Not Quite Dead...

Rumors of my death are mostly exaggerated.

So, yeah. I've been MIA for a while. I'm going to be MIA for a while still. 2008 started out like a shit-storm of disappointment and misfortune. My car died, my sister had to go into surgery, and my apartment was broken into. Among the stolen loot was all my computer equipment (including my scanner and external harddrive)and two of my most precious guitars. At the moment, I'm writing this at the library. I've been dropping about $50 a day at Kinko's so I can use their scanner and photoshop to rescan, re-edit, and re-letter roughly 120 pages of The Path to meet my Feb 3rd deadline with my publisher.

With the exception of sneaking on AIM at work, I won't be on-line all that much...if at all. That does NOT, however, give you kids a free pass to not update here at MM. This little rag-tag group of rebels and ne'er-do-wells has a real chance to DO something banded together and I have no intention of letting that kind of mojo fall apart. Those of you that sent me pages for the sample book will, unfortunately, have to send them again. Those of you that DIDN'T now have a second chance to do so. Don't waste it.

Seriously, guys. POST stuff. Don't let MM fall by the wayside.

Wing: That voicemail you left me was the greatest thing ever. Thank you.
Pix: Nice to see Grog updating again!
Zac: We suck at talking over xbox live while I'm at work.

Make me proud, gang.
-Riot

Gigcast

We're far from dead over here in Cleveland. In fact we mentioned MM on our Gigcast interview this week. It should be up Thursday or Friday. I forgot to mention the blogs web adress on the show but maybe we can get that put that in the show notes or something.

If I haven't been posting on here much it is only because I've been working very hard on the Overlord Contest, Night School, my new comic on DD "Cwen's Quest" (www.drunkduck.com/Cwens_Quest) and another new comic I'm trying to get launched called Arc Saga. Plus maybe a photo comic once I get a memory stick for my new camera....really just because got a new camera and it only seems logical that I should make a comic with it. It is really the only logical course of action.

Oh yea and I totally got married.

If someone has an idea to keep MM more active I'm all for it.

-Nick

And for that matter

Where is Carly?
Where is Amy?
Where is Joey?
Where is Pixe?
Where is Freux?
Where is Nick?

MediocreMilitia Roll call...go!

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY????

i miss my friend

Ogle this.

K. Here's something look ogle.

New... Website?

Um. I'm workin on my website.

Here's basically what it's gonna look like, I suppose. Bill (from the comic) is coding it cause he's cool.

Comments? Criticism?

you're all lazy

so be less lazy and post something, dammit

O_o

Trying my hand at speed painting since everyone else is doing it these days.

Boo, so maybe i'll practice it and somehow figure out what the hell I'm doing.

and also random junk

...

To say I'm disappointed is an understatement.

That's all I'm gonna say.

FINALLY FINISHED

I finished my 6 pages tonight. It was a 2 day marathon of sketching, scripting, inking, coloring, backgrounds, shading, small tweaks and overall checks that allowed me to finish.

Then again, I could have just started a few weeks ago and avoided this whole caffeine-induced battle with time.

Anyway, I guess i'll put up my little Bio picture so you guys can get a sneak peek at what I sent to riot.

The comic doesn't actually look anything like this, but if it did, that would be cool.



But it doesnt.

I'm Spamming the HELL Out of This Place!

Seriously. Can someone else post something?

I'm interpreting the lack of activity here lately to mean that you've all been dutifully working on your sample pages.

Well, here's the teaser image for Drunk Duck Adventures.


Happy New Year! I appologize ahead of time to those of you I drunk-dial tonight.

Harley Quinn: Colors

...and the colored version.

Harley Quinn: Work in Progress

The work-in-progress Harley half of a Harley and Joker pair of drawings for Melissa.
Just because I felt like posting something...plus, apparently we're fighting until I finish Harley.

See Melissa? Proof I'm really working on it.

Drunk Duck Adventures: Featuring The Mighty Drunk Duckers

So, like I've spoken about with some of you, "Drunk Duck Adventures: Featuring The Mighty Drunk Duckers" is coming. Basically it's sort of a prequel/alt-timeline version of some of the characters in DDCW...in the vein of the Marvel Adventures: Avengers comic. I've been playing around with an amalglamation of my Path style with my regular stuff...and this art is the twisted love-child it produced. I kinda like it.

DD Adventures is going to be set up in issues. The first one by me, the second by PinkDiapers, the third by Cheeko, the Fourth by Acadia, the fifth by Zac, the sixth by Freux, and so on. The nice thing about the set up will be that each "issue" will be stand-alone, so if someone's running behind one month and someone else is running ahead, we can swap months updating so the comic doesn't suffer. Anyone who wants in on this, feel free to email me at: riot.james@gmail.com.

Anyways, here's a preview of the 1st issue.I think I'm going to start doing all my webcomics in this format, as the whole thing fits on the screen without having to scroll...but it's still the right dimensions for printing.

NAG: Pages, everyone? Pages done/almost done? *Looks at calendar* Just a few days now...
-Riot

Pink!

This was just a tablet sketch so I could play around with some coloring styles. I'm totally into impressionism so I like to add splotches of color everywhere. Not sure if I like it for my MM sample but it was fun to do regardless.

I live again!

I finally have power back at my house! After the wicked snowstorm, it knocked it out of comission for over a week. It was rough, and I was a total nomad for that time. Falling asleep wherever I passed out? A man could get used to it really. Anyway, I had a lot of fun drawing pretty pictures, but I haven't had the computer to color them. So here's the B&W's and I'll get the rest done sometime soon. ;D

-Wing

Matt Jacobs moving up

I just heard that Matt our buddy over at 1111 just got a kick ass job in TV. I just wanted to say way to go Matt!

Charcoal in the Brain

Sup, guuuuys0rz?

So like, I have dialup at my house. Wonder of WONDERS! So hit me up on AIM or YAHOO or WHATEVER. If voicechat is possible on dialup, so be it. Want a phone number? Gimme an emailz. I'm dying to talk to you people. I miss you. ;__;

Looks like we have more members! Yay! I love you all. LOVE. o__o

I see CC is #1 again. What have you people been up to..? :D

Okay I will stop uglifying the main page with my blaring text garble. Everyone's pictures have been great! ( the pictures i've seen. i haven't dove too deep yet. i promise i'll do that.. soon. )

Ok. Freux out!

I hate MonkeyMafia...

...I hate him in the FACE! Why? Because he regularly does a better job rendering my own designs than I do. Goddamn digital artists.

For those of you that don't know MonkeyMafia, he's the brother of our very own EvilTwinPixie, and one hell of an artist.

I know we don't usually post fan-art or anything like that here at MM, but this was just TOO GOOD to be burried in the DDCW forums.

I was thinking about doing Blue Squire in this style for my 6 pages, but it wouldn't give people a good feel for my normal, cartoony style.

So I'll prolly still revamp it. Anywho: