Comics, Writing, & Art by Will Strode

The Ghost of Adolf Hitler

This blog is swiftly becoming a catalog of Things I Watched Last Night While I Was Drawing. I will look back in years to come and think “ohhhh right”.

Last night it was Ghost Hunters International’s big GHOST OF HITLER episode. Rob and the crew taunted, cajoled, and bragged to the nonexistent Ghost Hitler. Of course they didn’t find him because they are retarded and the show is really fake, but at least their nerd-courage in the face of absolutely nothing dangerous made me laugh a few times.

Lindsey and I have a game we play during any of the Ghost Hunting shows, I would recommend you do the same. Every time someone says “What the hell was that?” you try to say it in as many different inflections as possible. It’s a surprisingly long-running game.

So that’s the GHI crew down there, Rob on the left, Joe Chin and his epic fuzzy cockroach chin ornament, and Brandy the goblin. Oh and the ghost of Adolf Hitler

What the HELL was THAT?

I’m also sketching some stuff for a short I’d like to do as an anthology submission. If you know anybody that is looking for an anthology submission, this one is a doozy. Promise.

Hey look people! These guys will be doing some serious comic talkin.

Busy-ness

See what I did up there? Further proof of my brilliance.

Often when I speak with like-minded comicnauts, they ask, “do you have a small piece of card stock with which I can remember your fanciness?”. And I say, “oh shit no I forgot to make one.”

Well those days are now over. I present to you a thing that represents the very essence of Will:

Yes you can hire me to make you a comic.

I cannot even tell you how much I wrestled with a freaking 2×3.5 inch piece of artwork. Ugh.

If you see me at Long Beach Comic Con, make sure to ask me to give you one. I will consider it.

Expeditions

2 things I watched this weekend:

The Maltese Falcon
I don’t know how in the world I got through my whole life without seeing this movie, but I can now say that 28 years is far too long to wait for such unadulterated excellence. I was planning on sketching while I watched and ended up swept into Bogart’s slick-talking ruse.

Mark & Olly: Living with the Machigenga
Ok I’d actually seen this before (I have all 3 seasons of their FREAKING FANTASTIC show. Go buy it on iTunes.) Mark Anstice and Oliver Steeds spend 3 months living with one of the Amazon’s incredibly remote indigenous tribes. It’s all presented in a wonderfully uncluttered manner and it’s pretty much the closest you get to a good documentary on TV. Let’s just say they led an exploratory party into my heart. So I did this little piece for the jollies of yonder excitmentes. That’s English for the fun of it. Trust me I am a master of English people.

Why in the world didn’t I put Gianna in this picture?

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Pluggin Away

Another weekend of sketching and planning. It’ll be nice to get on to some real meaty comic work, but this story is complicated and requires a lot of preparations.

So don’t blame me for silly posts, blame the story.

I was also doing some more character sketches for the seemingly unending cast of Codename Operation Electric and came up with this. It only took me about 5 tries and multiple screaming fits to get that pose down, but it turned out cute so I was happy. Here’s Trish and her big sister Mimi:

Torturing your siblings: a lifelong passion

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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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