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Some donations come in the form of very welcome cash. But sometimes, lovely people like Sarah Beach send boxes of Godiva chocolate.
This watercolor/colored pencil piece was originally created for a small series of trading cards featuring independent comics. These are the only trading cards for A Distant Soil made. I later used this piece on the cover of ADS #14.
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If you enjoy LOTR, you need to trot over to The One Ring.net and read all the latest news about The Hobbit film. Protesters filled the streets this week as a contentious boycott by the actor’s union threatens to force production company Warner to move filming to Ireland.
The boycott was lifted last night, but is it enough to save The Hobbit? Warner executives meet with the New Zealand prime minister next week.
In the meantime, if you enjoyed the Finnish Hobbit (sure you did,) but couldn’t bring yourself to watch it long enough to get a look at Legolas, Cottonball McFluffy helpfully provides this screen shot of actor Ville Vartanen in the role. I could not tell which one he was supposed to be at first glance. The dude with the funky ponytail on the left is Boromir. The guy with the frizz problem is Legolas.
I wouldn’t say he rates as “…fair beyond the measure of men,” but I’d share my lembas.
THE ONE RING has crashed. Too…much…information.
SEE the video of the “lynch mob” union leaders claim assaulted them outside a Kiwi restaurant, forcing their delicate flower selves to seek police escort. Which, of course, never really happened except in the union boss’s brains. I swear, those Kiwi’s are so danged polite even when righteously PO’d that they practically buy the dude a teddy bear to assuage his hurt feelings.
OK, maybe they weren’t that sweet, but I’ve gotten more harassment at San Diego Comic Con from dudes dressed as Stormtroopers asking for directions to the toilet.
I TOTALLY DIG the ref to the MURDERED Justice League movie!
Curse you! Curse you all!
MARTIN FREEMAN IS BILBO!!!! I APPROVE MIGHTILY! MIGHTY MIGHTY APPROVAL!
My model/muse JED BROPHY speaketh.
Cripes.
When we uploaded the new version of ComicPress, we neglected to make sure the settings for uploading corrected files were enabled. I just had a jolly 45 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong.
Anyway, this page is copy heavy. Duh. I’m not sure what I was thinking when I originally drew the next five or so pages. I’d like to go back and break this up a bit. I promise there will be none of that until I have finally finished the whole book! LOL!
Some readers prefer more word bang for their buck. Deconstructed comics are a bit thin on unit content. But this page is indefensible.
I’ve worked with folks who cram comic pages with copy that has nothing to do with moving the story: the copy was about the writer/editor asserting their presence into the narrative.
Redundancies that describe actions clearly visible on the page are the worst: writers who come to comics from prose don’t know how to let pictures tell the story. I think some of them actually resent it. Why they want to do comics, I dunno.
At least the copy here moves the story, but the pictures don’t. This page should have been broken in two.
And for reasons I cannot fathom, it looks like I changed the setting on my Ames lettering guide. The lettering is not up to snuff.
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