Classic Christmas Comic!

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Leroy Brown

Ok dear friends, as promised here is the *fantastic holiday special* on ICECUBES the Book! From now until January 1st 2014 *free shipping* on all book purchases (USA & Canada only and just $10 overseas for up to 2 books)!! That's right, every book comes with free shipping so you only pay $15 for a regular copy or $20 for the numbered artist edition! I only have 19 numbered edition books left! (I'll be glad to email you the numbers, just shoot me an email at icecubescomic(at)yahoo(dot)com.) I will sign and personalize every book, no exceptions! :) Artist Numbered Edition! (they come bagged & boarded) Additionally, with every purchase of a numbered edition I'll include a super special limited edition copy of AtomikComix! This little zine was made for Houston Zine Fest and is the prelude for a book of my early underground comics. These were $5 each at Zine Fest and you can get one for free with your purchase of a numbered edition ICECUBES book! Hurry and get your books, the first printing of ICECUBES the Book is just about all gone! I just want to take this opportunity to say a big *thank you* to everyone who continues to support ICECUBES and helps to keep this strip alive! You make it all happen! More great things to come in 2014! Merry Christmas everyone and have a wonderful New Year 2014! :)

Leroy Brown

BRACCOBALDO

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Leroy Brown

Check out this 1967 cover for an Italian comic book featuring Hanna Barbera cartoons. Great colors! This little book has Yogi, The Flintstones, Top Cat, Wally Gator and my favorite: Huckleberry Hound -which is the one they call ‘Braccobaldo’. Other great name translations are ‘Joe Ronzino’ for Quick Draw McGraw and ‘Trottolino’ for Top Cat! Of course copyright belongs to Hanna Barbera or whoever owns it all now…

You know you’re in New Orleans when… Just spent a week there. It was fun and also a lot of work doing my day job 🙂 I love the print job on this wrapper. I so wish I could print my comics this way, they would look so cool!

ICECUBES by Alistair!

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Leroy Brown

Look at this great fan art I got from Alistair! Oh boy, looks like I’m going to have some serious competition in a few years! 🙂 What a good drawing. There’s Freeze, Peckinpaw and Nooky. I love it. Thanks so much! Send your fan art to: icecubescomic(at)yahoo.com.

ICECUBES Cool Color Comics!

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Leroy Brown

ICECUBES the comic strip is now in full glorious color! I’m happy to bring you every strip in color using the most advanced digital chromatic high-tech electronic automatic coloring robotic process available today! All this for your reading pleasure and as a big thanks for being an ICECUBES fan! 🙂 Leroy Brown

How ICECUBES Gets Drawn.

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Leroy Brown

(click to make image larger) Here’s a quick look at how an ‘ICECUBES’ strip gets drawn. 1. Here the panel sizes have been determined and the loose ‘blocking’ sketches go in. Note that the drawings are very ‘gestural’ here, to get maximum movement and life into the drawings. 2. The text grid lines are drawn. Although I usually do this first, in this case I felt like putting the characters in place before the text because I had a good feel for what I wanted them to look like. Note: I had already done preliminary sketches before blocking out my characters. 3. The copy is written out and any spacing problems are worked out. The speech balloons are drawn and sometimes adjusted for a better read. Note: some details have been added to the drawings. For example Peckinpaw’s eyes in panel 3 have been moved up and his face is more round. 4. Now that I know where the text goes and the speech balloons fit I first do a preliminary erasing, then a redraw with bolder pencil lines. I use a 2B or 3B pencil to make the final pencil lines before I ink with a metal nib. I start my inking by doing the letters first. Note: before I ink I do another erase so that my pencil lines are very faint. Check out the published comic here!

Gear.

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Leroy Brown

Most definitely low tech! One advantage: it stills works even when the power goes out. 🙂

Good company.

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Leroy Brown

In this picture ICECUBES is definitely in good company! Although the comparison is clearly unfair… for them. 🙂 I just thought it was interesting to see how the first ICECUBES book was published compared to their first books. Lucky you, unlike those other hard to find books, ICECUBES the comic strip Vol. 1 is still available! So why don’t you get your very own copy of the first ICECUBES book? Available exclusively on the Amazon Kindle. Just go to Amazon.com and type ICECUBES, or simply click here. You can also download it to your iPhone and PC! Great news, the second book ICECUBES the comic strip Vol. 2 is coming out soon!

Dirty Job?

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Leroy Brown

It’s a messy job, but somebody’s got to do it! In this photo you can see some of the pitfalls of dealing with real ink and unruly metal nibs while trying desperately to meet deadline! Big splotches and smears, nothing like it to make you just want to run for the woods! Fortunately some easy Photoshoping was able to save the day… 🙂 Click here for the published comic.

ICECUBES the chocolates.

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Leroy Brown

Look what I got for Christmas! A chocolat Eggman and Peckinpaw are trapped in these boxes… They’re so cute, I couldn’t possible eat them! 🙂