Road Crew Comic

Hey Guys,

There will be no page tomorrow as i got caught up on “real world” stuff this week. I had a couple of personal things and work related things to do, and time got the better of me. I also have to spend some time formatting “NOTHING’S SHOCKING” and FOR SALE#2 in time to get it to the printers and that takes awhile. Anyway to make up for it here’s a picture of my new Nephew Davy!

Tommie and Davy

Simply Clcik on the link, download and open the file in the comic reader of your choice. Also you’ll need the Old style Red and Green Glasses for it to work!

http://su.pr/6INueV

Hullo Tommie,

I enjoyed both Electric Ladyland and For Sale. Some sequences/pages of the former – that no doubt worked well in serial form online – seem superfluous in the context of the book’s desired narrative fluidity. Mostly though, the set-up/pay-off rhythm of the online instalment model just about manages a symbiotic cohesion in book-form, particularly in chapter one where there’s a greater sense of story momentum/direction than in the whimsy-buffeted chapters that follow. Electric Landlady’s not nearly as satisfying as For Sale, though.

For Sale’s pamphlet-focused telling and rhythm provide a more immersing read, and as a story with an emotional centre and a conceit that adds a layered complexity, For Sale’s aspirations alone are enough to intrigue. The tone is quite sober, for here both author and character have left behind any fantasies of a gaff tape panacea – the author for the more serious – albeit fantasy-based again, I feel – panacea offered by magick; the character for god-know-what. It’s an interesting dichotomy, if a dichotomy it be: a passive character to whom things happen, now utilised by an aggressive author/creator to realise his agenda, but by means which would seem pretty passive to regular folk.

Years back I listened to Grant Morrisson’s address to Disinfocon2000, which outlined the strategy that you’re employing to achieve your desires, Tommie. Ha! It’s seductive stuff, all right; but I think I’ll stick with an Anais Nin quote that lodged in my brain and daily sears into my thoughts: ‘Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage’.

Looking forward to reading how you get on, mind! Oh, and the Downright Bockedy advert turned out great – can’t believe how good my lettering looks!

John Robbins
www.blackshapes.com/comics.htm

Here’s something new for you guys. i have been learning how to do comis in 3D today and I thought I would post some of my efforts. They’re very basic but as I said, I’ve only started today so I’m new to the skill. Let me know what you think. Maybe it’s the future of webcomics! :p

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