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I’m going to just insert this sketch that Josh probably did at a starbucks or somethings in a large form so you can see how how obsessively he draws. After chasing 12 espressos with 4 lattes, you’d think that he wouldn’t have the hand-eye coordination to slap himself in the face… and yet, BEHOLD!
In fact, feel free to click on it for more size/depth/etc. But not more sketches because I’ll post those later.
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So we hope that you noticed that we took all the old villains and teamed them up with names that would reflect a shared pun as well as a bilateral and (more than likely) perpetually-reinforcing obsession with defeating Tuna Carpaccio. Clinically speaking, of course. We therefore wanted the tag-dream-team of Snake Eyes and Ink Blot to be a little more insane… Ink Blot’s ink is white now, and his beard should be slightly reminiscent of Sigmund Freud’s, while Snake Eyes has (GASP) both of his eyes, although they’re now wider and more crazed than before. As we’ve discussed before, jail does these things to people.
More sketches comin’ atcha! Later though. As in ‘not now.’
King Pin, it was nice knowing you. Though you never pulled a single punch on Tuna, though your dialog was a pain in the shorts to write, though you were redesigned like 10 times and though your lettering was way way easier to do than any other villain’s, you were one of the good ones. So raise your glasses high, lift your head in pride and take the beating we felt you ultimately deserved.
Fare thee well. More to come. But not of King Pin. Hence the title of this post.
If you can guess which one of our strips this sketch came from, we will ship you an exclusive Tuna Carpaccio P.I. print that you won’t ever be able to get anywhere. Do you hear me? ANYWHERE!!
This is one of many things Josh likes to do in crayon. Why crayon you ask? Well, I don’t think that’s any of your business!
First person who gets it wins, so leave the name of the strip you think this crayony sketch is from in our comments section. Winner gets something so exclusive, only Tony knows what it is. Josh has not yet been told.
For a little change of pace, this post is a link to a short story Tony published at FourStory, an affordable housing advocacy website he works for. And yes, even gritty cartoon cities deserve affordable housing.
The short is clearly prose and therefore logically not a comic, but if you are interested in reading some of Tony’s writing sprinkled around the internet, here’s a sample:
Azad sat in the passenger’s seat as they drove away from the house, watching the water trickle toward him from a cracked and lifeless hillside. He was sixteen and remembered smoking with Jose and Matthew Garcia in their shared backyard when they first really noticed the yellow grass. They could see it forming between the hills before, but he always considered it a dividing line between the area his dad yelled at him for playing in and their backyard. But when it finally reached the edges of their backyard, Azad found that the yellow grass was wet. And salty.
So if your interest is whetted, click HERE to the full short. Thanks!
So here are a few pretty images of Tuna and Dead Beat chummin’ around like old pals. If you take a look at the first image you can see notes that Josh writes to himself. Josh enjoys stopping at random places in Los Angeles and drawing, doesn’t matter where… a park, fast food restaurant, in the middle of the road, sometimes on top of his car on the side of the freeway! When the mood hits, you just gotta draw… it compels you!
So click on the images and check them out at full-size!
As always, more to come!
This is pretty much why I asked Josh to start sending me his sketches: he ends up drawing something like 500 versions of a panel and throws 499 of them away! What happened to the rest of Tuna Carpaccio’s reactions? How did a smile on Roy’s face turn into a frown? What about Sharky… he’s been drawn like 40 billion times!!
All exaggeration aside, here are 20,000 images of Tuna Carpaccio reacting to things. Notice how we pretty much didn’t use any of them.
Yes, that’s all for now. Sheesh, I can’t give them all away at once, that wouldn’t be fair! So stay tuned!
Here are come REALLY rough sketches of Soul Food after we sat around scouring the world wide internet for Voodoo Shaman & Food references. We take this comic far far more seriously than we probably should, but who cares!?! Not us! It’s too fun to quit now!
So clique ze pick-chures fer big-r sai-ziz.
Plenty more where that came from!
From time to time Tony makes Josh focus practically all of his energy on just one super-massive mega-panel. You’ve seen them sprinkled throughout the strip, but as of now you haven’t been able to see the ridiculous amount of work that goes into slapping these behemoths together. So this sketch comes from the strip “Dead Beat’s Setup” from a few weeks ago, which you’ll surely remember as soon as you click the link and refreshingly state “oh yeah! that one!” Yes, that one. Click the images to see the full extent of Josh’s rapid-fire details:
More more more to come come come!
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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