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by Sketching Webcomic Characters
Pages from the sketchbook from 2011: Various characters from David Willis’ comics, Real Life, Dr. McNinja, NN2S Multiplex, Theater Hopper, Kris Straub, Jennie Breeden Evil, Inc., The Guilded Age One more of Lightning Lady from Evil, Inc.
Strip Search Recap: Down to Seven
Today’s episode was Maki versus Amy. Two good comics; only one really nails the ideas of Mermaid and Ukelele selected from the wastebasket of ideas. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf_aB1q103s?rel=0] Spoilers after the jump!
Accelerated
I can’t figure out how to get Photoshop Elements 8 to scan in directly from my Epson V33 scanner. Weird! Manga Studio will scan in from it but this version of photoshop won’t. Technology advances but it often leaves simple functions behind. Weird… An idea for a story I noodled on earlier this year — a quick concept sketch I scanned in and started playing with in Manga Studio. It’s probably the wrong title for the story which is about time travel, at least in a sense. I’m not actually thinking of it as a comic but just a story. …
Archive Crawl: Spacetrawler by Christopher Baldwin
I read Spacetrawler by Christopher Baldwin religiously for a year or so but it was another one I lost track of. It’s a great webcomic but one that might ultimately work better in longer bits. Baldwin delivers a great bite of the comic in each update but he’s also so good at working over the longer arc of his story that the deeper layers are very rewarding and it’s not something you want to read, having forgotten much of the details of the earlier bits. So – rereading from the start; hoping to catch up to current episodes very soon. …
Bookmark: Steven Gould
Steven Gould is one of my favorite authors because of the way he takes one impossible idea and then logically delves into a world with this one new impossible idea in it. He has a scientific method feel to how he writes science fiction that I really enjoy and he generally has a nice touch with action and characters as well. He’s probably best known for his Jumper trilogy from which the movie Jumper was made. The movie loses a lot of what makes the novels special, with the movie instead crafting a gigantic mythology of war between jumpers and …
Bookmark: Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is the first novel in the A Song of Fire and Ice saga and the teevee series adapting that string of novels. But you know that, everyone knows that. The popularity of this story is surprising to me; clearly the HBO teevee adaptation had a lot to do with it but it seems like the novels had gathered a lot of steam on their own. I only read the novels last year and only just now, thanks to the free “preview” of HBO on the local cable system for a few months, have I caught the first …