| Page 104 |
[Jun. 27th, 2008|10:39 pm] |
I've been doing the comic, just not posting here for some reason. You should catch up!
Also I had a comic run on the Guest Strip Project last week. It's about a hard ass animal tamer who carries a soft spot in his heart. Really he just hates himself a whole lot. I was going off of this previous comic. |
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| PAGE 100!!! |
[May. 30th, 2008|01:08 pm] |
That's some sort of milestone I guess. Well alright.
If you haven't read the recent stuff go ahead! |
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| Shi Long Pang pg. 95 |
[May. 3rd, 2008|09:11 pm] |
Back on track.
How do you think that top text is working? Is it too weird? Can you infer that it might have been said at that moment by Head Abbot? |
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| A strip? |
[Apr. 15th, 2008|12:26 am] |
Here is what I did instead of doing a page of the ongoing story because time is short during these April weeks. I like how it turned out. Pang is fun to draw as a lad, all chunky and stuff, doing his name justice. I might do another for this week. It's hard to be even slightly funny though.
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| Page 94! Almost! |
[Mar. 28th, 2008|06:15 pm] |
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That's it. Three panels. Maybe I'll do better next time. Maybe not. Really though, I have this thing called a thesis I need to work on. Some of Shi Long Pang will be included. But mostly in the next two weeks I gotta write about a struggling pro wrestler and his brain-damaged brother. Perhaps one day I'll share this story with the world. |
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| Cloaca Maxima |
[Mar. 8th, 2008|08:17 pm] |
So, there's no new page of Shi Long Pang this week. A first! I am partly saddened.
BUT, I still have comics, EIGHT PAGES of comics. This is half of a sixteen pager called Cloaca Maxima: A Tween Pregnancy Story. I'm experimenting with halftones. It is fun.
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| Page 91 |
[Feb. 29th, 2008|11:31 pm] |
Maybe you need to be reminded. Was all that obvious? The spies and stuff?
The end of this year-long flashback is within arm's reach. I can smell it. Also, I'm annoyed with that door. |
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| page 88 |
[Feb. 10th, 2008|01:30 am] |
I have a question. Do you think it feels more right if this dying monk at the bottom speaks to Jian and Pang? I originally wrote him as speaking, condemning them as deserters, but decided otherwise. Judge my instincts. |
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| Page 86! |
[Jan. 26th, 2008|12:40 pm] |
That smarts. That's this dude by the way. Shi Li. One of the few at the temple with a beard. He was a good dude. |
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| Page 85 all the way live. |
[Jan. 19th, 2008|02:50 pm] |
Honestly, I don't know what Qing flag signals might have actually looked like. But that's the sort of thing that's really hard to find out; if I ever do, I'll go ahead and change it.
And hey! I'm now a member of Transplant Comics. So there is a Shi Long Pang forum that needs some attention because there's nothing worse than an empty one of those things. |
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| Page Eighty Two! |
[Dec. 29th, 2007|01:14 pm] |
PAGE 82
I made a promise to do an extra page for the holiday season. So look for that one at some point.
I'm wondering what I'm gonna do for the second printed book. The first one is forty pages and I'm already beyond another forty, but it's not a very good place to stop. Nor was it the case for the first book--I never wanted to have the fortieth page be the last page but I was getting it ready for APE and had no time; there was at least some kind of cliffhangery part.
I'm hoping I can end Pang's flashback stuff in twenty pages and thusly print those sixty-ish pages in one book? That would be okay...I guess. Is that too many pages? But I've let everything run longer than intended every time with this story so far. |
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| Page Eighty |
[Dec. 16th, 2007|04:51 pm] |
This page took a while. I just decided to draw it directly in Photoshop rather than pencil little people running around. I started out thinking that I'd try to get to 100 figures, but I think it's well over that. I don't want to count. As I mentioned before I guess, Usagi Yojimbo was going to be a definite influence on this page, but also Chinese paintings turned out to help more, where the perspective is kind of weird and the figures are basically the same size until they get to the very top of the picture.
The last month or so I've been posting pages late on Friday, on Saturday last week, and today Sunday. I'm going to try my best to not do this. It'll be much easier to get back into it having a break from school! |
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| KOOM! |
[Dec. 1st, 2007|10:25 pm] |
Here is page 78.
I've been putting off a full page splash of a bigger picture of this Qing army, and battle. It was originally scripted as page 78. Either way it's probably necessary, but it's tough work and I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to approach it (probably going to be one of those far away bird's eye view angles that Stan Sakai pulls out in Usagi every now and then, where it's like watching the big scale fight scene in Enter the Dragon).
This stretch of story is probably when I'll feel it the most that I wish I could update more often than once a week. I'm not sure how satisfying the next pages are going to be for people. |
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| Page Seventy Six! |
[Nov. 16th, 2007|11:10 pm] |
Action!
Panels 3-6 are pretty tame in terms of their angles, but I wanted to show some Shaolin stances, and Pang plainly working his cane.
If anyone cares, the rifles these guys are using, at least the soldiers skulking in the trees, are wheellock rifles, rather than matchlock, which I think were more common and easy to produce. They're shorter. Earlier when Pang is running away from soldiers, those guys have matchlocks, which have wicks that need to be lit in order to fire. The problem with those was that they apparently snuffed out pretty easily in rain or moist air. And well, Eight Herbs Mountain is hellsa moist, so that wouldn't do. Plus, the burning of the matchlocks gives off a particular pungeant smell, and that probably would have given off their location. The wheellocks have a little mechanism that self-ignites. |
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| Page 75 |
[Nov. 10th, 2007|10:33 am] |
Here it is.
It took me longer than I wanted it to and thus it was posted pretty late yesterday. I ended up redrawing some panels. At first, I had Pang sliding down the rope ladder, which would probably be nearly impossible, and would undoubtedly cause severe rope burns, or like, slice off his hands (although he was protecting them with his sleeves); but I went so far as inking like four panels of this crap when I realized that it was sort of pointless (also pretty hard to render).
I was needlessly hung up on the question of how he would climb down in a fast enough of way to not slow the pace up even more. I don't know--sometimes I have to bend my mind to realize that certain things don't need to be shown. Anyway, I decided to use that thing where the character is progressively doing an action in the same panel, so there are multiple Pangs jumping around. And he'll be fighting in the next page, which I'm happy about. Kinda funny it took 75 pages to see a Shaolin monk fight. |
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[Nov. 2nd, 2007|06:52 pm] |
Page Seventy Four here. More arrows leading the eye around the page. I keep doing it. It's funNER. This time it probably would've been better to have the "last" panel be in the normal bottom right position. Or maybe all the color in your peripheral vision just titillates you and it's a good thing. You decide!
Also, here's most of a painting I did, sort of Halloween related in a way. It's Zhong Kui the Demon Queller fighting some Jiang Shi (these zombie like dudes who get around solely by hopping--really inconvenient).
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| read and VOTE |
[Oct. 26th, 2007|11:51 am] |
Today's new page is up.
Action is happening in like...one page.
If you haven't voted for Shi Long Pang in Webcomic Idol, I'd love for you to do it. And send the link to all your friends too, because I'll probably get cut at the end of the round if you don't. *Kills self*
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| Vote for Shi Long Pang in Webcomic Idol |
[Oct. 22nd, 2007|10:59 am] |
Hey, Shi Long Pang is a finalist in Webcomic Idol out of 100 other comics that submitted! I would appreciate and love you if you went and voted for me.
The bottom five comics are getting cut after this week, and right now I'm in the bottom five.
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| Yesterday's New Page |
[Oct. 13th, 2007|09:06 am] |
Number 71
Things are sort of heating up in the comic, in terms of action, I guess. I know, I've been saying that for a while. But it's imminent now. Fighting and stuff. I was busy with writing short stories the past few weeks, and doing art projects; but I think I'm ready to do this. I hope the comic hasn't suffered too much in the meantime.
Last week I went to Zine Fest in SF for a day, courtesy of Matt Jent and Amy Martin letting me borrow some table space. It was nice; sold a few copies. I have about 20 left, which someone on Earth should get off my hands.
Also, James Turner of Beaver and Steve linked me. Beaver and Steve is an awesome comic. Thanks, man! |
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[Sep. 28th, 2007|03:29 pm] |
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Some readers have mysteriously been commenting on the utterance of "West" in last week's page. It wasn't intentionally a reference to Journey to the West; I guess I'm not that cool, dudes. The sign just says west! And Pang's going to follow it, which becomes more apparent in Page 69!!! These are directions to follow to get somewhere. Sometimes I feel like I'm not following some natural story progression when people respond to something I wasn't necessarily thinking about as pivotal. It's happened a couple times. |
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