Archive for May, 2007

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Quest For the Beak: Part VI

May 29th, 2007 | by Tyler Martin
Posted In: Comics
Quest For the Beak: Part VI

Yet another installment of the beak saga. We reach the climactic battle scene. I originally envisioned drawing the battle out over two pages and just having it be ridiculous. But in order to keep the pacing, one good penguin belly bop by Superwally does the trick. I mean, it was just a bird, an old decrepit bird.

The original art for this page is available for purchase here.

Just a couple more installments in this series and we’ll be back to regular updates. I’ve been having some fun writing a bunch of new comics.

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Comment Avatars

May 24th, 2007 | by Tyler Martin
Posted In: Blog

Hey guys, quick little update here. There are only three comics left in this storyline, I’ve got them scripted out and just squeezing in time to draw them. I’ve been pretty busy lately with projects, actually drawing stuff, been doing lots of math workbook illustrations, I’ll see if I can get permission to share some of them for fun. Also some educational interactive Flash stuff.

I had planned on drawing up the next comic today but in the time I was suppose to use to do it I got sidetracked making a little script to display avatars next to your names in the comments, heh. What it does is grabs the “favorite” icon from the website you entered, that’s the little icon that appears next to the URL of a website up at the top of your browser. If the site doesn’t have one, the avatar will just be an empty box, and if you don’t have a site entered, then it will default to the Wally and Osborne one:

So more fun with the comments to junk them up with ridiculous posts, smileys and now avatars. Serves me right for not getting the next comics online. I’m on it…

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In the News

May 10th, 2007 | by Tyler Martin
Posted In: Blog

Knuts Still Cute
The orphaned polar bear that won the hearts of millions and caused some controversy as well is growing up. At 5 months he’s starting to look like a polar bear, and less like a stuffed toy. So far that hasn’t hurt his popularity too much as he’s still drawing in the crowds and setting his way to be an icon for preserving a species. CNN has a recent video at Yahoo.

Indiarctica Part 3
India is set to build their third station in Antarctica. They are going to “defy international opinion and set up a base in a planned Antarctic protected area to research the prehistoric origins of a Hindu holy river”. “The Godavari (River) would have flowed there about 130 million years ago when the continent was part of the Gondwana land-mass.” Hmm. Here’s one of the articles on it.

Arctic Seal Decides Florida Is the Perfect Place To Go To Retire & Die
Well, the arctic bearded seal, normally found near the north pole, that wandered down to a Florida canal has died. A day after being “rescued”. Scientists really don’t know why the seal ended up down there. I’m assuming the excellent country clubs. Article here.

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The Boids

May 7th, 2007 | by Tyler Martin
Posted In: Blog

Hey, how about some more birds in comics?

A friend and fellow cartoonist, Larry Merrill, just launched a new Webcomic called The Boids. He’s handling art while Steve Campbell writes the funny. Go check it out, it’s fresh on the scene today with a big chunk of eight comics already available to read on the front page.

He’s also using the excellent new version of ComicPress. ;)

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Quest For the Beak: Part V

May 7th, 2007 | by Tyler Martin
Posted In: Comics
Quest For the Beak: Part V

“Mmm, Gelflings!”

Well, we finally get to see the Giant Petrel King. Giant petrels are known as the vultures of Antarctica. Aside from the Wandering Albatross they are about the largest of the scavenger birds there and able to dominate in the feasting of carcasses. They’re carrion feeding ways earned them the name “Stinker” from whalers. They are also not strangers to feeding on singled out penguin chicks or even sick or weak penguins.

I forgot to mention snow petrels the other day, when Howie showed up in the comic. They are definitely much prettier and smaller than their vulture-like cousins. They feed mostly on fish and krill but will feed on carrion as well. They are also pretty much exclusive to Antarctica being one of the only bird species that breed exclusively on the continent (along with emperor penguins and South Polar skuas). They usually nest in rock cliffs near the sea. Video footage of them bathing in the snow (rolling around on their backs in it) seems to be popular among Antarctic documentaries and is pretty cute as well.

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Just Doing Some Spring Cleaning Here

May 1st, 2007 | by Tyler Martin
Posted In: Blog

Hey guys, I’ve got the new comic inked and about half colored. I was going to finish it up today but I’m not feeling so hot. So instead I’ve been updating the site to the new version of ComicPress I created recently for people that want to publish a Webcomic using the popular WordPress blogging software. The site has some new features such as this separate blog I’m typing in now, a little way to give you some updates when I’m not posting a comic or to put some news on the front page that doesn’t slip away so quickly.

There’s also some new archiving and searching abilities that take more advantage of WordPress.

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