The Pinniped Party 1/8

A brand new story--in eight parts! It's gonna be EPIC!

A Whole New Week!

A little more format housekeeping; how do you all feel about the "Followers" widget on the sidebar? I just added it, I had 10 "Followers" but after I put the widget up, I lost one follower. Is it annoying? Should I keep it? Do you want to be a follower?

Weekends

Sorry folks, no cartoon today. Just some information on weekends.

I once heard the great illustrator Wendell Minor speak. Someone in the audience asked him what his work schedule was. He answered, "Twelve hours a day, seven days a week." The audience laughed, Wendell Minor did not laugh, he was serious. Me, I was trying to figure out how he'd gotten his work day down to twelve hours only.

I haven't had a proper weekend since October 2006. My Saturdays and Sundays feel exactly like my Mondays and Wednesdays. The illustration work never stops (this is a good thing, we don't want it to stop.) I always like Sunday night, because I know all the art directors and editors I work for will finally be back at their desks in the morning, and the mailman will be out delivering mail. Canadians get mail on Sunday, why can't we?

Well, I've decided to take a break from at least one thing on the weekends, the web-comic. It's going to be a weekday-only thing, for now.

So, in the words I see in many a Friday email, "Have a good weekend!--Be back Monday."

Format Week Day 5(?)

Pretty wordy today. This is a smaller brush size, just one size down from yesterday. Still tweaking things. The dog is still yapping.

Format Week Day 4

This post actually is at 150 dpi, as opposed to 200 dpi, the dpi it's been so far, anyone notice any difference? Thanks for all the great input so far! I never knew blog posting could be so much fun!

Format Week Day 3

Thanks for the input so far, gang. As of today we're going for 6x6 with NO CLICK. I like the purity of NO CLICK myself. How about these font sizes? I like the 5, the 7 looks a little muddy. Actual digital fonts are out--too much work, so I hope you like my handwriting.

I know, Format Week is pretty boring, but this is all helping me build the best, most readable blog comic evar.

Format Week Day 2

Today's big format question is "Click? Or no click?" Do you click on the comic to see it bigger? Or do you prefer to just read it as it appears in the blog window? 

Today is in 6x6 size, but with a slightly smaller brush size. The "CLICK OR NO CLICK?" is in the old brush size, do you prefer the smaller?

Looks like my paint is still wet--back to work.

(TWO new Mario titles (Super Mario Galaxy 2!) and a full Metroid reboot from a new developer. Go Nintendo! Not as flashy as the Microsoft presser yesterday, but not too shabby either! I love E3 Week!)

Really, back to work.

A New Week!

Hmm, from the look of things, the TALL panel is out. 6x6 is nice. Of course, none of these are as action-packed as Chuck...