http://jumpingtheshark.smackjeeves.com/comics/1506551/jumping-the-shark-v2-page-19-of-34/
Fun Fact: This road doesn’t exist anymore. They’ve paved over the entire square that used to have a road for buses and taxis. (between the time when I first drew this page and redrawing it … so I’ve been pasting in some of the old panels)
I updated the Giant Rhinos In Space blog this week. Theres aliens, gig sketches and music!
err and the last attachment here is just from something else I’m working on … its the expression I think I woke up pulling.
page18 yo! http://jumpingtheshark.smackjeeves.com/comics/1500918/jumping-the-shark-v2-page-18-of-34/
one of the only panels from v1 …. :/
http://www.inspiredcomics.blogspot.co.uk/
I forgot I drew this…. I don’t know what comics events Inspired will be at next, so online is the best place to get our new anthology. I’ll throw in some free bookmarks and mini comics too. :)
http://giantrhinos.blogspot.co.uk/
… 8D … drawing comics, at 7.20am …. in McDonalds before work starts. oh my glamorous life.
One does not simply commute to work.
*oh yeh, got to letter this, and theres still some line changes I realise I want to make.
errrrrr … 8D all of the fun!!
I’ll be updating the Giant Rhinos blog when I have something coherent to say about all of this. At the moment I’m just excited ^^;
these are more drawings from when I was about 9 or 10. :T I’ve had them out recently for a comic short story I’m working on.
I have to say, after the ramble I did on saturday night, seeing these pictures was quite refreshing. This was just before I started trying my very hardest for about 10 years to try and draw MANGA. Specifically Japanese style cartoons. I gave up trying when I started university. I’d started reading a bigger variety of comics while I was in college so it sort of made a lot of sense to be trying out the new styles I was looking at.
but looking at these, I feel like I’ve gone back in a circle. big geometric style. ROUND bubbly characters. which are not really things that are associated with much manga. so yeh, these old drawings are cheering me up quite a bit. I know I wasn’t very talented at drawing as a child … but I was having THE MOST FUN. like .. the most happy memories.
Its interesting … sometimes at events people like to point out a ‘Scott Pilgrim influence’. and sometimes they say they’ll worried I’ll be offended. which is followed by a ‘naaa, its fine’
It would be pretty stupid if I denied I’d ever read it or something. but I suppose I feel a bit bad that I have a list of comics I read in college that were just as influential on how my comicing style changed through uni and no one even notices? I guess maybe thats to do with them not being connected to a big movie/videogame thing, so a lot less people will have see them?
oh well … still not sure how I’d describe my comics without using the ‘indy’ term that people find pretentious.
also: I found more 50p copies of 90’s Q magazines today .. I couldn’t see the box of old NME they used to have, but now I think about it I forgot to check the corner under the vinyls.
and I have a list of printing ideas I would like to do if money wasn’t an issue. One of them would be to print a comic the size of a concert souvenir book (big thin square book the size of a vinyl) or to print them on newspaper (I know people already do this) but descise the whole newspaper as an old music magazine.
but then I remember … I’m the only one who would care.
and I found out how to do a photocollection thing on tumblr. how long have I used this site?
;_; full colour print why are you so expensive? whyyy??
errr .. yeh. if I print colour ones … I might have to rub out the ‘free’ sign.
ACE POSTERS ACE POSTERS!!!
When did Smash Hits stop being a thing? … I think I need to know this information O_O
… lol I had an interesting chat with someone at work today (who I get to see about once a month). and I regret how I tried to describe what kind of comics I make … which then accidentally lead to a whole bus journey of ‘boo you make bad comics because they’re not funny ones’ and ‘when you write a good joke its only because its referencing pop culture, so really you’re just stealing them all’
but then the best sum up I could think of was really lame … something like ‘I draw comics about friendship because it helps me to process my views on life’ …. is a bit pretentious, I don’t take myself that seriously.
bleh … then I remembered I only started doing the writing half of comic making when I got to uni … and its something I would still say I still find difficult, even when I’m very passionate about the subject matter. then it makes me wonder why work so hard at comics in particular, when I could be working hard to do a different type of cartooning? (assuming its the drawing catoons bit thats important to me) out of habit? assumption? maybe its to do with enjoying reading them so much? or the fact that I can organise a project from a blank sheet of paper to a substantial conclusion all on my own?
but then … todays worries are probably more likely to do with my social anxiety and how I’m a comics creator with not a very natural sense of humour around real people …….. :T
sorry … </brain spill … >
………. 8D
also … I just finished scripting a new free mini comic for the Giant Rhinos blog. I think it will be a nice way to settle on the character sheets again. (and it can replace the jumping the shark mini comic I’ve been handing out when that webcomic finishes)
http://jumpingtheshark.smackjeeves.com/comics/1496211/jumping-the-shark-v2-page-17-of-34/ page 17 just made its way online :)
and I got Blur tickets …. this is making up a lot for quite a few disappointing things that happened this week.
also I timed myself colouring today … it was 15mins when I had estimated 45minutes when asked … I must try and calculate this type of thing better so I can give a proper answer. :/
A preview of the 136 page digital edition of Chloe Noonan: Monster Hunter which you can buy right now from Great Beast comics for only £2.99.
If you’re not aware of Chloe by now, click here for a very short history lesson.
And now a quick plea…
I created the digital omnibus for several reasons. First, the cost of shipping books to countries outside the UK is ridiculous and I know that puts people off buying them (especially when it comes to factoring in the exchange rate). Secondly, I’ve said this before, digital distribution is here to stay and that people like the ability to read and store their comics on electronic devices. Offering the digital edition opens the book and character to a wider untapped audience. In theory anyway.
The digital omnibus is 136 pages and features all the comics published so far in full colour with an added sketchbook section and bonus bits. I took the decision to colour the comics (which were originally printed in black and white) in order to make them look better on monitors and tablets (when you shrink zip-tone patterns they change and distort and end up looking messy). It took a real long time to do but I think it’s really worth it.
So here’s the thing. I want to continue to create Chloe Noonan comics for a long time to come and at the moment I’m still self-publishing them so the only support that comes in from the book is you guys. In order to create more Chloe Noonan comics I am in a weird place that the book seems to have it’s fans aplenty but not necessarily the funding to support it. I am working on a longer narrative of Chloe but it’s getting increasingly harder to find the time to work on it due to day job commitments. So, well, I need a bit of a helping hand.
I’ve tried to price the Chloe digital omnibus fairly cheap. It’s 136 pages of full colour comics for £2.99 (or under $5 for those dealing with all types of dollars, or just over 3EUR for Europeans). Considering most US comics are 20 pages of content for $4, I reckon this is a total bargain.
If you’re intrigued by the idea of Chloe but have never read an issue of it before then here’s your chance. If you’re a long time fan and want to support me, please consider buying the digital edition of the comic (like I said there’s loads of bonus bits to devour). If you have no interest in buying the digital comic whatsoever, that is perfectly reasonable but if you want to help me out then tweet, blog or do a status update about the comic. Spread the word, say how much you enjoy it - your pals are more likely to listen to you than they are to a RT of my silly cartoon face.
But above all else thanks for your continued support in whatever way you show it. It surprises me that anyone actually gives a hoot about my comics to begin with. Don’t get scared by the above, there will be more Chloe comics, it just depends on how quickly I can get them done.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/99872754/smoothie-wars-limited-edition
Limited edition now available from Etsy ! Individually numbered 1-25 !!
http://www.inspiredcomics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/buy-eat-me-online.html
And I just added the paypal buttons to the Inspired blog if you’re interested in our new anthology. Ted and Tim are in both these books :)
I don’t think I have any other news today … going to try and get some comics done before work :)
Helllo! I’m just recovering from Bristol Comics Expo and checking the accounts and things. the event has had very interesting responses online.
firstly - massive thanks to anyone who came by to say hello and/or by a comic! I did a Inspired Comics post yesterday
I had a great weekend regardless of sales, because events are when I get to see my close uni friends. We also exhibited for 2 of the 3 years when the event was split over 2 locations. (mostly because we could travel cheaply from Cheltenham) Our total table sales came to double last years sales at the same event. and our totals are a bit above how we did at Thought Bubble (we couldn’t tell while we were there because we did most sales on Sunday and we have a lot of small items so tally looks pretty small)
I’m probably just making silly assumptions. but everyone who experienced how bad the 2 hotels thing was for both sales and socialising seemed to be having the best time. and everyone who had turned up because of the venue change ended up looking disappointed? like how people would ask how it was going and all I could think was ‘maybe not the best BUT BY FARRR NOT THE WORST.’ oh if you only knew.
there were a couple of other factors for making it a bad con for some people, and that is worth complaining about. but overall I guess I’m uncomfortable when cool people say publicly that they wont go back ever again - because that wont fix the problem :(
I also wonder if the comic events are about to experience the same situation people predicted about music festivals. (basically the country can’t afford to have at leased 1 event every weekend for the entire festival season) and I feel sad that from my experience comics events out side of London are suffering (with the obvious exception of Thought Bubble)
(the next 3 big events I can remember are all London based …. :( )
sorry to get this off my chest … just spent most of yesterday in a daze thinking I keep choosing the wrong events to exhibit at. (and because thought bubble sold out of tables and I’m wondering if we’ll just have to skip it and try to get 1 day tables elsewhere - I’m pretty gutted)
http://jumpingtheshark.smackjeeves.com/comics/1491247/jumping-the-shark-v2-page-16-of-34/ page 16 just went online :)
