These two cops were originally throwaway characters, but I changed my mind after deciding that there was too much comic potential in them to leave them in the box.
Archive for June, 2006
All the background graphics that I use are from Broderbund Print Shop and Clip Art. Again, I have outdoor scenes that require a lot of post-production with layering of backgrounds.
One of my bigger gripes about LEGO minifig scale is that their cars don’t allow for characters to sit side by side. They’re more like go-karts than automobiles. I like a little more realism, so I try to build vehicles[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of my regular readers suggested that I ought to use a different font for Stonewall to imply the resonant, gravelly voice I imagine he has. Most characters use the Comic Sans font in this strip. I switched him to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Outdoor scenes are hard to do convincingly if you don’t have enough of the right sort of LEGO pieces. I don’t, so I really try to minimize setting strips outdoors. It was during this week I discovered that.
Sometimes you just have to go for it with a visual gag and hope that it works. I think this one came together pretty well overall.
I experimented with some different methods of getting the screens to “glow” the way they ought to, but everything I tried looked really fake. Now, that’s not necessarily a bad thing when producing a webcomic with LEGO bricks, but I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I strive to keep this comic clean enough to let my kids read it. It’s PG for the most part with occasional PG-13 references. But they’re generally obtuse enough to go over younger kids’ heads.