The other is a marker/india ink panel of a hapless zombie who doesn't even make it out of his grave before...
Showing posts with label 12 o'clock somewhere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 12 o'clock somewhere. Show all posts
Sunday, August 12, 2012
DEAD TO RIGHTS
The other is a marker/india ink panel of a hapless zombie who doesn't even make it out of his grave before...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
PLATYPUS OF ALL TRADES
Like every cartoonist that ever lived, I thought it would be great to start a daily comic strip. My brilliant idea, something I hadn't seen before, was to feature a duck-billed platypus as the main character (this was before the invasion of Australian talent here in the US). With the comic strip friendly name of "Scooter", my paneled protagonist 's thing was that he worked lots of different jobs, hence the name of the strip "SCOOTER FOR HIRE".
In about ten minutes I scribbled thirty two vocations my guy could try out. You will note that some are not truly paying jobs ('ski bum', 'victim' or, arguably, 'writer') but it I had this stream of consciousness thing going...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
WOW...A PAGE FROM 12 o'CLOCK SOMEWHERE!!
At long last, a complete page from the opus. But jeez, putting a comic together via computer IS NOT easy.
When I was a kid, I'd grab typing paper (or buy some -- my mom charged me half a penny for each sheet as we had plenty of scratch paper and typing paper cost money)and off I'd go, careful not to use markers that bled through the page.
Flash forward to now and, hey, computers are fun to do comics with but there is lots of grunt work involved. For this single page, I drew the pictures and colored them (the fun part) and then I used Word to size 'em and add the word balloons and dialogue. THEN I had to save the panels individually as PDFs so that I could use Photoshop Elements to collect and arrange each of the panels on a page, drop in a black background and publish it.
Whew.
I admit I am not the most computer savvy, especially in using my PC for this sorta thing, so if you have any tips as how I can remove a step or two from the above process, your advice would be greatly appreciated.
When I was a kid, I'd grab typing paper (or buy some -- my mom charged me half a penny for each sheet as we had plenty of scratch paper and typing paper cost money)and off I'd go, careful not to use markers that bled through the page.
Flash forward to now and, hey, computers are fun to do comics with but there is lots of grunt work involved. For this single page, I drew the pictures and colored them (the fun part) and then I used Word to size 'em and add the word balloons and dialogue. THEN I had to save the panels individually as PDFs so that I could use Photoshop Elements to collect and arrange each of the panels on a page, drop in a black background and publish it.
I admit I am not the most computer savvy, especially in using my PC for this sorta thing, so if you have any tips as how I can remove a step or two from the above process, your advice would be greatly appreciated.
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