4 posts tagged “comic strip”

No April Fools! 

April 1, 2009

Okay Squid has reached a milestone... It's Squid Row's 500th cartoon strip!

Squid500c_apr_09

For the big ol' fat 500th strip, I wanted to do something different... not just a joke... I wanted to have the gang doing something... with color and stuff. It worked out perty okay, I think... no real funny... just a "hey! look! 500!"

AND... I want to thank all my readers out there! ... if you have time, drop me an' email; I'd love to hear any comments or suggestions you have about the strip! 

What's your New Year's resolution for 2009? How did you do with 2008's?

HAPPY NEW YEAR ONE AND ALL!

Okay, 2009 shall henceforth be referred to as The Year of Squid!

Yes, this is the year that Squid Row is gonna take over the comic world! (Brace yourselves!!!) I resolve to throw all my energies t'wards production, promotion, and "squidly-ness" of my comic strip. 

Of course, there's losing that annoying extra 15 pounds... and reading more... and being a better communicator/writer/corresponder... this shall be resolved, as well.

2008? Hmmmm. Did I have goals in 2008? One of them, surely, was to "get ahead" on the comic strip... which I, sadly, did not acheive. BUT, I went to Europe... London and Paris and Amsterdam.... That was entirely wonderful... so in my book, 2008 warn't a bad year atol.

November 13th, 2008

Do you ever get weighed down by...? ...world affairs? ...PMS? ...listening to the media pump fears into our consciousness?... the fight over prop 8? ...the way you look in pants? ...the fact that my local paper dropped 3 comics from the funnies page, and added one ridiculously lame one (when they coulda had MY comic... which isn't lame)...! ...that jury duty lasted a whole week and put me three days behind in my work schedule...!

I was happy to do my duty... It's the first time I've served on a jury. In years past and oddly enough, I always seemed to get my jury summons when I was moving to another city. This time, I was not moving anywhere, so I had little reason not to serve. We reached a verdict on monday of this week and I have been scratchin' at paper and pounding my head against the wall since then. Often times the creative vibe hides from you when your focus has been elsewhere.

It's been a rather frustrating week or so. This Squid Row comic sums it up.

Squid365_nov_08

September 26, 2008

Life is funny.

I'd spent a whole day trying to write a particular situation I wished to occur to Ryan (Randie's best pal and often her coffee financier)... I labored over this, trying to find just the right way to create this somewhat unpleasant turn of events. But, for whatever reason, there was really no inspiration, no collaboration of ideas, no nothing. So I gave way to exploring a different storyline, if only temporarily, so I could revisit this situation when I could better formulate it... and suddenly the river waters were flowing again as if the clogging device that backed up the waterway of my brain suddenly became dislodged. It was almost as if Ryan refused my idea of something yucky happening to him, and therefore stuck out his tongue and declined to participate. I respect him for that.

Inanycase, I sprung forward with an entirely new character and a new voice for the strip (Squid Row). I don't know how involved she will become... if she will stay near the foreground or just be a sometimes-character, but I very much like her... and she shall be called "Enid"...

Endid_sketchbook

Enid is based on a lovely friend whom I met whilst wandering Carmel (CA). At the time SPILL had her own studio in the Barnyard Shopping Center. I was immediately overwhelmed by her brilliant use of color, her whimsically cartooney style and cheerful spirit. We became pals. Spill has since left Carmel, and now calls the hot sand of Arizona home, but she's a crazy "art machine" with a huge body of work... which is where I see Enid... But I am tempted to make Spill her own self in the strip... as she IS a cartoon character... with dreadlocks and "painted" overalls ... but alas, I will let the flotsam and jetsom take care of it all, and remain open to "the nudging".

By the way, visit Spill's website, you won't be sorry!      http://web.me.com/jillspillfressinier