The new computer should be here Friday. That means this story’ll get moving again — no more stalling. This arc is coming out really long, and I’m eager to finish it, just because I have so many ideas for what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy June! This is the 50th comic. To celebrate, my graphics card has died. Yayyy! Turning my laptop on only results in whirring fans and an unlit screen. It doesn’t even pull up a picture on an external monitor, so,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My resolution to do simpler, shorter, less-dense comics is not panning out so well. Erp. When I do a comic like this one, it’s inevitably like the Battle of Hoth inside my brain — where Businesslike AT-ATs are marching through[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Try to keep in mind, Elephant Kid isn’t a jerk all the time. He’s just acting like one right now. Everybody does that sometimes.
The past few comics have had chunkier lines than intended, because I was unnecessarily duplicating the layers, which was causing some virulent replication in the adumbration matrix. It’s all (not) very technical. So then I deleted the extra layer, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Speaking of the radio, I got to do my first radio interview recently. It was with UMKC’s student station, K-ROO, for a spoken word program called “Word Up.” It was really, really fun (technical difficulties aside). In it, I read[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, color. Color everything. Color everywhere. Like I said, I’ve started doing it because I’ve finally learned enough about Photoshop that I can do this in a reasonable amount of time. Still, figuring out the technical aspects doesn’t make me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a cover-page for the next story arc. I finally found a tutorial for digital coloring that made sense and seemed to work, thanks to Kazu Kibuishi, who writes “Copper” and puts together those really cool “Flight” anthologies. I’m gonna[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…