Zombie-Spit

Aftermath – Page 24

jim — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 04:42:43 +0000

Been a while. Here’s a comic. Enjoy. Hopefully there’ll be more.

Kneebar Follow-up – Page 23

jim — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:09:09 +0000

It’s been a while, I know… but at least there’s a new comic up, huh?

This particular comic is a bit of a departure from my previous work. In the past, I’ve worked almost exclusively on a wacom cintiq monitor (not that beauty in the link there though… Mine’s about 5 years old.) There are a lot of benefits to working digitally on a cintiq, but the one negative is that it’s not even remotely portable, so to work on comics, I have to be home, at the cintiq. In this comic, only the two panels in the top right were done on a cintiq. The other panels were all done on my new ipad. The obvious advantage to working on an ipad being that I can take it anywhere and work on my comic at any time with no mess what so ever. I’m hoping that as I familiarize myself with this new tool and experiment with different workflows, it’ll help me speed up my production schedule at least a little bit, so I can finish this thing before I die.

Only time will tell though.

Shovel Toss – Page 22

jim — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:15:20 +0000

Trying to draw zombies getting jiu jitsu-ed is hard. Hopefully it’s semi-clear what’s happening.

False Start – Page 21

jim — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:45:48 +0000

DUDES, I STILL MAKE COMICS. Here’s one now!

In keeping with the silent post-apocalyptic zombie action, here’s another wordless page. Our hero has fallen, our damsel is in distress (sort of) and the zombies keep coming. In keeping with my tradition of drawing some real gear into this comic as I’d previously mentioned in an interview on the excellent ‘all things zombie’ site Romero Brooks, I’ve included another piece of serious gear, the Cold Steel Special Forces Shovel. This sucker has been on my shopping list for a while now, and I might need to pick it up once I start going camping again.

It’s Go Time – Page 20

jim — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:09:27 +0000

Dispatching Zombies with golf clubs. YUP.

ART SHOW

jim — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:40:25 +0000

If you’re in Milwaukee this saturday, you probably need to hit up Milwaukee Harley Davidson for the Screwed, Stewed, and Tattooed Art Show. I will be in this art show. It will be cool. GO THERE.

It’s Go Time – Page 19

jim — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:47:44 +0000

Zombies attack! Our Protagonists scopes the scene, and improvises some weaponry. I thought I’d go a little more ‘digital painting’ on this one – still trying new things, which probably won’t change any time soon.

So DUMB – Page 18

jim — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:47:53 +0000

It’s kinda funny… In an effort to speed up my page production, I decided to simplify the art a bit. Unfortunately, as always, when I started messing with the art direction, I kept messing with it. In this particular page, I did away with all the detail of the previous page, hoping to simplify the character designs, thus decreasing the amount of time spent drawing. Then I decided I wanted to paint the backgrounds…

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Unsurprisingly, I ended up spending more time testing out methods of digital painting, and more time messing with options for rendering things, thus losing any advantage gained by simplifying the drawing process. OH WELL. Expect things to continue to evolve, and thank you for your patience.

Internal Struggle, Externalized – Page 17

jim — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:52:30 +0000

DIALOG. The first dialog in a zombie-spit page, and the tightest drawing I’ve done on a page thus far. IT TAKES FOREVER. I think I’m gonna simplify things a bit for future pages so I can eventually get my production speed up to the point that I can consistently make multiple posts a week. Regardless [...]

Page 16 – Wake-up Call

jim — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:09:29 +0000

Alright, another new character and a lot of drawing going into that establishing shot in the last panel. If I’m honest, I put too much detail into it. Oh well, it happens sometimes.