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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Posted on December 25, 2021 by Leroy Brown
ICECUBES Christmas Original Art Dear Wonderful ICECUBES Fans! I decided to create a special Christmas Comic Strip since it's been such an unusual year. I just wanted to thank you all for the support and love you have shown towards ICECUBES for so long. In celebration of the season I have also decided to sell the original art for this comic. It is drawn, inked and painted by hand on a 11"x17" Canson Fan Boy blueline comic page. India ink and watercolors were used. Bluelines are showing on the original art as well as some cut and pasted paper. The lettering is also hand drawn. The price is $100 (+ shipping) and I will donate 50% of the proceeds to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. I will autograph the page and make it out to whomever you designate. Thank you again so much for being great fans and hopefully we'll see more of the ICECUBES 'cool crew' in 2022!
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  1. Leroy Brown

    Happy New Year everyone! 🙂

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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.