Building blocks

More tweaks to the site done, and more to come. Got one of those little icon thingies. (Favicon) That's pretty awesome, right? Going to add a hidden page that catalogs all the words in the comics for easy searchability.

Here are some of the prep sketches from Sunday's comic, unfortunately these are degrading in quality because I actually draw most of the prep on paper. You know with pencil, like they did in the Dark Ages.

Maybe with a decent camera or scanner I might start putting those up.

In truth I don't hold a huge amount against John Mayer, though I've heard rumors he is a giant douchebag. But then, who isn't apparently. The John Meyer I love, is a fantastic South African artist who blew my mind back in high school, and unlike most stuff from back then he has aged immaculately. Really, check out his stuff.

Getting people's attention on Tumblr is pretty difficult so I've moved to a large format single frame ad for the comic. (This is where vector art is insanely useful.) The latest one was this.

Got to put some real time into the D&D page over this week to get it to what I want. An interactive map and lore center. The lore word document I have is getting very hard to manage, will probably do a timeline too. One that slowly reveals itself over the campaign.

Work to do.

Phew, all that traveling is over. It's good to be home. Though this is a new house, so I still trip over shit in the dark.

First off here's a comic that never was!

This was more a proof of concept than a final layout but I got bored of it. Also it felt too similar to this Penny Arcade, which is already unspeakably hilarious. I couldn't help screaming in my mind through all of Hugo, "It's a fucking industrial complex kid! No that's not a slide! Don't put your hand in there!"

Things on the horizon:

- I'm going to start a new D&D campaign soon, one I hopefully will manage to take places. I intend to use it as a world building exercise too, so it will have its own page home to any art and writing I do for it, expanding as the world does.

- I'm going to start proper work on either After or ADRIFT now that I'm getting settled in. Not sure which yet.


- Starting work with my friend's awesome two man band on art/photography/music videos. Will hopefully result in some pretty cool stuff. (That's called cross promotion, bitches.)


- With luck, I will be getting going on an iPhone/iPad game with a friend. That should be interesting and challenging. Mostly for him I would imagine since he will be doing the all the coding.

Lonely Valentine

Here's the little prep sketches for today's comic.

The heart moon was too cute to pass up. There was originally going to be a pile of DvDs on the couch arm but they really didn't read well at that size.

I've never actually managed to watch all of Marley and Me. I keep seeing it in parts. It's possible my fragile soul wouldn't survive a full viewing. Perhaps that's how they'll execute me when I'm finally caught. You know, for that thing I did.

If Lucy Fell and Mozart and the Whale are two of my favorite romantic comedies. I don't give a shit if it's pronounced Rom Com.

The comic was very close to being a Fallout valentine's day card, but I figured I'd been ragging on about old games too much. I still might do it as a separate art piece.

"Valentine's, Valentine's never changes." - Ron Perlman