Although I do not post here often, it does continue to be the hub for my work. Facebook is where I do most of my socializing and sharing, but here is where I go to archive the really important stuff to peruse later.

Also, some of my oldest and closest online friends still poke around here, and I can occasionally confide in them things that I would not share with other social media sites. LiveJournal remains the most secure method to do this, partly because of its growing obscurity.

Anything that you can see below is yours to read! Comment, and I will be notified.

Thank you.

click to visit larger image First panel of Stuck in Jam From Grass Dog Studio

Well, I don’t think I’ll be finishing my first page of Stuck in Jam by lunch today, or even by Sunday, as I have suggested. It is possible, but I do have another art project that is more urgent. However, I am moving along at a respectable clip, and the above panel is a sample of the mostly finished work (it has a few things I need to adjust in the street).

A couple weeks ago, I asked my Facebook friends if they knew of any examples of a sunrise illustrated with just pen and ink. I didn’t get any explicit examples of that, but one friend linked me to the work of an artist named James Artimus Owen who uses pen and ink to show the play of light upon a scene. This scene is the result of me studying his work to remind myself how to do this sort of thing.

In the mean time, this is an excellent opportunity to subscribe to the mailing list in order to read the comic when it comes out!

I had some technical hick-ups earlier this week regarding my domain names and whether or not Word Press would let anyone log in or register. That is all fixed now. So everything is in working order.

This entry has been crossposted from Drawing Contraption. You may comment here or there, it's all the same!

click to visit larger image This is not a hamburger. From Grass Dog Studio

This entry has been crossposted from Drawing Contraption. You may comment here or there, it's all the same!

A marble. Any marble. But, the best are ball bearings, actually. They are easy to get, and work with most of my other toys: Legos, blocks, etc. But, the best thing about a marble is that all you really need to have fun with it is paper, tape and a pair of scissors.

Making the perfect marble machine was probably the most important endeavor of my entire childhood. I'm not entirely sure why I haven't been working on this goal lately, in fact.

I would create a diabolical device that could resurrect... newspapers! MUWAH-HAHAHA!!! And I'd show those fools by being in EVERY HEADLINE!

And here is a portrait of the author of my new comic:

click to visit larger image Fenmere having a coffee From Grass Dog Studio

The next thing I post, barring emergencies or PSAs, will be the first page of the comic itself! Which you must subscribe to in order to read.

This entry has been crossposted from Drawing Contraption. You may comment here or there, it's all the same!

If you want to follow my new comic when it starts, you’ll have to receive it via email. However, because of this, I’ve set up email subscriptions for my entire blog!

So, if you’d like to receive my blog posts either on the hour, or in digest form daily or weekly, in your email, you can!

First, register for an account on my WordPress Blog, and then, go to your profile page:

http://grassdogstudio.com/blog/wp-admin/profile.php

There you will find “Email Updates” settings for “Stuck in Jam” and “Uncategorized”. Stuck in Jam is my new comic. Uncategorized is the rest of the blog!

Or, you can go to the Subscribe to Stuck In Jam page and sign up via Mail Chimp (comic only), if you prefer:

http://grassdogstudio.com/blog/?page_id=620

Enjoy!

This entry has been crossposted from Drawing Contraption. You may comment here or there, it's all the same!

In preparation for my new comic, I did some practice yesterday, trying to nail down the look of Jonathan, the ‘Hamster:

click to visit larger image Jonathan, the Hamster From Grass Dog Studio

Historically, Jonathan is in charge of distributing the little colored hand bills that Harmless Free Radicals used to be print on. When the Whatcom Independent Newspaper picked up the comic, he became the front man, accepting checks in his name and basically running the whole business, leaving only the writing and drawing to Fenmere. But even then, he kept trying to get his paws into the act as editor ‘n chief of the comic itself, if for no other reason than to try to catch the spelling errors before they hit the web, let alone the newspaper!

Even though the comic has been on hiatus for several years, Jonathan has kept himself busy by hosting a small group of independent cartoonists in his home town of Bellingham, WA, called the B.S. of Comics.

This entry has been crossposted from Drawing Contraption. You may comment here or there, it's all the same!

If you’d like to follow my new comic as I start to produce it, you’ll have to subscribe to my new email list:

http://grassdogstudio.com/blog/?page_id=620

But, all you will get, if you subscribe to this list, is the comic! NOTHING ELSE!

Well, the first couple of emails will be test mailings, to make sure it works. So you’ll have to bare with me through that. But, after that, it’s probably best to sign up early so that you don’t miss a page! Though, there should be an archive built on MailChimp’s site as we go… More on that as I learn about it.

Enjoy!

This entry has been crossposted from Drawing Contraption. You may comment here or there, it's all the same!

So, did this at lunch today. This is what’s brewing. I’ve scripted 10 pages so far. I might just stick to pencil, maybe.

click to visit larger image Quick Title Page From Grass Dog Studio

From right to left: Brian and Dakota’s son (still unnamed), Sally Cephalophoria Robertson (Ian and Brenna’s Daughter), and Carl P. Robertson (Ian and Brenna’s adopted son).

It’s a sequel to Harmless Free Radicals, set 0.278 miles north of Fairport, in Jam, WA.

Oh, and my arm still hurts occasionally, and my thumb still goes numb sometimes… but drawing doesn’t set them off!

If I make this comic, it will not have a schedule. And it most likely won’t have a webpage. Stay tuned for how to start reading it.

This entry has been crossposted from Drawing Contraption. You may comment here or there, it's all the same!