Comics, Writing, & Art by Will Strode

Thanks Hulu

Happy New Year in case you missed it. You know, the new year.

I’m hard at work on scripting out stuff for my In-Submission Zuda entry Operation Electric Eel Fighter. Wait now I wish that was really the title. Let’s all hope it gets in so I can finally stop teasing you about it.

I’m also at the drawing board trying to work through some materials for publisher submissions. This is a new process to me and looking through my existing stories has given me some clarity as to what I need to be working on in the moment. You see, most of my stories are long. I believe this is a good thing for when somebody is willing to give me a shot, because I have a large back catalog of compelling stuff to work from. However, as a newbie in this game, I’m pretty sure nobody’s going to hand me a deal for some 60 issue series.

So I work, and brainstorm. It’s my least favorite part of the process, but I stumbled onto some old piece of a short story and it looks like a decent foundation. Pillage your own memories for today’s victories.

In the meantime, I decided to amuse myself with some sketching and some Fist of the North Star on Hulu last night. This happened.

North Star Cross-Stepping Five Finger Smash, A Dining Room In Hell’s Servant Quarters Awaits You

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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Electric Slide

If you’ve read the last few posts, you know I’m working on a new Zuda entry. If you didn’t read them, well you can go jump off a bridge and see if I care. I will care actually, but I don’t know any other way to prove it to you. Try not to break anything or ruin your good shoes ok?

I’ve done 3 pages of character sketches for this…beast of a story. It doesn’t have a name yet, so we’re just going to call it Electric. Not with any real purpose, just because that was the word that came to mind when I started writing it (and the name i put on the project folder…which makes it a slightly more official title than New Folder).

Here’s sketch #1… #2 and 3 after the jump.

Trish – Skinny chicks, emo girls, a skull-cap, and bloomer shorts

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