Mommy of All Hiccups - Scrolly Comic

For a little while now, John Kricfalusi (creator of Ren & Stimpy) has been posting rough cartoon storyboards on his blog. These, along with a few similarly formatted web comics I've seen, got me thinking: We ought to coin a term for web comics where you have to keep scrolling down and down and down. I'm suggesting "scrolly comics."

Scrolly comics have their advantages and disadvantages. You lose the beauty of artful panel arrangements. But there's something fun about just continuing to scroll down and down, as you reveal more and more of the story. They're also handy for posting on blogs, which are already set up for continually scrolling down.

As an experiment, I decided to take a 4-page, traditionally-formatted comic I drew recently and turn it into a scrolly comic. (You may have already read it HERE, in its original version, a few months ago.) Here it is in scrolly form:


Do you prefer the traditional version, or the scrolly version? It was easy to transform it, so it occurs to me that any old comic could be quickly turned into a scrolly comic, if anybody wanted to.

Recent Sketches

Ptooey and Loogie - The Mommy of All Hiccups

As I told y'all before, my college chum Cheese Hasselberger publishes House of Twelve comics. He said I could contribute something to their upcoming kids' anthology, so I started work on a 4-page Ptooey and Loogie story. And now I'm finally done! (click each page to enlarge)





I said before that I might change the gags in the first half of page 2, and now you can see that I did (just compare this to the rough pencil version).

Ptooey & Loogie - The Mommy of All Hiccups, early pencil draft

My college chum Cheese Hasselberger publishes House of Twelve comics. He said I could contribute something to their upcoming kids' anthology, so I'm working on a 4-page Ptooey and Loogie story. Here it is in progress (click each page to enlarge) --





I plan to tweak the drawings a bit more, add gutters between the panels, and ink it all nice-like. And I may change out some of the hiccup cure gags in the first half of page 2.

Old Animations

Hey, I'm on YouTube! (Warning: This stuff is kind of PG.)

Here's some stop-motion puppet animation I did as a student, in 1993:



And you can see more of that on the YouTube channel that my buddy John Walker and I put up: YouTube.com/Miltonicity

And here's a short I did for MTV's Cartoon Sushi in 1998:

Blog Trouble

Well . . . I wanted to convert my old "classic template" blog to a new blog with "layouts enabled." This turned out to be a whole lot of trouble, where I had to copy each post over to the new blog, one by one. The worst part is that I've lost all my old comments! Not that I usually get that many, but it's nice when someone stops by and says something nice. So everybody please feel free to comment again on your favorite posts!

Old Sketches - 1996

Here are some more old sketches. I believe these are from around July and August of 1996.

Overflowing Closet

This is for an ad for The King's Ranch and Hannah Homes. If you've got too much stuff, donate it to them, and they'll sell it at America's Thrift Stores:

Cell Phone Gator

Here's an alligator I drew for a company that will put up a cell tower at your lake house. Apparently, they chomp down on the signal and never let go, or something to that effect:

Recent Sketches

This little drawing was just about two inches tall, but I think I might like it better blown up:

Woodland Creature

Hey, all. This is my cat, Woodland Creature, drawn for my wife's birthday card. She really is gray, tan, and orange (the cat, not the wife):

Marathoner Card

Here's another little job I got on Elance.com. It's a greeting card, from a line that's specially made for athletic shops or something. This one's for runners.
Then on the inside, it says, "Stairs are tough, when you can't bend your knees." Or something like that. Cute.

Kissy

I got my first little job on Elance, already! (see last post) The buyer needed a mascot for her blog about romantic advice and fashion tips. She wanted her mascot to be a little bit Beyonce, but also a little bit ghetto, because she's going to be talking a lot of trash:

I never paint stuff in this airbrushy style, but I tried it for Kissy here, and I think she came out pretty good.

This color technique isn't my favorite, but so many modern comics are painted this way nowadays. It gives it a professional feel, which I think will impress the viewer, if only in their subconscious. Somewhere in the back of their minds, they'll be thinking, "Up to date, corporate, trustworthy." Which the client needs, because she'll be selling some of the products she touts on her blog.

My Elance.com Portfolio

Hey, I have a page on elance.com now, although I don't know how much I'll actually use it to get freelance cartooning jobs. A lot of the stuff there has already been seen here on my sketch blog, but it's pretty cool to have it all collected in one place like this. Click below, then go to Portfolio:
chris_garrison.elance.com

Salty 'Ham Cartooneestas

For the last couple months, I've been putting together an online list / gallery for middle-Alabama cartoonist-types, called Salty 'Ham Cartooneestas. As of today (3/18/'08), we have 22 artists on the page. But there are a bunch more out there who I still want to get on board! If you know any who aren't on the site yet, send them my way:

Breakfast Time

I don't know why I've never posted this. I didn't realize it was up on youtube until just now, which makes it a lot easier. In June/July of '05, I went to L.A. and worked on this Nickelodeon PSA for my friends at Titmouse.

I did a lot of the animation in the first half, before the place settings appear. The rest was animated by Mike Roush.