Comics, Writing, & Art by Will Strode

100 Days – IT’S OVER!

Sorry, I’m like 4 days late and I didn’t update for a month. But I was at Comic-Con for 3 days so I’m pretty sure the math works out. Whatever, I still love you.

The 100 Days project was a total success! I’ve got a tally down at the bottom listing all the stuff I got accomplished during the period and though I only got 1 completed comic out, the amount of scripting and prep work I did for my other projects is insane to me. It also gave me some real focus to which projects needed to get attention and which ones could go to the backburner. I’ve already decided that the next 100 Days project I do will involve a lot more artwork, since posting lengthy character descriptions and hacked up outlines is pretty much boring.

I do have a little news for those of you following Mourning Electric. I’ve decided to take it down a different avenue heading for print. After getting reactions at SDCC, it just felt like a webcomic was not the right format. I’ll keep the Zuda entry up forever, but the new version of the script is being tailored for a book.

To take the place of ME, I’m developing the other project that was originally headed toward Zuda, Vapor Trails. Keep an eye out for that soon (first picture posts tomorrow).

So without further ado (and broken up by project so it’s actually readable):

THE 100 DAYS TALLY

Pins N Needles:

Issues 01-03 written
Issue 01 – thumbnailed and in the middle of pencils
Pitch packet at 30% completion

Mourning Electric:

Short story finished and posted
New Script – 21 Pages
Story outlines done

Vapor Trails:

Script – Chapter 1 complete – 33
Character/Vis Dev Art (to be posted tomorrow)
Short script completed

Mourning Electric – Zuda Submission

I’ve decided to post the original submission I did for Zuda last year. Click on the big ass picture and enjoy the read.

I also wanted to talk a little about the whole Zuda closure and how it affected my work and this project. Scroll down past said big ass picture and click on the Keep Reading link for wall-of-text ranting! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO KNOW, IT’S IN YOUR RACY NATURE.

Click to read the original submission!

Continue reading…

100 Days – Days 10-21

The hardest thing about a project like this while you have a fulltime job is not sticking with it every day. It’s remembering that you need to scan stuff to post on your website before you go to work.

Somehow at 3 in the morning I am not thinking about taking snapshots of what I’ve been drawing for the last 4 hours. My bad.

I’m up to my neck in this short comic and planning for some upcoming changes in the daily life. After that it’s back to work on the Pins N Needles script and some planning on what to do with Vapor Trails now that its original destination has shuttered its doors.

The Mourning Electric short will be going up by the end of next week, I believe. 16 pages of black and white suspense. Get excited! The actual story will go up…some day. I’ve waited so long for a reply from Zuda at this point, it feels like a waste to pull it back and stick it on its own site. We’ll just have to continue being patient.

100 DAYS TALLY – END OF DAY 20 (21’s still goin!)
Goodbye Blue Monday #59 script – Complete
Mourning Electric side story – Pencils Pass 1 p1-16 – Finished
ME side story – Pencils final – 60% done (backgrounds and shadows)

100 Days – 4-9

It has been quite a week. But week 1 of Operation 820 is over and I managed to get quite a bit of pencilling done in the evenings after work. I’ll tell you all about Operation 820 on August 20th. Not a moment before.

The Mourning Electric short is on the way! In a heck of a way. It’s gonna be 16 pages of crazy black and white mindtrip. I’m going through with red pencil for all the characters first to get a grip on the emotions of the scene. After that I’ll be doing the backgrounds and laying out shadow blocking. Then it’s on to INKS.

100 DAYS TALLY – END OF DAY 9
Goodbye Blue Monday #58 script – Complete
Mourning Electric side story – Pencils Pass 1 – Page 1-8
Finished reading SHARKNIFE!! (that counts right?)

Hey my desk! Thumbnails and character sketches and a script to read from…this is how we comics

Jacob looks at a thing and complains about it, there is wrongness in him

Look at that kid! That is a kid.

Wizard World Anaheim, April 16-18

I have an appearance this weekend at Wizard World Anaheim. It’ll be good times with all my small press buddies!

We’ll be selling stuff for Goodbye Blue Monday and Pins N Needles, so you should come by and say helloooo. It is important to me that you emphasize the oooo on that.

We’re at table 1065 with our good buddy Zen. He will have comics about hot broads in pink. I know you much you people love that shit.

You better come or ELSE OR ELSE

I’d also like to announce that, while Zuda is deliberating over the fate of my dear Mourning Electric, I’ve decided to embark on a new minicomic sidestory. How exciting is that huh? A sidestory for a comic you’ve never read! Woooo. Check back next week for an update!

And lastly, if you’re a Fringe fan, go check out my Fringe comics on Twitter. They are an excellent waste of 5 minutes.