ICECUBES the comic strip #200
ICECUBES the comic strip #200

ICECUBES the comic strip #200
ICECUBES the comic strip #200

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ICECUBES the comic strip. #0200
Posted on January 25, 2012 by Leroy Brown
Well here is #200 folks! Hooray for ICECUBES! :) I want to dedicate this ICECUBES strip #200 to my Grandfather who a long time ago told me that there were jobs in the world where people drew for a living. He was an engineer himself and did technical drawings professionally. I inherited some of his tools and used his ink dip compass to draw the sun in this strip. No computers, just real ink. Leroy Brown

12 thoughts on “ICECUBES the comic strip. #0200”

  1. Bearman

    Congrats on number 200!!

    1. Leroy Brown

      Thanks Bearman. Thanks for being a fan.

  2. Chris K

    Wow, way to go! That is a ton of comics. Congratulations!

    1. Leroy Brown

      Thank you Chris, thanks for reading. Be sure to subscribe, ICECUBES is probably going to be members only in the near future.

  3. Thomas Baehr

    Great milestone, Leroy. Congratulations on strip # 200!!!!

    1. Leroy Brown

      Thanks Thomas! 200 seems like a lot, but then sometimes I wonder, what only 200? It seems like a lot of work… Hope you are well 🙂

  4. Mazzy Star

    Yay Leroy. When are you going to compile all the individual strips into a book?

    1. Leroy Brown

      The book is coming, the book is coming! Announcement next week 🙂

  5. Mark Stokes

    Leroy, Congrats on your 200th strip! Your grandfather should be really proud! And what a vibrant and colorful strip you created for the occasion, appreciated much by yours truly even if not by the denizens of your strip!

    1. Leroy Brown

      Thanks so much Mark. And I really appreciate all the support and good wishes coming from your end. Definitely will be coming to see you one day soon! Cheers 🙂

  6. Michael Hawkins

    Congrats on reaching the big 2-0-0!

    1. Leroy Brown

      Thanks Michael! Really appreciate the congrats… seems like a lot of work, feels like it should be #2000!! ha ha! 🙂 Oh btw, love Jim Corn!

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BRACCOBALDO

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Leroy Brown
braccobaldo 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…

BRACCOBALDO

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Leroy Brown
braccobaldo 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…

BRACCOBALDO

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Leroy Brown
braccobaldo 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…

Hubig’s Pie.

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Leroy Brown
hubigs 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
Alistair 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.

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! ©ICECUBES

Good company.

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Leroy Brown
ICECUBES 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
ICECUBES 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.