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Thursday, 09 November 2006

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Lord, it's hard to get readership. I remember that when I started Tonar Syndicate in 1995, it was almost no time before I had 2200 hits a day. This on 9600 baud modems! I recall taking my cartoons to Kinko's for scanning and spending 40.00 an hour for low-res scans of the cartoons (I didn't know enough about compression in those days to save them properly). Now, although it's much easier to produce and distribute, it's way harder to stand out.
In light of this, I'm moving forward with the intro to Clench and Cheese using their theme song (this is a rough draft of it... working on a better version... and posting it on youtube  (perhaps submitting it to Channel Frederator.
It's hard getting up, but I have a couple of regular readers who comment on my Drunk Duck site   who are really fine cartoonists themselves and who are ebdlessly supported.
I hope one day to get plucked out of the sea of obscurity, but for now I draw chiefly to amuse myself and to develop my storytelling technique.

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Cast of characters

  • Jonny
    Here is a brief rundown of the characters in Clench & Cheese

Boig and Bitty in Carry On

  • Carryon9
    This is a short comic story featuring Boig & Bitty, an odd couple who sort of asserted themselves to life back in 1992.

Voice of Reason

  • Bike
    This was an early-90's strip that was in a few weeklies. It was the transition between my mainstream work and the later graphic novel/ alt comix stuff. Some of the characters are pretty funny.

Clench goes to the Dentist

  • Dentist00040
    Here are some stills from the animatic of my current project. The anatomy needs some work. It's my first effort in color. This project is being done start to finish in Mirage (except for the editing, which will be in Final Cut). Not only is Mirage lovely to work with-- perfectly aping pencils, pastels, watercolor, ink-- it's also really useful to control workfolw in all the processes of making a movie.

RAIL

  • Esfashion1
    These were semi-political comics that were published in a leftist newspaper back in 94 or so. I even got paid, a rarity for the genre. Some of the gags are a bit stale (Bob Dole is a ROBOT!) but some hold up.

Trucks

  • Trucks2_058
    Here are some stills from an animatic I did last year. I need to make a better print of it and do a soundtrack. Once again, it was an idea that didn't really have legs, but by the time I discovered this it was too late.

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The Corn Crib

  • corner of the main room
    Here are some low-res shots of my studio. It is an actual corn crib, albeit one that hasn't had corn in it for many a year. Somebody should tell the mice, though... I sometimes see their traces in the morning.