SKETCHPAGE
It is now time for the first golB Lewis's Life SKETCHPAGE!
With these sketchpages of mine that I will be posting periodically I want to show you some of the background of Lewis's Life- there is quite a bit, if you dig back far enough. I'm not going to attempt to put it all in chronological order- (Never dated my doodles!) But almost anything I post as a sketchpage will have something to do with Lewis's Life. I'll post random doodles, my old 'newspaper format' comics, designs, graphic novel pages, source sketches for characters...the works. It'll be fun.
This first offering is the first two pages of a graphic novel that I started working on one day on a whim. I only ended up drawing four pages (I'll post the next two next week), but the ones I did finish ended up looking rather cool.
Yeah, I have no idea who that robot at the beginning was.
Link to L'sL: This guy, Karn, is basically Lewis with attitude and sunglasses. And steroids.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
History of me, conclusion.
I was visiting my brother in Oklahoma, hanging out at his apartment and discussing weighty matters (and not so weighty matters). He has always taken a lot of interest in my 'career' as a cartoonist, and usually gives good advice: this time the advice was golden. He told me that I should start a webcomic. I liked the idea, and we decided to begin one together: The Voyages of the Hale-Bopp. I also at that time to begin a 'lame side-project' with zero expectations, just for fun: it was going to be for fun, and 'hale-bopp' was the serious project. I entitled the side-project 'Lewis's Life'. I had been messing with Lewis and a cast of characters in a much more conventional four-panel manner, but I decided that, given the unbelieveable power of the net, why constrict myself to four little panels??? So I rolled with it. Lewis quickly became the main project, and the rest, as they say, is history.
And as the history joke goes- a Bank Robber walked into a bank and pointed his gun in the teller's face and said "Gimme all the money in your drawer, or you're geography!"
"Don't you mean History?" She said.
"Don't change the subject!"
...
Buh-boom ching!
...
I was visiting my brother in Oklahoma, hanging out at his apartment and discussing weighty matters (and not so weighty matters). He has always taken a lot of interest in my 'career' as a cartoonist, and usually gives good advice: this time the advice was golden. He told me that I should start a webcomic. I liked the idea, and we decided to begin one together: The Voyages of the Hale-Bopp. I also at that time to begin a 'lame side-project' with zero expectations, just for fun: it was going to be for fun, and 'hale-bopp' was the serious project. I entitled the side-project 'Lewis's Life'. I had been messing with Lewis and a cast of characters in a much more conventional four-panel manner, but I decided that, given the unbelieveable power of the net, why constrict myself to four little panels??? So I rolled with it. Lewis quickly became the main project, and the rest, as they say, is history.
And as the history joke goes- a Bank Robber walked into a bank and pointed his gun in the teller's face and said "Gimme all the money in your drawer, or you're geography!"
"Don't you mean History?" She said.
"Don't change the subject!"
...
Buh-boom ching!
...
Sunday, May 3, 2009
History
History of me, Pt 4.
Superguy and Torty soon fell by the wayside. I decided that the characters were lame and cliche and I didn't like them any more. So, I decided to move on to more sophisticated material- little monsters trying to eat each other in a fictional world. I created a comic strip entitled "Tooth and Claw', where small, vicious little monsters ran around and tried to eat each other. All the little guys called each other my their last names, and were very polite. I also still harbor the suspicion that they were British. Hmm.
Superguy and Torty soon fell by the wayside. I decided that the characters were lame and cliche and I didn't like them any more. So, I decided to move on to more sophisticated material- little monsters trying to eat each other in a fictional world. I created a comic strip entitled "Tooth and Claw', where small, vicious little monsters ran around and tried to eat each other. All the little guys called each other my their last names, and were very polite. I also still harbor the suspicion that they were British. Hmm.
Their names were Roberts, Andrews and Shultz.
They were all very good friends, had tea together, and never held the hunter's instinct against the others.It was an interesting little strip. I actually prepared a submission, photocopied that comics at the size they should be, wrote a letter the the syndicate...and decided it wasn't good enough just before I sent it in. My self doubt probably kept me from earning millions when I was 15, but at least I was tyrannous enough to myself to be motivated to improve (those who think they are the best they could be don't see any reason to work hard). I got better, but I just couldn't think up a good character...I was STUCK.
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