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Backgrounds!

by David M Willis on October 26, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Blog

Indiana University denizens should recognize today’s strip’s setting as the northern sidewalk of Third Street.  Here’s an image of the first panel as I’m starting to put characters onto the background.

Man, Google Maps Street View is a lifesaver.

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Amazi-girl!

by David M Willis on October 25, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Blog

Here’s Amazi-Girl’s “model sheet.”  This is all she wears, so there aren’t any alternate outfits to show you.  Well, okay, maybe eventually she’ll get some arctic gear or Tiger Force deco, but we’ll save that for later.

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Man, I need to hire some illegal immigrants.

by David M Willis on October 23, 2010 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Blog
Jessica is very excited about the prototype hat
Jessica’s prototype along with some sort of written warning.

Sewing is women’s work! Why am I doing it??? I have a penis!
WHY WON’T THE MACHINE WORK???

STUPID BOBBIN YOU ARE SO DUMB I HATE YOU
Finished the first hat, trying it out. It works!

└ Tags: hat, merch
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Amazi-girl’s reveal: Director’s cut! Sort of.

by David M Willis on October 22, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Blog

Originally Thursday and Friday’s strips were combined into a single four-panel strip.  But after finishing it, and realizing this was how I was ending my Thursday, leaving me with no idea how to cap the week off with a Friday, I decided to go a different direction.  I drew some extra panels and expanded the one strip into two, prolonging the doubt as to the vigilante’s identity, plus providing a few extra beats for Danny’s reaction.  I think it reads a lot better!  Plus we got that extra day of people trying to hammer out whether this was Sal or Amazi-Girl or, uh, Faz.

Definitely glad I got that last panel of Danny in there at the end.  It wouldn’t have supported a Friday strip all by itself!  My retooling gave me the timing I really wanted.

Anyway, this strip is the last one in the first Dumbing of Age storyline.  Monday starts “Uphill from Here,” featuring everyone’s first day at classes.  Fans of my older work might yet see even more familiar faces.

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Prototype!

by David M Willis on October 20, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Blog

Okay, you guys don’t get any more guesses as to what the arts and crafts junk is for.

This is a hand-sewn prototype of the Dina Dino Hat.  Our roommate Jessica’s sewing machine cord went missing, and since she felt so guilty about that putting a damper on our grand late-night hat-making plans, she put our prototype parts together the slow way.  It definitely wouldn’t hold together very long, but it holds together long enough to take a photo and show it off.

I’m thinking on the real one, I make the teeth a little more cutesy and less dagger-like.

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Joyce is absolutely totally straight and just wants to hang out with her best friend, who happens to be another lady. This is normal behavior and a normal biblical quote to use that has no other context. GAL PALS
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joyce walks down an aisle
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A lot of songs are lowkey about being horny
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OK, I said I was going to a thread of receipts together on the guy who runs Kapow, in odder to explain why I personally would recommend not giving him your business at TFN. Starting with the original post, revealing the guy loves sharing right wing fascist stuff on LinkedIn.
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Since you might think it's weird you got a like on this over a year after the fact, the director of Kapow just shared this on LinkedIn; i.imgur.com/hqQYWgO.png
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This is the best review I've ever gotten on my clothes. They will make you hot and popular. Find em at rosalarian.com/shop
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Bold new hero Steve Lombard
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another one of those "this food is delicious and i would absolutely eat all of it, but i have very little appetite" days
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Transformers Cyberworld is up on YouTube. For a short show to sell toys to kids, they did a good job with it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLVh...
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www.instagram.com/p/DMAtlXHsyrO/ Took this as a challenge
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finally done it, created a strip that defies instagram more than any strip ever before
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not that giant of an axe actually a pretty modestly-sized axe
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joyce walks down an aisle
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tfw you have things to do
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yep James Gunn made a Superman film
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Happy 8th anniversary to just tweeting it out
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so i got photos of the makeship dina plushie proto and honestly it looks 100% perfect except sidebar the hood can pull off the head, like a real hoodie which is something i didn't even consider should i leave that as an option, or tell them to sew the hood to the top of the head
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let me tell you about this head i got
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LOOK OUT GUYS!!! ELMO'S IN LEX LUTHOR COLORS!!!!!
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And then there were four
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daylight
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okay let's go see how many extra tricerahoodie dina magnets i gotta order for kickstarter add-ons A HUNDRED AND THIRTY???
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Ahh, the elusive Yacht Brother
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"for example, both olive and i are dedicated to negging women into dating wilbur"
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tomorrow's strip, up early on patreon, is pretty big...
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trying to figure out why i have these weird shoulder pains these last few days am i dying is it indigestion am i sleeping wrong no it turns out i just have terrible fucking posture when i paint things
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steak loft
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I now better understand many of Dorothy's choices as a character
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