I got this next week’s strip done a bit early so I’m posting it tonight. I worked on it for many hours last night and all day today. Finally had some time to get some comics done. These panels (and some coming up in the next couple strips) came from Sunday afternoon drawing get-togethers at my friend Bryan Stone’s apartment a month or so ago. It’s incredible how much more you can sometimes accomplish when you put a bunch of comics nerds together, working and hanging out in the same room! The energy level is always amazing. I totally look forward to these sessions (when we can actually find the time to do them!).
Enjoy!
All the facial expressions here are amazing.
I’ve lost track of what’s going on with Dingbat. Are you still working on Year of the Rat?
would you be disappointed in me if i said i’ve lost track too?
i was going to turn magic inkwell into an action/adventure/fantasy/kung fu comic with year of the rat, problem is kung fu panda came out around the same time and was so much better than the idea i had… so i stopped.
now i’m just meandering in a transition that was going to tie pretty much ALL the stories together somehow… whimville, saturday morning cartoons (defunct and lost… i have no copies of these comics and i don’t think they survived a crash at moderntales a few years ago), and those where the salad days.
i feel like i should pull a DC Comics thing and just reboot the whole damned mess and bring back the classic inkwell characters with the classic stories and way of going about things, but with better coloring/layout/all those things i’ve gotten better at doing since 1997.
You called Salad Days another noble failure – the thing is, it was never a failure. None of your comics were failures, you just stopped working on them. I can hardly criticize you too harshly though, after all, I have my own lengthy list of unfinished projects. Much worse than yours, at least you made it to the actual finished pieces of art stage! You just need to finish something. Maybe you should scale back your plans a bit, they may get a bit too overwhelming. Salad Days for example was a massive undertaking. Concentrate on shorter stories. Or finish one of the comics you already started. Pick the one that was closest to the end.
P.S., And it’s never too late to finish something you started. Rob Schrab finally finished Scud 10 years after he stopped working on it!
That third panel is amazing and beautiful. I really love those eyes. I’m staring into them and I’m seeing light.