Also for the Charlotte con, I’ll be offering a all of my current mini-comics as part of a single package: General Tso’s Sizzling Mini-comic:
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Jun 22 2005
The Boxing Bucket’s Final Round
Here, hot off the paper cutter (?), is The Boxing Bucket’s Final Round, a minicomic that I’ve managed to get together just in time for the HeroesCon in Charlotte this weekend. The content is the Bucket “couch comic” I just wrapped up. I had considered calling it “Beyond the Pail,” but the pun made my teeth hurt…
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Jun 21 2005
The Comics Reporter
Ever since the demise of The Comics Journal’s Journalista column/website, Tom Spurgeon’s The Comics Reporter is the best and only place to go to get a daily fix of what’s going on in the world of comics. The site’s clean, easy to navigate, updated daily and—amazingly—ad-free. This week, though, he’s been asking folks who regularly read the site to donate a little cash to the cause via PayPal and I encourage anyone who visits the site regularly to do so. I donated $10.00 today and would have given more if I weren’t so strapped for cash at the moment. Maybe if things go well at the Charlotte HeroesCon I’ll throw a few more bucks into the pot.
Jun 19 2005
Sean Puckett – Random Word Generator
Sean Puckett – Random Word Generator
I teach cartooning classes during the summers and one of the first things I try to get the students to do is to come up with a lot of characters very quickly. In the past, I’ve started with simple geometric doodles that I’ve handed out to each student, who then makes a character out of it in a minute or so. That student then passes his/her design on to the student to the right, who then changes the design then passes it on, etc.
But tomorrow I’m going to try a new technique to generate similar results, hopefully: nonsense names.
I’m going to have the students draw characters based on nonsense words. I’ll do this “drill sergeant” style, pacing around the room barking out foolish names and yelling “STOP!!!” every 60 seconds or so. Anyway, I’ve never done this before, but the online software linked above is a great resource for inspiration. Here are the nonsense names I’ve got so far:
Mazzi Spazzi
Chussle Wuzzle
Dr. Heliotrope
Viceroy Fizzlebottom
Professor H.Q. Glaven
Sloth-topus
Octoflapper
El Cheeselog
Dandy Ram
Hypnotic Otter
Verdant Oprah
Tempting Rootwalla
Alouicious Q. Jebb
The Madonna of the Prairie
Ballooning Lad
Flowbo Hobo
Man o’ Manta
Stroodle Poodle
Inky Boodle
Xavier YukkyYak
Zonoozu
Vermack the Annoying
Bootwalla Octopossum
Bindle Thimble
Yub-Yub
Spazzle Vismark
Madonnawanna
Sauce-a-roy Cheepers
Poon Boy
Stratoflapper
Dr. Mazzellbott
The Prope of Rope-a-dope
Noodle Blaster
Xavier Glavier
Huckleberry Schmuck
Surly Matterhorn
Spazzlebottom
Octo-pope
Mandy Panda
Jun 18 2005
Boxing Bucket Couch Comic, final page
Here’s the tragic conclusion to the Boxing Bucket couch comic. The original final line, written by Chris Reilly, was “Though I will always admire the way he devoured those who opposed him, I will remember him for how his dead hand reached for one last drink,” but I had to just use the last section of it since I left so little room for text in the last panel.
I intend to get as much mileage out of this story as possible and will turn it into a mini-comic, hopefully this week before the HeroesCon in Charlotte, and I’ll likely submit it to this year’s SPX anthology as well.
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