Daku and I continue to work at developing our own comic strip to supplement the site and show. Once I get enough of these strips done I’ll put up a section on the site where everyone can read through them. For now though, I’ll just post them piece-meal like I’ve been doing.

For the beginning of the strip we want to introduce the over all concept of what we’re all about, an origin story if you will. I’m experimenting with some possibilities, but we start off with the cold hard facts: Continue reading →

Today is the last day for the entries to be submitted to the Ocular Trauma guest comic contest, so if you haven’t sent in your entry yet be sure to do so before the end of today. As a reminder to everyone to go check it out I’m posting my entry that I sent in. Here is the Digital Strips the Comic entry for Ocular Trauma:

The more observant of you may notice a slight change to our logo and character icons in the blog posts. I redesigned the Zampzon and Daku characters to make them more, hmm, comic-ish. The other ones weren’t quite right for playing around.

To help launch the characters I created three comic strips with them to just try them out. So here are the very first Digital Strips : The Comic:

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.

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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.

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.