Mistaken Identity

Nothing fancy to write today.  The comic here is partially based on a true experience.  I have a friend who claims to have had the same confusion as Brad in the comic does.  It's hard to tell when he is joking or telling the truth about his ideas, but either way it makes for a great comic.  I hear back in the day, people had the same confusion with Hayley Mills, who played in the original "The Parent Trap."

Unanswered Text Reminder

Ever wonder why your supposedly best friend didn't respond to your text when you know they were doing nothing but sitting at home alone? Or perhaps you wish you could do something more to remind them of a received text than just a lame ring and a weak vibration from their phone? Well here is one idea I think would be ideal to "politely" remind your friends they still have an unanswered text that needs immediate attention.

Christmas Season Approaching

I wish I had something witty to say to accompany this comic post, but alas, I do not.  All I can think of is that Christmas is fast and soon approaching.  I really enjoy the Christmas season, a time to spend with close family and friends and a time to think of others.  Maybe if I get really ambitious I'll think of a clever Holiday comic to post in time for Christmas, but in reality probably not.  Happy Holidays everyone!

  A side not for the comic,  I got tired of my sloppy large hand lettering so I'm experimenting with some new free fonts commonly used in web comics.  Also, for this comic I used a brush for most of all the outside lines and a smaller pen nib for the thinner inside lines.  I think it's a nice combo.

Are You Cut Out for Pumpkin Carving?

Nothing really fancy to show lately in the way of illustration, but I did carve a pumpkin the other day.  I've always wanted to learn how to carve fancy things on pumpkins like faces and other intricate images.  Information on this technique was very lacking.  After much searching on the internet though, I was able to glean enough information to finally try carving my very own face onto a pumpkin.  I used a permanent marker that would bleed in order to transfer the image onto the pumpkin.  I then used an exacto blade to trace the lines where I would cut so that when peeling back the skin it would have clean cut edges.  I also used some cheap wood carving tools to help peel the skin off and carve into the pumpkin.  Once all was more or less equally carved away I put a flash light into the pumpkin to know where to carve more away to create lighter spots.  Most people at this point would carve all the way through to create the lighter spots on the face, but I was too nervous so only carved deeper than the surrounding areas.  I think it turned out pretty good though in the end.  I would suggest  anyone try this technique if you can get a good lighted image.  It took a long time, but was fun and makes for a great conversation piece.

Blue Shirts and Foreign Countries

I won't comment much on this comic.  I think its best left without any explanation on why I did it, partly because I forgot myself why I did it.  So I officially changed the japanese character's name to Toshiro instead of Jo.  I only had Jo because sometimes in school us lazy Americans won't put forth the effort to learn a foreign name like Toshiro.  Instead we would replace their official name with something easier to pronounce like Steve, or Joe or David.  I once had a friend in college who's name was Wey Yung.  When I first met Wey Yung and asked him his name he promptly replied, "my name is Steve."  I could tell right away he was not American and he definitely didn't not look like a Steve.  Come to find out the school decided to call him Steve because they thought Wey Yung (pronounced "way young") was too hard to say.

   On another note I leave for Croatia/Slovenia in a little over a day.  Croatia is where I served my mission many many years ago.  Unfortunately I didn't take many pictures so this trip I will be sure to take several pictures.  It should be a great trip!  I'm looking forward to it with much anticipation!

So...who wants to drive?

We all want to take turns when driving each other to activities, right?  What about that person who is always willing, yet who's car is always unavailable?  Or the person who insists on driving by themselves unable to take extra passengers?  Well this comic is for all you drivers out there who don't take their turns in driving the rest of us!  But in all honesty I don't mind driving.  It's nice to be able to leave an activity when you want.

Another Friendly Illustration

This is the second illustration I did for the Friend magazine (August '08 issue).  I really like this one as well as the ones I did for July's issue.  It sorta ended up looking a little like japanese animation, but regardless, it was still a fun one.  Don't get me wrong, I love a good anime cartoon here and there, but I think most Americans generally find japanese cartoons weird.  Speaking of anime though, I've recently fallen into addiction with the series Naruto.  It's a show with plenty of action, suspense and lots of awesome ninja-ness!  "Believe it!"