Digital Gambit

tonight I am attempting to swich over to the new version of Comicpress…. this however is being a real pain in the ass and so I have quickly found myself out of time to do a comic

but today the website was reloaded… so those annoying bugs from before should be gone now…

thanks for sticking it out with me… hopefully comicpress 2.5 will be up and ready before any of you even see this tomorrow

Luck Out

edit:

it seems ive broken my working version of the website too :\

the comics are still there… you just have to look through the archives to view them… sorry

im going on an overnight boat trip today until tomorrow… so I wont be around….

sadly that means there wont be a comic till monday… the down side of doing a comic the day of

enjoy your 3 day weekend other american peoples

im not sure why… but for some unknown reason my family feels that we must go out for the entire weekend to do stuff….

boating, visiting grandparents…. it is annoying when trying to do a comic… especially a comic that can only be done in the wee hours of the morning in the complete secrecy of my hidden away windowless bedroom (not joking… bedroom has no windows…. it is friggen sweet)

but day in and day out I am given tasks that my parents use to try and draw me out of the house and do work and such… even tho they know that I need to be putting together a portfolio (and doing a comic… which as to this moment they are still unaware of…. I hope…)… it is incredibly irritating to be expected to try and do good artwork on my own after having spent 5 days a week working in an ice cream store… and then to have my weekend whisked away for a trip to the north. this vial and unintelligible wasting of my only spare time is not helping me in any use of my time…. I personally do not see why an aspiring artist should need to chop wood daily… or stuff like that…. I mean they want me to improve…. but at the same time they will not let me improve…

I try and relieve my frustration on the comic… but as you may have noticed (in my lack of updates :|) that it is not an easy task to do a comic at 1 am after having spent a 6 hour shift helping the vacuous masses of unintelligible slobs who decide to meander into the place I call work…. I make pretty good money there… hopefully enough to get through a semester of college… and enough to buy a nice (19×12 inch) tablet… speking of which any help would be appriciated just kidding…

this incomprehensible flux of family time and work has made the comic become extremely difficult to produce… I will do my best to keep my update schedule… but I will probably not have a new comic daily… or sometimes even Bi-daily until I get back to college… I will be gone until monday… as yet again my family is going on a weekend trip…. I am getting sick of these fast… I am however going to bring along my computer and tablet in hopes of possibly finding a few hours alone to finish inking the one I got mostly done last night… but if not expect a huge sketch dump on monday…

thank you everyone who has been sticking with me through all of this… I feel like I havn’t been giving what ive promised (because I havn’t)… but please bear with me at least until my college starts back up…. because I swear to you then I will pump these baby’s out like a friggen queen ant.

in lighter news upon talking to the assistant manager at storm bros ice cream (my superior) I happened to mention my comic… immediately his brutish outer appearance lifted when he told me about his webcomic that he has been doing for nearly 3 years now… its actually a very entertaining bit of work to read… and the art is done pretty well (although TBH I am not the biggest fan of the style… I belive he pulls it off quite nicely)

check it out over at http://www.drunkduck.com/Mob_Ties

well ill try to get a comic done this weekend and post it… if I fail then there will be sketches galore in the next comic post…

stay tuned

Luck Out

as the lightning and thunder and rain pounded my house today… and the ever looming threat of a tornado touching down and eradicating all signs of life in the local vicinity I sat down and started to think about where I wanted this comic to go… yea… weird right? I pondered it quietly to myself for about an hour and a half before I sat down and started writing up an entire several strip story arc to embark on tonight…. I am not the best writer ever… although I do feel that I am improving on my ability to tell a story.

but during my reflections with myself about my comic I realized something… I was not doing this comic to tell a story… I was doing it mainly for the enjoyment of the art… and although that may keep a few people staying around watching… a strip based mainly around me trying to make my art as best as I can would never end up becoming a popular webcomic… what I was lacking was content… a story to tell… so now I have embarked on this great journey to tell the story of the life of Jason Cooper and Franklin Klein…. Jay and Frank have not been developed well enough to this point in my opinion…. and if I am going to have a comic with characters that are usually around I had better damn well have them defined well. so hopefully from now on the comic will be a more enjoyable read.

also the forums are back up… after with my long battle with the internet and trying to figure out a single line of code I got the link to work… so feel free to use it… I have no topics set up yet… as for some reason I am not an administrator on it yet :\ but I will set some up… I hope to see some of you over using it!

Luck Out

I would like to make a sincere apology to anyone who has been checking regurarly with me in the last few days

a big oppertunity has just been presented to me via my family and I am spending nearly 90% of my time looking into that… I have had nearly no time to do the comic this week…. I will hopefully have made a decision about my future within the next 2 or 3 days…. and thein I will be back with the comic guns blazing…

thank you anyone who is sticking with me at this time…. your loyalty will hopefully be rewarded in some way in due time

Luck out

comic will be late … im going to have it done tomorrow morning… but tonight my computer has decided to be extremely laggy and low… I am utterly sick of this computer….

in lighter news ive reached 400 dollers in my battle to stave off eating out every night to get to the 750 dollers needed for the nice big tablet… yay… ive also figured out my next big milestone after the tablet. I hate my computer, it is bad for games, it is bad for 3d graphics… and it is bad with photoshop… ive decided after much hard thought that I am going to bite the bullet and buy a Mac …. unless of course some common sense washes over me and I stick with the loveable PC… in which case I am never ever ever going to buy a dell… ever…

in any case… Mac or PC… im going to start putting a little money away tword getting a computer that I can actually function on… my main goal is to become an artist working in 3d animation or games… but with my current computer (and fact that my parents will never ever agree >_<) I am stuck with this one for now…. I know that I could succeed if I was given the chance…. any advice from people who have broken this barrier (if anyone who has done that reads the comic that is >_<) would be appriciated greatly…. I am so lost as what to do with my life right now…. i feel like ive let everybody that cares about me down….. myself the most…. ive done nothing with my life that I would have wanted if I had looked at my future 10 years ago….

if I think back 5 or 10 years all ive ever wanted to do is make video game or movie art or concept art…. maybe because that is still my dream that means I should just risk it and do it…

>_<  I apologise for boring you with my lifes tragedy… everyone goes through this at some point… I will attempt not to bring it up much more… just know that ill have the comic up tiomorrow

Luck out

well im back from the beach!

comic tomorrow!

unfortunately I will be going BACK to the beach for a week this sunday…. but then I will be home for the rest of the summer… and once school starts again I can actually get back to doing a daily comic… yay!

Luck out

I head back to school on thursday… and so unfortunately ive had to put all comic obligations on hold until friday (when I move back in)

the reason for this is I need to finish my 12 piece art portfolio before thursday morning… if I dont then I will be paying 13,000 dollers for college… all artistic creativity is going to my portfolio so I can get it finished in time to avoid this heafty fee…

so go have a nice break from me for a couple of days and chack back in saturday morning… there will be a suprise waiting for you… (there will also be a special drawing on the forums either saturday morning or friday night)

thank you all so much for your patience… I know its been an annoying summer… but HEY! ITS OVER W00T!

Luck out till saturday

peace

Last night I did a guest comic over at http://lootchest.com/ for their just starting webcomic about Warhammer Online

the person drawing it is the same person who did the previous guest comic for me…. I invite you to go check it out, its different… but I think it will end up being pretty good

Luck out

today is the 1 year anniversary of Halo 3… sucking tiime and mone out of us gamers for 1 whole year… W00T!

but the bigger news is bungie’s release of their new trailer If you like halo and know some of the backstory you will probably understand what is happenening on the video

if not im posting a discussion of it in the forums if you feel up to it come on in and discuss with us.

lets just p[ut it this way though… the video looks awesome

Luck Out