st was hourly comic day- and armed only with a moleskine, a micron and a lack of better judgment, i decided to participate in it again. the result is 25 pages (in 18 hours!) of really, really bad drawings. but hey! i did it!

both my awesome wife, jen, and my co-worker andrew participated in the day’s comic festivities as well. after reading mine, make sure you check out theirs HERE and HERE respectively. it’s funny to see how our days collide. also, in case you missed it last year, my first hourly comic can be read HERE.

without further ado…

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i’m currently working on five different comic projects at once, which is kind of crazy for me since i’m used to only working on one or two at a time. here’s a sneak peek at some panels from three of them:

the first one of these i can’t really tell you anything about at all. the middle one i’ll hopefully be able to start posting some pages on this blog soon. and the last one you’ll be able to read in person if you make it out to megacon in march. i’m also prepping my story for parable 2 which i think i’m just going to keep in the prep stage until i finish one or two of these. this is all in addition to to me trying to keep up with cow & buffalo every week and the various other things that pop up from time to time. it looks like 2008 is really shaping up to be the year of comics for me!

i did it! twenty pages in seventeen hours. this was also my first foray into doing a journal comic. pretty fun! and a good challenge. jen, being the cool wife that she is, also decide to do one yesterday. it might be fun to compare hers with mine since we cross paths throughout the day. anyhoo, here’s my first hour yesterday. click on the “more” tag (or for my live journal readers, the “cut” tag) to read my whole day.

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so dean “how on earth does he keep up with everything” trippe let me know of this thing called hourly comic day that takes place tomorrow. pretty much, you draw a little journal comic every hour you are awake and compile them together the next day to show people how your day went in super quick sketchbook form. not one to shy away from a challenge (at least on thursdays), i’m going to try my hand at this. this is my “quick” test comic that i drew today.

yeah. i’m freaking out.

in my excitement over lunchbox funnies on wednesday (see below), i totally forgot to mention that the guest strip i did for dean trippe’s awesome butterfly comic is up this week. go check it out! i actually drew it quite a while ago and i still like it. which is a rare thing for me.

and speaking of lunchbox funnies. a big thanks to everyone that’s taken the time to link or comment over there this week. we’re all very appreciative of the big support we’ve gotten for an all-ages collective, especially in today’s market. keep an eye on the site. we’re going to continue updating it with fun and goodies!

dean trippe is back from out of the country and he’s started updating butterfly again. if anyone here reads dc comics, particularly all the crisis stuff that’s happened, there’s a fun play on a certain character(s) name(s) for the latest. dean’s also put up his list of alternate butterfly winners. surprisingly, i’m one of the ten runners up. mine i just did for fun, and i don’t think it’s all too original, so it’s kinda embarrassing to see my entry amidst all these very cool, much more creative concepts (such as joel carroll‘s to the left there). my favorite has got to be moth by adam cadwell. the character just feels so wonderfully right. it reminds of the good ol’ disney animated television days when darkwing duck had mega duck as his evil counterpart.

dean did give my butterfly a good name though. it actually wasn’t untill six hours later where i was like “aah! funny..” and if you don’t read many comics, particularly x-factor, ya might not get that either.

speaking of comics, i keep forgetting to mention a very cool new feature that dc comics has on their website right now. some of you may be aware of the 52 comic they recently started publishing. a weekly comic set in real time examining a missing year in the dc universe directly after the events of infinite crisis (hey, not all of my buffalog readers read comics!). well, writer/artist keith giffin is drawing all the breakdowns for this massive series and you can view some of these rough plotted out pages here. it was fun comparing his breakdowns to the actual finished pages until i realized i had more important things i could be doing with my life. part of me likes keith’s style more then the finished artwork but that’s also the part of me that enjoys the simple cartoonish approach to things. joe bennit’s been doing a fine job.

i think the moral of today’s incredibly geeky post is that for those of you that don’t, read more comics! that is all.

comic co is a fun online project started by jp ahonen. the idea is to create three 33 page comics with each page being done by a different artist and with that artist having the opportunity to decide who they want to follow them. the fun part is that the first page of all three comics is the same but because of the multiple involvement there’s no telling where each story will go.

i recently added to all the fun. click on the panels above to see the full page, but you have to read the pages before mine first! i followed up jouni nummela on comic 3, page 3.