I spent my day doing tech support for a person who demands to remain unnamed, and since I snapped this picture as some point during the day I just had to turn it into a comic. While I suppose convincing one’s self you aren’t frightened by computers could work for a bit, in the long-run…
Category: Comic
Alternatives
This afternoon I began seeing a new Twitter hashtag, #alternativefacts. Given the response of our current administration to the relatively low attendance at the inauguration, I figured it must have something to with the Trump Whitehouse. I chuckled a bit at the hashtag and moved on. Then I learned the hashtag wasn’t actually made up,…
Nothing
Leave a comment which reads “clap!” if you appreciate the irony of creating a comic to say “nothing” might be the most profound gift I have to offer, and then wrote a short reflection on that same comic 1. As ironic as this post might be, the comic is still true. I cannot tell you…
My Comic Workflow, Part II
Yesterday I showed how I take a photograph and “toon” it for use in my comics. Today we’ll finish the comic process by bring the tooned image into Strip Designer to add effects, titles, and text bubbles. This $2.99 app has been around almost as long as the App Store itself and continues to receive…
A Comic Workflow
With the demise of the dearly departed ToonPaint 1 I needed to consider a new workflow in order to post comics in 2017. After some searching, I’ve found a workflow which allows me to create a close approximation to the comics I made using the older tool. I create my line artwork using a nice…
Painfully Hopeful 