Archive for March, 2009
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It’s amazing how historical events can get “shanghaied” by corporations, people, or even the cultures who should know better and turned into mass-commercial marketing events. It took me many years to realize that the good Saint Patrick wasn’t known for turning beer green. I still don’t know what the remembrance of martyred Christians has to do with racy greeting cards and scarfing down chocolates in heart-shaped boxes. The current celebrations seem quite incongruous with the original events, and even though I rail against it whenever I get the chance I still follow the piper out of town, dancing along whatever crazy path he should wander.
Humanity is doomed.
I really enjoyed this experiment. Originally, it was to be a much longer run and the Main Character was supposed to be the bad guy. He figured it out at the very end when he confronted the Lobster, who was known to drive men insane. Instead of insanity, the Lobster brought clarity of thought, and revealed to the Main Character that he was indeed the perpetrator. Because of life events, I had to cut back on my posting schedule and retool the strip. I still wanted the MC to be guilty, but the more I cut the less sense it made. I came up with framing him for the Thursday strip, and it’s a decision I am really happy with.
I hope you enjoyed this detour as much as I did. It’s over, and I will return to the normal course of comicking in the next installment.
Imperfection Settlement: Open And Shut
March 12th, 2009 |Posted In: comics, Imperfection Settlement
I said I’d use the red to tie things together, so I used it to bring the dress and the lobster’s claws to the same level. This is not how I planned the story originally: I’ll talk about alternate stories on Sunday. The story line is essentially done, but I will be tying it up in the magical world of color on Sunday.
I tried to leave a lot of blank space in this one, to play around with it. It’s okay, but I like the previous strip better.
Today’s strip was all inked by hand. Every last bit. The color int he last panel, of course, was digitally painted, but all those black fills I did with a brush. I really like the way this one turned out. I felt last strip was too dark. It would probably hold up well side by side with a bunch of strips in similar style, say if it were compiled into book form at some point, but on its own it really seemed to drag the page down. The next installment will also involve quite a few fills, but I think it will look really good.