Save Me from the Monster

Wow illustration friday is cool. Something like 30 people came to visit my blog and one dude even left a comment. His comment was nice because his blog was interesting to visit and interesting people had commented on his blog. It was like a chain reaction. I'm really quite proud of this illustration and I think I might IF this one. I was originally going to call this post save me from the tentacles but Babsi, my creative partner thought that was too gross.

It's a small world

This is a strip which emphasises the small size of the Moonbugs home moon. Wow, I just sold a t-shirt on I am so excited, I have made a tiny, titchy, tiny amount of money from the google adds on this page and now I've sold a t-shirt. If you look at this very low amount of money as advertising revenue and a merchandising sale then that makes me a professional comic strip artist, at least in my own mind, and I think that's how I'll be signing into forums from now on. I might wait a little while before I officialy add it to my CV but in my mind the change has been made. I've recently just finnished reading Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto, and it's great. The sort of metaphysical and unusual book I really love. It's not a comic book title, or even comic book related but I like it so much I had to mention it.

Pet Peeves, or Binky

This weeks word on illustration friday is Pet Peeves and this is the strip inspired by it. It's eating me up inside that I had to miss yesterdays strip because we just have so much translation work to do at the moment. I still managed to put together this image in the few free hours II had. I'm planning to work on it and update the post as it improves. Today while eating my usual caramel slice and diet coke over the road at Toby's cafe I was reading a few of the comic strips in the vfree papers there, it's quite intimidating. Anyway today's reccomendation is the special edition of Daredevil. I know what you're thinking but it's an ok movie and the special features on the extra disk about drawing comics and Frank Millers update of Dareddevil that the movie is based on are just great.

Here comes the mummy.

Here comes the Space Mummy Caz, you shouldn't have taken his stuff. It was really quite interesting producing this image but it ended up looking much slicker than I intended. My partner in crime Babsi compared it to a disney look, and anyone who has checked in with this comic strip blog should know that I'm much more after a Bill Waterson look! Oh well. I am also trying to find other people on blogger or typepad or whatever who are doing the same thing as this and publishing a comic strip blog. So far I have only managed to find the dilbert creators blog, (another favourite of mine, not for the art of course but for the ideas) and not much else. I'm finding it really hard to sift through all the blogs out there and find really good comic strip blogs to read and enjoy. When I find them I'll do my best to make note of the link and make some kind of blog roll someplace here on this site. That's a project for the future though. Right now just because I mentioned him a link to a Dilbert book.