hey man
in the journal is posted
it’s been awhile since i’ve done one of these
i did it in digital first
but then decided i need the practice so i drew it in ink and watercolor
as you can see i ran in to some lettering trouble in panel 2
the conclusion is here
we made it
you can now read the story in its entirety
i do hope you have enjoyed it
look, over there
of the story about a guy with no head
is up
page 19 is posted
not only is page 19 of the story about a guy with no head up
but i also posted a new ‘steps’ strip
read the story about a guy with no head from the beginning
read ‘steps’ from the beginning
a new steps strip is up
it’s been so long since the last one
but a new ‘steps’ strip, ‘potty training’, is up
almost every other ‘steps’ strip has been done in digital, pushing pixels around
but today’s is fully scribbled in pencil, with lots of (kneadable) erasing, then brushing down puddles of watercolor, and finally a bit of inking
if this is the first ‘steps’ comic you’ve happened to catch
page 18 is up
if you’re still reading
or if you haven’t started reading yet
lift
please go read it
read it? see it, i guess
there’s no words on these pages, so i don’t know if it’s still reading
no, wait
i do know. it is reading
you can read a river and there’s no words on a river
so it’s definitely reading
go read page 17
or
up to you
(but it is reading)
look at that
we’re nearing the end of our tale
union
our two characters meet face to… well, balloon to…neck, anyway
our characters meet
not really face to face but you know
neck to balloon
or something
start here if you don’t know what i’m talking about
heck, i don’t even know what i’m talking about
page 13 is up
we’re past the halfway point
the story continues, as does balloon’s journey, with page 12
if you have just stumbled upon this story, you can pick up from the beginning here
in other news, there’s not much news:
i’m reading space opera, in hardcover, and i just finished the westing game on the kindle.
as soon as i finished i read that the author, ellen raskin, did quite a bit of work designing the book visually; not just the cover, but even how the text would appear on the page. so if you’re going to read it, find an analog copy.
our balloon is skybound
Hi gang, just wanted to let you know that page 11 is up
we’re halfway there!
hope you’re digging this odd little tale about a man with no head and a balloon
and if you havent had the chance to start it yet, you can do so here
balloon is free
but now what?
our balloon struggles
our little balloon struggles
balloon takes a look around
in which balloon takes in the surroundings
enter balloon
where we have left our man with no head and we meet: balloon
page 6 is up!
hope you guys are digging this
read the latest page of the story about a guy with no head here
and if you have no idea what is going on, don’t worry, I don’t either, but you can get caught up on this story at least by starting here.
page 5 of the story about a guy with no head is posted
start here if you’re just getting here:)
this story has been kicking around in my head for a long time. and even though it’s not new to me (I did this version years ago, showed it to a couple of friends, and stuck it in a drawer) I’m glad people can see it, even if I would probably do a few things on it differently now.
page 4 of the story about a guy with no head is up
Or, start from the beginnning.
In the second version of this story, which is the one you’re reading, I decided to drop the narration and go full color, doing all of the artwork in crayons.
Hopefully crayons give the story some accessibility and people, will look at it and say, ‘I can do that.’
Page 5 (of 22) tomorrow.
page 3 of story about a guy with no head
But if you’ve’ just found us, you should start here.
I’d been noodling with and doodling the character for a long time before sorting out a story.
When I did get a story figured out, the first version I did was in black and white, very Shel Silverstein, and featured narration.
The story you’re reading is the second version. More on that tomorrow.
a few more raphs
sad that i never got april as ilsa to look as good in the strip as she did in the sketchbook
posted a few more raph’s in the once ongoing, now nongoing mashup of Casablanca and The Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles, co-written with fellow scribe mcwhitsteen, and originally posted on the tumbles
you can start from the ‘beginning‘ here, but i’d like to warn you… it’s not the beginning
and thank you to Michael Barrett for the kind words on his micro.blog
a new comics page
I’m pretty excited about the new Comics page I set up.
It will give a home to all of the webcomics I’ve made over last few years.
Here’s a quick intro to the new (to you) strips:
Everybody Comes to Raph’s is the Casablanca/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle mashup that no one asked for. ( I do think the two universes line up astonishingly well, though biased as I may be.) I originally wrote these with Mcwhitsteen and posted these on Tumblr back in 2015 but as the social media landscape continues to get shaken up, it seemed a good time to bring them home. I don’t have all the strips and sketches up, so you’ll have to keep checking back for new (old) material.
Ernie and Fitz is a fictionalized look at the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ernie is a boozy he-man, spewing toxic masculinity and Fitz is a boozy,wimp, lovestruck by Zelda, and oozing insecurity. I think I may have posted these on screentone in the past, but now they’re all together and easily browsable. And it’s another collaboration with Mcwhitsteen (credited as Code in the strips).
scarecrow
it has been three weeks since my last post, so i hope you enjoy today’s comic as i get back in the swing of things.
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