I am introducing a new character today, Sage. This is a type of guy I saw a lot of while spending my art school years in coffee shops around the city. The weird, quite, not-sure-if-he-is-dangerous type of person. Hopefully I was able to convey the idea I was going for here without any dialogue.
We’ve been hard at work arranging something special for our readers and the listeners of our show. In the two and a half months we’ve been doing this you guys have shown us a lot of love and encouragement in our little endeavor here.Well, now we want to give something back. We are planning a nice little surprise for you folks and if you’re into web comics Continue reading
Ok, I’ve moved my comic over to it’s own page. Digital Strips needs to stay focused on the task at hand, reporting on web comic news and the weekly audio show. You can check out my own comic, The Last Drop, at it’s new home and I will keep it going three times a week. I may also add some sketchbook dumps on Fridays too, who knows.
And thanks to everyone for the words of encouragement. I really appreciate that.
Dale Messick, the artist behind the long running adventure and mystery based comic strip Brenda Starr, has passed away at the age of 98. She had suffered a stroke in 1998 and her health has been deteriorating ever since.
Messick leaves behind a proud legacy of becoming a successful female cartoonist amongst a primarily male dominated industry. Brenda Starr has been running in newspapers since 1940. From the history page of comicspage.com, Continue reading
One of the most polarizing comics on the web, and one of my personal favorites, is Penny Arcade. Love them or hate them you’ve most likely at least heard of them. Their popularity and notoriety reaches far and wide across the web comic micro-verse so it would seem only natural that Gabe and Tycho would have a high selling printed book of their comic. However, that is not the case.
My third comic is up online. Hope you guys like it. I may have gone a little overboard on the PhotoShop effects in the third panel, but the idea I was trying to get a cross comes through.
This will be the last comic that appears on the main page. Tomorrow I’m moving my stuff to it’s own site with a permanent link from here. I will still announce new comic updates from here too, but I want the focus of Digital Strips to be on the show. Running my own comic is mostly for my own personal amusement anyway.
If you look around the site a bit I’m sure you’ll notice a few new additions. I’ve signed us up for some advertising. I hope thy aren’t too annoying, but running this podcast isn’t exactly free. We have some special plans in store for you folks and to pull it all off it would be nice to have some coin trickling in. I have set it up so that all the ads are relevant to comics and not very flashy. If you feel so inclined, make a purchase through the Amazon.com links. It gives us a cut and clicking through to any of the Google ads helps us out too.
If this way too much and you guys can’t handle it chime in, but I don’t think they are too intrusive. Thanks.
Hey, a second comic and on time! So far, so good. Today’s comic reflects my own experiences in coffee houses. Very often I would get the inspiration to hang out there with my sketchbook and as was most often the case be suddenly hit with artist’s block or get distracted or just start daydreaming. Oh well, at least I was out.
Just so everyone knows, the location of the comic is temporary. I’ve registered for a new domain and once I have that set up the comic will move to it’s own page. I want to keep the focus of this site the audio show and web comic blog.
Besides, we’ll need that space for our BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.
If you’re into web comics then chances are pretty good you’ve at least heard of the new Sony PSP, a nifty little device for playing games, listening to music, watching movies, and various other techno-weenie stuff. Well, it certainly didn’t take long for the more technically inclined to figure out how to add some missing features.
The folks over at 8Bit Joystick.com have posted detailed instructions on how to read web comics on the new PlayStation portable. That’s right, you can read PVP on your PSP. Sitting on the train or on the crapper, your favorite web comics can now come with you. Awesome.
Today marks the launch of my own web comic, The Last Drop. Right here on the Digital Strips site I’ll be updating new comics three times a week. This is something I’ve wanted to try for a while now and here it is.
The Last Drop is about a group of people who spend probably more time than they should hanging out in a city coffee shop, talking about life more than living it. The situations and characters I’m writing about are drawn from my own life and the three or so years I spent hanging out in a place very much like this. They always say to be a successful writer you should write what you know.
The question I’ve had to ask myself while working on my own comic is why am I doing this? What is going to keep me motivated to try and keep it up? I think the wrong thing to do would be too look towards other artists and try to figure out why they are creating comics on the web because that invariably leads to me trying to be like, and produce work like, the artists I admire.
The answer I came up with is simple, I want to become a better cartoonist. This will be my own personal driving force. Only practice can help me improve and not just constantly doodling in a sketchbook. It takes bringing a thought all the way through to completion to really crystallize all the things I want to improve and work towards in my work.
So, here you go, yet another web comic. I hope people like it, I hope there’s an occasional chuckle out there, but most of all I hope I learn something. Enjoy.