ICECUBES the comic strip #218
ICECUBES the comic strip #218

ICECUBES the comic strip #218
ICECUBES the comic strip #218

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ICECUBES the comic strip #0218
Posted on February 21, 2013 by Leroy Brown
Shrinking heads.

7 thoughts on “ICECUBES the comic strip #0218”

  1. Leroy Brown

    HaHa Dr Dre headphones.

  2. Bo Lumpkin

    If pro is the opposite of con would Congress be the opposite of progress.
    Yep…seems like we are going backward. Some of the games people buy to play interactive stuff is almost like when we did stuff like that for real as a kid.

    1. Leroy Brown

      No kidding! It seems like they just try to imitate things that already exists. Like trying to make digital ‘inking’ look more ‘real’. I say, nothing beats the real thing!

      1. Bo Lumpkin

        I’m guilty of the digital inkin’ because I need to have something I can redo about a hundred times without startin’ from scratch.

    2. Leroy Brown

      Of course! Using computers to make art is fine by me. I do all my colors in Photoshop, not to mention fixing any inking errors. But I still like the natural line better. I think technology is good when it’s used for something you can’t do otherwise. When it just copies older techniques I feel its just kind of wasted.

  3. Bo Lumpkin

    Hey Leroy…where in the world are you buddy?

    1. Leroy Brown

      Hey Bo, I know I’ve been really quiet lately. I am waiting on word from the syndicates to see if there’s any chance of getting the strip picked up. I have been caught up in some other projects as well. It’s hard not to get burned out after 5-6 years without having a clear indication of being able to turn the strip into something viable- I need to continue to pay the bills! Thanks for being there and caring about ICECUBES, I’m going to do my best to get back online asap!

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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.