Well, after a few months I’m back. This strip ends the scene in the cubicle and I’m so happy about that. It’s really hard picking up where you left off, as you may be constrained by hold habits and setups. I’ve got a new setup, in fact: a Wacom Cintiq 12WX and some new comicking methods for your enjoyment. So here’s to an early new year for Any Day Now.
Well, after a few months I’m back. This strip ends the scene in the cubicle and I’m so happy about that. It’s really hard picking up where you left off, as you may be constrained by hold habits and setups. I’ve got a new setup, in fact: a Wacom Cintiq 12WX and some new comicking methods for your enjoyment. So here’s to an early new year for Any Day Now.
This makes me really depressed but I’m going on hiatus for about a month. I’ve totally lost my pace and the work is suffering. See you all back here in a few weeks.
I do apologize to readers. I’m in a constant struggle with my colors and I just can’t stand to put out something hideous. *sigh*
A strictly professional relationship is probably best between employer and employee, but it makes getting trapped in elevators and company parties startlingly uncomfortable.
So when I was asked by the CEO– last week at a company party– who were the popular musicians these days I knew that I had a good opportunity to be personable. And yet all I could do was make him feel old and perhaps fearful for his life as only the worst bandnames seemed to reach my mind.
“So what are some of the big-name bands these days?”
“Well, let’s see, there’s The Killers, Disturbed, Slipknot, Death Cab For Cutie, Tool…”
You know there’s a problem when your CEO says, “Wow,” and then you ask him if he’s heard of them and he replies, “None.”
It’s pronounced [boh!]
I’m thinking about using screen tones and textures rather than colors. We’ll see.
As is often the case, we define the word “organize” as “ameliorate chaos,” and that is essentially what I have to do every week at work. Make no mistake, my desk is not anymore organized after organizing than before organizing– it merely hides its whimsical whirlwind of textual information behind blocks and blocks of neatly stacked paper. Rest assured that this is not a metaphor for me nor my life, though I did have a strange and inexplicable urge to place a paper weight on my head the other day. Must have been the salmonella poisoing.
I thought that, after five months, I’d have things moving steadily and that my color “system” would be stable. I liked the idea of using color to set the mood or the surroundings. The idea was inspired by A Lesson Is Learned But the Damage Is Irreversible, a truly inspiring webcomic that brought the idea of composition to the very forefront of sequential art. It succeeded with an almost whimsical selection of hues, perhaps indicative of the whimsical nature of the comic itself. And maybe that’s why I couldn’t make this work.
I still have other tricks up my sleeve so I haven’t given up yet. I’ll be experimenting with colors in the coming weeks so don’t be surprised if the June archive starts looking kind of psychedelic.
Generally I make the correct number of updates per month but it’s still very hard for me to land those updates on the day-of. Often times I figure I’ll just make something quick and without polish but I’m so OCD that the whole notion is laughable. Maybe I should be solving crimes with my pathological attention to details instead of drawing comics.