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Honey Vs. A Young Man’s Fancy

26 Comments on Honey Vs. A Young Man’s Fancy

Happy new year!

I wanted this one to look like a show in the Candy Hearts’ natural habitat…and that meant drawing particularly heavily on the Archie/Josie-world influences. Mysterious extras in loud outfits, to the foreground!

Published on December 31, 2012 by Kathleen

26 Comments

Promethea128 on December 31, 2012 @ 9:44 pm Reply

I’m not lookin to date any fellas either. They’re icky and have cooties. Cheers to a New Year!!! <3

Kathleen on December 31, 2012 @ 11:38 pm

I’m definitely not lookin’ to date any fellas #seriousautobiographicalcomix

This one’s kinda the “nice” mirror image to the incident where some obnoxious guy was hitting on Turpentine, and she shoved him off the couch shouting “SCRAM, JERK”

Vulpe on December 31, 2012 @ 11:19 pm Reply

I would be scared to see Turpentine in roller skates… Maybe she would get all roller-derby-aggressive and start pushing and running over people! :-O

Kathleen on December 31, 2012 @ 11:29 pm

Foxy happens to actually be on a roller derby team! Maybe that’s why she’s more enthusiastic about the prospect of skating.

Chloe on January 1, 2013 @ 2:13 am

I have this weird feeling that Turpentine wouldn’t be very good at skating. I also feel like she would hate the idea of falling on her arse for everyone to see

Beyla on January 1, 2013 @ 8:21 am Reply

Gosh, I’ve totally got a sort of platonic girlcrush going for Foxy. Like she could be the sort of friend I could call up late at night when I’m bored and lonely and suggest that we should break into the Catholic school and play basketball in their gym, and she’d be down instead of telling me to be rational like most of my friends do when I ask.

Kathleen on January 1, 2013 @ 12:59 pm

Foxy is down for whatever, always, and she’s a real enabler/encourager for her friends’ best and worst ideas.

jeanne on January 1, 2013 @ 12:03 pm Reply

CHEE

I’d think Turpentine would be like ALL ABOUT the skating somehow in theory, but that there’s a history of like embarrassing accidents

Okay also, technical question: WHAT IS A RAINBOW PARTY in a bichromatic world!

Kathleen on January 1, 2013 @ 1:21 pm

I have considered this very question! I’ve also specifically thought about the problem of what a rainbow flag in a gay bar should look like.

My actual answer to any colour-palette-related problem when I’m illustrating this world: I think about how any given thing would look in a comic designed to just be black ink lineart, and then I judge which of the two midtone colors (or both, or neither) would look best in context. The blues vs. the reds essentially work as cool vs. warm.

Getting nerdy and theoretical about it: I think of the palette of this world as both representative and non-representative colour. Like, I think it’s literally true that this is a universe that has the genetics for naturally-occurring blue and pink hair…but there are also a lot of instances where the way something’s coloured is just stylistic (especially when it’s related to the lighting in a shot, like the last panel of this one where everything’s red.)
I think a person in this world would know that grass is green and bananas are yellow, but we just don’t see that. It’s not a fourth-wall joke in-universe, like having someone say “Holy shit, this article says that scientists are close to discovering a third colour!”

tl; dr: I talk about COLOUR THEORY, and leave it up to you to imagine limited-palette “rainbow party” as corresponding to sex acts

Kathleen on January 1, 2013 @ 1:37 pm Reply

I may have mentioned this before (maybe?), but I want to take a moment to appreciate how much I’ve grown to like using the word “heck” in this no-swears world. It’s so self-consciously clean, and yet the way it scans in a sentence and looks with its combination of letters is kind of like “hell” and “fuck” combined and had a baby. Heck yeah. What the heck kind of party is this?

L.R. Hale on January 1, 2013 @ 6:31 pm Reply

Ha, ha! 😀 Now, I’m gonna impose “heck” into my vocabulary!

Kathleen on January 2, 2013 @ 1:03 pm

I’ve seriously picked up a few weird Band-vs-Bandverse speech and vocabulary things from spending so much time writing it. I’ll have these…moments…where I realize I’ve just pulled out a whimsical retro non-swear-word in a casual conversation, or said something like “SAY, GANG” to actual people.

Nephaline on January 1, 2013 @ 6:43 pm Reply

Love love love, I haven’t been rollerskating in fifteen years, there may still be one rink left open in my city. And I totally get why Turpentine wouldn’t think it’s “cool”, or might be afraid of looking foolish. I did have a totally embarrassing wipe out a rink once, in front of someone I was interested in.

Does anyone remember “Snowballs” where the girls and boys would be on opposite ends of the rink, a few boys would skate over and ask girls to skate…soon the dj would stop the music and the couples would separate and go ask more people to skate…so more and more people would eventually be skating in couples? Pretty rigid when it comes to orientation(that’s the 70’s and 80’s for you)…a rainbow roller disco party sounds like a lot more fun!

Kathleen on January 2, 2013 @ 12:59 pm

I’ve never, ever been to a roller rink! I’ve heard that one exists within reasonable take-the-train-a-few-extra-stops distance from me, though. I wonder if I could talk anyone into going.
I’d probably be a disaster though. A few years ago I assumed that I still knew how to ice skate despite not having done it in years, and…nope.

Nephaline on January 3, 2013 @ 1:02 am Reply

I never really learned to stop in ice skating, rollerskating or downhill skiing, just call me the Queen of wipeouts.
If you brought enough people with you it could be fun, but it’s mainly kids…the music may also be questionable.

Kathleen on January 3, 2013 @ 5:20 pm

Oh man, I didn’t consider that it’d probably be full of children. Plan cancelled.

Greg Stolze on January 3, 2013 @ 3:32 pm Reply

Pretty sure that 1961 was the last time the phrase “I think you’re swell, want to go out for a malt sometime?” was used both (1) unironically and (2) as a prelude to anything that didn’t end with someone in a crawlspace.

(Hussy Formaldehyde out.)

-G.

Kathleen on January 3, 2013 @ 5:14 pm

I actually DID think about (2), and how a different comic from the one I’m actually doing here would make it A Twist that this nonthreatening lad turns out to be a murderer or something.

Frogglewhips on January 3, 2013 @ 4:28 pm Reply

I just realised! Everythings either blue or pink! (Or black or white)

Kathleen on January 3, 2013 @ 5:18 pm

Yeah! I’m all about designing things with two-color schemes, to the point where it’s a running joke with some of my art & design friends — like, that’s one of the clues that makes it obvious that it was me who made something.

Karen on January 5, 2013 @ 4:38 am Reply

Is there anything, anything at all, that I could do to convince you to write more comics more all the time like daily more? This is one of my favorite new comics to read and I am totally squeeing about it.

Thank you!

Kathleen on January 5, 2013 @ 7:33 pm

I wish! And hey, thanks — really, hearing that people are into it is the biggest motivator to keep doing comics regularly (and potentially more often, which I’d love to do but just can’t right now.)

BookishAngelOnABentley on November 7, 2014 @ 1:14 pm Reply

Is that- Is that Nada dancing with the reddish-blond guy?

BookishAngelOnABentley on November 7, 2014 @ 1:18 pm

Ne’er mind. It’s Janet. I’m glad you kept the general design though.

Kathleen on November 10, 2014 @ 7:28 pm

Having a canon version of the Nada design was basically why I invented Janet!

Princess Ethanol on August 25, 2016 @ 5:26 pm Reply

that “Keenest” lettering! <3

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