Comics, Writing, & Art by Will Strode

Is it too early to reminisce?

This time of year has recently become my absolute favorite period of yearliness. I guess it’s always been that way, but it’s really come to fruition in the past 5 or so. Part of that is the fact that I’ve been on my own so long that I’ve had to form new traditions to epic-fy my holiday meanderings.

One of those is the consumption of absolutely every single piece of Christmas media I can get my hands on for pretty much the entire month of December. This month hulu, my dear sweet hulu, has pretty much dumped a truckload of Christmas cheer into my heart crevasse. DVDs and my favorite website on the planet have made this tradition just right. Alf, Elf, Santa Claus with Muscles. All is well.

I <3 you Christmas. I <3 you so much. I'm already remembering how great you were this year. BECAUSE I EXIST IN THE FUTURE.

I would also throw rocks at the Polar Express except it’s too fake to even seem corporeal

Gambit

Hey i drew a fanarts!

Last night marked the completion of the script for Goodbye Blue Monday’s first ever Christmas special. We’re hoping to have it up for free download on December 21st. So mark your calendars for extra spiritude.

My good friend Sierra requested a piece of fanart of the cagey cajun, Gambit. So I drew her one last night so she would shut her yap hole. Here it is!

Hey look it’s Gambit! How did he get in here?

Fanart Explosion

I don’t usually get on with the fanart. It’s not that I don’t like drawing other people’s characters, most of my formative years were spent doing just that. But I’m not afforded nearly enough time for art in general, so drawing things that aren’t project-related are always at the bottom of the list.

But yesterday I decided I needed to do some work on perspective and foreshortening and like…badassness. So I got on with the fanart.

Sort of. The first drawing I did was of the world’s original barbarian king, Conan! Then I drew another that started out as Chun Li or something and turned into like…I don’t even know. Let’s call her a really manhandling version of Snow White from Fables. On a zip line because zip lines are made of metal and radical.

Conan and the Flashing Zip Liner – in glorious HellaColor – CLICK FOR BIG

Next up, I wanted to post the first picture of fan art I have ever received. An image that has warmed my hard heart in ways that only otter tummies should be able to.

The greatest piece of fanart a man could ever hope to have bestowed upon him. Thank you Nighthawk

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A Weekend of Sketchtitude

This weekend was moderately productive in terms of both my artwork and my obsessive desire to play video games for long hours on end. I think moderate is actually being modest, it was exceedingly productive for at least one of those.

In case you don’t follow it, Goodbye Blue Monday’s new story arc is going to start today. We’ll discover some inner secrets about everybody’s favorite orange cat, and a big surprise is in the works for Itty. Go catch up if you haven’t already!

Doing some more sketches for the poorly-titled Electric. This time we’ve got our classroom hottie Stephanie coming to be that dangerously adorable girl next door. She’s the one with all the off-kilter facebook pics and the temper from some hormone-soaked level of hell. That stuff will still be around 30 years in the future right? Sure it will.

Have a looksee, and keep an eye out for the next post, where I drop some fanart style shit on your shitty asses.

Stephanie – hot, brainy, totally nail-driving crazy

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Chubby Asian Teenagers

I’ve been doing some sketching for a comic idea over the last few days. It’s a teen angst sci-fi mystery. Because the more genres you’ve got, the better right? I was not drunk when I wrote the last two sentences.

Here’s a little amalgamation of my favorite bits and pieces that came out. I was afraid I’d lost my line a few weeks ago, but I think it’s coming back full force. Now it’s just a matter of knocking out a script I can be happy with (besides Battlerock or El Segundo) and getting down n dirty on some bristol board. It will happen sooner than we all think.

And before I go pass out, let me plug the Supertron livestream and the Azure livestream. Both absolutely full of pants-shittingly delightful people, and Peter Timony.

Good night you horrible monsters.

Cute chicks and goofy schoolboys