Stripping by Flea
December 19th, 2008 4:43 AM / Location: 55.000462,-6.331214In Another Castle
A webcomic series using photography and a simplistic style Possibly to hide my inability to do actual drawing-based art.It updated every Tuesday and Thursday on my blog, moved to ComicGenesis, then moved to my site at Somesingawful and currently on indefinite hiatus.
The Comics
16/12/08 - #001 - Break-up18/12/08 - #002 - Star
23/12/08 - #003 - Hat
25/12/08 - #004 - Christmas
30/12/08 - #005 - Star 2
01/01/09 - #006 - '09
06/01/09 - #007 - Opportunity Knocks
08/01/09 - #008 - Droste
13/01/09 - #009 - Blacklight
15/01/09 - #010 - Break-Up Revisited
20/01/09 - #011 - Break-Up Abandoned and Left in a Ditch
22/01/09 - #012 - A Winner is You
27/01/09 - #013 - Communication
29/01/09 - #014 - The World of the Recent Future
03/02/09 - #015 - Steve
05/02/09 - #016 - Mail Call
10/02/09 - #017 - Untitled
12/02/09 - #018 - Dénouement
17/02/09 - #019 - Idea
19/02/09 - #020 - Idea 2
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What he said. But just this, on the interwebs, posted in regular intervals is praxis enough for me. We do need to see one (or more) more to tell if the intervals were regular. Get cracking.
Seasons greetings!
A festive edition of "In Another Castle" has gone live!
OK, was that the candlelight dinner in ikea task?
I was wondering where I stole the idea from.
It wasn't intentional, if that makes lawyers feel better...
Opportunity Knocks made me laugh out loud!
Episode 20 has gone live.
And I'm amazed I made it this far?
Ripped straight from my Blog, with some minor changes:
Anyways, let's talk about the actual comic, eh? I admit that I had no real idea where it was going when I started off. Heck, I didn't really have an idea throughout! A few of the strips I thought of, took pictures for, and made within about an hour. A few of them were very obviously lazy as well, namely The New Years one and the Blacklight one. It started as something which, admittedly, was an A Softer World ripoff.Because I don't think enough praxis have a "this is over" message, and I just wanted to get my thoughts about this out there.
That's not to say I didn't like the comic. Looking back, I like seeing the comic evolve as it goes on. I preferred the less morbid tone of the later comics, and I attribute this directly to the introduction of Steve. I think a secondary main character gave the comic a bit more focus and made for better characterisation blah blah blah. Screw the literary bullshit, I liked the duck. I thought it was funny. I liked the idea of a guy and a rubber duck having conversations about stuff with no real consequence. It worked for me, and I'd rank those last six (YES I'M STILL COUNTING THE ONE THAT DOESN'T ACTUALLY EXIST) strips as my favourite strips.
So it was refreshing to be working my (little used) creativity... mechanisms (?), and I'm quite pleased I managed to stick at it for two-and-a-half months. I don't think I'll be looking at it again any time soon though. I've got too much "life-stuff" to sort out at the moment...
...but it was good while it lasted, right?
Flea, you made me laugh out loud at least three times across those comics. Yours are the first comics I've ever properly laughed out loud at. Consider yourself the proud owner of the internet.
Put 'em somewhere non-internet, and I'll give you full marks.