I Didn't Learn LAST Time This Happened

Aww man!  I thought I could get away without backlash on a real life ‘vet’s trip’ by making my cartoon strip be about a mundane checkup.  Life always followed art before when I did a vet strip – within a day or two we would always have to take one of the cats in for some problem.  The strip I worked on was just about a checkup. The Siamese was going to ‘go in’ and I could see Marcus getting all thrilled about it.  However……..our Merlin got an upper respiratory within two days and I had to get him in for antibiotics. 

Ok, ok! I learned my lesson now. This is the THIRD TIME the vet strip turned into a real trip for us, so no more vet strips done in the comics. EVER.  NOT EVER AGAIN!

Kickstarting The Drawing Again

I got a jolt in the butt to get moving again in the artwork for the strip.  If I want to get them published I need to get them DONE.  All the backlog of sketches have to be reworked, completely redrawn and then reduced down 40% before doing paste up and have it be ready to go to the printer.

So last night I spent a good half hour with pen and paper doing the outlines for the strip boxes, getting maybe 30 pages worth ready, which would be two to a page, 60 strips.  Then I started in on the top group of sketches and did as many as I could in three hours.  It takes a good fifteen minutes to do each strip start to finish…. Basically four per hour.  The ones with the Siamese talking I had to set aside since I can’t locate my notes on how the Korean language looks. She speaks Korean.  It looked nicer than Chinese, Japanese or Thai.