Several years ago, soon after "Eye of the Beholder" was published in Strip Search, I took stock of my comic book aspirations and realized that beyond writing half-developed scripts I had NO clue as to the process that went on to put a comic together. Beyond this, I had no idea how I would ever again convince an artist to work with me on one of those half-developed ideas (some things never change, I suppose). In a (perhaps rare) moment of proactivity, I decided to figure it out by putting a short comic together, and I was helped by my friend Mike Harvey, who just so happened to be one of the only people I knew with a digital camera.
The result is as you see below: despite our low level of sophistication, and despite the fact that we decided to go with extremely clever pseudonyms rather than give our actual names, I think that the two of us put a fun short story together. It's not earth-shattering or anything like that, but hey, it was fun.
The one constant background was just a close up of a section of my back yard juxtaposed with a shot of the sky (the volcano looking image is just a plant...it's a happy coincidence that it turned out as well as it did). Mike himself drew the caveman that serves as possibly the best joke of the story. The dividing cells and the Mr. Bill-esque character were...I don't know, Play-Doh? My sister helped with creating that little guy, hence the "special thanks" credit. And the relatively giant godlike hand...is mine.
Mike and I took a short drive to my college's computer lab, which had a number of Macs with editing software loaded on 'em. We downloaded some generic Blambot fonts and even some template speech balloons, which look better than some of the balloons I make now that I know how to do them myself.
All in all, not bad for something that was cobbled together with little or no experience. Check it out!
Mike recently painted a Mini-Marvel style rendition of the Yeti that you can see here.
Also, "Weird Al" Yankovic has a new song, "I Perform This Way"! This has nothing to do with the above post. I just love Weird Al and this new song means that a new album will be on the way soon. Al has a blog that he updates every once in a while, and if you want to read about this new song and why it almost didn't get released, you can find that here. Listen to the song on below.
AND ENJOY IT.
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