Boston Wahful House
posted by carl at 5:39 PM
Thursday, July 19, 2007
About Me
- Name: carl
- Location: United States
Carl writes and illustrates that White Sox webcomic your friend told you about.
Recent Log Entries
- Round and Round
- Intermission
- The Second Act
- A Pirate, Lumberjack, and Bear Walk Into a Bar...
- A Pirate Walks Into a Bar...
- Captain Hand Returns to Earth
- Legend Exit
- The Heart of the Legend
- Warm and Fuzzy
- The Continuing Adventures of Captain and Legend
15 Comments:
Goddamn funny, Carl.
A full boar. I expect nothing less from the grindiest man to ever live.
Ol' Grinderstad is my favorite character.
All this sports and traveling band banter calls to mind the detail that The Flaming Lips will play the Aragon on Friday September 7th. If anyone is interested tickets go on sale at 11am this Saturday. Fake blood, crowds of animals, laser lights, descending UFOs, streamers, confetti...
Que cosi, que cosi, gratzi, gratzi!
Can Grindy get us back in the space ship and in hot pursuit of more pie????????????????
No.
Looks like the pie hunt will have to wait until next year.
Excellent play in yesterday's two games (double-header). Do you think Scotty Pods can hold up for the remainder of the year? I don't think so.
why does aj look different than last year
I like that question. With most of the caricatures, I sketched them a few times while looking at pictures of the real guy. Then after I drew them once, I use my own drawings to base new drawings on. So all of the caricatures have morphed over time.
Beyond that, I switched from drawing with markers last year to drawing with ink and brush this year. So everything is a bit looser, and hopefully more interesting to look at. I don't like the AJ in the last panel of the latest strip, but as a rule, I don't re-draw anything. I think drawing imperfect inconsistent faces makes them look more lifelike. It becomes more like looking at a stack of photographs and saying, "This is a good one. My eye looks weird in this one. I don’t like my hair in this one. This would be a good one if Carl wasn't making a stupid face." In the end, your brain mashes up all of the images and you come up with a 3D image in your mind. In contrast, 3D Foxtrot characters don’t exist in my mind.
Look at me making up my own drawing theories. I guess that’s what untrained artists do.
I’m also internally trying to justify the fact that my Palehose strip has become more of a once or twice a week comic strip. I still sit and watch or listen to most games with my sketchbook in hand. I want the comic strip to truly reflect my baseball team, and we all no how interesting this season has become. I contemplated spending the second half of the season aimlessly following Captain Hand and the Legend of Aaron Rowand. But I decided that if I was going to do a comic strip about the White Sox, I should get back to following the White Sox. I’m trying to be the comic strip artist who reflects all things White Sox, and I’m feeling uninspired. It might be a fitting reflection.
That gloomy perspective aside, I have a funny punch line written for the Crede/ Fields situation to use in this Sunday’s Daily Southtown, which I will use, and it will make people laugh. So stay tuned! Happy happy! Joy joy!
How’s that for a long comment? I feel like a real blogger.
Stay rehabby, my friends.
It's okay, Carl. Nobody expected the season to go this badly, and inspiration is rare watching this team.
I need more pie!!!!
(pie=Palehose 7)
When is the next Palehose coming out?
That's deep bro! Deep, but interesting. :)
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