Archive for September, 2009
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Bounce on over to Mr. Loren Eaton’s writing and literature blog, I Saw Lightening Fall, for a guest post by Tony about writing in the mixed genres of comedy, noir and action. Here’s a little excerpt to get your taste buds drippin’:
[...] When I spoke to Loren about our online comic Tuna Carpaccio P.I., I felt compelled to begin with “it’s a noir comedy” and intrinsically labeled myself a genre writer; a slave to the genres’ expectations: “farce,” “fiction,” “melodrama,” whatever. Tuna Carpaccio P.I. had no choice: It not only had to be dark, gritty and full of crooked dealings, it also had to catch you off guard, involve jokes and (you know) make you laugh at some point. And these were only the essential expectations of writing in these genres![...]
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I know that we seem to have a tradition of pulling old villains back, but Valery is long and gone. She’s so gone that Tony never actually wrote her into the script. She’s so gone that Josh never got around to drawing her. She’s so gone she left before our comic began. That’s how gone she is.
So click to see the process enlarged… you won’t be disappointed.
As always more to come! I know, exciting stuff.
Don’t ya love how Lenny could possibly take several brutal rounds of machine gun fury just to get taken down by his wife? Of course, you do… or else you wouldn’t have come back to our site to continually read the madness of past strips!
That being said, the images are ready for ya! And ready for you to click to enlarge them.
Still plenty of behind-the-scenes sorta sketches to come. So come back later, I super-duper swear there’s more to come.
So here are some roughs of the strip from this week, where Busy Bee and King Pin try and take it to Tuna. And see how amazingly successful they were? Yup… amazingly. The way we work is simple: Tony writes up a buncha strips way way way ahead of time, Josh draws them week to week, and Tony mixes it all together in Adobe Illustrator. Ta da!
Okay, so it’s not revolutionary or anything but still. Well, so much for explanations… here’s what you want: PICTURES!!
Oh right, click on them to make it larger. And more to come, as you’d expect.