It’s time again for a holiday special. I decided to put it up already, as today is time for a regular update but there is just one day till Christmas. I will be away for the holidays so next update will be in Janyary.
I wish you all happy holidays and year 2009!
Sakke
p.s. Lutefisk is traditional dish for christmas in Scandinavia and I hear in Minnesota too. It’s an aquired taste…
Scetch for an alien character
I hope you’ll forgive me for missing today’s update; today’s my birthday after all!
Last week was hopefully the last one that I was away on business. As a result I have only pencilled the next page. So I decided to give you this sketch for a furry alien character and even that is incomplete. I’m planning for him to appear in chapter 6.
So I am back again. Unfortunately I am also down with a cold. I have one more page of the Fairy left. After that I will start with SpaceBoiz again.
Looking at my calendar I realised my work will require a lot more travel than usual. This may mean less regular updaes in the near future as well.
My vacation is starting in couple of weeks and I honestly feel like a break from drawing comics. Since I haven’t managed to create enough of a buffer to get past that I have decided to use a short story I have ready as filler for this summer. Last weeks page feels like a nice cliff-hanger to leave SpaceBoiz for a while.
I came up with the story idea while reading old Ed Jenkins stories by erle Stanley Gardner last summer. The character of Ernest Blame a.k.a. The Fairy is a gay version of many heroes like Ed Jenkins or Simon Templar.
I decided to challenge myself to tell the story in just eight pages. My inspiration for that were Spirit stories by Will Eisner, but I didn’t quite manage with six pages. Finally the story has been lying on my hard drive as line art when I couldn’t decide if I should do it in colour or greyscale. But for me the 1930’s is black and white movies so that sealed that.