Here’s another saying I heard on an old movie, “all washed up,” and it was used in describing a couple that had broken up. So my brain instantly comes up with an image of a couple washed ashore a deserted island. And maybe it’s funnier that the fisherbots in the first panel are like right there and could probably get help? Anyway.

I was watching Hitchcock’s “Rope,” that’s where I heard it. That’s an interesting movie. I’ve watched a FEW movies recently but haven’t made notes or revisited those films to write up anything on the site. I don’t think I need to review “Rope,” do I?

No posts in the last week, may have some stuff up this week, definitely next week and through December. Definitely have some drawings. However, I’m juggling three things right now that are all ideas with some progress but nowhere near completion. The nearest is the cover to Robots With Coffee #5, which is what it sounds like – I am going to at the very least have RwC #5 put together for print. It’s the cover that I’m practicing on, as I “want to get it right!” in that I have the concept but I want to improve on my watercolors before taking the sketches and drawing the full thing. UGH, effort, amiright? I’m still languishing on The Indictment, sorry. That started off as a fun project and I don’t have a good excuse as to why it hasn’t progressed. Then there’s “Spiders Are Helpful,” which was a surprise hit with a few people. It’s something different and doesn’t involve stupid robots. These are 1-panel gags about spiders. I drew it for some people on the social medias and the response was great and I have a lot of sketches that could fill up a full comic book.

Here’s the problem with it: the plan was to RE-draw the spider drawings DIGITALLY, for ease and improved art yadda yadda. I have a tablet AND some Mort strips were done on them. I’ve redrawn a few things for stickers. I like having it, it comes in handy.

But UGH, is it difficult to use. And not because of the programs. The strip in today’s post, if I redrew it on the tablet, would take like three or four times to do. It’s not a complicated strip. And I promise you I made an effort with it – or at least I took some time with it. My art will likely always look like this. And that includes if I draw it digitally. I think I just might have trouble drawing on a tablet. Or maybe it’s THIS tablet. I’m not going to spend over $1000 to find out differently. I’m going to continue to use it. But I like drawing on paper. I like making a mess. With two of the spider drawings I tried to re-do, it took a long time for a simple drawing – for even drawing OVER the sketch. I could feel myself getting impatient and I drew and redrew the same line to get it to look right. Which I SHOULD be doing, but I promise you I don’t have this problem when I draw on paper. I make mistakes, and I fix them digitally, but I have definitely inked, scanned, edited (including fixes), and posted a comic strip in the time it took me to re-do one of the spider drawings.

Thanks for tuning in. If I don’t post again this week, happy stupid fake holiday this week. You know what I’m talking about.