A Brief Analysis of That First Comic of Mine

So I've decided to take Trev's advice and write a little bit about my comics from time to time. This should serve me well for those occasions when I feel that I desperately need to make an entry, but don't have the inclination to whine endlessly about things that really don't interest me all that much anyway.

That Comic About Britishness Effecting Pants

I made this oh so very long ago, back in the day when I foolishly believed that it was really easy to make comics. My friend, Mandy, who lives in San Diego, started attending the Comic Convention there and so she was showing me pictures and the comics she'd bought and sharing her opinions on the matter and whatever, and I was all "pfff! I could make those!"

We had been talking about this kid I had discovered on the Internet who I believed was very cute and all British and everything. Mandy tended to agree, and we spoke about the dangers our pants were in, and about pants exploding, and all of that stuff.

Of course, then it turned out that the boy in question was from Philadelphia and the charm completely ended. We were no longer interested at all, and I have no idea what ever became of him. I really don't care.

This was all in the same night that I figured comic making was a simple act, and I decided to try my hand at it then and there, using what had just happened as my material.

It is a simple comic of one page. I didn't measure anything out. I don't think I even had a sketch of the layout anywhere at all. From the looks of it, I didn't even sketch anything out in pencil before drawing over it with pen. It is a truly hideous comic, and I am so glad that I have improved beyond this (and very quickly) because if my comics still looked like this, I'd be one of the saddest people alive.

From the poor illustration quality to the hideousness of my dying marker to the incredible knack I have for not ever being able to make a straight line for more than an inch, this comic truly is a piece of crap. The only thing saving it even a little is the concept behind it, and the introduction of the delight I find in making jokes about exploding pants.

The characters, by the way, have never reappeared in any of my other comics. If you didn't know, my other comics generally have many of the same peoples in them. But this one.. They are essentially so ugly that I never wanted to draw them again. However, those two girls probably are the predecessors of those two girls who are friends and saw the clown that time. I think their names may be Karen and Sally. The boy used is just a generic boy, but he is kind of based on the real live boy that gave me the idea in the first place.

Yeah.

I don't know what else to say about this comic besides the fact that I am almost embarassed to have it seen by strangers.


Okay, that finished, I'd like to mention that the Thanksgiving Update looks pretty snazzy with a fine article by xv bones. Jeremy asked trev to make a Thanksgiving-themed Devilspoon which I see turned out very well indeed. It even caused an AIM exchange that trev showed me which made me lol:

OMGJeremy: can we get a thanksgiving devilspoon?
Trev: devilspoon is english, jeremy
OMGJeremy: irreverant
OMGJeremy: its not like any of us care about it either
Trev: did you mean to use "irreverant"?
OMGJeremy: yes, except with an e

Trev: i think he meant to use irrelevant

Oh, Jeremy, when did you get so special? The only foul-up with this update was that Jeremy lost the url to Fly's article, so I am guessing the Dr. Fly thing will be up this NEXT update. Or HELL TO PAY.