Monster Balloon Girl

Time Capt/Capt Time!

Just realized I never put these on the blog.  I am grateful to the cartoon gods for this idea, as it spurred me to start doing cartoons again (all of a few months ago), and restarting this blog.

I sketched out the top strip in my notebook; then drew the mirror-image strip on the opposite side.  I feel I've gotten better in a short time, but I can see I was being REALLY CAREFUL when I was doing these.

Capt. Time will be making his triumphant return sometime soon.

GooGooGaJoob

Another idea that has been in my head a long time, and has finally gotten out.  All props to Google image search on what walruses look like.  Reminds me of the old cartooning books that would suggest you create a reference "morgue" of photo clippings.  

Once again, I spend more time choosing colors than actually drawing.  Kind of weird.  I wrote that title freehand a few dozen times, chose the best one, and substituted the "Ga" from another one! 

@#$! Benedict Cumberbatch!

I thought I had already posted this..It's one of the first things I did after restarting comix this year.  I know I tweeted it around the time the last Sherlock came out, but this is the first time it's in color.

"Benedict Cumberbatch" sounds vaguely like an obscenity to my ears.  That is the only joke! Aside from the 'Shaft' hommage, of course.

I thought the latest Sherlock was a bit too clever for its own good.  I have at least one more 'toon that needs to colored and re-upped!

Friday Comic Strip Dump!

Some recent objets d'art that haven't previously made it to the blog.

Old crow-quill sketch that I didn't even remember doing!  I like the dashy-scratchy line.

Inspired by the recent finale of 'How I Met Your Mother,' which I was vaguely aware of and thought was still kind of a new show.

Is there anything that can't be made funny but putting a butt in it?  I work slow, made a point of doing this quick.

I have more ideas, and need to draw more cartoons.

Vampires vs Zombies vs Robots etc

I worked pretty long and/or hard on this.  I had to live with it a while to figure out how I wanted it to look.

But the idea came in a flash.  It's about when you're a kid and drawing monsters with a friend, and you always have to add one more thing that makes your monster cooler, excuse me, more awesome. And then you grow up and have a little girl and it's the same thing, only with less monsters and more ballerinas.

I am still learning to play with layers, and tickled that I can do as much as I can.  The idea to use watercolor backgrounds is totally swiped from Crispin over at Small Blue Yonder, in whose hands it is an art.

I really do wonder how the zombie craze got started.