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Idea Surgery

by Frank on December 5, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Idea Surgery

This is actually an older I comic I did some time ago. Since I am in the middle of creating an animated comic but learning the software and the process at he same time it is taking a long time. But in in order to stay focused on it I could not afford the time to work on an original comic. So it was either nothing or this.

I should have an animated comic for next week or earlier. I can’t promise it will be great but it should serve as a great experiment.

Until then have a great week.

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Pasteurize Comic

by Frank on June 13, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Pasteurize Comic

Yes another comic about making comics.

I wanted to write a comic the talks about voice in our head that questions how our creations will be interpreted by others.  To be honest I have this problem with this and always have.  I noticed it coming up while trying to write a comic for Animatic Press I decided to make the comic about that.  Questioning how people might react to something you create is almost always a bad idea unless you are making something directly for someone in which case I think this is something to keep in mind

But in most cases that voice that comes in and questions how the general audience will react to your comic or creation should not be your criteria for editing your comic.  You should do what YOU do and what YOU enjoy doing and use the enjoyment you feel while creating as you gauge to tell you if you are on the right track or not.  Your enjoyment will come out in what you create and people will respond to it.  And chances are if you enjoy something or think something is funny a few others will to.  In the comic I made the artist basically gives up chooses to not make anything rather than face the fear of making something that might make him look bad.  He would rather do nothing that risk of hurting the vision of himself that his ego has created in his head

Art wise I wanted to keep is really simple and graphic with a mid 20th century appeal.  I enjoy making wild and super energized drawings but I also love cartoon and comics that give simple shapes emotions with very little line work.  The strange this is; I do not always enjoy making that type of work as much as the exaggerated work but the end result sometimes appeals to me more.  Not sure why that is yet.

THIS WEEK – I will be in Michigan at KIDS READ COMICS.  An awesome event put on by a great group of people and attended by a lot of extremely talented artist and storytellers.  Please check out their website and see the amazing line up of events they have planned for this coming Saturday & Sunday (18th & 19th).  The event is FREE so if you are anywhere in the area you can’t lose by going to this.

Have a good week.

 

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Pillow Talk Episode #1

by Frank on April 18, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Pillow Talk Episode #1

I have had the general idea of a single guy talking to his pillow for a long time and as I thought about this idea more I realized that the pillow represented the ‘voice in the head’ that we all have.  If you are aware of that consent voice in your head that never stops talking,commenting on everything you see and do from the moment you wake up till the moment you fall asleep you’ll know that the majority of things it says are negative.  The voice or Ego as Ekhart Tolle calls it in “A New Earth” likes to sabotage our progress any way it can.  It’s really a sad truth about human nature that we allow ourselves to listen to this garbage all day long when it adds no value to our lives at all.  The only way to stop it is to become aware of it but I will not get into that right now.
Any how, I wanted to make a comic that plays with that idea in a sort of cruel but humorous way that hopefully people could relate to. I know the comic itself does not spell all this out but that’s okay.  That was not my total goal.  I just wanted to poke fun at a real thing, exaggerate it to help call attention to how silly it is.  Perhaps I can refine this idea more in future Pillow Talk episode that I hope to do intermittently.
Please comment or shoot me an email and let me know what you think.

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That Poor Pet

by Frank on February 7, 2011 at 12:01 am
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That Poor Pet

My second comic post although this was actually the first comic I made after deciding to write and draw the comics in this style (originally I drew a traditional 4 panel strip comic that I later abandoned).  Over the weekend I revised all the text and re-drew the last panel.  Before it was to aburpt.  Hopefully now it flows better and has a more rhythmic feel that makes the joke read better.  That is the hope anyway.

This comic was loosely based on the little dog that my family rescued a few months ago.  There have been times when all of us have been so taken with the dog that we have probably driven her a little crazy.  I tried to capture the crazy energy of the owner countered to the calm and frightened nature of the dog.  It was a lot of fun to draw.  It was drawn and shaded in Manga Studio EX like all my comics.  I hope you enjoyed it.

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