sharkyandsmiles asked: Hi there Mod! I wanted to ask if it's okay to use samples of your TPOH and duck comics to teach my high school kids how comics tell stories? I can't think of any better candidate to introduce them to the wide wirld of storytelling outside of the prescribed books they've come to hate.
Anonymous asked: Uncle mod! I was wondering if you could help me find a comic! It's called "A date with munchkin" where magica disguises herself as daisy and goes on a date with Donald, but ends up falling for him(like a gal for Gladstone lol). I've tried but I couldn't find it. Knowing your detective skills for things like this, I'm hoping you can. Please and thank you!!!
Incidentally this comic/scan also contains another one of my fav Don Rosa stories- the Last Sled to Dawson, and a really cool ‘what if’ kind of comic by Lars Jensen and Marco Rota; What Goes Around, so consider reading those too!
So I have folks asking about my process/what I count as a doodle comic a fair bit, and the answer is it kind of changes? mostly I guess doodle comics are a) fan comics of some sort and b) not ‘finished’ finished they usually have scribbly bgs or structure lines left in them. Mostly my drawing process is like above- a loose silhouette or line sketch, then some blocking in and refinement, complicated objects/establishing shots, and then line art last if I can be bothered ahaha um.
Generally I do thumbnails for all the pages and then work the dialogue over it, which I usually have a vague idea for but I always change it and try to streamline it as I go; I’m more visually driven, so I almost always start with image and then move on to the words. Sometimes (like the bottom image here) there are panels that I want to get down on the paper/screen before they melt out of my brain, so I just start and let the energy bubble out while it’s there.
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I know some of you might scoff at this and go “so what, I hate bees” or “I’m deathly allergic”. Well, my mother and brother are both severely allergic to bees, and guess what? My father is a bee-farmer. They still get by splendidly and help out with the work. As long as you’re careful, there is no problem with bees. The fact remains, if we didn’t have bees, we wouldn’t have vegetables or greens or any plants. And with no plants, animals can’t survive, and in the end, we will sit here, with no ways of sustaining life.
I don’t care how silly I sound, this is very important to me.
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