One of my pals posted this on Cartoon Thunder’s Facebook page. Kinda cool, really, with a different spin on what we love and have in common:
Now what am I supposed to do?
new character designs
I was trying to come up with a character today and came up with this drawing. Wouldn’t you know it, when working casually on something, I wind up liking it? Perfect…
This week’s strip I need Jones to seek out someone grittier than he is. If you really think about it, it’s not too hard. And this was a random shot. The guy on the left was my first try, and the guy on the right was second. Now they’re brothers. Considering a variety of backstories for them to connect with what I need out of ‘em for this week. While they’re reall a momentary couple of nobodies, I hope to bring them back later. Maybe I’ll send ‘em to jail for a while and hook up with them when they get out…
I’m also toying with the idea of making my strip a Sunday style, in two rows. Gives me a little more breathing room, room for more fun, easier to get a bike in the strip. We’ll see.
Inside Creating Keeping Up With Jones
My friend Jerry Keslensky recently asked if I’d write an article on how I create my strip for his blog Bristol Board and Ink. While I’m hardly an expert, I was more than glad to do so. Check out the article here.
I met JK in the user forum of Toon Boom Studio, animation software we’ve both used for our own brands of storytelling. JK has been at this a little longer than I, and has been a co-conspirator and encourager in the work we both love to do when our regular jobs allow time for it. He also started a strip of his own last year called Bug Pudding, set in the fictional land of Tuberville, Georgia. It’s wonderfully drawn, and if you follow it long enough, you catch him pointing his humor in a variety of directions.