SKETCHPAGE: Origins.

Hello, dear Lewis Lifers!

  We've seen quite a bit of 'li'l guy' or 'Killer' or 'Li'l Killer' recently, so I thought that I would post the original sketch for him. I was playing around with watercolor and just filling pages with random doodles...and this came out. Often when I'm sketching characters I include a speech balloon or two that kind of sums up their character or their purpose- in this case, when I drew this cute little guy holding a mean looking axe, immediately he seemed very much like one of those paradoxical persons who look one way and act quite the opposite.

 Anyway, a little while later he lost his name (boring) and he gained some legs (because I decided I'd had enough legless personnel in my comic) and appeared here!

  (He's changed his look a little, but if you check out the first comic he looks quite a bit like the original sketch!)

    Killer Origin page. 

13 Lessons learned from listening to an hour of Country.

The other day I was listening to country (because that's all they play at work) and I was amazed at how many insightful messages came out of the radio. So I decided to listen to an hour of country and write down all of the lessons on how to live I learned from it.

   And here they are.

-Love her and never let her go, even if she's just toying with you.

-Drinking is the most fun you'll ever have.

-Hold on 'till she's gone.

-'God is great, beer is good, people are crazy.'

-Just wait; He'll love you eventually (after he comes to his senses and realizes that his girlfriend has nothing on you.)

-The weekends are for women and beer.

-Manipulate women: It's good, clean fun!

-If you have enough stuff, you'll be happy!

-You worked hard this week- you earned the right to sink into a drunken stupor. 

-Work is the worst thing in life; weekends are the best.

-Use alcohol to get people to do what you want them to do.

-America isn't only a really cool country, it's the best. No contest, the best. Best. Bestest. Best-best (and Americans are the master race).

-Drunkenness is justification for everything, and it's all really fun!

Since country is full of such intelligent, important lessons, I strongly suggest that parents let their children listen to country.

Comic Time!

Welcome to the first 'Comic Time!' page. These are pages that have nothing to do with Lewis's Life, but just are random cartoon art.

   This is a little bank robbery scene. Enjoy.

P.S. This almost should be a sketchpage, because there IS a link to L'sL. Can you spot it?

Bank Robbery

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Here is the continuation and summation of the brief, yet pithy 'Karn and Angelo' graphic novel. This work was created with the intent that the reader fill in the story that occurs after the four pages of this comic in their head. Actually, I just quit because that last panel looked terrible and I didn't want to redraw the whole page. Oh well.
Maybe I'll revisit Karn and Angelo someday- except their names would be switched.

L'sL connexion- You know this one (Karn). However, the last page has a stellar example of how all of my works are connected. That large black beast in the first panel is strongly reminiscent of a character named Andrews in my comic Tooth & Claw.

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/7204/karnandangelo3.jpg

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/725/karnandangelo4.jpg

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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.

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2730/karnandangelo1.jpg

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8161/karnandangelo2.jpg

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!
...

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.

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.