"Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton is is both incredibly funny and... a fabulous example of how to keep pen and paper action sequences just as dynamic as they are on a moving screen." From this @Polygon's comics spotlight (by @NerdGerhl): https://t.co/YbwOA6Yevi
6 SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON #3 just went to press. Ain't that a kick!
I'm trying to figure out a fertility monster that an old cult in the deep Smokies would've worshipped, and I'm reckoning on which here design is creepiest. I like antlers because they can be independently present as iconography, but it might be scarier without? Let's vote! 1/2
Process for a couple of panels from a recent educational comics job: roughs for approval (requiring adjustments to include a caption I'd missed putting in), then tightened pencils, inks, and colors.
Swing by your local comic shop for chapter three of 6 SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON, on shelves today! If you're looking for plenty of karate fights, mystery, danger, and burgeoning friendship, we've got you covered.
Thought I'd share my approach to placing figures in an environment, which I use a lot in wider shots that establish the location of a given scene and the spatial relationships of the characters to it, and to each other.
Today's Charles Schulz's 100th birthday. Peanuts means a lot to me and my family, but there's one factor of his work that I've thought about an awful lot, and which I wrote about in a (comics) essay for a Peanuts tribute book some years back. 1/2
My favorite prequel-era thing was when they had Obi-Wan go full Jedi KNIGHT, armor and all.
A quick thread comparing the ages of the characters in Alexander Dumas's THE THREE MUSKETEERS and the ages of the actors playing them in adaptations: 1/
Tightened pencils!
I got an ipad so that i can work not-at-the-desk sometimes (I've gotten to the point where I almost exclusively do my pencils digitally, so to do anything other than fool around I needed something screeny). First sketch on it that I'm pretty happy with (about ten sketches in):
Commission for a Patreon backer, from the HOLLOW KNIGHT game
Me and & @TheKyleStarks's newest, from @Skybound/@ImageComics: 6 SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON When the worst man in Hollywood is murdered, his 6 former supporting actors (whose careers he tanked) have to fight stuntpeople, ninjas, bikers, & more if they want to solve the crime.