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Episode 4.132 - Space Pig Clocks In

th3rdworld

on May 18, 2008

Whoops! Hope you'll forgive me for posting this a day early, but Ozoneocean surprised me and posted my big news today, linking it to the SuperFogeys! So…here goes!

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HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!!

Debuting today: TALL TALE FEATURES!

I've joined what I'm referring to as a "cartoonist collective" called Tall Tale Features. Today is opening day (which makes me a charter member, natch) and I hope you'll all head on over and check it out.

Tall Tale Features is a group of professionally minded cartoonists who have banded together to say "Hey, quality webcomics found here!" (Look, I'm gonna level with your guys here. I'm the novice of the group. I don't know how I got an invite. Everyone else at Tall Tale is either syndicated or making actual money at this thing. Shh! Don't tell them I slipped by.)

So who's a part of this illustrious group? Role Call!

� Lucas Turnbloom of Imagine This
� Brian Anderson of Dog Eat Doug
� Dave Reddick of Legend of Bill
� Mike Witmer of Pinkerton
� Scott Metzger of Stewart
� Brock Heasley of The SuperFogeys

Yeah, that's some serious talent up there. Head on over to TALL TALE FEATURES to find links to each one and check 'em out. Quality stuff!

What else can Tall Tale offer you? Glad you asked. On the main page you're going to find a frequently updated blog filled with news about your favorite comics, pop culture musings and whatever else we feel like talking about. It's also your source for the latest news on all the Tall Tale comics.

Getting into the site a bit more, you'll find bios of each of the creators on Tall Tale and a link to "TTF Radio" a podcast that will be starting up shortly, hosted by Tom Racine and featuring the Tall Tale crew on a rotational basis.

But the heart and soul of Tall Tale Features has got the be the FORUM. There you'll find separate forums for all your favorite Tall Tale webcomics, along with other forums for discussing nonsense, movies, etc….and a place to plug your work.

Like I said, Tall Tale officially kicks off today so now's a great time to get in there, register on the forums and start being a part of things. We expect big things ahead and hope you'll be there.

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A while back I posted a strip in which I talked about my writing process. Well, in looking at this strip I found that it had an interesting artistic evolution and I think you might like to see it.



With the script finalized, the above is what I originally drew for this strip. I was determined to shake up the camera angles and not just have a repeated shot for every panel (a disease which plagues nearly all of Chapter 1).

But I knew it was no good. The pacing just isn't great and, well, it's kind of gross. So, I did some digital trickery and turned it into this:



Now I had another problem. I had packed the panels with too much "information." With a bit of help form the guys at Th3rd World, I realized that, for the sake of design and clarity, I had to delete all those lines of noise I was trying pass off as backgrounds and also scale back the black lines on the upper elements of panels to allow the word balloons to pop better.

I think you'll agree that the final result in the above strip is the superior, funnier version. At least, I hope you do!

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So, since I'm posting today there will be no new strip tomorrow. Look for our regular shedule to resume on Thursday.

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Also, a bunch of new pieces have been added to the SuperFogeys Fan Art Page since last Thursday, including one from my own daughter!