“WE” DID IT! We got through chapter three! On Wednesday and Thursday there will be two bonus pages and on Friday the cover will be posted. Regular updates resume on the 18th of February. The end is in sight! Of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This comic was done EXTRA BIG to see if it was a thing I could handle. It winds up that NO it is not. I made a few weird mistakes that I wouldn’t usually make. That said, I think the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the 100th page I’ve published on Pilotside.us! It’s also the last page of Issue/Chapter 3! I’m so thankful at the opportunity to even be able to do comics. Everything just came together at the right time to let[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I probably should post these FIRST, huh? Usually I do them last so that they look the nicest. For those curious about my process, this is a piece of the line art from the cover shrunk down by half. If[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had to take a break for a week to think of what the title for this chapter should be called. Raccoon puns can be a tricky deal!
Maybe I’m drawing him wrong, but Flip is the easiest character to get almost right, and the hardest character to get exactly right.
SPAM COMMENTS I HATE YOU SO MUCH. If the purpose of spambots is to make it seem like having comments turned on on your comic is a bad idea, they’re pretty close to doing their job. I suddenly started getting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Whoa! Getting back into the swing of this was more difficult than I thought it would be! I decided to take a break to recharge but I wonder if it really did me any good the way I wanted it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How Spry and Scum know each other will be disclosed eventually.
I rewrite my comic up until I publish it and this is a page that had changes made to it as recently as two hours before posting it.
Apparently ruffage can be spelled both “ruffage” and “roughage” That reminds me, I’m supposed to be advertising “Rough Age” the sequel to “Dragon Age.” It’s medieval fantasy, only you’re just a serf who toils forever until you die at age[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nothing kids today love more than a Belle and Sebastian reference.
I’ve been so hungry I was willing to hijack a flying machine too! I don’t usually do this, but Monday’s page is so complicated (for me) that I had to post the roughs because they’ve been driving me batty.
I put this in the comic because I feel like this all the time. Right now I’m trying a new approach that’s putting me a few days ahead, but when I finish the comic and it hasn’t all been posted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When working ahead, I always forget to post the actual finished pages. Maybe I’ll get better about this eventually?
A little story about WHY this comic has a parody of Small Pony Amigo Magico: When I was originally writing this nearly five years ago, my future fiancee sent me an episode of the 80s cartoon. The horses were all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve never seen anything quite as aerodynamic as those wings! How about you?
Oddly enough, the repercussion of having these comics done early is posting them later!
It’s a wing pack, Spry, not a perpetual motion machine. (or is it?)
Similar situations to this probably happen a lot if you’re friends with Spry
I know people who can write while listening to music or watching television. They can’t stand silence or not to have some outside influence also acting upon them. I am most certainly not that way. When I write I need[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That pun is barely readable. But I stand by it.
It pays to know when your friends are going to chicken out on you. Generally throwing yourself off a roof in a thunderstorm is one of those times.
Thanks for joining me for another week of comics!
I’m working a little bit ahead on my comic, and today I finished drawing this book! It’s actually not that far out from being all posted, really. I’m really only a month ahead of schedule, but that gives me plenty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My! What a sassy fellow this Scum is!
Up until this page Scum does not know a single person at the zoo’s actual name. When he introduced himself to Spry, Flip and Lori he did not bother letting them introduce themselves. This is wholly unintentional but feels like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
APRIL FOOLS here’s a new comic. APRIL FOOLS I hope you like it. I actually had my comic planned out a different way to go with April Fools, but it would have made readers VERY SERIOUSLY ANGRY so I didn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I hope you enjoyed this chapter! SOON the climactic finale of Spry Adventure Comics book 1 begins! CATCH THE FEVER!!!
Sorry if this comic looks a little sloppy. I’m trying something new. Since, as of now, I’m not doing a bonus page for the next chapter, this is effectively the last page I made of this book! Thursday will have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My fiancee did this issue’s cover! She loves me enough to draw a cover for me, but not enough to draw my entire comic for me while I sit on the couch playing wrestling video games. Her blog is here![…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am excited about sharing THE THRILLING CLIMAX of Spry Adventure Comics with you over the next 4 weeks!
This full color stuff ended up not being quite as time intensive as I thought, but I still personally prefer comics that use less.
I’m working on THE NEXT COMIC that’s going to be published after this book, and it’s so, so weird. The comic itself kind of, not working on SPRY ADVENTURE COMICS mostly. I guess it’s worth thinking about that my next[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s just jumping off of a roof! Tons of people do it by accident every year. Statistically speaking, not many of them end up flying afterwards.
The sun is setting in this comic, as it is on another week of updates! I hope you enjoyed this full colored week of updates (It was full color because the sun was still up)
Super sorry guys.
This chapter’s title is Pig Icarus and I thought that it could have been a spoiler, so I the tag for this is chapter 5. I guess it’s also me finally settling on whether they’re “Chapters” or “issues” ALSO the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m watching The Pebble and The Penguin right now. It’s awful.
Everything is going to be OK. In a while. Not now. Things are kind of weird now.
Once Spry Adventure Comics is done, I will be going back to either 3 or 4 updates a week. When I’m really far ahead like I am now, 5 updates a week is no problem, but when I’m doing a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Slowly shaping the next comic for you! I hope to be able to keep a schedule, but if I have to take off a week you’ll forgive me, right?! OH GOD PLEASE FORGIVE ME
I’ve been yelled at after getting hurt by my own hand by people. So I guess this comes from a true place.
The drawing board is a good place to be. I spend about 8 hours a day there.
The middle two panels are my favorite joke in the comic.
THE EPILOGUE (kind of). GUYS, this is the LAST WEEK for new pages for Spry Adventure Comics for a while! I have a few bits and baubles planned for May before I show you the next comic! I am bewildered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Originally there was a lot of snow coming out when Flip opened the door, but I actually had no idea how to draw it, and since the rain at the end of last chapter came out kind of bad, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This last panel was very difficult to layout. It’s kind of what I wanted.
Today I finished the cover for this issue, and I think it’s REALLY COOL, but you’re welcome to disagree! (on Monday when I post it.)
And then they all sat down and read. Thank you so much for reading my first graphic novel! I really mean that. It seriously means the world to me. I have a lot more comics coming up soon, including a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Should have posted this last Monday, but I had a bunch of freelance that I should have done a while ago, and I figured it was the perfect time to take a break! We’re going down to four updates a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
OK, pardon some possible growing pains as my comic is getting a format change. Besides being in ~*color*~ this new chapter is also in a different format. Hopefully the images won’t be too stretched or garbled and you will be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NOTE: Flies seem to actually be attracted to honey and vinegar. At least in my experience. I mean, the saying might come from that, but I figured that flies just didn’t like vinegar at all. That said, you seem to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
But seriously cracking your knuckles is rude. And I’m not just saying that because I am physically incapable of doing it.
Don’t be too excited about what he’s going to admit. You already know what happened. If not this comic is about to become INCREDIBLY confusing.
REMINDER: Despite what Scum told him to calm him down, Spry did almost die jumping off of that roof.
OK, I have had like six people need what happened in the graphic novel explained to them, and I realize it’s because I didn’t frame the scene of Scum dropping the hammer in an intellegent way. Luckily I have a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Technical babble: Every time I write a draft I change stuff. I do several drafts, usually three in just the writing stage, and then I letter my comic with the script. While I’m drawing and coloring my comic, if I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have a real fear of being mutilated and no one noticing.
If you ever get hired for a freelance art gig, if it is a long running operation and you show the bare minimum of professional courtesy your client will usually be really impressed.
I changed up how I’m drawing the comic on this page but hopefully it’s entirely imperceptible to you, the reader?
I’ve never seen that kind of meat in real life, but Higgins from Adventure Island eats it off the ground so it MUST be good.
That ruby was 20 years old in 1992.
Don’t ask anyone out this way. I explain it a little more in the next page, but I think I should just reiterate now, in case you were planning on using my comics for romantic advice.
This is advice that seems obvious to most people, but I really wish someone would have told it to me when I was 13. Getting up the nerve to ask someone out is difficult but if you don’t want to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Whenever my wife isn’t home I forget to update my comic, so blame her, not me.
It’s really easy to have a comedy story where someone breaks into a place without making a joke about the first Mission Impossible movie, but you’d never know that from watching cartoons. I mean, it’s been over a decade, it’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Of course Scum is really good at breaking into the Pilotside Municipal Trust: It has the cleanest bathrooms in town.
Though we must applaud your consistency.
This comic has been a real bear to complete, which I was not expecting. Either/or I hope you are enjoying it. Not every comic is going to have the protagonist being beaten or mutilated. I do think the next two[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I accidentally forgot to post a page last week, but I’m going to post the extra page next week because I think it will work better that way. You’ll see why, don’t worry.
I am SO bad at updating on Fridays that let’s just all agree that I should start updating on Thursdays instead.
My Yiynova MSP19 crapped out on me after it had been struggling to turn on for about two months. They’re repairing it free of charge even though the warranty ran out a couple weeks ago, so that’s nice. I’m just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was having a computer kerfuffle last night that led me to not posting this! SORRY!
I was going to post these pages last week but did you know it was Christmas time? I’ll be updating 4 times next week to pay off forgetting to post once a couple weeks ago. My New Year’s Resolution for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Welcome to the most words I can ever justify putting on a single page of comics
It’s negative 50 degrees outside today and I’ve definitely heard these kinds of noises.
All the best exclamations have a hard I sound in them.
And that’s another comic! I really hope you enjoyed it. I’ll be back the 20th to start COSMIC FRACAS, the first story that doesn’t take place in Pilotside proper. It’s a sci fi serial, and I’m going to guess that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m sorry I haven’t posted anything in the last month and didn’t bother informing you it was going to happen or why it was going to happen. My wife and I are going to be moving across the country shortly,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry about the hiatus – I was moving and settling in. I’m now in southern United States, a place I never, ever thought I’d live.
I’m moving into a two update a week schedule (the T-days) until I have a much larger buffer than I have now (currently 0 pages)
I’m allowed to make a The Beatles reference sometimes if I feel like it, get off my back.
Probably found that weight set in the garbage.
Heh-geh-geh-geh
