Barista Powers as written on the register

I was bored on register, so fired off a quick comic.  First, the comic in its finished-ish form.

 

But, here is how I wrote it:

where are the other characters...

What prompted Pam to say that?

How do I reply to Pam?

Postcards: A Reply for Pam

Pam sent me a very nice card that she colored, encouraging me to transform anger into energy.  You know me; I found the wording to be dangerously unspecific.  Pam and I work together though, so I interpreted her card to be a call to turn my anger into productive and constructive energy. And so on to my reply card! 

I taped it up, and started throwing down ink washes.

Then I used my fish and lobster stamps.  The fish I used with a bronze ink.

Once again, I wanted to find a way to use this postage stamp.  I think it adds an interesting little bit of implied history.  Carley does not agree, and so the postage stamp was abandoned.

Postcards: Maren's Last Supper

Before she left us for Texas... an idea I still have some feels about... Maren asked me to draw a Barista Powers Last Supper for her.  

It was in my Field Notes; it must worked on.  I began with researching the Last Supper and doing some sketches.

And from there onto the actual postcard:

After getting this far, I started scanning my progress, convinced I would ruin the card at some stage.

From left to right: Benish, Maureen, Sarah, Melanie, Pam, Maren, Rob, Burbol, Geoff, Ben, Doug.

And there you have it.

There is a lot going on here.

As you may have to put together by now, my organizational skills are not often actually put into practice.  I have, in searching for a specific piece of paper, found quite a few random pieces of paper.  Would you like to go on this journey with me?


I am pretty sure that Kenny drew this.  He has drawn my death more than any other coworker.

With great frequency, Maren exclaims "Rob!  Do you know what you should draw?"  She then goes on to ramble on about whatever has most recently crossed her stream of consciousness.  She sometimes goes as far as mostly drawing a comic.  This is one such time.

Sometimes I just can not complete an idea.  Mostly I get stuck searching for a solid last panel, though on occasion I trip up on moving my characters from the beginning to the end.  Sometimes I scrap the entire idea.  Other times I will shorten a six panel comic down to three panels.  On this comic I needed all the panels to show off the portal system... and so I ended on a skeleton playing guitar?

Wishing You Happy Holidays

Everybody... everybody...

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

Magic Coffee needs to be dosed carefully

Please don't sue me, original owners of these images.

Pam's Vacation

What would I do without Pam?  I think everything would burn down.  Her week vacation was terrifying for me.  I dunno if I can handle her being gone longer than that. Did you notice I went extra fancy on this one?  Use two different highlighters and a silver marker.  That's class.