Previously published on my hastily-drawn-comics collective site, Exercises in Futility.
I'll be uploading my comics from there to here a few months down the line after each one, depending on how I'm feeling and whether I remember. You should probably just follow the RSS feed there if you don't want to miss anything. Plus then you'll see the work of my cool artist friends, too.
So I noticed this very interesting little warm-up exercise in comic creation, and I decided to give it a shot. Essentially, the idea is to use a brush or brushpen to make some squiggly shapes and smudges, and then to create a story out of those shapes.
I wound up using one of my old, dying brushpens for the exercise.
Here is the intermediate sketch, with the scribbles in ink and the details sort of penciled in. This actually initially started out as something about a cyclops but I really liked the second panel as being a falcon. And this turned out to be funnier.
Here's the final result:
For me, this all took around forty-five minutes.
This was a lot of fun. You should all try it.
A collaboration with my BFF Max that was recently published in the Michigan Gargoyle's centennial issue.
If you wonder why everyone seems to be nude, it's because if you're on the Gargoyle staff, you were born a satyr, a creature of mirth. And satyrs don't wear clothes.
So, yeah, there is mild, non-detailed nudity (breasts) in this comic. If you are upset by that kind of thing, no clickies.
2005. The first PITBULL comic, as published in the Michigan Gargoyle.
Another original rediscovered today.
2005. Comic originally drawn for an issue of the Michigan Gargoyle. I rediscovered the original drawing in the back of an old Bristol pad and thought I ought to scan it for your viewing pleasure.
2007. Ink.
Drawn for the "Saturday Night Special" at my first GargAlum gathering as an official alum.
I think the Michigan Gargoyle reprinted this later.
