Tag: Original Art

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! 🙂

Another Original Strip on Ebay!

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Leroy Brown


***sold***

Here’s another chance to own original ICECUBES the comic strip art!
This is ICECUBES the comic strip #169. This strip appears in the new ICECUBES book “Noise Is News” on page 79.

Bid for it here!

All of my comic strip art is done entirely by hand using pen, brush and India ink. I even do the lettering on the page. When buying original strip art remember that it oftens looks a little different from the published strip. There may be traces of blue line pencil, titanium white acrylic paint, gray pencil, glued paper and tape.

This comic strip features Peckinpaw the Polar Bear, Eggman the Walrus and Nooky the Eskimo. Peckinpaw is complaining about smart phones while Nooky is ice fishing. When he hears the word ‘cheesy’ mentioned, Eggman gets a craving for pizza, which Nooky obliges by ordering on his phone.

Dimensions: 5″ x 15″. Strathmore 400 2 ply vellum bristol. Acid free. Signed.