ICECUBES ©2016

ICECUBES ©2016
ICECUBES the comic strip #287

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ICECUBES the comic strip. #0287
Posted on March 23, 2016 by Leroy Brown
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Changes.

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Leroy Brown
testscreen-buttons Take a look at what the ICECUBES website used to look like! This snapshot was taken years ago and shows just how far we’ve come. This year we are going to make even more changes so hang in there while we do some renovating! 🙂

Out With The Old…

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Leroy Brown
ICECUBES the comic strip - Peckinpaw the polar bear. I thought you might enjoy a very early sketch of Peckinpaw done several years ago when I was just coming up with the look for the denizens of ICECUBES. He sure looks different nowadays! That’s the theme this year: a new look and plenty of new things to look at! There is a lot more coming up in the next few weeks so keep on checking out your favorite cool comic! 😉 Leroy Brown

Year In Review!

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Leroy Brown
Well, here we are again at the beginning of a brand new year! 2014 holds some great surprises for ICECUBES fans and we’ll continue building on what we did in 2013! ICECUBES the comic strip - year in review 2013 A quick look back on the past year will reveal some pretty neat ICECUBES facts:
* ICECUBES is regularly syndicated in print in the Kingwood Monthly newspaper. I also created and edit a full monthly comics page featuring other guest artists including Mark Stokes of Zombie Boy, David Wilborn of Urban Jungle, Michael Hawkins with Jim Corn, Lonnie Easterling with Spudcomics and Kim Belding with PicPak.
* ICECUBES was featured at the awesome Comiculture Symposium at the University of Houston in Clear Lake. I participated in a live panel with James Barr creator of The Crow and ICECUBES comic art was displayed in the University art gallery.
* ICECUBES the book is in 5 comic book stores all across the country!
* The first ICECUBES comic book is almost completely sold out. (some artist editions left)
* I started work on a book of my earlier more ‘underground’ strips called Atomik Comix. A zine preview was created for Houston Zine Fest and is still available for $1 + shipping.
* ICECUBES was submitted to some of the larger newspaper syndicates.
* More original art was sold at conventions and online. There is more original art up for sale, click here!
* ICECUBES premiered 2 animated comics! Woohoo! More to come.
* Finally, a big surprise is coming in the next few weeks… so stay tuned!
Show your support for ICECUBES by purchasing one of the remaining numbered artist editions of the book.
Thanks for reading ICECUBES! 🙂 Leroy Brown

Artist Edition.

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Leroy Brown
ICECUBES the comic strip - book Limited Numbered Artist Edition. Here are the numbers that I still have: 54/ 55/ 57/ 58/ 59/ 170/ 173/ 176/ 177/ 178/ 181/ 183/ 184/ 186/ 192/ 195/ 196/ 197/ 198/ Very few left, hand numbered, bagged & boarded, individually personalized. No shipping until January 1st.
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Bo Lumpkin Our Friend.

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Leroy Brown
Bo Lumpkin was probably ICECUBES’ biggest fan. For a couple of years now he faithfully read ICECUBES and always commented on the strips. Often his comment would be the only one the strip would get. Even during lean times when it seemed all the other readers had disappeared, I could always count on Bo. I loved Bo’s comments. They were always funny, clever and most of all supportive. I remember one time when I felt the strip was being completely ignored and the web stats were down in the low single digits, there it was: a comment from Bo! I replied to his comment: “Hey Bo, knew I could count on you! 🙂 I’m hearing crickets otherwise… I think the internet generation is miffed ;)” and Bo replied this: “Crickets might be a good idea. No one seems to be bittin’ the other bait I keep throwin’ out.” Classic Bo! At times I can honestly say that his comments were the only thing that kept me motivated. So for that, I can only say: “Thanks Bo! :)” Leroy Brown ps: as proof of how good a friend Bo was to us webcomic artists, here’s a short list of other tributes: Life On 66 Bug Pudding Bearman Cartoons My Life In The Trenches The Joy Of Stephen

Holiday Special!

Posted on December 19, 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
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Talking Balloons and Blue Lines!

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Leroy Brown
Recently I did a strip that required a lot of talking balloons in one single panel. I had to plan it out so that it could be read and understood properly and that there would be room for the characters as well. It took some fussing around and I ended up scoring the entire height of the panel with blue lines! ICECUBES the comic strip 220 pencils Since I don’t use a computer for lettering, once I place something I have to commit to it. In the past cartoonists would often blue line their whole strip and I’ve seen Lil Abner strips that were scored from top to bottom regardless of how much text there was! This was often done by an assistant. In my case I was surprised to get to that point where I actually had to do it for practical purposes. Pretty neat! You can see the inked panel here. ICECUBES the comic strip 220 ink I was pretty happy with the end result, especially in the last panel where I had to use some white paint for the snow effects! ICECUBES the comic strip 220 panel b
You can own this strip if you’d like! I am making it available with *free shipping* to anywhere in the US and Canada, and only $10 shipping overseas. I will gladly sign it and personalize it for you as well! **SOLD**
Read the final published strip *here*. Thanks for visiting! 🙂

Busy behind the scenes!

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Leroy Brown
ICECUBES comic zines and more Hello ICECUBES friends! Here are some of the things ICECUBES has been involved in ‘offline’ recently. In September I participated in the ComiCulture symposium at the University of Houston Clear Lake along with artists like James O’Barr (The Crow). October was time for the Houston Zine Fest. I even published a special ‘zine’ for the occasion: Atomik Comix.This contains never before published underground stuff I’ve done over the years put together for this little zine as a prologue to a full blown Atomik Comix book I am secretly working on… More to come. All this while going to conventions to promote the book and continuing to publish the comics page for my local news paper with contributions from Zombie Boy, Urban Jungle, Spudcomics, The Amaizing Jim Corn and PicPak! *phew!* 🙂 Leroy Brown

ICECUBES featured at University of Houston Comiculture symposium!

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Leroy Brown
Comiculture Icecubes Hey folks, ICECUBES is going to be part of a ‘cool’ comics symposium at the University of Houston – Clear Lake tomorrow September 21. If you are in the area it should be a great event to attend. There will be talks about comic art and writing as well as an art show and movie screening. Check out the flyer and mark the date. Comiculture Icecubes You can get more info here: www.comiculture.org Special thanks to Terry Wagner of Mental Diversions and Jeffrey Bowen, Art Gallery director at UHCL.