Comics, Writing, & Art by Will Strode

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)

Tagged as 100 Days, mourning electric, pencils

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.

Tagged as 100 Days, Comics, crazy, inks, mourning electric, Operation 820, spooky, writing

100 Days – 1-3

It’s been a madhouse few weeks, what with conventions and weddings and other little nuggets of life changing interruptions. I can’t say it’s been bad at all, but these things do tend to draw me away from my duties as a blogger.

With the fate of Zuda, and therefore 2 of my comics, up in the air, I’ve decided to focus on some new things and some side projects. I’ll talk more about that stuff later when it’s a little more sure. Until then I wanted to show off some sketches I was doing for a Mourning Electric side story. It follows the effects of ME’s events from the other side of the country. Maybe one day you’ll all actually get to know what that is!

So I’ve decided to launch into a project with Lindsey…100 Days of COMICS. Every day, for 100 days, I will be making comics in some capacity.

Here’s where we’re at!

100 DAYS TALLY – END OF DAY 3
Free Comic Book Day! Reference books acquired
Goodbye Blue Monday #57 script – Complete
Pins N Needles Issue 01 Script first draft, 22 pages – Complete
Character Designs for Mourning Electric side story – Complete (below)

I’m working on the two main characters, really trying to capture the averageness of office workers. Wolverine popped in there too I guess, but he does not wear business casual…

The scummy side of the story, a trampy little girl and a cross between Jack Nicholson and Rip Torn

Tagged as 100 Days, character, Comics, mourning electric, Sketches, tramps, zuda

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.

Tagged as anaheim wizard world, Comics, event, fringe, goodbye blue monday, mourning electric, pins n needles

Up, up, and crap I forgot to watch

My good buddy Henry and fellow comic-dude loaned me a dvd of the Richard Donner cut of Superman 2. I would love to regail you with my illustrious insights and my hard-edged critiques, but I totally forgot to look up when I watched it because I was busy drawing. So maybe I’ll do that when I watch it again later.

For now, mark your calendars, for this is one of the very few times you will see superheros on my website. Mainly because Lindsey berates me for hours when I draw them.

Kneel before Zod… Zod, kneel before him

I’m sure that scene is a male power fantasy but I still find it attractive

Tagged as fanart, lois, mockery, superman, zod