Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Abandoned Comic: Soul Banana

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So, I was going to do a comic series called "The Soul Banana Show." It was to feature a semi-anthropomorphic banana with an afro as a talk show host, his fez-wearing helper monkeys (because he has no arms), and his sidekick, the kid superhero, Impossible Girl. I drew the images above, but never got around to coming up with a plot that would make use of them. All I knew was that the comic would mostly take place outside of the talk show. I gave up on the comic when I realized that having a character with certain racial stereotypes might not be such a great idea, especially with me being a white guy. Some other white guys may or may not have successfully pulled it off with Afrodisiac, but that's just not the direction I want to go in. I mean, I never intended for the comic to explore racial issues at all, so why have racial stereotypes? I may resurrect elements of this comic with a different character in place of Soul Banana.

As for the images themselves, they weren't quite done. I was trying to figure out whether I should add color, grayscale shading, or black shading (like crosshatching). I never decided, and so the images look like something out of a coloring book.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

More Abandoned Comics

Along the lines of my previous post, here's an old, old comic that I abandoned after drawing just 1 and a half panels.


Here's one that's nearly finished, but I mothballed it because wow it's bad. Click to enlarge.


And finally, here's one I didn't think was too bad, but it didn't interest me enough for me to finish it. Click to enlarge.


I'll likely find more if I dig around in my old files. Stay tuned.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Abandoned and Unfinished Comics

I haven't updated UltraCrispy.com in quite awhile. I guess I've been too busy procrastinating, hating my job, and scrapping several comics. Check out the results of my wasted efforts below.

This is me. Hahahaha...

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