Monday, April 8

Comics Jam

My sincerest apologies for taking forever to post. Mea culpa.

To make up for it, today you get not one, but THREE comics. Of which I drew a third. So in total I drew one comic, but I drew panels in three different comics. It's confusing, but you'll see what I'm talking about in a minute.

The comics jam (or whatever you want to call it) was part of the first meeting of a comics-drawing collective I started in order to coerce me into drawing more. Our first meeting had 3 members, but after seeing these amazing comics, we're going to have more people at our next meeting. I know it.

Each of us started a 9-panel comic and assigned a rule to the comic. We had 3 minutes to draw our panel then had to switch comics after time expired. As a result, each member drew 3 panels in each of the comics.


"Fill in the Middle" by Dan Duncan, Shane Hosea & Erika Schnatz
Dan started this one. He drew the first panel, Shane drew the third panel, and I had to draw the panel in the middle. It got really crazy really fast. Notice how the truck becomes anthropomorphic halfway through the comic!

"Everybody Dies by the End" by Shane Hosea, Erika Schnatz & Dan Duncan


Shane's rule for this comic was that everyone needed to die by the end. As you see, it didn't take long for us to start killing off characters. Shane drew the 1st panels, I drew the middle panels, and Dan drew the 3rd panels. The Shark Transformer is a stupid idea/theme song I made up in the shower earlier that day. I'm glad it was incorporated into the comic.

"Backwardz Comix!!! (Gay Penguins)" by Erika Schnatz, Dan Duncan & Shane Hosea
I started this comic, and we drew this story backwards. I love this story so much. I drew the 3rd panels, Dan drew the center panels, and Shane drew the 1st panels. We had to pause drawing for a minute or two because I couldn't stop laughing after the "Timothy! Look at my new magic trick" panel.

I can't wait to do this again. It was crazy fun.