Thursday, November 24, 2022

Captain Stratosphere

I made an IG post, but I guess this should go here as well... social media has gotten so confusing.

The November Strip has been completed, just in time for the holiday weekend!

Read the whole thing in flip-book version here.

As it turned out, it wasn't an eight-hour comic after all... here's the disclaimer from the last page:

As Captain Stratosphere and team fly off (to the left, for the first time in this comic), I would like to take a moment to (a) thank you for reading this and (b) explain its origin. A few of us in the SAW online cartooning community did not feel up to a 24-Hour Comics Day,  so we had our own 8-Hour Comics Day. In the first four hours, I laid out the roughs for this strip and planned on finishing it that day. But as I started inking, I realized that to really capture an homage to Dick Calkins – his combination of sparse backgrounds, fussy detail, and weird hatching – I needed more time than that. So, I completed a whole ‘nother comic in the last four hours of the day, and gave myself time to really work on this one.  I am still not sure just how successful it was, but it sure was fun.
Have a great Spacegiving!

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