Going Native

I am a native Midwesterner!  I am!  I think that many confuse Midwest nice with some false propriety.  Being polite does not mean conforming to Victorian etiquette.  There are some strange imaginary rules out there.

Sarcasm Or Performance Art?

Sorry about those being a bit wonky.  My scanner has seen some better days.  

XGM

Sometimes Maren takes notes for comic ideas.  Some of these ideas are solicited; most are not.  From the most recent note: "stabby baristas = candy from Rob."  So here we are.

The Long One

There you go!  Another artistic decision explained.  I am a very slow artist, and not very technical.  I have never since college put the time into my draftsmanship that I should.  I am most practiced at drawing stick figures, because that is where I received the most encouragement, outside of photography, and because it has been the easiest art to fit into my schedule.

La Bete Noire

Having French pastries means a lot of conversations, i.e. disagreements, about pronunciation.  Nested corrections.  Pain? Pahn? Pen?  Those of us in the know say "a pastry" or "a chocolate croissant".

Just A Gosh Darn Latte

Everyone with a service background really enjoyed this one.  Once again, the people who order this way didn't get it.

I Don't Know Why I Didn't Catch That

So at this point, I haven't gotten around to making the new cast page readers requested, so I started throwing in a panel with character names.  In this case, I also used it to designate roles; if there was any blow back from expecting customers to know what the hell they're doing, my loose cannon status is a disclaimer that my ideas are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the whole team.  But seriously, just say your whole damn order.

Season 3 Blooper Reel

I want at least two more panels with one more clapperboard, so the book can have two 9 panel pages of bloopers.  If I can get another two pages after that, awesome.  It'll make for a good end of the book.

Pastry Of The Demon

Have you seen Night Of The Demon?  No?  Go do it!  It's so good.  My dad and his brothers got me into black and white horror movies, and some of them are just fantastic.  Just the right amount of scary for kids.  Invisible men, giants ants, and cursed runes.  What's not to love?

Fire Proximity Suit

Still not sure how I feel about this process.  I even scanned these all together.  Hmmmmm.

I mostly wanted to work Shaun into the comic again.  This was part of a five day run of writing a comic a day as part of my time at Black Dragon.  Shaun is seen here at Lou's, working on his Surface.  I haven't quite captured his cadence, but the "Run, probably" is pure Shaun.

Everybody... everybody...

Not the best renderings of some of the characters, but it was good practice.  I introduced two new characters as well!!

With Our Powers Combined!

I think this was originally three different comics, but it combines well.  I was looking for this in the archives, and couldn't find it.  I need to be better with labels.