Thank you! You're doing awesome and this is an awesome instance, so no worries, brother!
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Yeah, I wanna see what one looks like.
It is now, cuz it's on the interwebs. Also the sidebar says: "General comics talk is encouraged too." But just for you, Imma change the comm name to "Cartoons and Comics," since I like talking about old time all kinds of comics and toons stuff. So thanks for pointing it out, brother!
Some education for the kiddos, via The Purple Claw comic of 1953. I wonder if we'll ever figure that space travel stuff out?
I knew that Bazooka Gum had it's own little comic, called Bazooka Joe.
I didn't realize that in the 1940's Tootsie Roll candies came up with the same idea for a comic mascot, Captain Tootsie!
He showed up starting in 1943 in comic-style ads, created around artist C.C. Beck (famous for Captain Marvel) and writer Rod Reed, with Pete Costanza and Bill Schreider credited as well.
The strips worked like mini adventure comics that just happened to sell candy. They were usually one-page, action-focused ads, and the sales pitch was simple: Tootsie Rolls meant a quick burst of energy when someone needed it. Captain Tootsie ran regularly for years, with sources commonly placing the run into the mid-1950s.
Early on he teamed up with a boy named Rollo, and the ads often used a kid gang called the Secret Legion, including kids like Fisty and Fatso, plus other recurring kids depending on the strip.
The stories kept things light and “kid-safe,” but Captain Tootsie still got his share of weird opponents. His enemies were characters like Dr. Narsty, Hans & Schmanz, Red the Terror, Monster Man, and even aliens from Venus. Oh the horror!
He graduated from “just an ad” to his own short comic run. Captain Tootsie headlined a two-issue comic book in 1950 published by Toby Press.
Good times. I may, or may not, bring him back to life in comics of my own. :)
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I get it. But we're all gonna make it, we just gotta keep going. The megacorps and duopoly want us to be discouraged and depressed. I'm just doing my part to spread some better vibes. Peace be with ya, brother. :)
No worries, brother. I appreciate you updating your comment, so ur awesome in my book.
But everyone going around saying stuff like that everytime something new is dropped, is making people less inclined to create original content for Lemmy.
Lemmy as the potential to be amazing and original and cutting edge, in art, lit, everything. But to do that, people have to be more accepting. IMHO. But I'm doing my part by creating and posting original content every day. And I hope others will as well. Not just to this community, but others too.
Then your sense of smell got 'rona'd. Plenty of documentation of my workflow and studio process: https://reddthat.com/post/58923858
And more: https://reddthat.com/post/58650560
Annndddd more: https://lemmy.world/comment/21579257
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I loved your comment, and hope others see it as well, because I agree with you. Kind words seem to be a rarity these days on Lemmy, which is ironic since many were hoping this would be a less toxic place than Reddit.
So thank you for your kind words.
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My entire "gimmick" is not about AI conspiracies. The Lemmy part is because I created this comic specifically as a Lemmy-only comic for my own community. The ai conspiracies is because it's a current subject everywhere.
I draw plenty of other comics about other subjects, my other art name is mr.prol1f1c and I have many comics posted from with name in my comics community: !Cartoons@reddthat.com
Also, how have I spammed? I post to my own community and one other comics community. I don't copy my comics to this community, another poster does. Please tell me how that counts as spamming.
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/58981387
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Pretty much like last one. Pencils, inks, rough idea on paper. Take pic w phone and open on Photopea. Adjust brightness, levels, clean up lines, and erase notes. Add text bubbles, resize, add text (lots of revisions with text), then resize, add frame, my stained paper cardboard layer, crop, export. I spend way more time in postwork mods in Photopea than I spent drawing the original image.
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Nah, homie, people gotta use snail mail and send a S.A.S.E.