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Money Doe$n't $tink (page 2)

Fitz

on Nov. 26, 2007

As you might have noticed, the page got here a liiittle later than usual. Oh well, didn't hear anyone complain ;) Anyway, try as I might, I didn't manage to get it done by Sunday. Worked all last week, all weekend, dawn till latenight hours, no leisure time, no tv… Managed to stay up till 2am on Sunday night, but it still took me 6 hours today to finish the page. Talk about devoted, huh? What can I say, I love my comic :) And now that the new page is here - let's drink and rejoice ;)

I wanted this one to be more artsy. Don't worry, Mick & Ryan will be back - but meanwhile, I wanted to try out a bunch of ideas and tricks. I like the smoke effects, especially in the panel to the left. But my favorites are, ex aequo, the hand and the New Beetle. And I love it how, while googling various images, I just kept stumbling upon things letting me make use of the red-green palette - like the NYC parking ticket (since that's what it is, btw). And the shoes. Actually, the shoes have multiple meanings here and refer to the conversation and the whole story on several levels. LOL that sounded odd… But it's true! This page is just STUFFED with all kinds of allusions and minutiae - some of which were inteded, some I only discovered when re-reading the story. Enjoy fishing them out, if you can be bothered :)

In other news: Mick and Ryan made a cameo on AntComics' 50th page:

http://www.drunkduck.com/Antcomics/index.php?p=312959

The page has plenty of cameos, so you'll have to scroll down to find them among the many familiar faces. But I have to say, Amy's done an AMAZING job there. Seriously, she drew them better than I ever could. So yeah, if I'm ever lazy, I could ask her to draw the comic for me and be sure it's gonna rock :)

But it doesn't look like l will have time to be lazy. Not anytime, soon at least.

This week is writing week. I seriously need to sit down and get to work on the book. If it keeps inching on forward like so far, I won't be done with it by the end of this decade. And there are so many others waiting to be written! Also, I'll be co-working on a group project called Heroes Unite:

http://www.drunkduck.com/Heroes_Unite/

It's a DD superhero crossover, started and written by Nepath, the author of Energize, with several artists drawing several pages each. I've been accepted as a colorist for the second issue of Heroes Unite, for which I'll be coloring pages drawn by my friend Abt Nihil. And just today, Nepath e-mailed me asking if I wouldn't like to do some coloring for Spudsy's upcoming pages in the current issue. It's not 100% yet, but I'm excited, anyway :D