31
/ AUG / 07 - 1355 CST : Friends before colours...
Hey
folks.
I'll
have the colours for the strip finished before the weekend is over,
though I'm hoping they'll be done by tomorrow morning at the
latest. Normally on a Friday I'd be more than happy to stay up
to get them done, but I'm heading out tonight to hang out with some
friends I haven't seen in a looong time, so I really need to head to
bed a bit earlier than usually do.
Anyway,
I'll see ya when the colours are done, but till then, have a great
(long for some of us) weekend.
Later,
-Ed
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30
/ AUG / 07 - 0903 CST : It's not procrastination if you get
something accomplished while you do it...
Hey
folks.
I
was about to start working on Friday's strip, but then I figured
that some of that drawing time might be better used by taking a few
minutes to drop by here and play a bit of catch up. Y'know, in
case you guys were wondering if I forgot this section of the site
even existed.
Okay,
I've got a fair bit of con related stuff I wanted to mention so
let's start there. First off, the still unfinished Connecticon
Con Report is...still not finished. Yes, I know finishing it
would be kind of a moot point given how long ago the con was, but I
do intend to finish up eventually (as there are a few people I
really wanted to mention in there but never got the chance
to). However, in the future, I don't think I'll be writing con
reports. At least not ones that go on and on, which I feel
mine do.
In
the future I'll most likely just be focusing more on pics and less
on the words surrounding them. Of course that means I'm going
to have to actually take more pics at cons instead of
just using my camera as some forgotten paperweight like I usually
do, but I'm sure if I put my mind to it I'll manage.
And
now it's time for hypocrisy...
Okay,
I know what I just said I wasn't going to be writing con reports
anymore, but I did in fact write one recently. ImagineFX
magazine has a convention section called "Last year I went
to..." which comes out just before a current year's con
happens, and talks about someone's experience at that some con the
previous year. Well a few weeks ago I was contacted about
doing a little write up on last year's Manitoba
Comic Con for that section, and so I quite happily
agreed.
Yes,
I know I'm a very, very bad man for doing that before finishing off
the waaaaay overdue CT con report, but they only wanted 300
words. Plus it's not like I have magazines beating down my
door trying to get me to throw some words their way, so I wasn't
about to pass it up.
Anyway,
the issue I'm in comes out late September to early October depending
where you are on the globe. Don't worry though, I'm sure I'll
be the first person to let you know once it has hit the newstands.
But
enough living in the past...
Now
that I'm all done reliving last years Manitoba
Comic Con let's talk about 2007's for a bit.
My
home town con is only a couple months away and I find myself getting
more and more excited as the days tick away. Partly because I
just really enjoy doing cons, but mostly due to the fact that this
year looks like it's going to be a lot bigger than
last year. Both in regards to size, and content.
In
fact, they've just added Marc
Wolfe and...wait for it...Margot Kidder to the
special guests list! I'm
also looking forward to seeing a lot of the artists I met last year
in the Artist's Alley again this year, as I am totally useless at
keeping in touch with people the way I should, so this may be my
only chance to say "hi" for another year.
Granted
I'm still kinda disappointed that I won't be going to Valley
Con this year due to them moving their date to the same weekend, but
then again they haven't really updated their site with any info in a
while, so it's kinda tough to know what exactly I'll be
missing. Still, I wish I could go to both (clones take waaaay
too long to hatch, damn it!).
And
on one last (semi) con related note...
One
of my biggest regrets about Paradise Comicon this year was that I
didn't take the time to commission a sketch from Danielle
Corsetto of Girls
With Slingshots fame. However, she's recently updated
her "Con Sketches" page, so at least now I can get a much
better look at what I missed out on. Seriously,
check them out and just try to tell me that they're not worth their weight
in gold.
Of
course given how light paper is I'm thinking that wasn't the best
phrase I could've used to make my point, but still, they are soooo
worth buying (I'll be picking one up next year for sure!).
And
on a personal note which only two people in the world (including
myself) will care about...
Stephan!
I swear to you we will get to talk to each other on the phone before
our respective retirements (granted by then I may be too senile to
remember my own name, never mind yours, but it will happen!).
Okay
folks, that's all for now. See ya tomorrow when the next strip
is up.
Later,
-Ed
******
27
/ AUG / 07 - 1527 CST : A bit of a face lift...
Hey
folks.
Well
there are two things you probably noticed about today's strip.
First off, it's not coloured yet. That I will get to tomorrow
so that I can get a decent amount of sleep before work for a
change. I would've had it done today, but I got caught up
redoing the last panel of the strip and ran short on time (it's
still not looking the way I wanted, but it's as close as I'm going
to get at this point I think).
The
second thing is I finally got around to giving Noname a nose-job.
That's right, after two and a half years, the man has nostrils at
last. Not sure how y'all feel about that stylistic change, but
personally, I'm feeling pretty good about it.
Okay,
I'm heading off to bed now, but like I said before though, the
colours will done tomorrow. Then on Wednesday there will be a
new Geek Tragedy Squared up. And yes, next week I'll be trying
my hand at updating that section twice a week (Tuesday's and
Thursdays most likely).
Later,
-Ed
PS:
I also fixed a small lighting effect on Friday's strip.
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24
/ AUG / 07 - 1159 CST : Same old, same old...
Hey
folks.
Spent
most of the day doing some running around, but now that I'm back,
I'm hard at work on the strip. It'll be up later on in the
evening (which seems to have become the norm as of late).
I've been kinda looking
forward to this one too, as it should begin to explain why this
story arc is called Friends Overshare.
Anyway,
I'll see you once the strip is finished.
Later,
-Ed
******
22
/ AUG / 07 - 1108 CST : Sleep before squares...
Hey
folks.
I'll
be finishing up the next Geek Tragedy Squared and posting it later
tonight after I've caught up a bit on my sleep. Also I wanted
to let y'all know that I'm planning on doing two of them each week
come September. Which means the site will start updating every
weekday except Wednesdays from then on out (knock on wood).
Okay,
that's all for now.
Later,
-Ed
******
19
/ AUG / 07 - 1543 CST : I hate to move it, move it...
Hey
folks.
Been
pretty busy this week with non-site stuff this late week. Plus
I've been helping my mother move this weekend, so unfortunately I
haven't had much time time to post here or on the forum lately, but
hopefully I'll be able to make up for it this week. Anyway,
just wanted to let you guys know why I've been so quite lately.
Now
if you'll excuse me, I've got to go lay down and wait for the rarely
used muscles I've been taxing this weekend to start cramping up on
me.
Later,
-Ed
******
17
/ AUG / 07 - 2048 CST : Sleep, then talk...
Hey
folks.
Sorry
you had to wait so long for the strip, but I ran into a few
problems. Still, it's fully coloured and up on the right day
of the week, so that's something at least.
Anyway,
I'll have more to say say later (both here and on the forum), but
for now I need to grab some Z's.
Later,
-Ed
1515 CST : When good ideas go wrong...
Hey
folks.
Just
letting you know that the strip is coming, it's just taking me a
little while to unscrew up something I managed to do by trying a new
way of doing the line work. Oh yeah, I'm also trying to figure
out what happened to all the coloured versions of Monday's strip, as
it seems the jpg you see above is the only proof I have that I ever
bothered to redo the B&W version. Which, seeing as how I
usually save a million times a minute when I'm colouring, make no
goddamn sense whatsoever.
Alrighty,
back to work.
Later,
-Ed
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15
/ AUG / 07 - 1651 CST : Squared away...
Hey
folks.
Okay,
about today's Geek Tragedy Squared...
I'm
a huge fan of the "I'm a Mac. I'm a PC." ads, and truth be
told I would love to have a Mac if for no other reason than to do
all my artwork on it. However, I just can't help but feel
sorry for the PC guy, and you just know he's going to go postal one
of these days. Plus I've been trying to find some way of using
that iSOCKET line for over a year now, and I figured this was my
chance.
So
I guess what I'm trying to say is, please don't send me e-mails
defending Macs, 'cause I'm well aware of how good they are at what
they do, and I don't have any strong feelings about their use one
way or another.
Alrighty
guys, it's back to bed for me.
Later,
-Ed
******
14
/ AUG / 07 - 1809 CST : Colours and squares...
Hey
folks.
If
I can manage to sit in front of my computer for an hour or two
without being interrupted then I'll have the colours done before I
go into work. If not, then they'll be up tomorrow
morning. Also I'll have another Geek Tragedy Squared up
tomorrow for y'all to check out.
Later,
-Ed
******
13
/ AUG / 07 - 1951 CST : A strip of gray...
Hey
folks.
Well
I'm still working on the colours, but it doesn't look I'll be done
them before I have to head off to work tonight, so I've gone ahead
and an posted a B&W (and gray) version of the strip for the time
being. I'll try to get them done by tomorrow though so you
won't have to wait too much longer.
Okay,
I'm going to try and sneak in a nap before work.
Later,
-Ed
1446 CST : I did it for the kids...
Hey
folks.
Once
again the strip won't be posted till later on in the evening, as I
spent a good part of my weekend (the part I usually spend working on
the site) getting my page for the Kid's Book Project finished.
Anyway, I'm back to work tonight, so if it's getting too close to
the time where I need get ready to head out, and I'm not finished
the colours yet, I'll just go ahead and post a B&W of the strip
to tie y'all over.
Okay,
bad to work for me folks.
Later,
-Ed
******
10
/ AUG / 07 - 1244 CST : Late start...
Hey
folks.
I
got kind of a late start on colouring the strip today, but I'll have
it done and up by this evening.
Alrighty,
I better get back at it.
Later,
Ed
******
08
/ AUG / 07 - 1503 CST : A new type of Noname...
Hey
folks. Long time no talk.
Well
I'm fully off of my hiatus and back into the regular GT
storyline. And now that I am, I wanted to bring up a couple of
things about what you can expect from the site in the months
ahead.
First
off, you may (or may not) have noticed a few things about Monday's
strip that are a bit different from the offerings I've given you in
the past. For starters, it's a bit larger than the ones I
usually do. It's the same width, but three inches longer (insert
your own penis joke here). What this has allowed me to do is put a
bit more depth into the strip both in regards to the art and the
content, which will become the standard from now on for the regular
strips.
The
second thing is I'm still trying to cool off the colours I
use. Granted this fact has been is kinda muddied in this last
strip because I had
to darken the it to help illustrate the blackout that's happening, but
trust me, It's a much softer palette.
This
is all kind of a work in progress, and the skin colour is just one part of the
new palette I'm not happy with (it's a little too
washed out), so you might see a lot of changes in this area in the
weeks ahead. Still, I think I'm at least on the right track
here.
Geek
Tragedy squared...
As
I mentioned above, from now on the standard strips will be larger
and have more content to them. However, this means they'll
also take more time to do. So in order to compensate for that
I've decided to make a few changes.
Mondays
and Fridays will be the same type of full colour strip that you saw
with Friends Overshare - Pt. VI, however Wednesday's (at least
for the time being) will be more like the one you see posted below
that one. Let me explain.
Starting
this week I'll be doing up shorter black and white, (primarily) single
panel strips to help round out the weekly content. These
strips won't follow the general GT storyline, will have their own separate
archives, and be posted below the regular
strips. Now at the moment these will only be showing up on
Wednesdays. However, if everything goes as well as I expect
and they end up saving me as much time as I think they will, I'll
begin posting them twice a week (most likely on Tuesdays and
Thursdays), and possibly even three times a week.
This
is something I've been thinking of doing for a long while now for
several reasons, not the least of which being that I'd kinda like to
start moving towards updating five times a week without losing the
quality of the storyline strips, but I wasn't exactly sure how to go
about doing it. Well I do now, and I'd be remiss if I didn't point towards one
webcomic in particular that has truly set an example for me and has
helped me find my way. Apple
Geeks have been doing their AG
Lite strips for over a year now, and in doing so I feel they
have managed to accomplish exactly what I'm hoping to do here.
And while I don't plan on doing the same type of black and white
newspaper style strips that they do, I was definitely using what
they've done as a roadmap for what I'll be doing with Geek
Tragedy Squared (that's what I'm calling them...'cause they're
all set inside a square...yeah, I'm all clever and shit aren't I?).
So
there you have it folks. Larger strips on Mondays and Fridays,
smaller ones on Wednesdays, and the possibility of more updates per
week coming your way as early as the end of this month.
Hopefully this works for you guys, but either way, feel free to let
me know what you think.
Alrighty,
that's all for me for now.
Later,
-Ed
******
04
/ AUG / 07 - 1626 CST : Kevin Smith is a god...
Grace
just sent me this, and I needed to share it with all of you.
It's a clip of Kevin Smith at SDCC
responding to a...uh...less than kind question that was asked during
his Q&A.
Thanks Grace!
1800
CST : Finding Waldo...
Hey
folks.
Yes,
it's true. I really am looking for Waldo. Or at least
the kind fellow from the con who was dressed as Waldo and paid good
money for a guest spot in the strip. So if he or anyone who
knows him is reading this, please drop me an e-mail.
Thanks!
Oh,
and one more thing before I try to get some sleep. You may
have noticed that Noname's colour scheme has been altered a
bit. I've been meaning to tone down the hotness of the strip's
colours for a while now, but just never got around to it till
now. Anyway, I'm not sure if it's any better, but I figured it
was worth testing out.
Okay
time to go.
Later,
-Ed
******
02
/ AUG / 07 - 0829 CST : Just to clarify...
Hey
folks.
It
seems there are more of you out there who don't get the movie reference
than I would've thought, so I just wanted to let you know the strip
is sort of a nod to Batman
Begins. Originally I was going to make
the...uh..."ski instructor" look more like Liam Neeson,
but in the end I did him up as kind of a movie / comic hybrid of his
character, so maybe that's where I lost some of you.
Or
maybe the strip just kinda sucked. Who knows?
Later,
-Ed
******
01
/ AUG / 07 - 1632 CST : Hiatus Ends!
Hey
folks.
Well
the title pretty much says it all. I'll have more to say about
how things will be shaping up in the months ahead another time, but
for now I just want to thank y'all again for sticking with me this
past month. Seriously, not only have my numbers not dropped,
but they've actually grown (granted that may have something to do
with the recent con, and the folks who have been kind enough to link
to me lately, but still).
Anyway,
I'll be picking up the previous story where I left off on Friday (or
possibly Monday if I can't refrain from doing a Viewer Feedback
strip on Friday that has been burning in my brain for the past week
or so), and then come Wednesday I'll have an announcement about a
change to the update schedule / style.
Okay,
that's it for me. Take care, and I'll talk to you soon.
Oh,
one more thing. Those of you who are waiting on e-mails from
me, really sorry for the delay. I'll be sure to
drop y'all a line by Saturday at the latest.
Later,
-Ed
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