Zombie Boy by Roland Perez
Check out this awesome drawing of ZB by Roland Perez, creator and producer of the comic Z & G (Zech & Geist). Roland’s strip has it all — pink ghosts, zombies, Anti-Zombie task forces, Grandmama’s, voodoo dolls, Task Force Agent Whisper, and plenty of action and great art. Roland updates every week on Mondays and Fridays. Stop by and check it out!
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Zombie Boy cross-over at Urban Jungle
David Wilborn, the madman behind Urban Jungle, has graciously featured Zombie Boy in a special Halloween strip. Take a look at it here. And make a little archive dive and check out David’s hilarious strip about Zack, the only human in an office full of animals. Lots of funny stuff, with great art to boot!
Peanuts Daily 9-28-51
Going through the process of developing a panel for a strip can be hard work. We make changes, scratch what we start, and try again. Here’s a close-up of a Charles Schulz Peanuts daily from September 28, 1951, within its first year. Notice how Schulz redraws both Charlie Brown and Patty in different poses until he found just what he was looking for. Click on image below for a larger version.
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I do my drawings on separate paper and then trace the finalized drawing onto the bristol board to ink, but often times I redraw right on the paper. If there’s a lot of drawing it can be hard to erase. Schulz’s pencil lines are faint, but I’m glad he didn’t erase them out of existence!
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Hey Commentors! Since the web negates all our physical locations, I’m interested to know where everybody is on this blue ball. I’m in Dallas, Texas in the U. S. of A.! Where are you?
Brad Anderson Rejection Note
I found this note attached with a rusty staple to a completely finished Marmaduke daily from 1958, and thought I would share it with you. The unassuming square of paper is a rejection note from an unknown syndicate editor giving the man behind Marmaduke, Brad Anderson, a kick in his acorns for his “preposterous” comic strip submission. Anderson began his strip in 1954, so this strip was created four years into its run, a run that has lasted almost 60 years and continues to this day. It just goes to show that no matter how high up into the mountains you climb, you still have to deal with a few critical Yetis along the way! I know this editor was just doing his job, but I have to say Mr. Anderson probably knows a thing or two about squeezing the juice out of a gag, and I thought the strip was perfectly fine as it was. Still, it’s a fun find, something you don’t see every day.