Authors note: I wrote this post a few years back for my site bobthesquirrel.com. I’ve chosen to re-imagine it from a comics pespective because I think the parallels are pretty similar. Plus, I fixed a lot of the grammar. 🙂 Enjoy! Those of you that were born in the mid-seventies like me, who were on […]
Before I go any further, for those that may not be familiar with this film, I offer up the trailer: Let’s face it, as soon as you see the title you realize that director Joel Allen Schroeder is essentially going to be giving you a love letter. That’s fine. It doesn’t bill itself as a […]
Long ago, in the beginning, once upon a time… a nomadic prehistoric human painted a picture on a cave wall. It depicted an event: a great hunt. Charging wild beasts being chased by other wild beasts with spears and axes. The reason for the painting could have been for any number of reasons: Maybe to […]
So, maybe you’ve been inspired by a few favorite comics out there, and are thinking about starting your own (web)comic. Naturally, you have some reservations and are asking yourself, “Am I talented enough? Can I keep up with updates? What if no one find my comic funny? How long before I make cute little […]
I’m not talking where my comic strip starts off as a floundering fish yearning to have lungs on land, but rather how I create a strip from scratch. A blank piece of paper is a rather formidable foe until you strike that first pencil line. Once you start down the Dark Path, you must finish […]