Dane Martin

Thursday, June 25, 2009

No. 191: Underneath the Fox's Tail Lie Oceans and Oceans For Us To Sail!

My friend Bryan Stone has started a blog about funny aminals, to accompany an upcoming funny aminal comic book anthology he and Jeff Lok are doing. It's a winner. Please take a gander!

www.funnyaminals.com

It's worth it.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

No. 188: Make That Smoke, Please Those Boys

Lately I've been making a batch of pencil drawings on newsprint. When I have enough of them, I'll probably print them in a mini-comic. I haven't really figured out how I want to reproduce them. This is an attempt. I think there is a real magic to making single drawings, and I haven't really been focusing on that the last few years. They are no replacement for comics but they satisfy a different part of the brain.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

No. 186: This Is the Goal Part II

Real excerpt from an Uncle Wiggily book:

"He shall never do that!" cried the rabbit, bravely. "I will save you." So he ran up to that snake, but the snake stuck out his tongue, like a fork, at the rabbit, and Uncle Wiggily was frightened. Then he tried to hit the snake with a stick, but the crawly creature hid down behind Grandfather Goosey, and so got out of the way.

"I have it!" suddenly cried Uncle Wiggily. "The popcorn balls. Snakes love them! I'll make him eat them, and then he'll let Grandpa Goosey go." So from his valise the brave rabbit took the red and the white and the chocolate colored popcorn balls, and he rolled them along the ground, close to the snake's nose. And the snake smelled them, and he was so hungry for them that he uncoiled himself from Grandfather Goosey's legs, and let the old gentleman duck go. And the snake chased after the corn balls and ate them all up, and then he didn't want anything more for a long while, and he went to sleep for six months and dreamed about turning into a hoop, and so he didn't bother anybody.

So that's how Uncle Wiggily saved the duck, and next, in case the pretty baby across the street doesn't fall down and bump its nose, I'll tell you about Uncle Wiggily and the ice cream cones.

Friday, June 12, 2009

No. 184: Smoke Signal #1

A Chancellor Dog story was recently in the first issue of Smoke Signal, a comics newspaper from the comic store Desert Island. It can be found and purchased here. It's an explosion of weird, appealing imagery. Try it.

Friday, May 22, 2009

No. 177: A Glimpse

I'm in the process of "thumbnailing" Salt Mines #2. I'm not used to this process. I hardly ever do it. I'm seeing how it works out this time. It's pretty fun so far, but unfortunately these are not readable to anyone but me. Here are some tidbits from the process.