Slow and steady.

I was out of town on various forms of vacation, and while I had my pad with me, never found the time to draw, hence the lack of updates.  Thanks to a generous gift from a marvelous and wonderful elf, I am now stocked with my favorite markers, and this pleases me to no end.  I’m working on a recording which will take up much of my time in the next month or two, so while I enjoy updated Rounders twice a week, once a week will likely be all I can manage.

I think I’ve created a comic about dudes (and occasionally a woman) in tight shirts who like to yell at one another.  What a logline!

Very soon we’ll be moving beyond the walls of the stadium.  That should be fun.

Goodness this one took a long time to finish… and looking at it, I’m not sure why. Sometimes I just temporarily lose the feel for processes that should be routine, like lifting a soup spoon or piloting an apache attack helicopter. I need my pigma pens!

It’s been a hectic week of saving old films, not to mention birthday parties and trying to finish a home-recorded album.  Throw in two panels with crowd scenes in what was supposed to be today’s comic, and it’s recipe for delay.  Monday it is… read the archives if you haven’t already!

All the art supply stores seem to have simultaneously stopped carrying my favorite inking marker, the Pigma Graphic 1.0 millimeter.  They’ve all still got the microns, but the 1.0 lets you go fine or thick… sometimes both with one stroke!  Hence, today’s was inked with a 0.5mm Micron and some Staedtler where the ink runs and size is defined roughly as Medium.  Still, I’m happy with how this one came out… though, as usual, I wonder if certain things aren’t confusing.  Panel two is Chipper opening his eyes to the crack of the bat making contact, but it could easily be read as his eyes making that sound, however absurd that would be.  And then there is the gray area of ’soaking’.  If you glance over episode No. 0 (Rulebook, Found), you’d know that in this imaginary league, you can get someone out by pelting them with the ball.  But until that is clarified dramatically in the next episode, you might think Jimmy Pelikan just got strange and vengeful for no reason.  Chipper’s instructions to just ‘throw it in’ as well are somewhat vague… after all, isn’t that what Jimmy does, in a sense?  But he’s really telling him to throw it to Audrey Kimble at Center Stake, and not try and do something nigh impossible.  Maybe I’ll change that text.  Any thoughts?