Well Primate Posse™, I’ll be incommunicado for the rest of the week. Not much tweeting, or RTing as I’ll be on holidays, or vacation as you folks say down in the US of A! Well, most people call it that here in Canada too, but I’m stickin’ with holidays! I’ll have a comic for y’all on Monday. Soon colour will return…
I don’t have a Stan song to share with this strip, unless you’d like to go back and listen to To Be a Woman, which I mentioned in another post. But I thought I’d share with you a different song piece that is part of my contemporary art career that I keep alluding to. This piece is called the Contemporary Art Theme Song, and it is the first of my new series of works called “the Petition Works.” Please watch the video and then sign the petition to make my song (not a Stan song, by the way) the actual official theme song of contemporary art! I’m looking for 1 MILLION signatures so that I can take the song to – er – contemporary art to make it official! I’m well on my way as I already have SEVEN!!! 🙂 Anyway, the song and video are right on the frong page of my personal website simonite.com. (that’s right, my name is unusual enough that I own the .com!!!)
On another note, look for a second GITM comic on Wednesday and probably the same schedule for next week too. Gradually getting back into it after a fun summer of making other kinds of art! 🙂
Howdy there Primate Posse™! Here is the first Friday comic in weeks! I’m planning to increase my comic output over the next while. We’ll see how it goes…
In the meantime, I thought I’d talk about something I’ve been meaning to write about for a while – Inking! I mentioned in an earlier post that I had a prof in art school who told me that my inking was terrible, and he was right. He also encouraged me to ink with a brush and after dabbling with brush pens, Pitt artist’s pens and crow quill pens, I think I can say that I’ve finally settled on a Windsor and Newton Series 7 #2 brush with a nice bottle of India Ink! (although I have been using Pitt’s [not the brush ones] to do some of the smaller details like eyes – mind you, I inked an entire strip with only the brush today! It will appear soon) I actually find the brush easier to control than Pigma brush pens and the Pitt brush pens. And I think I can honestly say that my inking is finally not terrible.
Having said that it’s not as slick and professional as many many of my webcomic (and other comic) colleagues. But, does anyone else think that really really good inking looks almost mechanical? Don’t get me wrong, I really appreciate and am very impressed with that skill, but there’s something about my own line that I like quite a lot. It is clearly made by hand, and I like that. It seems to me that Watterson’s line was clearly hand drawn as well (not that I’m comparing ANYTHING about my strip to the great Watterson (pees be upon him). Anyway, any thoughts from the Posse™?
No Stan song to share today, but please visit standickie.com for more!
Here it is, GITM comic #100! And they said it wouldn’t last! And yes, I’ve cut down a bit due to my other ventures, but I assure you, GITM will be around for a long time!
Anyway, in today’s comic we learn what Real Men™ do in the bathroom together. It reminds me of one of Stan’s songs called Mark My Territory, a song about ‘his’ manliness! Click the link and enjoy! Mark My Territory
Well Primate Posse™, we still don’t know exactly why Stan’s been booted out of the house by his wife, but maybe Hilda is gaining some insight! You gotta wonder if Stan didn’t learn enough the time his wife made him spend a day as a woman so that he’d know what it’s like. This story is told in Stan’s song To Be a Woman (as usual, click the link to listen). It’s hard to believe he’d submit to such humiliation, let alone write a song about it afterwards but, apparently ‘he’ did!
On another note, you may notice that this week’s strip doesn’t have colour. Well, you see, I was drawing a guest strip for the fabulous Vinnie the Vampire webcomic and when I was finished, I really thought it looked a lot better than GITM looks in black and white. It occurred to me that the reason was, at least partly, the use of a lot of solid black. This is reminiscent of Calvin and Hobbes, and I don’t need to tell you what an amazing looking comic that was! And VtV too, for that matter ;). So this week, as an experiment, I decided to add some solid black and lo and behold, I really liked the overall look of my inked comic. So I decided to post this week’s comic without the colour. What does everyone think? Is the colour vital to GITM? In many ways, I still prefer a daily comic to be in black and white since I’m a bit of a traditionalist. But anyway, please share your thoughts! And by the way, Tim Green, the creator of Vinnie the Vampire, tells me that my guest strip will appear this Wednesday! Mark your calendars! 🙂