"Kitties!!!" by Randy Wood - "Lair of the Ball Snake"

This is page one from another series, "Lair of the Ball Snake", which also ran in tablet. You can see the whole story here

"Kitties!!!" by Randy Wood

This is page one of a series called "Lost Kitten" that ran in the late Seattle weekly newspaper, Tablet.
For more of the "Lost Kitten" story, check out my website

Anecdote: a goal thwarted

And the rampage ends.

Anecdote: a session gets interrupted

Anecdote: My Neighbor

If you're wondering what "Moggy" means, Google revealeth all.

I love me some dumb irony. =}

Anecdote: the sibs and homework

I THINK the answer is 37.41.

I THINK.

How embarrassing that even now, 6th grade math still hates me.
2nd grade math, at least, is merely indifferent.

Unruly classwork

And that's that.

More brotherly love!

Weird. I usually have a lot of trouble with indian-style crossed legs. This time it just flowed out. Yay!

Gotta get better at drawing tiny little objects like that controller, though.

Continuing from the last one.....



Dang, that's it. I have GOT to stop lettering quickly. Every now and then I think that maybe my trouble with lettering is that I'm too slow and cautious and that makes me tense up. So I try the opposite approach and just throw it the hell on there. As you can see, the results aren't all that.

On the other side of things, I'm enjoying getting to know these individuals a little better. I think I'll keep following them around.

And here I'd thought I was getting better at lettering. Talk about a taking a few steps backward. I'll just have to try harder next time.

I was trying to be really fluid with this one, as I sometimes find myself getting tighter than I would like, but that crept into the lettering as well, where it's not welcome. Maybe I was too loose. Inking with a brand-new Sharpie kinda forces that. ;}

The Future / Travel Further

Since I posted How's It Goin'?, here's part of a planned online comic I made in the same year using the same character.

This first part was an intro piece and interface design to select separate stories:

(click on the image for larger version)

and here's the only story I completed for the series:

(NOTE: This comic was featured on Arthur Magazine's comics blog on September 13th, 2010. Thanks to editor Jason Leivian of Floating World Comics.) 

Check the comments for a sampling of some feedback about these comics that I saved from the now deleted threads which were on The Comics Journal messageboard:

Peony - a short silent comic

These pages are a short comic I created a number of years ago that was supposed to be much longer. However, now that I am engrossed in children's books, I may never finish it. The title is "Peony" who was the name of the main character, not pictured here. Hope you like what you see...

Confusion central

New one up today.



Never too early in life to get an existential headache, I always say.

www.drunkduck.com/anecdote

Bewildered little kids and other assorted oddities

Greetinx.

I have a strip called Anecdote that's been appearing in the Brooklyn weekly I work for since late 2008. It's also on Drunkduck.com. (I'd love to have my own site to put it on, but technical ignorance gets in the way.)

I thought I'd try putting up a few of what I've thought were the stronger ones (sometimes verbally, sometimes graphically, and even both on a good day!)

This thing is still in "throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks" mode. Some things are sticking now, but most of the characters, to my annoyance, still don't have names. (Not my fault---most of them haven't told me their names.)

If anybody would like to see more, drop by www.drunkduck.com/anecdote. I've had very little feedback, positive or negative, over the last 66 weeks, so any thoughts 't all are welcome.

Thanks!

Candy Cat and Taffy Cat in "Sticky Buisness"

I teach a weekend comics workshop at the Pratt Fine Art Center in Seattle. This comic appears in their spring catalog.

sketchbook comics, ca. 2003-2004

Here are the first two pages of an eight-pager I sketched out a good time ago (see title of post), about a college acquaintance of mine who committed suicide at 1990, at the age of 22, about a year after she graduated. I've kept meaning to draw a finished version of it, but... I don't know if I ever will.