Category: comics
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dream comic
I’ve been recording my dreams for the last few months. Why? I’m not sure, exactly, but it feels foolish not to pay dreams any attention at all. I’m also trying to improve my painting skills, both digital and analog. So, here’s a recent dream sequence in painted comix form. What does it mean? Who knows?…
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unlimited wonder comics lab january challenge day 9
unlimited wonder comics lab january challenge continues with day 9 prompt: shark i’m running with a theme i established on day 1 of this challenge here’s a look at the pencils: my pencils continue to be better than my inks… and i don’t have any ideas yet for the next prompt: unknown…
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unlimited wonder comics lab january challenge day 8
unlimited wonder comics lab january challenge continues with day 8 prompt: pajamas i think the only panel here that i love is panel 4 with the bat – signal. the rest are just ok. inking is hard. i want to keep my ink lines loose and energetic, but inking seems to demand precision. maybe tomorrow’s…
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unlimited wonder comics lab 2021 day 7
unlimited wonder comics lab january challenge day 7 prompt: woo hoo! i’m piggybacking on the day 6 prompt pants. it saves me a little time, and it’s fun.
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unlimited wonder comics lab day 6
day 6 prompt: pants. i’m running behind but still plugging away on unlimited wonder comic‘s january challenge decided that i needed to bring more attention to the pants, so i added an ink wash.
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unlimited wonder comics lab 2021 day 5
day 5 prompt from unlimited wonder comics lab: sports learning to use a brush with some pretty mixed results i think. there’s a lot of terrible drawings in this one, but i think it adds up to…something…
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unlimited wonder comics lab 2021 day 4 (& 2 again!)
combined days 2 & 4 of the unlimited wonder comics lab january prompt list into today’s strip. full disclosure: i’ve never seen the harry potter movies. and only read the first book
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unlimited wonder comics day 3
day 3 prompt: lava i struggled with the inking of this one. and i don’t feel like i really did the lava justice here’s the pencils
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unlimited wonder comics lab 2021 day 2
today’s prompt from the brilliant unlimited wonder comics: babysitter. this comic is only half done. i’ll revisit it for the punchline on day 4. happy new year:)
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unlimited wonder comics lab day 2021 day 1
unlimited wonder comics is presenting a series of prompts for the month. day 1 prompt: moose
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inktober 2020 day 23
rip If you’re just discovering us today, please visit all of my Star Trek Themed Inktober Comics here. You’ve probably noticed that I’ve modified my posting schedule to every other day. This means my Star Trek themed Inktober will continue sometime into November. With day 23’s prompt, ‘rip,’ we have the return of the Gorn,…
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inktober 2020 day 22
chef I continue to fall behind, but also continue to carry on. Day 22’s prompt is ‘chef’ starring Neelix, from Star Trek Voyager, who took over in the ship’s kitchen. I think they decided to have a cook in order to reserve replicator power? I haven’t seen many episodes of Voyager. And I just realized…
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inktober 2020 day 21
sleep Maybe trying to show the different approaches to sleep, or sleeplessness, rather, that different captains have. pencils Here’s a shot of the pencils before I inked the page. For the captain’s quarters, I found this great resource. For Kirk’s image, I referenced Star Trek VI, and in particular this great read on the movie,…
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inktober 2020 day 20
coral Another of those Inktober drawings where I had just a single image but didn’t know the story. This time the idea was from the point of view of Livingston, the fish in the aquarium of Picard’s ready room, looking out at the captain. I doodled ideas in my sketchbook. Lynda Barry, I think, talks…
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inktober 2020 day 19
dizzy This was another of those ideas that took a long time to come up with. Back in September when I was first thinking about these ideas, all I had was a few notes in the sketchbook like ‘Picard ice skating?’ Just yesterday I hit upon the idea of the bridge crew doing donuts in…
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inktober 2020 day 18
Trap Today’s gag (I don’t love that word, gag, does anybody have a suggestion for what to call the twist or story in a comic? Maybe turn, how about turn. Let’s try turn. Maybe it will stick.) came from the idea that everybody and I mean everybody is there waiting for Admiral Ackbar, when he…
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inktober 2020 day 17
Storm Last night I hit a wall of exhaustion after drawing the strip and just couldn’t get to the inks, so today’s inktober is arriving a little late in the day. I’m starting to spend longer on each strip, too. The last two have taken me about 4 hours each, from drawing to completed inks,…
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inktober 2020 day 16
Rocket Picard and warp drive inventor Zefram Cochrane share a moment in Picard’s past, Cochrane’s present, and our future. Browse This Year’s Star Trek Inktobers I created a collection to house all of this year’s Star Trek Inktobers, so you can easily browse your favorites and skip over the clunkers. It’s easy! Inktobers Past You…
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inktober 2020 day 15
Outpost Researching today’s prompt outpost in memory alpha, I hit upon the Starfleet outposts that are built into asteroids on the edge of the neutral zone between the Federation and the Romulans. In the original series episode Balance of Terror these outposts are being destroyed by an unknown ship. I decided not to reference those…
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inktober 2020 day 14
Day 14 Armor An armored Klingon from the Kelvin timeline for today’s strip. This morning I woke up early and did another inked version, but ended up going with the original. Though the inking feels super clumsy on today’s strip, this version was more interesting than the second version I did. I’m not entirely sure…
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inktober 2020 day 13
Day 13 Dune I read Dune for the first time in January. I’m re-reading it again now. Taking it much slower this time. Enjoying it more. If you haven’t read it before, you should give it a shot. The first 60 pages or are difficult, Herbert throws everything at you and expects you to pick…
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inktober 2020 day 12
Day 12 Slippery Today’s slug-like creature was really inspired by Peter David’s run on DC Comic’s 1984 Star Trek series. David embraced The Animated Series’s ability to populate the crew with non-humanoids, since it’s not any more expensive to draw a character with three arms than it is to draw a traditional humanoid. Sketches Here’s…
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inktober 2020 day 11
Day 11 Disgusting For today’s prompt, I pretty much stole the hilarious teaser of the season 2 episode from Next Generation, Time Squared, where Riker prepared ‘Owon Egg Omelette’s for his friends. (For some reason, I inexplicably called them ‘Owog Eggs in the panel.) I removed Data from the scene entirely, added a little projectile…
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inktober 2020 day 10
Day 10 Hope Just a single image today. A moment from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Scotty, Kirk, and McCoy, where Kirk gives them hope for survival by destroying his own ship. I think most of my Star Trek love comes from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and this movie, which…
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inktober 2020 day 9
Day 9 Throw Counselor Troi and Lt Worf doing a little judo. I was inspired by the Next Generation Episode Second Chances, where I thought they were doing judo, but apparently I wasn’t paying attention, because Worf was actually leading a class in Mok’ bara. I am a bad Trekker. Inktobers Past You can visit…