ICECUBES in Japanese!

Posted on October 6, 2025 by Leroy Brown

Dear friends, I recently went on a surprise trip to Japan. It has to be said that Japan is the land of comics and cartoons, except they call them manga and anime. Did you know that manga and anime are one of Japan's biggest exports? It's amazing to see all the billboards, signs, TV shows and even subways full of cartoons and cartoon characters. To celebrate our great visit to Japan, I made an ICECUBES strip in Japanese! Accordingly, it is read from right to left and from top to bottom.

Mini contest!

The first person to translate this strip in the comments below will get a free download of ICECUBES vol. 2 in pdf format. Leave the comment right here:

7 thoughts on “ICECUBES in Japanese!”

Owen wooff
10/07/2025, 7:06 am
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Peckinpaw: “It’s difficult!”
Freeze: “please draw it!”
1. Leroy Brown
  
  10/07/2025, 8:59 am
  
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  Congrats, you did it! Although it reads right to left, so Freeze first says: “Draw please!” and then Peckinpaw says “It’s difficult!”. Freeze is trying to get Peckinpaw out of his slump and wants him to draw another comic strip. We’ll see if he does… In the meantime you just won a free digital download of ICECUBES Vol. 2!
2. Leroy Brown
  
  10/08/2025, 10:27 am
  
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  The link was sent to the email you provided when commenting. Thank you for being an ICECUBES reader!
  
  Owen wooff
  
  10/11/2025, 8:53 am
  
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  The link didn’t work
  
  Leroy Brown
  
  10/12/2025, 10:34 am
  
  Hi Owen, I sent you a new link.
J.P. Keslensky
10/08/2025, 2:20 pm
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Very glad you had a wonderful trip to Japan. Very exciting. Love to hear more about your visit.
1. Leroy Brown
  
  10/09/2025, 10:24 am
  
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  Thank you so much! I’ll make a post about it. It was quite the adventure.

The New Book is Here!! ICECUBES Vol. 3!

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Leroy Brown

Big news everyone. ICECUBES Vol. 3 “The Stuff of Dreams” is finally out! A brand new ICECUBES comic book. Jumbo Issue 40 full pages of awesome ICECUBES comic strips. 6.6″x10.4″ classic comic book size, perfect for your collection. You can even get yours signed by Leroy Brown. Order them now to get them as fast as possible. The first print run is a limited edition of only 100*. Beautiful painted cover, inside pages in full colorama!

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ICECUBES at your local comic book store! Coming soon!

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Leroy Brown

It’s always neat to find ICECUBES Vol.2 in the past issues drawers at comic book stores. Guess what? ICECUBES Vol.3 is coming out soon!

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Why I don’t like markers…

Posted on August 28, 2025 by Leroy Brown

They always run out of ink!

ICECUBES in French!

Posted on August 6, 2025 by Leroy Brown

Recently, I sent an ICECUBES story to a French language comics magazine called “Spirou”.
Spirou Magazine featuring the Smurfs.
Spirou is a classic cultural stalwart of European comics dating since before WWII. The magazine is perhaps most well known for premiering the world famous “SMURFS” along with other cherished European comics like “Lucky Luke” and “Gaston Lagaffe”. Spirou had an open call contest for a four page short story and I submitted an ICECUBES comic. While they did not select it to be published, it’s still fun to see the ICECUBES characters speaking French! You can download the entire story here, it makes for a good French lesson! >>

ICECUBES 303 French small — ICECUBES in French

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Posted on July 10, 2025 by Leroy Brown

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Russel Harvey interviews Jud Hurd – Classic Cartoon History

Posted on July 2, 2025 by Leroy Brown

Here’s a really interesting historical interview on the topic of newspaper syndicated comics from an insider’s perspective. From Peanuts to Lil’ Abner, Family Circus and Prince Valiant, this was the golden age of newspaper comics.

Jud Hurd (1913 – September 14, 2005) was a syndicated newspaper cartoonist. His work included Ticker Toons and Health Capsules (United Feature Syndicate) for which he was awarded the National Cartoonist Society Special Features Award in 1978. For 36 years he continuously published and edited the quarterly magazine Cartoonist Profiles. Beginning with its premier issue in the winter of 1969 and ending 36 years later with issue 146 in June 2005. The magazine was a great insider source for professional syndicated cartoonists.

Russel Harvey is the son of Alfred Harvey, the founder of world famous Harvey Comics. With titles like Richie Rich, Dot Polka and Casper the Friendly Ghost, Harvey Comics was a staple of family friendly comics and cartoons for decades. Russel is himself a cartoonist, writer and standup comedian. He is a long time supporter and fan of ICECUBES and has graciously allowed me to post this video.

I asked AI about ICECUBES.

Posted on June 3, 2025 by Leroy Brown

Yes, there is a comic strip called “ICECUBES.” It is a newspaper-style, family-friendly comic strip and webcomic created by Leroy Brown. The strip features an ensemble of Arctic characters, including Peckinpaw the polar bear, Freeze the penguin, Eggman the walrus, and Nooky the Innupiaq Eskimo, who engage in humorous and often insightful cultural commentary from their icy perch atop the world. The comic is hand-drawn in the classic style of 20th-century newspaper strips, using nibs, brushes, and India ink on paper. It has been published for over 15 years (since 2009) and is available to read online at www.icecubescomic.com, where new updates are posted daily. The site offers over 200 pages of comics and blogs, and readers can access classic strips and behind-the-scenes content by becoming subscribers for $1 a month. Additionally, two volumes of collected strips, “ICECUBES Vol. 1: Noise Is News!” and “ICECUBES Vol. 2: THE i’S HAVE IT!,” are available in limited quantities through Chateau Books or as Kindle ebooks. Source: Grok AI

Fan Art!

Posted on April 17, 2025 by Leroy Brown

Hey everybody, look at this great drawing of Peckinpaw sent in by Mason! Mason wants to become a cartoonist too and has been practicing. He is getting really good. Thanks Mason and keep drawing!