I liked the idea of doing one that briefly acknowledges the necessity of mountains of gear, since this is normally a world where our bands can pull instruments out of thin air and have musical showdowns at a moment’s notice. And don’t worry — Honey didn’t let them die.
In other news, my pal Sarah has been doing these pixel versions of Band Vs. Band characters that make me just die that I can’t play them as some charming, unforgiving NES game right now. This week she added this cute l’il Honey Hart walking sprite:
..and a BOSS BATTLE! (click for big)
Check out this adorable pixel Honey Hart that my pal Sarah sent me! I made a page for fanart to collect a couple of things that people have drawn for me. Awesome.
God, this makes me want to play a NES Band Vs. Band game…or maybe make one.
Just a couple of quick holiday-themed drawings. I actually have the next actual comic about 98% done — I’ll put it up on Monday when this whole Xmas train has passed.
Notes: re: this:
• Of all the supposedly-wholesome things that Honey Hart is into, she’s not actually into Jesus — but man, I think she’d be super into The Christmas Spirit.
• Pretty sure Damon took this job because he got fired from whatever his last one was.
Happy birthday, BVB! I started making these around the end of November last year as part of an attempt to get myself just generally drawing more, and I couldn’t have predicted that’d I’d fall crazy in love with them. I also wasn’t expecting anyone else but me to really dig it! This comic has been one of the best parts of the past year for me, and it just warms my little heart that it keeps getting positive reactions from friends, acquaintances, family (ha ha, yep, my family’s seen all the smutty ones) and rad internet people. Love you all.
My New Comic Year resolution is to maybe put an actual schedule on these things and do more of them — because seriously, I want to tell a million pastel cartoon band stories. Onward!
Something else I’ve been meaning to mention: one of my activity pages is in the current issue of ROCKSALT, a free comics newspaper that you can pick up in Austin, Texas! Which I’ve never set foot in! This is the work of my unstoppable best comixpal Jeanne and her crew, and I’m delighted to be this weird lone Canadian connection to it.
New comic! Sorry I’ve been so slow with these lately — it’s pretty much still the aftermath of moving to a new city, but it should normal out pretty soon.
I kind of love this cat. I think half the reason that Turpentine and Arsenic’s messy basement-house has become the de facto home base for these guys is because I like having the cat hanging around in the background. This cat just rolls with whatever questionable things are going on around it, and never judges. Oh, and I think I’ve decided that her name is Sassy.
