Colaboratay, Scenes 1-1 to 1-16

Hi, I'm Gareth A Hopkins (aka grthink) and here I present the result of a comic project that I and my friend Daryl Morris (aka anxietydecending) completed in Jan 2010 at our shared blog Colaboratay. It wasn't the only project we worked on there, but it was arguably the most successful.It was Daryl that suggested it -- a conversation in comic format, one frame at a time. Daryl started it with Scene 1-1, and then I did Scene 1-2, and so on. Each frame was done postcard sized (6"x4") in case we wanted to collect and frame them at a later date. The pace was pretty frantic, considering we've both got quite a lot on, and after this first sixteen, we started another run, but we ran out of steam with an unresolvable argument about the quality of the film Cool World (that link is a little dig from me).As we were working on it, we were also having other conversations -- in real life, via email, and via the comments on the blog as we posted our scenes up. These conversations informed the direction of the comic -- for instance, Daryl's switch to living in a black and white world directly followed a conversation IRL about Vib-Ribbon. These conversations formed a rich meta-layer to the comic that I found really interesting and exciting, but I don't think Daryl was as fussed about its presence as I was. Anyway, after this unnecessarily involved intro here it is:

'Vestal Tendencies', by MisComp

Hi all. MisComp is my web-comic-blog thing, by me, Nick. I live in Bristol, England, and (amongst other things) am friends with Simon M. of Smoo Comics. He's been drawing comics for a while now, and it was a couple of years ago that I decided to borrow this 'comic' format he kept going on about to explore another creative outlet. Like Simon's work, my own is semi-autobiographical. Unlike his work, I can't draw all that well. Never mind. I've kept at it, and recently even got a pretty good review from Kevin at Optical Sloth.

The title 'Misinterpreted Complications' comes from my collection of thoughts and writings as a teenager (a few years ago now), which covered the usual banal misunderstandings and grievances of youth. Whilst in the last decade I've grown up a bit, there is still plenty about being/Being in the world that leaves me perplexed, and I think its partly for that reason why I've continued with the title - as a nod to a life project of coming to terms with it all... but maybe also partly because I couldn't think of anything else to call my web-comic.

I try and draw roughly three comics a month, all of which are available on my site miscomp.wordpress.com. I've included a recent one below, 'Vestal Tendencies', although its probably one of the least funny that I've drawn for a while. Sorry about that.

miscomp.wordpress.com - © Nick S. 2010

Feedback comics

Hey gang, really incredible work up here. my name is John Isaacson, and I know Mike from comics conventions around Portland. I've been making a quarterly zine of concert reviews in comics format called Feedback. I'm up to issue eight and you can check it out at Powells or Reading Frenzy if you're curious. I recently started digitally coloring the strips because they were picked up for the Willamette Week's music blog, so color is free. But it takes forever to color the strips! If anyone has any advice on how to color strips quickly and efficiently (digitally), please let me know or I'll probably start coloring them by hand. Keep up the great posts!

Loves Comics Submissions

Hi, it's my first time posting here, so I figure an introduction is in order. First off, I'm friends with Mike Getsiv, who started this blog, and have been meaning to post on this blog, as it's an awesome idea, and Mike is rad. I'm a freelance illustrator and Xeric award winning cartoonist. My work can be viewed here: www.joshuakemble.com. I'm working on a graphic novel right now, and since, as we cartoonists all know, the pay in comics is close to nothing, I pay rent and bills by doing freelance illustration, and loads of artwork for t-shirts. Recently, Threadless, an awesome shirt design competition site, had a contest with the theme of comics on t-shirts, titled "loves comics" and these are my submissions. If you like them, I'd appreciate if you'd take the few minutes it takes to vote and comment on the designs, as they'll print the designs, and also give me some hefty financial rewards if I win:

Vote/Comment on it here:


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Vote/Comment on it here:

Thanks for viewing these. I hope to post on this awesome blog more often, and appreciate Mike setting up such a great forum!

'Mary Boundy' by Simon M

Hi all! My name is Simon, and I'm new to this blog. To start with, I thought I'd share this one page strip. The image itself is a couple of years old, and appears in issue #2 of 'Smoo', which is my ongoing, semi-autobiographical minicomic. I'm hard at work on #3 at the moment.You can fine more information on that here. I'll be sure to post some more material soon (if folks like it). Thanks for reading!

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"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.