HEY, HERRIMAN!

Look Kids! New Comics!
Been sitting on this strip for a little bit (at least a couple of months) mostly because I didn't know how I wanted to present it, I really liked how crisp the linework came out but it was way too empty. With the exception of 'Fahad's' hair and in inside of his mouth everything else was white and open. So after I while I decided, no matter how crisp the lines came out, I had to color it. AND COLOR IT I DID, that's right a new FULL COLOR IKC STRIP (it's been a while since we had one of those)

Two points should be made, the first being that this was the first thing that I ever colored with my new WACOM TABLET! There was a bit of a learning curve, but after I got the hang of it the tablet definitely made the coloring process much easier for me, cutting the time it usually takes in HALF (before, I would use a mouse and it would take me hours)
The second, is that this strip is an (obvious) ode to George Herriman and his comic creation KRAZY KAT, if you don't know who or what I am talking about EDUCATE YOURSELF NOW, YOU ARE ON THE INTERNET YOU HAVE THE VERY TOOL YOU NEED TO LEARN!

more soon, comment if you can!

....well maybe not FULL vegan. Just sans Meat.

Ahoy-hoy!
Here is Monday's strip!
It's the first strip featuring the third (and final) main character: Evan Lomax! Though this strip just dives right in without a real establishing scene, I assure you one is coming (at some point). Also, the dialogue here is word for word an actual conversation that the real Evan (Puckett, not Lomax) and I had outside an accursed Bob Evans (seriously I'm pretty sure, in Hell, you eat your breakfast everyday in one of those)
I like the way this turned out (which is strange for me) and like I said in the previous posts about experimenting with different ways to Grey-Scale....digital is obviously the best way to go.

More Soon!
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Forget Me Don Knots!

The second part of the running gag, unfortunately at the expense of Sam's character. But I suppose he can take it, he has tough skin.

This strip was created at the time as 'Kitten', and like the other I was experimenting with different ways to grey-scale (this time using Warm Grey Prismacolor markers as oppose to the Cool Grey of 'Kitten') I didn't like how the greys came out in this one either, so I think I am going to stick to digital coloring.

Second Verse same as the First.

Kitten is to Cat

Here's a "New" strip, new in the sense that you guys haven't seen it. I have been sitting on a BUNCH of strips because I wanted everyone to have a book full of new material for COMIC VS. READER 1 but since we have hit a few speed bumps it was suggested to me to just start uploading the content from CvR to the site while we wait. So, here is the first of what will be a series of regular updates (so says the Boy Who Cried Comics)





'KITTEN IS TO CAT, AS BOY IS TO OGRE': this is the first of a two part running joke, both strips were done while I was manning the Cafe @ Borders Book in DC (man, I miss that store). Tried to experiment with doing the grey-scales by hand (this time with Prismacolor markers, Cool Grey 10%, 30%, and 40%)...I think I am going to stick with digital grey-scales from now on.

*also, this strip was created just 10 short days after "D-Day" so that undoubtedly had some effect on the overall mood of it...

Kick to the Face

So, I have been having the worst time with life as of late. Feelings of worthlessness, of claustrophobia, and an ever-lasting impending sense of Doom. So what does that mean to you the reader?
MORE ART!
AND SOON!
Also, I am going to over-haul the design of the blog. When will this be done, you ask? Well, I want it done by the end of this weekend, which means look for the new and improve I KILL COMICS DOT COM Summer of 2011!