ICECUBES © 2014 — Classic ICECUBES the comic strip #031 – Animated!

Classic Animated Strip! #0013

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Leroy Brown

Here's a very early strip that was originally published in black and white. It was featured in the ICECUBES book 'Noise Is News' and was then colored. I remember struggling with the pencil and the inking on this strip, as it required a lot of detail and I was still pretty green at the time. I thought you might enjoy seeing the process animated! :)

2 thoughts on “Classic Animated Strip! #0013”

J.P. Keslensky
01/24/2017, 9:08 am
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This is really fun.
1. Leroy Brown
  
  01/24/2017, 4:27 pm
  
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  Thanks JP! That strip gave me some problems trying to fit everything in such a small space. Now I know why the old timers used to draw so big! 🙂

Still Sleeping…

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Leroy Brown

How am I ever going to wake them up? 🙂

Santa Says:

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Leroy Brown

Winter Is Here! :)

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Leroy Brown

Old Man Winter, Harpers 1868.

ICECUBES Kindle Volume 2 Cover!

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Leroy Brown

Here is the final cover! Volume 2 is 69 pages full of ICECUBES fun! Coming out THIS WEEK!!

The Cover.

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Leroy Brown

I’m putting the finishing touches on the cover. The countdown is on! Be sure to catch ICECUBES the comic strip Volume 2 as soon as it comes out!!

Ice Bag.

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Leroy Brown

I always enjoy the graphics on bags of ice. They are so funny sometimes. Here’s a good one! 🙂

Pencil sketches.

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Leroy Brown

Some pencil sketches for strip # 089. Featured in ICECUBES the comic strip Vol. 2 for the Kindle! Be on the lookout! 🙂

see the published strip here

Kindle Volume #2 Cover Art.

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Leroy Brown

Preliminary pencil sketch for the cover of Vol. 2 on the Kindle. It’s coming real soon! 🙂

ICECUBES the comic strip. Kindle Vol. 2!

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Leroy Brown

ICECUBES the comic strip Volume 2 on the Kindle is coming out real soon! Watch for the announcement on Facebook and Twitter! Get it first and show off to your friends! More than 60 pages of comics and art from your pals at ICECUBES. This will be the one everyone will want, so be on the lookout for ICECUBES the comic strip Volume 2 !

Color matters! Peanuts vs. McDonalds.

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Leroy Brown

It used to be that comics had really great colors. Big primary colors printed with halftone dots. A lot of the times the color dots were off register and would bleed outside the lines. That was so cool! In fact my wife and I agree that it made the comic better when the color was off register like that! Nowadays I’ve noticed that colors are no longer printed that way. In fact colors lay real flat on the page now and seem to look dull in some cases. For instance this Peanuts Sunday cartoon just looks flat and lifeless.

The colors are drab and dull. Its quite upsetting actually to see a once great comic strip like Peanuts reduced to looking second rate. Whoever colored this did an awful job. But that’s not the only problem. The colors are extremely flat and are perfectly within the lines, how deadening is that? Sometimes too much technology just kills something great. I did find something cool though. It seems that McDonalds still uses the old halftone print jobs on their Happy Meal bags! I think they look great by the way and so much more dynamic than that poor Peanuts strip. Good job McDonalds, I hope they keep it up!