Some really rough sketches from the strip Dig it! that we published a few weeks past to give you an idea of how Josh comes up with the elements of the strip. Writing dialog for Dead Beat was really fun, like putting together a puzzle: you had to think about what he was trying to convey to Tuna and further the story along, write it in the way a beatnik would’ve said it, then add as many death and/or zombie references in there as possible. Much later, Josh and I discovered that he was–in some ways–a meta-gimmicked villain, because outside of the fusion of beatnik/zombie/deadbeat dad we developed for him, he had already been beaten by Tuna and now just spends his time lazing around in jail.
We overthink these things. And yes, we know. Anyway, enough deliberation… click on any of the images for a massively massive version:
More more more to come!
