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Since we did a contest for our writer pals out there, we figured that a similar contest for artists was in store! The winner will get both the Tuna and the De Jesus shirts as particularly awesome pre-Christmas prizes!
THE TASK!
Take any character from our comic (villain, hero, bar owner, shady flip-flopper, henchmen, whatever) and re-imagine them in a darker, scarier, and more horrific visage appropriate if we were to completely change up Tuna Carpaccio P.I. into a fearsome horror comic! Let your mind wander and be sure to let your inner horror artist break loose!
Email your submissions to Tony@TunaCarpaccioPI.com by 11:59pm on Friday, the 13th! Seemed appropriate, the two weeks between Halloween and Friday the 13th… winner will pretty much be announced and put up on our site right away!
Good luck scaring the hell out of us!
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Here ye here ye! Announcing a new contest where the winner will get ONE OF EACH OF OUR TUNA CARPACCIO P.I. SHIRTS!!
And it’s SO easy! Just answer this one question with three simple sentences:
“What did Jose Maria De Jesus do for Halloween this year?”
Post your answers as a comment to this blog and we’ll announce the winners on Halloween! You should know his habits pretty well by now. Best answer wins… GO!
You’ve already seen a sneak preview of Malta’s prowess with a gun, but she’s about to get herself into a situation she might not be ready to handle with two small handguns. Or maybe she’ll encounter a room a cuddly children. Either or.
So click on the artwork and watch Josh’s preliminary sketch for panel 2 of this week GROW! (also, feel free to drop by his blog occasionally to check out what other stuff he’s in the mood to show off! he’s got the talent of a million artists, wrapped in his pinky finger. In fact, he draws Tuna Carpaccio P.I. with his toes each week. Fun fact.)
More to come, as you should expect by now.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Our pals at Eben07 gave Josh and I the amazing opportunity of putting a 1-page advertisement in the recent publication of their strip anthology “Operation: Mongoose” and there’s no way I’m going to post it on this site. Ever. It’s actually something you’ve never seen before and actually something you need to check out when you pick up your copy of their book! It’s only $4.99, which is practically stealing it if you ask us. So get on it!
Clearly Malta was able to figure out where Rows 4 through 6 were, relative to the clues she put together with Pam’s help… but what she finds there you’ll just have to see for yourself (unless you’ve gotten so used to the way our comic flows that you can pick up on the details and hints already). Have we gotten that predictable? Maybe. Or maybe you have no idea what’s going to happen next. I’m hoping for the latter. Anyway, click on this ink of panel 1 from this week’s strip!
More to come? Sure, why not?
Anyway, here are some leftover sketches that are always cool to check out from the recent strip “Devilish…” where Egg-Devil rose from the ashes of wimpiness to the high mountaintops of steroid-induced muscle mania.
More to come… as promised.
This is the second post in a row where the title ended with the letter “x.” I’m going to find a way to fit it into the next post also, just for continuity.
Anyway, here’re some fight sketches from the strip “Devilish…” Yes, they are also devilish sketches.
And there’s more madness where that came from, let me tell ya.
Here are some more process sketches from Josh… from blue penciling to more affirmed images as the forms start to take shape in his head. You don’t read anything I write here anyway, so click on the images to enlarge them.
More sketches, after this commercial break!
Here’re a few rough pencils of this past week’s catch and more Egg-Devil madness. Honestly, I feel a little ashamed that we didn’t name him “Deviled Egg” because that would better fit the pun scheme we put together for this comic. But on the other hand, having him thrown in as the first gimmicky villain sorta does set the tone for our comic. What say you?
And what say you about these sketches, which you can click to enlarge?
Plenty more where that came from.
This past week’s strip was tough because I (Tony) got the sketches for it before I left on a whirlwind trip to London and then Beirut, so the image below of a beefed-up Egg Devil catching Tuna’s famous right jab (the same right jab that took him out so easily the first time they tangoed) has been sitting in my mail inbox for almost 2 weeks. I know I know, you’re probably thinking “Tony, just because you decide to go on vacation you’re not off the hook for Tuna Carpaccio strips!” and you’d totally be right. So in the future, I shall take my laptop and work work work on all of my vacations. Promise, cross my heart.
Anyway, here’s the ink… purty, ain’t it? Click on it to enlarge, by the way.
More comin’… and, of course, more strips!