A Slice of Life Comic

Short little comic about a creepy pervert old man. Also pictures shamelessly ripped from Google images.

Morning Exercises - February 21

I had fun with the exercises this morning and thought they turned out pretty ridiculous so I thought I would share.

Venice:

Whiporwilllllllllllllll, Whiporwillllllllllllllllllll, Whiporwillll. I heard some where if you say whiporwill it will make a mockingbird come out. Maybe it wasn't a mockingbird. Actually I think the name of the bird is Whiporwill and they named it after that sound. I think. Either way, I've been out here yelling whiporwill for like four hours and I haven't seen one stupid whiporwill. I also haven't seen any trees though cause you know we are in Venice. Whiporwills probably live in trees, right? But there are other birds around. I can here them, chirp, chirp, chirping. Wow, can you imagine being a bird in Venice? That would probably fucking suck. No trees, have to have your babies on roofs and in gutters. If they fall they just drown. No little girl is gonna come and pick it off the ground and say 'Oh poor little birdy, I'll just nurse you back to health', nope. I don't know if birds even care about that stuff anyway. They probably just look down and go 'well, one less mouth to feed' and go on their way.

Waterfall Convo #1:

-How do you think rainbows became some sort of queer logo?

-I don't know.

-I know you don't know, but you know, play along, god. 

-Maybe cause like rainbows don't happen that often and are kinda rare, like queer people.

-What the fuck. No.

-You asked me. I mean it kinda makes sense. Rainbows are all pretty and when they happen it's rare so if you were gay and you didn't know that many gay people you'd be like 'we're like rainbows, rare and pretty'

Fish Convo:

-Hey fish.

-Hey human.

-Which fish are you?

-I am all fish.

-Really?

-Yeah, I'm every fish. We all have the same brain.

-Like a hive mind?

-No, like a fish mind. A giant, amazing fish mind.

-Are sharks part of the fish mind? I mean I know sharks are technically fish, but humans don't really think of them like normal fish.

-Our fish mind didn't know that.

Waterfall Convo #:

-So do you think waterfalls are a gay icon too? Cause rainbows happen a lot at waterfalls.

-This water fall doesn't have a rainbow, idiot.

-Ok, but I'm just saying they are semi-common at waterfalls. That is true.

-Well, there is that song that says 'don't go chasing waterfalls, just listen to the rivers and the something that your used to'. Do you think that song is instructions how to not accidentally hit on gay people, if you are straight? Cause if waterfalls are a gay icon, it might be a code word or something.

China:

The reflection of the mountain this morning kinda reminds me of a giant uterus. Weird. Now the reflection kinda looks like that Game of Thrones wolf logo. Man, I can't wait for Game of Thrones to come on again.

Chicago?:

This stupid bitch on the way to work today she thought I guess it would be super fun to be drunk at 10 AM. Most people on the boat at 10 AM on a Monday are going to work, including me, but no she thought 'I think I'll be drunk and pick fights and jump fucking overboard. Yep, this crazy bitch just peaced the fuck out right over the edge of the boat singing My Heart Will Go On. So they had to stop the whole f-ing boat and reel her in. Then wait for the coast guard, or sea ambulance, or whatever to come pick her up. And everyone on the boat is either falling asleep or getting in line to yell at the captain.

Giant lady water thing:

That lady is real pretty. Splish splash, lady. I bet if she could she would play with me. Not like my stupid mom. She's over there on her phone. She's always on her phone. I heard grandma whispering about it once. Grandma hates phones and I don't think she likes my mom. Grandma would love this lady though. Oh no. She left me.

Self Portrait Comic

So pretty much every single day I tell myself I'm gonna start waking up early the next day and actually get shit done, but that never happens. Also I literally hit the snooze button every ten minutes for like 3 hours. My roommates probably aren't really a fan of that habit. Super rough comic, obviously.

Dream Comic

I had a dream that these things/people/beings thought I was unpure so they cut my fingers off so I would be pure.

Dreammoods.com says that "To dream that your fingers are injured or have been chopped off denote your anxieties about your ability to accomplish some demanding task or perform in some waking situation. If you dream that your fingers fall off, then it suggests that you are letting a situation dominate you or dictate how you behave. You may be literally losing your grip on life. " So that is scarily accurate.

To see a bigger version, right click on the image and click "Open Link in New Tab" and then zoom in!

'Bloody Mary' Fable Adaptation Script

I'm really into urban legends and people's reactions and beliefs about them so I thought I would adapt the classic urban legend about Bloody Mary. It was fun to do a little twist on this legend!

As of right now it's not finished yet. D:

Script below the cut...

'The Story of an Hour' Adaptation Comic Script

I chose to adapt "The Story of an Hour". It's one of my favorite short stories and I love Kate Chopin, so I thought this would be fun to tackle. It's definitely not the typical subject matter for comics so it was fun for sure!

Script below the cut...

80's Flashback!

Hell On Earth (Finished reading): Intresting use of contrast in paneling. When things are more under control all the panels are very uniform when things start to go crazy the panels start to break apart and dissapear completely taken over by splash pages with erratic doodles and words and insanity consumes the characters and plot. The way many of the panels are drawn have nods to film, but definitely uses the medium of comics to the advantage by jumping drastically from one image to another at times to capture a feeling and the space without showing a panaroma of the whole thing. Lots of text, but the artist did a good job of showing in the panels what isn't said in the text.

Night Wings (Stopped reading, got bored and confused): Makes good use of varied vantage points and perspective intrestingly to make dramatic panels. Jumps between far out panoramic panels to very close up. Often smaller panels are over a splash page which illustrates the larger enviornment and the panels on top are close ups of character interactions.

Frost and Fire (Finished reading): A lot of text when it didn't really need to be there, the images communicated things very clearly without it. The actions were all show and described when more backstory needed to be in text and the action communicated only in image. It seems like certain text was maybe left out some and some important parts that needed to be there for explaination were cut as the exposition of the whole story is unclear and that made the subsequent events very confusing. Good use of variety of paneling and splicing panels together to create a short of visual sticatto feeling. Beautiful color work. I've noticed in the past few comics, probably because they are based on short stories, that they have a lot of text 'narration' explanations of actions and enviornments.

Merchants of Venus (Stopped reading, kinda plain, nothing exciting happening, wasn't a fan of the art style): The first person POV of the text in comic makes the story clear and the character is defined quickly. Many of the pages have multiple panels which transition into each other without actual line separation of the panels. The illustration techniques are very smooth and exact making the characters feel a bit stiff and plasticky. Though I did particularly enjoy the panel with the fish eye lense in the center with the panels radiating outside of it. The drawing of the fisheye panel actually gave the drawings some character by distorting them and I think that is why I was drawn to it.