9 posts tagged “comics”
I know I don't post here very often, so it's a bit cheeky to only come here when I want something, but ... I recently found out that as a worker (I'm long-term freelance, but not self employed) I should be legally entitled to 5.6 weeks paid holiday every year. I asked at work about holiday pay and they said that they will chase it up for me, but now they want to talk to me about how my contract doesn't include any holiday pay - I am now very scared of going down and telling them that the law says they have to pay me a bunch of extra money. Help!
In exchange for advice I offer this comic:
Thank you!
Edit: stupid vox seems to be hiding half my comic, so here is a link if you can't see the whole thing!
Yesterday I went for a cycling lesson. Here are some comics I drew on the way to it and on the way back.
after drawing the panel where I fall under the bus I went to the front of my sketch book and wrote a little 'if you find this book please send it to...' message. You know, just in case.
1) The DFC officially printed it's final issue (for now) last friday. Boo! They are still looking for buyers and are exploring other options for using all the strips that have been created for the comic etc etc, but it generally looks like it will be a long time before anything else comes out of that, if ever.
But all is not lost - I have met an incredible bunch of fantastically talented writers and artists through working on the DFC, and so we have teamed up to create a new comics blog site at http://supercomicsadventuresquad.blogspot.com/ - check it out! I have no idea where they got the idea for that incredibly brilliant name though.
2) The Guardian is also going to discontinue their comics section (it is a comics APOCALYPSE) which means my comic is getting cut off half way through its run. GAH. But you can see all the episodes that didn't make it into the print edition yet here, and I am getting paid for all twelve episodes anyway, so: woo!
3) I am trying to come up with ideas for a new comic (because going back to Beaver and Steve feels like a bit of a cop out). Here is idea number one, tentatively (and unimaginatively) titled 'monsterworld':
4) I actually post a lot more comicky stuff on my livejournal because, well, I sort of know you all here, and it feels a bit strange telling you about pictures of cartoon animals that I have drawn. So if you are interested in drawings that sometimes have colours then you might want to take a look at that. Like I never posted this here did I?
Well, it looks like the Guardian has completely forgotten about episode two, and right now I'm not really sure who has the rights to everything so I don't know if I can post it myself, but for the mean time here is episode three!
There are only two facts you need to know from episode two to catch up with the story:
1) using their superior detection skills the squad figured out that the
Baboon was stolen by the Dread Pirate Green Beard, and have gone to
Pirate's Cove to track him down.
2) Episode two was really funny.
Seriously, you really missed out.
Ok, so this year I decided to join in with hourly comic day, and here are the thrilling, wonky-edged results:
(EDIT: Vox is shitty and won't show the full sized images - click on these little ones to go see them at the right size)
I kind of messed up the hourly thing a bit at the end, because it seemed a little rude to start drawing comics in my neighbours house when I had never met them before. Also I was a bit drunk.
P.S it is my birthday today! Wee!
I think I have a comic in the book section of the Times tomorrow (as part of a DFC promotion) - keep your eyes peeled, baboon-watchers!
EDIT: ok, so apparently there is no book section in the Times on friday. Maybe my comic will be in it over the weekend? A book section sounds like a weekend thing.
EDIT EDIT: word on the street is that it will be in tomorrow's edition. Move back up to amber alert.
Well the party was a lot of fun, and you will be relieved to hear there was free food and wine (although the savouries had all gone by the time I got there, so I ended up eating about a hundred pieces of cake in an attempt to stop myself getting too drunk. You know, rather than not drinking as much, which would obviously have been impossible). I didn't speak to Philip Pullman, which is probably a good thing, but I did meet a few other comic people which made me feel almost legitimate. I also had a camera poked into my face at one point which caused me to completely lose the ability to talk (you can probably see how terrified I am here). In general it was an excellent experience, and got me really excited about being involved in the whole thing - I just really really really hope that people buy the thing so I can keep drawing comics for them!
Last week I got my first editorial feedback on the two rough strips I have sent to the publisher - my first feedback as a (sort of) professional comic creator! Ooh! The verdict: 'you have to do these again'.
Ok, so it wasn't as bad as all that - they liked the script (yay!), and they liked the drawings (woo!), but (and I know I am pretty much always guilty of doing this on Beaver and Steve) in some of the panels I had so much text that it squashed up the pictures, and that has to change.
They don't want me to remove any of the dialogue (I know I have a tendency to be a little verbose in my scripting, which is what usually causes this problem, but they seem to like it) so I need to figure out a way of rebalancing things - maybe making some panels smaller to allow others more room, or spreading the story out over more episodes so I don't have to cram as much in per panel. But however I deal with it I am going to have to face my greatest fear: redoing work that I have already finished.
I hate hate hate going back to something that I thought was finished and redoing it from scratch, but I just don't know if there's any way I can salvage the work I've already done (two weeks of work) - perhaps I can reuse a couple of panels, but I think most of it will have to be completely redrawn. Oh fiddlesticks. Of course a lot of this pain could have been saved if I'd, you know, actually planned the layout of the comics in advance, but really, who's going to do a thing like that?
Oh well, back to (quite literally) the drawing board...
P.S yesterday I became 30. THIRTY. As if I do not have enough problems already.
