Comics, Writing, & Art by Will Strode

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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Dirty guys and massive beards

I have an obsession, I know, but I cannot resist the power of beard. Here’s a little character sketch of Mushezib (with and without face writing) for El Segundo Diablo. I’m experimenting with a few different styles, trying to get a feel for the right one, but it’s still a little ways off. My original ESD drawings were much more cartoony, stylized and loose. Which is great, but the story just isn’t going down that path anymore. So a little revamp will help it out.

Also there’s like a goat or something up there in the left corner and I think he represents fertility or the fall of man. Something incredibly deep I assure you.

Mushezib the demon warlord of Babylon

Moving On – Hopeful Summer Days

Sorry for the lack of posts the last couple of weeks, there’s been a whole lot of writing to do and it’s sort of hard to post that. I mean I guess I could take a screenshot of Word while I’m writing, but it just doesn’t have the same impact as some artwork.

I’ll hit y’all up this week with some news from around the web and get this blog on a proper start. Until then, I’ve been working on my next Zuda entry, a revamp of El Segundo Diablo. New characters, storyline, it’s gonna be hot. Which is not a pun segueing into the next thing, but I drew a summery picture to celebrate the fact that we actually got some summer in LA.

Only then it sort of cooled off again. But whatever, still summer. Enjoy!

Girls like to crawl on you