With what The Interventionist was told to do by the insurance company while “fighting” a tornado, I thought about calling this strip “Extreme Cow Tipping,” but that seemed a bit much. …
I’ve been trying to update at least once a week, but after I sketched this week’s strip I watched Scott Kurtz digitally draw and color a “PVP” strip on Ustream and decided to try to do mine all digitally. While I think I came pretty close to replicating my paper-and-ink work, it took three times as long while using my Wacom tablet. It was difficult trying to get used to moving my hand on a flat surface and seeing the lines I produced on a vertical screen in front of me. I sort of got used to it but think I would need a LOT more time to become a fraction as good as Kurtz. Trying to do that and thinking of how effortlessly smooth his line work is gave me a whole new respect for the modern master of cartooning.
And just when the tedium has me pretty well convinced that I shouldn’t color my strip (“after all, Kurtz, Straub, Eliopoulis, et al., don’t”), he starts coloring his strip after 10 years! Jerk!
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