Commentary: I like having word balloons break the panel borders. I don’t do that enough. I have a bad habit of drawing all of the characters from the front, even when they should be shown from the side. This makes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: I’m pretty sure Cyan is telling Red he smells bad, but I don’t know why. Maybe he’s saying “smell you later?” Feel free to come up with your own interpretations. Just like you can imagine what the written dialogue[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: Cyan speaks in pictures. Sometimes these pictures are more literal, and sometimes they are metaphorical or idiomatic. Here here is saying something along the lines of “good morning” and “what’s shaking?”. This was well before I decided I would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: Check out those fancy special effects. The other dimension isn’t very well defined, but since the other world is a big white void at this point no reason to not make the other one a big black void. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: This short adventure is the first real foray into a continuing connected storyline that spans multiple pages. This would later become the main style of the comic, but at this point I don’t think I actually had any plan.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: Yellow is a bully. He spends a lot of time making Green feel bad for no real reason. He just enjoys what happens when he interferes with Green’s life. He rarely goes out of his way to hassle him,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: Green must have been standing around for quite a while. It’s a good thing Purple has such a large face, because it’s difficult to show expressions using body language when all he has are two feet that are difficult[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: Speaking of off model, look at the speaker in the last panel. These guys are playing music on a turntable because cassettes haven’t been invented in Grumbletown yet. The level of technology varies wildly around the world, and even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: Yellow’s still spreading gossip. Man, there is something wonky going on with the line art here. It’s usually rough and the characters are never on-model, but this one is a little rougher than usual. I don’t know why I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: Plus he’s got HYPNO-EYES. Purple is just a weird, big thing that shows up every once in a while. He’s friendlier than the fish, but he is still more a recurring character than the main protagonists. But after they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…