| Radical Boy Portable GT Conclusion |
[May. 6th, 2009|02:45 pm] |
This concludes Radical Boy Portable GT.
RADICAL BOY WILL RETURN
I don't know yet how soon it'll be, but there's more to come. That all just wraps up the 30 pages in 36-ish days for a little print mini-comic. Now to aimlessly doodle for a couple days while I finalize some summer comics plans.
You can read all of Radical Boy Portable GT on one page over at Webcomicsnation.
Last May, I started Fail Faster Forever. It's a 500-page graphic novel drawn direct to ink and completely improvised over the course of that summer. As of earlier this week, you can now read the entire thing online for free at Webcomicsnation. Because of how it's made, sometimes it looks and reads like garbage and sometimes it looks and reads like this:
and my heart becomes a goddamn bullet of joy.
This is the time of year where I burst with restless energy. Let's see what happens next. |
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| Radical Boy Portable Page 29 |
[May. 5th, 2009|12:08 pm] |
Another Monday where I screwed the pooch. Well, actually a Monday where I was crippled by a week's worth of insomnia. Every night now, my eyes pop open at 3:30 a.m. and it's almost impossible to fall back asleep before the alarm. It's not that bad, and usually I can recoup on the weekend, but not this past weekend.
It's my first real bout of insomnia since something like 5 years ago, when I finally quit regular caffeine intake and eventually all of the various soda pops.
What else? Mom's established out in New Mexico now, running furlough continues, and last night Sara and I started watching the first season of In Treatment. There's plenty of other television we have slated to watch, but not much of it is only a half hour and so episodic that we could go without watching it for a week or more with no trouble.
One page left! Tomorrow! |
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| Radical Boy Portable Page 27 |
[Apr. 30th, 2009|10:48 am] |
I said two pages today, but I didn't mean it. It's a more satisfying reading experience to see just this today, I decided.
I don't get a lunch break today, so I'm not sure how much I'll have up tomorrow, but it'll be at least a page. At this point the 30 in 30 is pretty much shot, but I came real close and I'm happy with my work, so whatever, suckas.
Last night when Paisley was drawing her comic for today, she asked me to help her figure out how Wolverine's hair went, and I doodled this to explain while she loafed behind my head:
And if you're still hankering for more drawings by me, I have a guest comic up at Chainsaw Comics. |
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| Double Sized Radical Boy Update (Pages 25 and 26) |
[Apr. 29th, 2009|11:22 am] |
Well livejournal just ate my comics and my post about how fucking refreshing Tracy Daugherty's new biography of Donald Barthelme is compared to the other attempts I've read. In short: it is good because the Daugherty has the space and confidence to stop a paragraph or three and give a quick outline of modern architecture or the history of The New Yorker. Anyway, it's the first book about Don B. I'd recommend to pair with the actual stories and maybe even to actual human readers outside, you know, English majors. Fucking refreshing.
Sara bought it for me as a surprise present. She is very nice to me.
What else? Four pages left. Two Thursday, two Friday, if all goes as planned. Then? |
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| Radical Boy Portable Page 24 (Finally!) |
[Apr. 28th, 2009|02:44 pm] |
The weekend was longer than I'd expected, so I'm playing catch-up around here. If the new production schedule holds, you'll be getting double-sized updates of Radical Boy until all 30 are up, but we'll see if I can keep it fun for myself.
Yesterday was the first weekday I didn't post in several months. It was a shitty morning to an otherwise okay day, and I eventually wound up dragging some art and writing out of myself in the evening. My knee problem isn't going away just by taking a time or two off, so I'm putting myself on running furlough for two weeks. I hope that's enough to get some light work back, or I'll start losing some stamina and general good cheer.
What else? Mom and Dad are driving all of Mom's stuff out to New Mexico. Sara and I re-organized the furniture in our apartment. The government gave me a check and I thought I might buy myself a little present with some of it to make me feel better, but when the time came I couldn't come up with a little thing to buy for myself because I was feeling bad. It was a conundrum. |
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| Radical Boy Portable Page 23 |
[Apr. 24th, 2009|11:23 am] |
 This is the last Radical Boy for the week. Monday there will be 3 new pages up. Three of the final 7! Man, remember when we were all like "Who are the final five Cylons?" and we didn't know yet. Those were good days, but these are good days, too!
Nedroid is having a Webcomics Fanart Day and he drew just the most awesome Radical Boy fan art along with some others. The whole thing got even more amazing for me personally when other people (like
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) monstro and mike_grizzleby) chimed in with additional RB fan art in the comments.
I'm saying it's Friday, it's sunny and wonderful outside, and the wistful portion of the weekend doesn't even begin for another day or so yet.
Additional Video Update: The perfect intersection of several of my interests.
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| Radical Boy Portable Page 22 |
[Apr. 23rd, 2009|11:45 am] |
Another day, another Radical Boy page: 22/30.
If you were to ask me about what is going on in my life right now, I would probably talk about how my mom got a new job. My parents are still married and they live in northwest Indiana. Right before Christmas, as she was finishing her Master's Degree, my mom got laid off from her job. It took some months, but she got a new position in New Mexico. My dad, meanwhile, can't retire from the mill for another year or so, so this weekend Sara and I are going back to Indiana to go to my mom's graduation and help her pack to leave while my dad lives back here until he can retire and move to follow her.
It is the sort of thing that brings out a whole swirl of emotions and questions in me, and I'm not even the one moving. My mom's never lived alone before -- she moved out of my grandparents house into her first apartment with my dad. She's also only ever lived in Indiana. My parents are smart and determined and brave and cool and it is weird as all hell to think about them setting up a schedule of alternating who flies where weekends. I've had plenty of time now to roll the thing around and part of me is sad and part of me is excited and mostly it is like a fog of unpredictability has settled over an otherwise completely stable part of my life. I'm saying the whole thing is puzzling. |
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| Single-Serving Radical Boy Portable Update: Page 21 |
[Apr. 22nd, 2009|02:31 pm] |
So I screwed my knee up a little. This morning when I ran, I stopped way short because the ongoing twinge in my knee was bothersome enough that I was doing some kinda limp-run whenever I pushed off with my right foot. It's probably just a minor case of runner's knee, so I have to scale back my runs a lot and take it easy the next couple weeks, which is all frustrating since I'd just gotten to a comfortable plateau and I'd soon have some other options open up for me like working on speed or distance, and now I'm going to have to work back up to this same level. Still, I'm trying to stay objective and not let the mental energies leak too much into the future or the past.
When I aborted the run, I stopped and sat on one of the concrete beaches and just watched the sun come up. There was a man fishing near me and it was all pretty wonderful, considering.
Anyway, I think I'm going to pick up a pair of Vibram Fivefingers, because I've been secretly curious for a while, I've got the money, and I have to scale my runs back anyway.
Sorry to all the people that just bored the shit out of. I have something else today, but I'm going to give it its own post.
EDIT: I totally forgot to link to this awesome Radical Boy fan art that Phil Redmon drew. Phil is the tops -- a good friend and a continuous source of inspiration for me -- and what's more, today is his birthday. |
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| Radical Boy Portable Pages 17 and 18 |
[Apr. 20th, 2009|12:27 pm] |
But I thought you promised 3 strips! That's only 2!
Yeah, okay, look, there just wasn't enough time to get page 19 done and have it look good in time to post today. I'm sorry, but now you'll get 19 and 20 in tomorrow's double-sized update.
As penance for breaking my promise to you, dear readers, I present a bonus new t-shirt design:
This year all the good t-shirt money is tied up in frog-based designs. Think about it.
How is everything else, Tom?
It is okay. Chicago weather canceled my run this morning, but I am trying to not be a grouch about it. How are you all? Some of you are new. Hello, new people! |
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| Radical Boy Portable Page 16 |
[Apr. 17th, 2009|11:40 am] |
That's it for this week's strip! You've got to swish those six panels around in your mouth all weekend. Monday we're back with pages 17,18 and 19, so be ready!
It is a weird thing to say but I beat another video game last night. For a guy who draws Radical Boy, I don't actually play very many video games anymore. When I do it's either on my commute or in the wee hours of Saturday and Sunday morning after all other entertainments have been exhausted and Sara is quietly reading or dozing on the couch. It's even stranger because for so much of my life I was never a person who completed games. I'd get some or even most of the way done with a game I enjoyed and then move onto something else. Now I buy fewer games, play less, but stick to it more, I guess. Maybe it's just me growing some sort of sense of frugality. |
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| Radical Boy Portable Page 14 |
[Apr. 15th, 2009|03:33 pm] |
Damn this strip was a pain to layer correctly, but hopefully between it and tomorrow's strip (which serves as kind of a partner to this one), it will be a pretty basic introduction for the layperson. Also it will mark our halfway point!
This year the dress code is Pampers.
--Random line from my sketchbook.
I've started thinking about what comes next after the month of April, but probably the best thing is not to think to hard. I'm trying to concentrate better on action more than the fruits of action and to let answers just find me while I'm concentrated on stuff that is not them. |
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| Radical Boy Portable Page 13 |
[Apr. 14th, 2009|11:30 am] |
The weather was too drizzly shitty to run yesterday and this morning, but oh well. I am trying to keep my spirits up and to stay focused. Last night, I beat that Chrono Trigger game for the first time that all the kids beat back when it was on Super Nintendo and would just loll around on couches murmuring how wonderful it was. Well now I beat it, too, you kids. Now I'm in your stupid club, too.
I beat the final form of the final boss and then I paused the game and went to make dinner. Breakfast for dinner, even. Then I ate that dinner and finally watched the season finale of Eastbound and Down. And only then, after all that, did I watch all the cinema scenes and the credits and the Akira Toriyama animated epilogue bit.
That is how a grown-up man lives, you kids. |
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| Triple-Sized Radical Boy Portable Pages 10, 11, 12 |
[Apr. 13th, 2009|02:39 pm] |
Whew, damn, I slacked some this weekend for the holiday and paid for it with frantic hours inking last night and this morning. Oh, and also some heavy post-production. But, hey, the phone call sequence is done now!
Tomorrow: A big fight! |
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| Radical Boy Portable Page 9 |
[Apr. 10th, 2009|10:17 am] |
This is the last Radical Boy of the week, so savor it!
I wrote a whole thing here about RPGs, but then LJ lost it, so you'll just have to receive from me a general sense of melancholy when regarding those things designed to bring joy. |
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| Radical Boy Portable Page 8 |
[Apr. 9th, 2009|10:28 am] |
So I've finally blown some dust off my WebComicsNation page while I figure out what and how to rehab my own long-neglected site and develop just an all over eWebbersite.biz strategy. The more I do Web design as my day job, the less novelty there is for me in tinkering a site together, but at some point I need to be a grownup and do a thing not because it is fun but because it needs to be done.
This morning while I was eating oatmeal, I was singing "New Chevrolet in Flames" and imagining questions I would ask John Darnielle about craft if I ever interviewed him. I don't know how my fancy fell that way since I haven't been a Journalist in Some Years, and when I was I had severe anxiety about interviewing people (doubled when I enjoyed their work personally). So anyway my questions were all about being seen as prolific and what's his personal ratio of thrown-away to kept and does being prolific instill a sort of confidence that you can do the thing after a certain number of years? Things like that were the only things I could come up with to prepare to ask, and I got disappointed in myself, first for not preparing better questions to go in interesting directions, then for being so bad at interviews and not treating them like normal human conversations more often, and finally for boiling my whole brain up into irritation about a situation that was entirely hypothetical and that extended largely from the song that happened to be in my head when I was in the shower. |
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| Radical Boy Portable Page 7 |
[Apr. 8th, 2009|03:19 pm] |
Hooray for gold!
I was feeling disheartened. Then at lunch I wrote and drew tomorrow's strip and let me tell you: it is a game-changer! It will be the one that gets all the meme-juice! The one your uncle will forward to you in 3 years along with some animated .gifs of wacky smiley faces and a man smashing his computer!
In the meantime, enjoy today's strip. |
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| Radical Boy Portable Page 6 |
[Apr. 7th, 2009|02:51 pm] |
Sometimes there are potions or gold in the pots. You can't be sure.
Yesterday after work I went out an ran my own little 5k. Lake Michigan roared up and splashed my right leg on the hustle back up the shore. It's been my goal for a couple months to work up to where I could run a 5k without trembling like a newborn fawn or crying or walking, and it feels pretty awesome to hit this milestone before I increase the distance even more. |
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