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Blog posts about making comics, creating zines, life, and everything.
Sketch 298
April 2, 2021 | BlogWhy is she holding a fish? Why is there a giant X on the wall? What is she looking at? Excellent and fair questions, all of them. You can’t see me, but I’m shrugging very animatedly at your queries.
A Panel about a Cat and a Printer
March 26, 2021 | BlogHere’s a favourite panel from a comic I drew in 2018 about a cat who loved the home printer. Sometimes I make comics about things that are not sarcastic death, judgemental crows, or a robot and sheep galavanting around the cosmos. Read it here: http://ryanreid.com/comic/hazel-loves-the-printer/ This comic was created in Clip Studio Paint. Look at […]
Comic Panel of Yesteryear
March 25, 2021 | BlogThis is a panel from a very old comic. I was trying to write a picture book at the time. Someone, somewhere on the net, described creating comics to help flesh out characters, or something, so I thought I’d give it a try. The story ended up being very different from this, and the character, […]
Even Timelier Pencils
March 24, 2021 | BlogI rethought the first panel – I like this much better. If I still like it tomorrow, I can start inking things. Tonight’s brainstorm fuelled by the Bill & Ted Face the Music soundtrack. Thanks Bill & Ted!
Timely Pencils
March 23, 2021 | BlogLadies and gentlemen, some ugly pencils for the current comic. Death is at it again!
Congregation of Crows
March 21, 2021 | BlogA work in progress for the zine. The sky darkens, the crows approach!
Blank Page Blues
March 20, 2021 | BlogWhen this page is blank, it can feel like the hardest thing in the world to get started. But once started, you don’t want to stop until it’s done. Except for hash browns and coffee. I mean, we have to live, amiright?
It’s a Rabbit Hole
March 19, 2021 | BlogThe real danger of revisiting old artwork, is that your definition of where the acceptable finish line is has no doubt moved in the time since you created the work. I really just want to adjust a few colours, and add minor design elements, and it’s really hard not to fall into a rabbit hole […]
