Actually, that last like could be my life motto. Lord knows I say it often enough.
Speaking of which, this is NOT the last of the MAGFest comics. As with the public stuff going up on SmackJeeves, there’s simply too much material to finish all at once in any reasonable length of time. At least, not at the r...
2017-02-21 00:15:09 +0000 UTC View Post
See, social media followers? I warned you that the words “Sudden Apocalyptic Need To Poop” would be appearing somewhere in these comics! And I’m not exaggerating for comedic effect here, either. It really was “everything’s fine, everything’s fine, everything- WAITING IS NOT AN OPTION- LEAVE NOW!” ......
2017-02-20 23:56:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This page would be sort of confusing under any circumstances, that was kind of the point. Still, I think I made it more impenetrable than it really needed to be through some awkward page layout. There probably should have been three rows of panels, not just two. The first panel would have the whole top, the second...
2017-02-20 23:42:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m weirdly observant of the music that plays in hotel bathrooms . I’m really not sure why that is, other than the fact that I seem to pay 2017-02-20 23:28:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I, for one, feel that God has better things to do that work signs and portends regarding the future of one dweeb’s obscure webcomic. If I were conceited enough to think otherwise, though, I would be making a HUGE deal out of the fact that our roadtrip up to MAGFest got underway a good twelve hours late. Se...
2017-02-20 23:03:24 +0000 UTC View Post
(I was torn on whether to lump this in with the Far Out There blogs or make it some kind of standalone, but the later would make it hard to find again afterwards. Plus, these characters HAVE made cameos in Far Out There, so that’s good enough justification for me!)
Now that Becky & Gilb is officially r...
2017-01-23 04:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
HEY WOW! This one is actually coming out a week after the last one!
I know this is a trope of school-based stories in general, so it feel a little petty to specifically complain about this one instance (in a show that barely even takes place in a classroom). Still, it's EXTRA silly to me that Jintan can just turn up at s...
2017-01-22 08:17:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh boy, where to even start...
So, in all honesty, I'd kind of been planning to wait until after the big Conventional Wisdom MAGFest update to start doing Anohana comics again, but GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY that batch of comics is giving me trouble. It's huge, and it's dragging out FOREVER, to the point where not putting out a...
2017-01-15 06:05:33 +0000 UTC View Post
BECAUSE VIOLENT THREATS SOLVE ALL PROBLEMS. Gilb has learned the ways of the humans well.
And what’s that at the bottom? TO BE CONTINUED? Why yes! One of the many, MANY reasons I never put chapter five out on DeviantArt back in the day was cos, well, it was just too LONG to do in that format. And even when...
2016-12-27 06:13:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes I feel like these comics create the impression that I don’t have any faith in the public education system… which is an entirely accurate impression to have of me, but no one I usually go out of my way to project.
Oh right! Becky’s a character in this comic too, isn’t she? Yeah, I feel kinda bad that the part of the story that ended up being this comic’s big comeback should be one where one of the two title characters barely appears.
You are now imagining horrible, unspeakable things being done to four screaming, terrified children. MERRY CHRISTMAS! (honestly, I’m kind of glad these posts dragged out so long that this didn’t go up on the 25th)
So, this obviously goes against every single one of those “simple and print friendly” r...
2016-12-27 04:34:04 +0000 UTC View Post
*gulp*
(BTW: this page took WAAAAY to long to properly scale without messing up the faint smoke/fire effect in the back. Fitting for lucky page 13, huh?)
While I’m probably not a good enough artists to truly take advantage of it, one of the advantages of the comic art form is that you can easily show multiple events simultaneously. Short of doing a split screen, it’d be very difficult to cut between four similar but distinct events like this in video form. But ...
2016-12-27 00:55:40 +0000 UTC View Post
When you’re drawing a comic without dialog, you have to establish character via other means. Like, say, cluttered rooms. (By the way, I’m still conditioned to use “pro-wrestling fan” to indicate “tough meathead jock-type” even though that’s been demonstrably untrue for a good decade or two)
Als...
2016-12-27 00:15:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I’d just like to take a second and thank the copy/paste command and MangaStudio’s “free transform” function for making that backwards map possible.
Also, let’s all try not to think about how long it would take a being as tiny as Glib to travel even just a few blocks without help.
DRAMATIC SUITING UP MONTAGE
“The pathetic Earthlings believe their “back-packs” are the pinnacle of back-based carrying systems. Our technology is LIGHTYEARS more advanced!”
Also, there I go again, breaking my “no tons of screentone” rule.
Yeah, TED. Geez, we just can’t leave you alone in the lab for five minutes, can we, TED?
(apologies to any readers with the name of Ted)
Also, it seems Becky’s family has somehow captured tech from The Black Hole as well as Doctor Who. Dear Lord, they can cross continuities! So THAT’S how these c...
2016-12-26 07:45:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Gamera’s Pizza is nowhere near as good as Godzilla’s Pizza, but it’s a LOT cheaper, and still pretty satisfying if you’re just really craving some pizza and don’t care how nutritious it is.
Also, if this whole thing were animated, there’d HAVE to be some spy movie music playing over this scene. 2016-12-26 07:24:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The thought just now occurs to me that Gilb being able to determine the identities of four separate children from the evidence on one single spitball raises several weird, icky questions. Questions which will NEVER be addressed in this comic.
Also, I’m already breaking my rule about not doing lots of atmos...
2016-12-26 05:03:15 +0000 UTC View Post
CONFIRMED: WII REMOTES ARE ACTUALLY ALIEN TECH!!!
So, I set a ground rule for myself not to do layers and layers of colors and screen tones and gradients in these comics. Some of that was just to make sure I actually got everything done on time (and that still only barely happened) but also because I really want to get Becky &...
2016-12-26 04:36:31 +0000 UTC View Post
That's pretty much what I'm going to look like once this last bit of December comic-ing is finally done, though not for the same reason. Also, PLOT-RELEVANT SPITBALLS!
EDIT: oh dang it, I didn't actually call the first page "page 1" did I? Ooops. Well, anyway...
In case you didn’t read up on the 2016-12-26 03:29:00 +0000 UTC View Post
IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING! At long last, the promised new Becky & Gilb comics are hitting The Internet, and YOU ALL GET TO SEE IT FIRST!
…actually, the more exciting thing is that I’m actually managing to get these pages up while it’s technically still Christmas. This was one BUSY holiday, and I was...
2016-12-26 03:15:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Given how shaky the schedule for things has been so far, I probably COULD have allowed the latest lapse to just go without mention and I doubt anyone would really have noticed. BUT it’s Christmas and all, and actually that’s part of the problem right there. See, for those of you who remember, I prom...
2016-12-21 02:09:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so the bare bones of this story have already appeared in comic form , but I’ve retold this story enough in person that I think I can do it better now in tex...
2016-12-09 08:49:53 +0000 UTC View Post
This is pretty much what my actual creative process is like… except that I don’t get into arguments with anthropomorphic cartoon animal creatures who belittle me at every opportunity… out loud… anymore…
I AM curious if there’s actually another human being out there whose brain actually went to Drop Dead ...
2016-12-08 09:01:52 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a sick, twisted irony that the two things I'm always talking about are (A.) how much time I'm spending working on drawing comics and (B.) how I'm not getting enough comics out. It'd have been nice if I'd had by like "quit wating time with Artist Alley and get focused on producing content" moment of clarity BEFORE t...
2016-12-02 04:44:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Part of me feels bad about kicking off this series with a comic that, let's face it, isn't REALLY about the show at all. But then again, these comics are as much about my experience watching the shows as they are about the shows themselves, and if you've been following ANYTHING I've put out over the past month or two, you know h...
2016-11-18 23:21:50 +0000 UTC View Post
