Archive for May, 2009

Comic for January 23, 2002 restored to the archives

May 2nd, 2009 by Reinder

Panel from restored update

Panel from restored update that had probably been missing for years. Click to go to the installment in the archive.

Working my way through my old scans and colour files for the remastered version of the The Corby Tribe storyline, currently running on the mirror site on Drunk Duck, has been one surprise after another, with missing scans, corrupt back-up disks and more problems cropping up seemingly with every new page. But there are also some rewards: I discovered that one comic, the one for January 23, 2002, was missing from the archives entirely. Of course it had to be one that consisted of multiple panels with text inbetween, and it had to be one where my local copy on the hard drive was broken for some mysterious reasons, but thanks to the Internet Archives, I was able to retrieve the missing text segments and I have now restored it to the archives, improving the flow of that part of the storyline.

...it looks like it's going to need some work for the remasters though.

Update: Some missing text in the comic for January 15, 2002 has also been restored.

One movie I want to go see

May 2nd, 2009 by Reinder

I hope Anvil! The Story of Anvil makes it to a theater near me. Documentaries don't always get international releases.

YouTube channel for the movie.

Vote incentive for May 2: Rejected Green Knight’s Belt cover art

May 2nd, 2009 by Reinder

Thumbnail of a rejected cover artwork for The Green Knight's Belt. Click to vote for Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan on Top Web Comics and see the whole image.

Thumbnail of a rejected cover artwork for The Green Knight's Belt. Click to vote for Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan on Top Web Comics and see the whole image.

Vote for Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan on Topwebcomics today to see a rejected cover for the very first ROCR storyline The Green Knight's Belt, drawn and coloured in 2005. The person who rejected it was me, by the way. I have drawn this scene several times now and while the finished cover for the website is all right, I would still like to do a definitive version of it some day.

To vote, click on the link. You will be asked to click a button twice to confirm that you are voting for this comic and that you're not a bot or script that automates voting (you will be embarrassed on humanity's behalf to hear that people have apparently done that in the past). The final page in the process has the vote incentive image. Vote incentive images will only be available until they are replaced, so you will have to vote today to see these sketches; there will be new incentive art up tomorrow.

(Or if you've come to this post via a web search, why not simply visit the comic this post is promoting, Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan?)

Vote incentive for May 1: The Headsmen Tent Sequence

May 1st, 2009 by Reinder

Thumbnail of a pencil tryout for the tent sequence from Headsmen. Click to vote for Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan on Top Web Comics and see the full image

Thumbnail of a pencil tryout for the tent sequence from Headsmen. Click to vote for Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan on Top Web Comics and see the full image

Vote for Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan on Topwebcomics today to see a test image for the tent sequence from the Headsmen storyline (finished page). I had inked the line art but wasn't too sure how much black I could add before the image would become a mess, so I did a round of penciling in greys to test it. That worked.

This week, all the vote incentives will be coming from the vaults. They'll be interesting stuff I found on my hard drive. It's all probably been posted somewhere before but for the life of me, I can't remember where.

To vote, click on the link. You will be asked to click a button twice to confirm that you are voting for this comic and that you're not a bot or script that automates voting. The final page in the process has the vote incentive image. Vote incentive images will only be available until they are replaced, so you will have to vote today to see these sketches; there will be new incentive art up tomorrow.

(Or if you've come to this post via a web search, why not simply visit the comic this post is promoting, Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan?)