Hey Primate Posse™, I hope you enjoy this comic, because there won’t be one next week as I’ll be at an artist (painting) retreat next week. I might not even have a phone signal out there, so please share this on your fave social media – I might not be able to!
see you in a couple of weeks! 🙂
Hey Primate Posse™! So last week I said I’d be off for a few weeks, but for the first time in ages, I spent some time just sketching and working some things out that had been bothering me about the comic. It was a great thing to do, because it made me realize that I really do enjoy drawing this comic when I actually spend some time making it look right rather than drawing (and inking) it as fast as I can. And I’ve sadly done too much of that lately. Anyway, I worked on sketching my characters and trying out some more dynamic poses – the results of which will show up a little more in future comics. I also went back and looked at Watterson’s inking and then spent a little time working on my own. It always helps to look at how Watterson inked C&H. I’m going to make a point of looking at some great inking every week. I think you can see an improvement in my inking on this strip compared to what I’ve been doing lately.
As for the subject matter of this strip, I really wasn’t sure how to deal with it. I’m not interested in getting in on the debate about what should or should not have happened during the incident – I really don’t know enough to have an opinion. For the most part, I just feel helpless (as I’m sure we all do) when things like this happen. So maybe to make myself feel better I could make a donation to a great ape charity and help some living non-human apes. And I’ve often thought that I’d give a percentage of merchandise sales from this site to a great ape charity, but… well, there are no such sales! So it’s time to open my wallet…
One last thing: there will be no comic next week as I’ll be in Vancouver and won’t be anywhere near a drafting table. Back in two weeks!
Hey there Primate Posse™! Just an FYI: I might take a bit of a break from uploading the strip. Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been promoting the comic lately and that’s because I haven’t been spending enough time on it and I’m not happy with the results. I feel that I need to take some time to work on a few things. I may or may not be back next week.
On another note, this comic was lettered using the “Simonite” font that a friend made for me several years ago using letters that I carefully “drew”. What do you all think: is it better using the font, or my (often sloppy) hand lettering?
Be back soon! 🙂
Hey Primate Posse™, some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been promoting this comic at all. The truth is, as I’ve mentioned before, I haven’t been happy with the strip lately. I think this is do to the fact that I’ve making the comic just to get some product out there, rather than for the enjoyment of having a comic strip that people enjoy. I’m going to take 3 weeks or so to do some sketching and trying to figure out how to enjoy drawing this strip again! I will be back! I promise! 🙂
p.s. The sketching already seems to be helping…