Title Splash: page 10

I've been drawing this comic for nearly a year. It seems I work at a turtle's pace, because I've only been able to average a page per month. Yes, I have been lazy, but finally, after seven pages of exposition and two pages of fake advertising I've hit the title splash.

I'd like to say that it's all downhill from here, but I'd be lying. I can, however, promise myself that I won't be doing any splashes for at least five or six more pages because they require so much more detail than a page full of panels. Counting the advert as two, I've got six splashes total, and that's way too much.

So rather than letting you ask questions, I'm just going to explain a few things...

1) That is smoke coming out the front and back of the car, not bushes.

2) The stuff on the bus that looks like smoke is actually mud (which, if you remember made its first appearance on page 4).

3) The thing that looks like a hole in the bus window is actually the glare from the sun.

Next blog: Taekwondo, Part II (16 Years Later)

The (Fake) Car Ad: Pages 8 and 9

I started this comic on page three (the one with at the bus stop) and upon completion of said page, had no idea where I was going to go after that. As I've been drawing, my ideas for Dick and Kitty have evolved. Without going into all the details, I've decided to make my comic work like an American comic, complete with advertisements, but as a larger manga-style piece.

For those of you familiar with affordable luxury sedans, and the demographic of people their advertising departments target, you'll understand why I chose the name I did.

Unfortunately, several things did not work out the way I planned. My printer does not print white ink (this makes sense, but I had to try anyway) so you are definitely going to see differing shades of black. The grandpa in the picture does indeed look like E.T and the "shattered glass" effect looks like I made the page in the 3rd grade. To be perfectly honest, when all the tools you have are what an elementary school has at its disposal, then sometimes your "craftiness" just looks like "arts and crafts."

Puppies playing in a bucket of raisins,

Jmao

Dick and Kitty

I'm not apologizing. In the past month I've had to spend my time on things much more fruitful than dicking around on a blog that nobody reads.

So, as I've mentioned before, I started working on this comic book over a couple months ago. With only four pages completed, things are slow going...this is mainly because:

a) the last time I had a drawing stint that lasted longer than 6 months, I was 5 or 6 and stopped when I was 12

b) I have a steady job takes up a good portion of my energy

c) I live in Seoul now and have much more city to explore with my lady and our dog

d) my talents as an artist lie somewhere close to where I left them (with slightly more attention to detail) at age 12

e) I don't like drawing under flourescent lights, which if you've ever lived in Korea, is par for the course in home lighting

f) the next part of the comic book is a little tricky

In any case, I don't fault myself for not getting this out as fast as humanly possible. If you're already my friend on Facebook, then you should be able to get an idea of what's been happening. However, it was brought to my attention by one Banjo (http://banjosays.blogspot.com/) that the text of the Facebook pics are a little hard to read, so here we go. We'll try it here.

Ah, yes, I see I'm getting ahead of myself. May I introduce

Dick and Kitty - in - The First Four Pages!

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

While not entirely apparent, the main characters are found in the first three pages, but they'll definitely have more time as the story progresses. Oh, there'll be more. Lots more. In your face!