Grant Thomas Online

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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Grant Thomas Online


I'm pretty sure this is my first attempt at drawing a character with a neck-beard.

Here we see Agatho putting a stone in his mouth to remind him to keep quiet.  My guess is that he put a pebble in his mouth, but since comics are a visual medium, I changed the pebble into a brick-like rock.  It's funnier to look at and also gives a nod to George Herriman's Krazy Kat strips.
Sometimes I use a digital version of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies to help with writer's block.  To me, they're kind of like secular Tarot Cards.

In this particular story, they worked themselves in as a plot element.  I'm hoping it makes it into this spring's Dodo Comics #3.



 I really stink at drawing interiors, so I got a decorating book out from the library and made a few sketches.
 
I'm starting to post some animation lesson plans for elementary school age students.  The first one about Flip-O-Ramas is up now.
 
If you missed the introductory Podcast Video, you can find it here.

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Dodo Comics #2

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More black and white short stories collected into one little zine.

Includes an Homage to Serge Leone, a story about eccentric life drawing models, a comics pantoum and further adventures of the Desert Fathers.


$3.00 + 1.00 shipping
 

My Life in Records #1

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My Life in Records is relaunching!  This newest issue contains a remastered and reworked version of the very first My Life in Records story, plus two new "B Side" stories that are only available in the print version of the comic.

$6.50

 

Dodo Comics #1

Dodo Comics #1

A collection of shorter comics previously seen on Graphic Poems, plus a few unseen abstract comics and one brand new story.

$3.00