Friday, December 28, 2007

Soaring



For Illustration Friday

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Santabot Card II

Get 'em while they're hot!



Refer to the instructions here.

Sample gag for Santabot 3.3:

This is how Santa watches everyone sleep...     ...with infrared night-vision goggles

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Santabot Card I



For those of you looking for a quick, quasi-handmade gift, I present the Santabot card.

If you click on this image and then right-click on the subsequent image and save it, you can then print your own Santabot Greeting Card.

(It should go without saying that the following information can be useful for making homemade cards even if they're not Santabots, sniff)

The full size of the image is 7x10 inches.   When folded in half length-wise, it fits snugly in a standard 5x7 inch greeting-card envelope.

I have never had a problem getting single sheets of standard-weight card stock through an inkjet printer, but not all printers are the same.  Mine is an HP DeskJet 3745.   I cannot speak for others.

To avoid wasting card stock, you might want to test the alignment with a sheet of printer paper first.   If the image cuts off, try reducing it or monkeying with the margins in the printer dialog box of whatever software you are using - Microsoft Image Viewer, Firefox, Ogg's Cave Painter 6.0, etc.

(My favorite software tools for image manipulation are the Gimp and Inkscape. Free and available even for hapless Windows users)

If you plan on making a lot of cards, think about finding a paper-cutter; cutting card stock precisely with scissors or a blade and a straight edge is time-consuming, frustrating and not a little dangerous.   I personally took my card stock to Office Max and hacked out a pile o' blanks.

Happy Hollandaise!

Following are some of the gags I wrote inside the Santabot 5.7 cards I sent out this season:

"No laser guided missiles for you. You'll take the doll and like it!"

"Santabot brought you a doll. Get over it, human!"

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Robot Plan

Monday, December 10, 2007

Little Things



For IF, natch.

Saturday, December 08, 2007

Emoticons

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Credit Card Bots

Monday, December 03, 2007

Rated R

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Shoe Lace Bots

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Coup II


Robots have taken over the government!

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Motor Mouth

Monday, November 26, 2007

Caught Out

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Coup


Hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Check those leftovers carefully...

Monday, November 19, 2007

Drunk Again

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Usher Bot


Pan Bot finds work.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Dental Bot


I like that the robot has a surgical mask.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Hacking Blogger

I've been hacking the heck out of the minima template trying to bend it to my evil desires, which are, namely, using Blogger as a free comics hosting service with deep bandwith and image storage capabilities.

So far, I've been somewhat successful, but I still need to restore the links and profile sections of the blog.

Please bear with me!   When I'm done, I will offer my edits as a webcomics template for others.


MjM

Monday, November 12, 2007

Amusement Bot

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Pumpkin Bot



Guest robot by Emily. Sorry for the late update.

Monday, November 05, 2007

Planning Session

Saturday, November 03, 2007

Wasn't Me

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Robotic Lawless

Monday, October 29, 2007

Welcome Humans


Oh yeah, I know, my drawing is crude.   But compare the first panel of Penny Arcade to the most recent.   Or look at the first panel of Questionable Content and then look at the recent.   Look at the first panel of Over Compensating and then... well, never mind.

What I'm here to say is that I am going to get better.   And my drawing is going to improve, too!

Friday, October 26, 2007

On Line Safety



This is definitely more difficult than what I was doing before.   Before, I just drew.   Now, the drawings have to fit.   Before, I was all about fluid lines and imaginational excess.   But this is good.   I actually have to work at these drawings now, and, with any luck, my line work a year from now will be so much more elegant and rich.

To the future!

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Pan Bot

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Whiteboard Bot

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Bunny Begat


Today, Botaday becomes a webcomic.   I have wanted to do a webcomic for some time, but I lacked both characters and a story line.   Thanks to the inspiration of Lem's remarkable Bunny I have solved that insufficiency.

I hope you will excuse me for borrowing Lem's secret for jump-starting a comic.   It involves powerful intergalatic forces, but is quite handy for those who wish to push their madness out into the world yet lack an agenda.

Let the comics begin!

Friday, October 19, 2007

Optex

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Jumeed

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Bultreen

Monday, October 15, 2007

Tinkor

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Untitled_092407-01

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Ruffnitz

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Lennonaut

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Nosenaut

Monday, October 01, 2007

Miga

Friday, September 28, 2007

Juggernaut

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Cagoor

Monday, September 24, 2007

Chopper

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Cogbot



By guest artist, Kagomarou

Monday, September 17, 2007

More Old Crap

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Electric Teeth

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

More Shoebot

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Historinicity

Egads, I've been doing this crap for a long time.  

These are from the early '70's.

Dramaton

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Illus for Ellis


I'm posting this as further evidence of the passing similarities that seem to exist between my imagination and  Ellis Nadler's.

Please forgive the cross-hatching - I did this in the late '70's.

(I know I'm old.   Shut up...)

And yes, I know Ellis is phenomenal.   I am not trying to compare my skill to his, just the weird similarities in our imaginations and choice of media.

:)

(God, and the shadows so don't agree.   Sigh...)

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Nikita

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Jury Duty 9 - Suncha

Jury Duty 8 - Clacktraw

Jury Duty 7 - Bubblelicious

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Jury Duty 6


I spent some time waiting around the courthouse last Monday on jury duty. This is what I scrawled in a notebook I had with a "roller-ball" pen.

(The horizontal lines are the lines from the notebook paper)

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