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ICECUBES the comic strip #308

Posted on June 30, 2022 by Leroy Brown

Wow! Ok guys, I know it has been a long time between ICECUBES #307 and #308. This strip has been sitting on my drawing table for a month and I apologize. The reason is simple. I have paying work that I need to do before I can spend time drawing ICECUBES, that's it really. I would love for ICECUBES to generate some income so I could spend time on the strip without feeling like I am taking my eye off the ball. Hey, times are tight for everybody. One thing you can do to support ICECUBES is to click on the ads and it's free! If you have Adblocker on, turn it off for this page and click you some ads! That way ICECUBES can collect some pennies and I can spend more time at my drawing table.

Comic strip blocking.

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Leroy Brown

‘Blocking’ just means blocking out how the action gets laid out on the page. In this case I was trying to work out the way Peckinpaw tripped and fell by making the gesture and movement read well in the limited amount of space of the 13″ x 4″ strip. Some artists call this the storyboarding stage. It’s real important to do this before you start drawing the real strip or else you will be erasing and restarting a lot. I always try to avoid a lot of erasing because it can introduce smudges that are hard to get rid of. It can also mess up the surface of the paper making it harder to ink. You can see click on the final published strip here.