Rocky Montage

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WHEEZER

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The Semi-Charmed Life

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Why So Serious?

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Coffee vs. Beer (and Cardigans)

 

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Will You Still Love Me, When I'm 23?

Below you will find some old drawings I found while filtering my lifejunk. The first was drawn on my actual 23rd birthday. The second was probably sometime thereafter, during a boring day of substitute teaching. But they're both brilliant in the their own way.

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Change (Of Scenery)

The following is a wordless comic representing a recent trip north, and possibly a more permanent change of scenery. But, as usual, nothing is certain. I enjoyed creating the palette for each stage, though. And this blog definitely needed a splash of color. Am I right?

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Safflower Power

In researching my idea for a post-apocalyptic story, I read about some exciting research that has actually been in process since 2006. But it remains interesting and exciting nonetheless, for various reasons.

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SLEDGE O MATIC

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ME-OW!

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Artie the Android: Garage Saling

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Retro Game Love

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Apocalypse, How!

A seed for another storyline that needs development...

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Variation on a Theme: Holding Pattern

Like I said, I might approach this theme in some different ways. This one was hand drawn and inked, then scanned. Happy double-post Sunday!

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Songs That Float

Troy Morris, Flint Crepe Company: Thursday, August 2, 2012.

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Holding Pattern

This may or may not be the final version of this concept, but I wanted to get something posted. This is another sort of experiment with style; very sparse, using line to lead your eye. Or at least I think so. In terms of story, in typical fashion it's metaphorically vague autobiography. That's a genre, right?

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Airplane Eavesdrop

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Introducing: Artie the Android

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And Now For Something Different

Last week, I saw a film with at least one android character. And it got me thinking about character design in regards to androids - robots that appear human - which led me to one very important question: Why are androids always so clean cut and organized?

I suppose this has something to do with our perception that artificial intelligence is organized, clean, logical, and unemotional. But if you wanted people to be more trusting or comfortable around your android, would you not want to build in some sort of flaw? That's why my next script will be developed around an artificial human that looks like this:

I think I'll name him Artie.

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(Gym) Clothing Optional

I'm beginning to enjoy these evening-walk-inspired comics. Let me know what you think...

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If Tornadoes Were Smart

On the first Saturday of the month, pretty much everywhere, "they" test the emergency weather air raid sirens. What if...

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Guns A-Blaze

This entry represents what I hope will be a regular-ish sort of post. I have been carrying a small graphing paper notepad for six years, sporadically writing or drawing what comes my way. Mostly, though, it has been under utilized. So I've decided to try to fill it up with small one-page autobiographical comics about my mostly mundane life. Even more exciting - I drew this one without a pencil! *GASP*

 

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Untitled Update, Part 4

The following two pages will be the last updates on this project for at lease a little while. It makes for a nice dramatic pause in the story. From here, it's on to other magnificent beasts. Let me know what you think...

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Still Untitled, Part 3

Building suspense...

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As of Yet Untitled Project, Part 2

I think these might be two of my favorites thus far. Though that doesn't say much considering there are only 8 pages.

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As of Yet Untitled Project, Part 1

These are the first three pages of a story I've been working on for far too long. But they also serve as an exercise in page construction and limited story boarding. So I create each page as a sort of one-shot scene, although it has a connection to the previous and successive page. This story has also been an experiment in melodrama, where I'm taking a true story of a seemingly inconsequential accident and blowing every bit of it out of proportion, hopefully creating a sense of ridiculousness while stretching my narrative chops, as it were. More pages to come. Enjoy!

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Rewind: First Commission

I thought I would share what essentially was my first commission, in 2010. This was created in ink and watercolor as four separate images, but I have edited them in a rather mediocre manner to be one piece. Below that is a grainy photograph of the final product framed. The story is one of those silly old things people do while growing up that ends up sticking with us. Apparently, it's meant to be told in an Australian accent. Try it out.

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Scabs

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Turn Back Time: CCS 2011, Part 2

During the Create Comics summer workshop, I was occasionally able to take a break from my nefarious interning duties for quality drawing time. On Friday afternoon though, I put all my secret second-hand learnin' down on paper!

John Chad, 2011

Adventure Camp makes a regular appearance each year, with Jon Chad lending his outstanding world building chops and character development muscle. He provides the characters, Rogar and Garland, two young adventure-seekers, and the setting: the world's greatest sleep-away camp island! Each cartoonist chooses a specific spot on the map and goes. to. town. Here's my entry, in three pages.

These pages represent some of my earliest use of the mighty brush pen, as well as my first rumble with page borders. Me thinks it won't be the last.

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Turn Back Time: CCS 2011, Part 1

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This one-sheet was completed during my time as an intern at The Center for Cartoon Studies in WRJ, Vermont. A special thanks to Jen Vaughn for using it as an example in Scholastic Arts, November 2011. Enjoy those links!

Automatic.

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