I can now say that all those hours I’ve been goofin’ on flickr.com and google sketchup can count towards research. I’m so grateful to the contributors to those sites for providing such excellent reference material for drawing vehicles and specific buildings. Cartoonists and illustrators have never had it so easy.
Next Week: Nathan impresses the girls!
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I’ve made a few changes to the stylesheet this week. Nothing major, just some different font styles and colors, and a slightly different rollover for the comics links. Hit the refresh button on your browser if it still looks like the old version, although the changes are pretty minor.
If you are visiting my comic for the first time, I’d like to welcome you and offer a bit of an explanation to what’s going on here.
If you are one of the people who visited this place in the old days of the hand-cranked HTML site, I’d like to welcome you back and hopefully answer some of your questions too.
Jumbodeluxe is a domain name I started back in 2002 as an experiment to post my comics and other web-friendly projects, and generally to teach myself web design.
jumbodeluxe.com circa 2003
I came up with the name because around that time I was making comic strips about an elephant named Jumbo Jones. They were feverish, thrilling adventure stories which I had drawn in my sketchbook with little regard for continuity or logic.
I felt like ran the idea into the ground; and since discovered that there were people who had taken their story about a crime-fighting elephant in a much more sophisticated direction.
Over the past year, I’ve had an intense urge to draw a sustained series of comics like the ones I enjoyed as a kid and incorporating other weird obsessions I had as a youngster. After several months of preparation and fiddling with WordPress, I am now ready to show you the results.
Future blog posts will address these questions…
- What are some of the childhood obsessions and comics which inspired this?
- What are some of the current webcomics which inspired me to work on this?
- Did I draw this on a computer or what?
…and many more, so if you have any questions about my comic, or even my favorite music or what I ate for lunch, please post them here!
Thanks for reading,
Adrian