Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Return to the Wars: Frontline Cartooning!

Updated 12/19/2014: page 6 of War of the Independents #4:

Gramps Grizzly (any resemblance to a certain Big Bang cartoonist is completely coincidental) directs the newcomers to the peanut gallery, where Ninja Mouse, Lethargic Lad, Mac 'n' Trouble, Rat Bastard, and Drunken Monkey hold court. Dishman dispenses the dairy products as Usagi Yojimbo tries to keep the questing adventurers on task, while The Tick is attracted to an object that strangely recalls the Electric Light Orchestra's UFO.


More War of the Independents #4, featuring The Tick, Too Much Coffee Man, Rat Bastard, and Blockheads J and G. What is unusual about this page is that instead of the elaborate rough/tight/ink procedure on different sheets of material that I've been employing lately, I just penciled and inked on the same piece of 12" X 18" Strathmore Drawing 400.

On the left are my thumbnails on Paul Castiglia's script. On the right, my old school one-shot piece of art.

Cliff Galbraith's Rat Bastard has to endure Ben Edlund's The Tick as Shannon Wheeler's Too Much Coffee Man revs up for a poetry reading. The Blockheads J and G (of Gumby and Pokey fame) are up to no good, as usual. Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot, meanwhile, has already had too much coffee, and excuses himself.


See previous posts for more on this comic, coming in spring 2015!

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