September 11, 2019
I prepared all the pages for the [proof copy] of the next comic book and sent away for the proof print. I do not consider the work finished and probably will not have time to make a full order for the November 2 + 3 art show, even if i do inexplicably finish by the time the proof print comes and I do not find anything with it that is wrong beyond what I continued to poke at meanwhile, but at least for the time being if something goes wrong it might not necessarily be my fault. Additionally I have updated all posted pages with my 3 months of changes and they can be viewed from this point onward.
Regarding that up there, it initially started the chapter, but I thought it was more “professional” to start the chapter with a view of scenery, and also establish kumquat and pog’s presence. Also, I like the idea of the comic strip having no narration whatsoever, but i also MADE this dumb thing and have always had it between the end of one part and the start of another, even though at THAT time, part one was in a state of disarray and the whole point of my redrawing all that was to render further explanation of what it shows unnecessary. However, obsessive compulsion states I must include it if I am able, and so for now I am doing so.
Kumquat still looks awkward, but the other three characters look slightly better. Elpse no longer has fish whisker things protruding from its face nor stripes on its thigh regions. I LIKE those details, but if I have them here, then I risk forcing myself to include them everywhere else like I did after I added little zigzag stripes next to its feet and hand areas. Also, nemitz is still a crumbag. THAT would be truly impossible to fix in time to get the books printed.
This is only a half page, but i used the second half to cram in my various website urls. Of course I still have people asking if I have a website while looking straight at my business cards that only exist to show urls for my 500 different websites, so this may be irrelevant. Yes so I have tentatively placed this on the inside front cover. I will of course scrutinize that text’s legibility. I do not yet have something for the back cover or a preview of the next issue’s front cover for this one’s inside back cover. I have a lot of cover left to cover.
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Charmlatan sez:
These beat-em up games are always eating up my quarters.
I always wandered if the whiskers were intentional to Elpse’s design or a spontaneous addition to the character portraits. Like mitz claws, maybe they retracted when not in use. However, I don’t remember whiskers on the imp on any model before they left the house.
Frimpinheap sez:
I might just add them back before the next print test, and also include the swirl “designs” that I put on the dark blue-green areas whenever i draw elpse in pencil, which i only forgot about until now because I have not drawn a proper elpse on paper in several years. Having gotten myself into a gruntwork mindset now I forgot that some of my favorite things about the comic strip are unexplained inconsistencies that don’t affect its stability. I probably had drawn the whisker things at other points around when I made that introduction but definitely nothing that had enough of a point to go on the internet. These days of course I will put up anything that I can bring to a reasonable level of completion, but ten years ago i had standards!
Frimpinheap sez:
but maybe i WON’T because in part three as you likely recall i did establish that there are other things which look like elpse that do have fancier characteristics. oh beets what a decision!
Charmlatan sez:
I enjoy the unexplained inconsistencies moments as well! Please continue those, for they’re fun to see as a reader, too.
Beets would have problems coming up with solutions, being vegetables.