Zorphbert and Fred

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90: City Excursion- new toy!

dgriff13

on Aug. 26, 2007

okay…. so, I'm trying new things, so the ride may be a bit bumpy for a while, peeps. This page isn't that great, I know, but it's presenting a new opportunity for our alien friends.

From what I gathered from the review of Z&F (in the forums– go see!), what the comic needs is better writing and more of a "zing" (but not swearing or adult content, still thinking "newspapers" here). Something fresh and exciting. And more color, preferably, ALL the time. So…

#1. I came up with this idea that would allow Z&F to get out of suburbia with ease (while the owners are at work of course)… just to add more flavor to the stories and open up more possibilities for punchlines, etc. Yay for teleportation. Hence the pimped-out dog house. We'll see where this take the comic. I'm sort of writing this as I go for now…

#2. I tried digitally inking this one in Illustrator. I usually use old-fashioned fountain pen and then scan and vectorize. Not sure if I like it yet, it looks a little different to me. Opinions? It may just take time for me to master my tablet pen. But I'm hoping in the end it'll save me enough time to COLOR every comic, not just use grayscale. This one took me FOREVER, though, as it was my first time digitally inking. arg!

Hopefully these changes will take Z&F from "pretty decent, but nothing special yet" to "something special".

P.S. Universal Press agrees Z&F is "nothing special"– got their rejection letter this weekend. King Features is the last one who has my submission, It's looking awfully dreary, guys. *sigh*