Thursday, December 21, 2006

Holidays. . .

I'd like to claim, after the fact, that the comic, and myself have been on holidays. We're still on holidays. And soon, we'll be GOING on holidays. . .

I wanted to write a quick post to say "hi" to the 3 people who read the blog (hello Tara!) (hello Adam!) (Hello Mom!).

Done and done.

Oh, in music news, I jammed the other night with the boys from Cedar Speeder, which was quite fun, and they remain the nicest band in show business (a title held by the long-defunct Average Lime, whose bass player ended up in the newly defunct Fat Robot). I was mostly rockin' the drums, which I need to practice more (as I'm always telling my drumming students. . .).

The new record continues to progress. . . This years Christmas give-away features a young vocalist by the name of Peja Middaugh. You can pick it up wherever you find me.

NOTES FROM AROUND THE WEB:

The Radical Dudez re-launched their webite, and you'll enjoy visiting it. In the music section they have nearly every song they ever thought about playing, which is pretty neat, and they've even posted the tunes I used to sing with them. So if you want to hear some proto-J&lesBflyz materian, click on over there.

My friend Adam Hewgill has been turning into quite a good blogger. I like to think of him as a better Wil Wheaton, minus the star-trek.

END OF NOTES FROM AROUND THE WEB

See you in the new year,

Jay.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006



Wow, almost a week since the last comic. . . And this one isn't inked either. . .

I've been mocking up all the comics from the top 30 to be inked, and it's hard to stay focused on practice inking. I really should keep it up, because I'm really shitty and new at it, but it's less interesting to me than trying to put together a marketable package. Also, there's this little 2 year old girl that keeps wanted me to join her in building a block-castle for the little penguin.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Alright, so it isn't inked. . . Peja's been sick. . . *cough* slacker *cough*

I've picked the 30 comics, and I'm starting to go back and re-assemble them for proper inking 'n stuff. I still need a name for the comic. I'm thinking of maybe stealing an album title and calling it "How it feels to be a rock 'n roll dad". Any thoughts, kind internet viewers?

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Some sloppy ink-brush on the 2nd Peja. . . Need to find the white-out (is the brand name wite-out? or Wyte-out? or Wiite-out? I'm not sure).

Monday, December 04, 2006


Alright, so it's late. We had a big party. I got lazy about printing. I'm sorry. The next one will be up tomorrow. I think I'm getting closer to a definative method for the artwork. I'm using a brush for the shirts, necks, and face outlines, then a .35 mm pen for the face and hair. Which is probably more information than you need. I'm still torn about trying to add backgrounds, like, actually drawing stuff. I like the uncluttered look of it. I have to draw some 1/2 page style ones, so maybe I'll try some backgrounds for those.