{"id":88,"date":"2005-03-26T14:05:46","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T19:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=88"},"modified":"2005-03-26T14:05:46","modified_gmt":"2005-03-26T19:05:46","slug":"boxing-bucket-in-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Bucket in the ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I create what I call &#8220;a couch comic.&#8221;  At the end of the evening when I&#8217;m ready to wind down, I usually make myself a drink and sit on the couch doodling and watching a bit of a DVD.  Sometimes, I use this time to create a quick, spontaneous one-page comic in my sketchbook.  The &#8220;rules&#8221; for this process are simple: no prewritten story&#8212;just start drawing, draw one complete panel per sitting (~30 minutes usually), and use only felt-tip markers.  <\/p>\n<p>Most of the time these strips (for obvious reasons) are of dubious quality and pretty sloppy.  Every once in a while, though, one turns out pretty well.  In fact, I submitted one that I did a while back to the annual SPX anthology, and it got in.  <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s one I did of the Boxing Bucket duking it out in the ring.  I changed the gray marker to a sepia tone just for fun.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/bb_couch.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_bb_couch.png\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" alt=\"BB couch comic\" title=\"BB couch comic\"  \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I create what I call &#8220;a couch comic.&#8221; At the end of the evening when I&#8217;m ready to wind down, I usually make myself a drink and sit on the couch doodling and watching a bit of a DVD. Sometimes, I use this time to create a quick, spontaneous one-page comic in my sketchbook. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=88\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-1q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}