Expect erratic updates or maybe another gap, I had a bunch of pages in the queue but let that spool out without staying ahead. There’s only five more pages left in this chapter, we’ll see how long they take.
Archives
IT’S YOUR FAVORITE!
Nobody knows how Chuckiemaus7777 gets away with not having custom Foodclown emoji for his chat to spam. This has gotta be the fortieth time that’s been the sponsor.
and the chat goes wild
If you are starting to find the chat a little annoying, that’s fine! You’re supposed to. Imagine what it must be like for Alba.
CHEEESE
I made my own emoji font for Chuckie’s chat.
DEPLOY! THE! CATCHPHRAAAAAAAAAAASE!
CHAT ACTIVATED!
Oh. Thats’s the kind of guy he is. An influencer.
“Dang, you even shaded the crowd, too!” – Lan, who just recently did a big-ass crowd scene for his own comic
“hahaha no, I made Illustrator shade it for me with a complex little stack of gradient fills and boolean operations, here’s all the shapes I drew for just the crowd, if you wanna murder me now I completely understand” – me
I figured this trick out somewhere in the past couple of years and it still feels kinda hilariously like cheating sometimes. I’ve been using it sparingly in this comic but I’ve been going utterly apeshit with it in a lot of standalone images (mostly smut).
Someday I should do a blog post about how it works, it’s super powerful when I combine it with Astute’s Opacity Brush plugin to paint opacity masks a lot faster than unexpanded Illustrator can manage. And it feels so obvious in retrospect even though it took me twentysomething years of using Illustrator as my main tool to arrive at a place where I could say “hey what if I combined this effect and that particular detail of this other effect”, and half another year of fooling around with it before really getting it down to something easy to re-use, and get about half my shading done the instant I lift the stylus up from drawing a shape. I’ve still got to think about it but I get a ton of it for free and that’s pretty cool.
DO NOT REFUSE THE CALL TO ADVENTURE, SMALL RABBIT WOMAN
YOU ALREADY SHOOK THE CLOWN’S HAND, IT’S TOO LATE
who is this spooky dude sheesh
seriously his voice has reverb for emphasis, how does he do that, who does that, what kind of weirdo is this
Funbistro Five Awaits
Originally the drawing of Funbistro 5 was going to be at the bottom of the last page but I decided it needed to dominate an entire spread and think this was a good decision. Mostly because it made me replace it with a panel of Alba going quietly insane while “Now That’s What I Call Funtrain! (3h of Dubtwonk Reversal)” plays.
Transit
If I ever get anyone to make “Now That’s What I Call Funtrain!”, the lyrical direction will be for them to get a good, infectious beat going, and improvise about having a good time riding the Funtrain until they have completely exhausted every clever idea they have.
Once more, a descent begins
In Memory Of Luigi
Title Drop
JOB TWO ACCEPTED
A Very Important Interruption
I should put something in here. I used to put something in here for pretty much every page back on Rita, didn’t I?
I should also edit the style for this comic to make it easier to get to the comments for an individual page.
Maybe I should get on some kind of comics ad network again too. It’s been so long since Rita and everything’s different now and I just wanna draw pages and not think of anything else.
HONKHONKHONK
I’ve had a bunch of pages for this sitting on my machine for a while and I’m finally getting around to dropping them all into the queue. Yay!
I did some weird stuff with the style for this comic to set it up for the multiple-image single-panel-scroll look I started with and it is currently screwing with how the single-image full pages are displayed. I’m working on fixing this, at least they are showing up now. Sorry about the extra horizontal scrolling o individual pages if I haven’t fixed this yet; they work right in full chapter view!
Not Now, Wabbit
I’ve had a bunch of pages for this sitting on my machine for a while and I’m finally getting around to dropping them all into the queue. Yay!
oh was I supposed to react to that or something
Alba was hoping for maybe a little more drama after that big crazy grin but, well, Zaffo’s unflappable.
dressup time
Every time I look at the diagram of Zaffo’s brain it makes me giggle.
Also she is a self-insert and yes we say that about me too.
mildly massaged infodump time
zaffo says trans rights
The lower censor bar was a lot smaller and mostly horizontal in the rough.
Important questions
Enter the Breakfast Zone
Welcome Back To Fun City!
Aftercare (4)
The Special Weather Event is spilling out of the Foodclown Foodfunhut and that really doesn’t look very good but Jobclown said the job was done so I guess… it’s… okay?
Aftercare (3)
major thanks to the wizards at Astute Graphics for saving me from actually having to draw a bg in the last panel here, I just copied the one from the next page (which itself was modified from the one at the beginning of the chapter) and hit it with their lovely halftone plugin 🙂
Aftercare (2)
Last batch of pages for this chapter, yay! HUGS FOR EVERYEON!
Aftercare(1)
I was gonna spend a week doing some commissions but then I submitted this thing for an Ignatz and maybe I better, like, finish out this first arc before the judges look at it? That’d be nice.
There’s three more pages left before that happens!
Tot Up The P (4)
We’re getting close to the end of this chapter, and to the end of the first job! Once that’s done it’s probably gonna be time to do some more work on the website’s presentation of this thing, and maybe even try promoting it…
Tot Up The P (3)
It is totally normal for holographic clowns to pop out of your cleavage and evaluate your friends’ performance. Zaffo is probably enjoying this more than she really should.
Tot Up The P (2)
Tot Up The P (1)
Back to reality! Such as it is.