Some stuff on my drawing table. Remember you can get all the ICECUBES comic strips on the Kindle 🙂 Latest Comics
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ICECUBES the comic strip #307
78 15144 Apr 18, 2022
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ICECUBES the comic strip #306
79 10293 Mar 31, 2022
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ICECUBES the comic strip #305
85 8275 Mar 03, 2022
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ICECUBES the comic strip #304
60 5234 Feb 24, 2022
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ICECUBES the comic strip #303
73 7353 Feb 10, 2022
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
53 2640 Dec 25, 2021
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Merry Christmas!
36 2517 Dec 22, 2021
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ICECUBES the comic strip #0301
38 1503 May 11, 2017
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ICECUBES the comic strip. #0300!!
57 16536 Nov 02, 2016
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ICECUBES the comic strip. #0299
24 443 Sep 28, 2016
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ICECUBES the comic strip #0298
24 408 Jun 29, 2016
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ICECUBES the comic strip. #0297
23 475 Jun 01, 2016
Comic Series
Drawing table.
Some stuff on my drawing table. Remember you can get all the ICECUBES comic strips on the Kindle 🙂 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
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
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… ICECUBES TV!
ICECUBES live on TV-30! from Leroy Brown on Vimeo.
Hubig’s Pie.
ICECUBES by Alistair!
ICECUBES Cool Color Comics!
ICECUBES the comic strip is now in full glorious color! I’m happy to bring you every strip in color using the most advanced digital chromatic high-tech electronic automatic coloring robotic process available today!
All this for your reading pleasure and as a big thanks for being an ICECUBES fan! 🙂
Leroy Brown How ICECUBES Gets Drawn.
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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!
Gear.
Good company.
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?
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.











