Old Work (Again)…
As part of launching the site again, I’ve been re-reading a lot of old work; the pretty good the pretty bad and the very ugly. Stick Spike and Stick PK jump out in that last category of course. Not connected with the site, I received a package recently from one of my (several) parents. It contained about six weeks’ worth of a daily comic strip I drew and co-wrote in 1993.
“Beacon Hill Blues” was a political comic strip about three roommates and their pet bird living in a rent controlled condo in Cambridge Massachusetts. Looking at it now makes me cringe. It used the names of local politicians, literally none of whom are still in office. It was a black and white strip that I colored so that it would be grey-shaded on a photocopier. I used colored markers, and you can clearly see the bleed lines of each stroke.
It was the first comic I did that was lettered on a computer. Typeset in Times New Roman, I printed the lettering with a dot matrix printer, drew word balloons, cut them out, and taped them to the colored art.