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FRPG

by peggy on November 15, 2011 at 12:01 am
FRPG

ROSA from Jesús Orellana on Vimeo.

Here is a short, dialogueless film called “Rosa” about some very, very, very pretty robots. I mean seriously pretty, the kind of space I was going with the Wind-Up Boy in Five Glasses of Absinthe (NSFW).

Sadly it gets kinda wound up in its fight scene; halfway through I kinda quit caring about the green-eyed lady as a character and just wanted to see how pretty she was for a little while longer.

And speaking of green-eyed ladies, yep, now there’s FOUR Ritas in play here. This one may be riffing on the ideas Nick and I had for the first sequel to Five Glasses of Absinthe, though I swear I didn’t pick the color palette with that in mind. For that matter I wasn’t expecting to have a fourth world in here for a while yet! I need to update the cast page to reflect this, and finish documenting the other three worlds in it for that matter.

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Morning Rites

by peggy on November 17, 2011 at 12:01 am
Morning Rites

Yes, this is still a sci-fi comic despite the dragon, the elves, and the lady on a flying boat with a magic sword. Trust me, okay?

DELICIOUS BRAINS.

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Triply Redundant

by peggy on November 22, 2011 at 12:01 am
Triply Redundant

Things I googled for reference while drawing this page:

• David Bowie’s Area
• Rigging diagrams

Also holy crap drawing three tiers on one page takes forever. Now I know why nobody does this multiple-stories-in-parallel thing for very long. It’s going to get worse, too.

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Getting Drunk with Carl Linnæus

by peggy on November 24, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Getting Drunk with Carl Linnæus

I’m kinda thinking of moving the unofficial schedule to Tuesday/Wednesday. Especially now that I’m doing three rows per page.

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Encounter Screen

by peggy on December 27, 2011 at 12:01 am
Encounter Screen

This page took too long. Way too long. A week of distraction followed by two weeks of vacation and a funeral, followed by a week of recovery. Today I finally managed to get together enough sustained effort to do several panels in one day. I’ve got partial scripts and pageflow for the next four pages; hopefully they’ll come a bit faster. Sheesh.

Meanwhile… My old friend Gabe’s been doing this cool little strip about growing up in the seventies. It’s kind of the polar opposite of this story about the future, really. He just came out with a collection of it.

You can pick it up here</a> if you want a copy. Or get a PDF for five bucks if you're going all digital.

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Boomerang

by peggy on February 14, 2012 at 12:01 am
Boomerang

Now you know why Carol (the sorceress) looked so confident in the last page.

Also, huzzah, I’m actually putting a couple pages in the buffer for once along with this one!

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GLITCH

by peggy on February 23, 2012 at 12:01 am
GLITCH

Sound effect: a brief burst of the horrible noises you get when improperly inserting a cartridge into a game system.

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Fantasy Targeting

by peggy on February 27, 2012 at 10:27 pm
Fantasy Targeting

I decided to have one more page of setup to make sure you know what’s going on – the “Rita1 glitches into World3″ page ended up being almost entirely about the glitch and not about establishing the situation.

Also OH MAN I HAD SO MUCH FUN WITH RITA’S FACE IN THIS PAGE. Seriously. I REALLY LOVE the fact that I’m approaching this like an ANIMATOR instead of caring about accurate depictions of reality, I get to draw CRAZY EXPRESSIONS. Man I never draw expressions like that when I’m doing a pin-up because “worry/repulsion” is just NOT an emotion that comes up in that context.

Posted this one a tiny bit early because guess who did absolutely nothing to stay on top of her buffer this past week? I worked on a single-page comic for a broadsheet compilation, threw together the first try at a printed volume, and did social things instead. And still managed to draw this page from scratch (not counting my chaotic notes) in one day.

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Boyfriends Are Useless

by peggy on March 13, 2012 at 1:43 am
Boyfriends Are Useless

Welcome to Pallas!

I was really tempted to slack off and finish this Tuesday but, well, I got started on this one late because I spent a couple hours on the phone with one of my idols. And one thing I am continually amazed by when we talk about getting stuff done is HOW FAST HE IS.

So, you know, I let myself take some breaks and browse the web a bit, but I kept on thinking, man, Matt Howarth wouldn’t be doing this, he’d just be sittin’ there at his desk, chain-smoking and drawing up a storm. So I ended up making myself stay up late enough to finish this page.

There is a growing part of me that wants to go back and make the expressions of the earlier pages a bit wilder; I really feel like I’ve gotten a lot more comfortable with all these characters as time goes on. But I’d rather press forwards and keep telling the story. Speaking of which, there should be EXPLANATIONS forthcoming for both of the on-stage Ritas next page!

Also I got my first rejection letter from a publisher for this project. IT’S A REAL THING NOW.

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Story time!

by peggy on March 16, 2012 at 9:28 pm
Story time!

As it turns out I think this one would have been a little late even if I HADN’T spent Wednesday doing dirty Adventure Time fan comics and going to see “John Carter Of Mars”. Having two characters start to tell stories in parallel, with a whole bunch of new designs on the page, made it pretty slow going.

And if you’re wondering, I would have cut and paste that drawing of Elf Barrett even if I wasn’t drawing seven other panels completely from scratch. Sometimes you just gotta do a hold!

Also I hope that it’s pretty obvious from the context that a “sundrop” race is one whose route takes it REALLY STUPIDLY CLOSE TO THE SUN.

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