New (and old) puns!

Sep22
by on September 22, 2019 at 1:50 pm
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

So although MCM Scotland is coming up next weekend (I can’t wait to get back up to Glasgow!!!) I’m already planning ahead for MCMLondon and I’ve got four new parodies planned for it!

Check them out!

Now hey, I’ve done two of these puns before (and actually both of them have had two different prints to boot!) but I’m up for doing something else with them!

I’m super excited about all these puns and what I’ve got planned and obviously I’ll post on here what I come up with!

SO EXCITED!!!

More soon! Bear hugs!

A quick one for this week!

Sep17
by on September 17, 2019 at 6:47 am
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

…and it’s a bit late too (again!)! I had some other things I wanted to post about this week but unfortunately I ran out of time!

Speaking of running out of time, I’ve finished updating the writing and fonts in issue #14 of the comic and got a seriously low number of panels that I want to redo – and even then a lot of cases is just adding things like fingers to Lloyd and Bear who are currently sporting circle balls for hands!

And yeah, it’s really clear how I was running out of time on this book with my self enforced deadlines as the final pages sure had a lot of circles for hands!

I’ll be showing more of the new panels over the next few weeks including new (and returning) parody prints I’m working on for MCM London (sorry MCM Scotland, I had too much going on to be all prepared for you guys but hey, I’ve already loads of cool stuff for you anyways!)

More soon! Bear hugs!

Shut up brain, shut up!

Sep11
by on September 11, 2019 at 6:48 am
Posted In: Urp!

It can sometimes get lonely working alone on my books but hey, thank goodness for having the good company of my brain… Yup, good old brain reminding me of all my mistakes and when I made a fool of myself…

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I’ve got plans I tell you!

Sep10
by on September 10, 2019 at 7:03 pm
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

So just a quick one from me this week. You see, I’ve got plans! Plans for things to do with the here website!

Yup, an (almost) weekly blog and sporadic Mac & Cheese reviews plus the occasional comic strip just isn’t enough for me(!) so you see, PLANS!

First off, as I’m picking up comic books pretty much every week so I figures I should maybe talk about them here. I just need to work out the details on if I want to cover every book I cover (as I’m crazy slow at getting around to reading them that might not be the best) or just cover a single book or maybe even just whatever catches my eye be it even just a panel in one particular book. I don’t know but once I get it in my head I’ll be posting about it on here!

Secondly, I mentioned previously how much I loved our simplified table display at GCCC and I, in part, want to hold on to that. If nothing else, I really liked how much lighter it was carrying everything to a convention! So going forward I’m going to still have the big print display behind (to the side?) of me but the table will be less cluttered with only the books and the like. We’ll see how it goes. But yeah, with that plan in place then what to do with all them discount prints? Well I’m hoping to figure out the best (and easiest) way to sell them from either here or over at BigCartel where we sell our books. But yeah, much like with the comic reviews once I figure it out I’ll be posting it on here!

So yeah, short and sweet this week but I’m really excited with trying new things!

More soon! Bear hugs!

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I’m on to issue #14 now!

Sep03
by on September 3, 2019 at 5:38 am
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

With issue #13 all done and dusted it’s time to move on to updating issue #14 which I’m confident won’t take anywhere near as long to do!

My first challenge was to update the cover and I knew I wanted to do something with Rizos’ (that’s her in front of all them punched up aliens) hair that would then be updated throughout the book.

And this became a bigger thing than I first thought….

You see, on the left we have the original cover which along with a few issues had a grammatical error(!) Like, I’m messing up on the cover – that’s not good!

After correcting the wording I got rid of the Bubblebear design on Rizos’ t-shirt (as it was never used again in the book) and made a few other tiny changes.

But as for the hairy colouring style I tried to go with a big messy hair design which I only realised afterwards I had tried way back when I first worked on the character and I never liked it then either!

I then decided to go with an (almost) white streak in her hair riffing from Bride of Frankenstein and was super happy with it and yeah, all good and cover saved.

The thing is, the next morning I checked the cover again and realised that I still had a problem with it! You see, I never felt that Rizos looked the same as she did on the interior pages. I had already made her hair a bit sharper and added some body to it but she just didn’t match up. I then realised that I had made her head too big which made her look younger – like in her early teens rather than late teens/early twenties (Yup, my basic cartoony shaped characters have ages! And I can tell by looking at them!)

So yeah, a few more updates had to be made but it got me to this finished cover!

What do you think?

You know, I started this post by saying that it shouldn’t take me long to update the book and I’m still sticking to that belief despite how long it took me to rework the cover! There’s not a lot of characters in the issue and it’s a pretty tightly written book (if I remember correctly) but I guess we’ll find out.

And yeah, I see ‘we’ as I’ll be updating you guys as I go along!

More soon! Bear hugs!