{"id":692,"date":"2009-11-17T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=692"},"modified":"2020-07-16T14:24:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:24:49","slug":"old-sketch-from-monkey-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/11\/17\/old-sketch-from-monkey-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Sketch from Monkey & Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I first cooked up Monkey & Bird<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Tina and I thought it would be great as a daily comic strip so we looked at comic strips and did research on syndicates which was all fine and good. I jotted down notes for jokes and filled sketchbooks with ideas for characters and situations. I had a fun idea, and a lot of material, but the problem was fitting it all into a three to four panel daily strip. I don’t know how cartoonists do it. How do they cram the drawing and readable dialogue into one tiny row of panels? I tried, and it seemed to me that two-thirds of the strip was taken up by word balloons leaving the last third for talking heads. I tried working on huge individual panels that would fit on my scanner. I would marry the panels together and reduce it in the final layout.\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t working. Back in the drawer it went to collect more dust. Monkey & Bird<\/strong><\/a><\/em> would make occasional appearances<\/a> in personal greeting cards for the family.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for me, Gerry Giovinco<\/a> and Bill Cucinotta<\/a> came along with their fabulous CO2 Comics<\/strong><\/a> website this past summer. They were looking for content and were kind enough to run with There’s No Escape From a Deadline<\/em><\/a><\/strong> and Hot Topics.<\/strong><\/em><\/a> They asked if I had anything else. Thinking of the dusty sketchbooks I had lying around I said that I might. Gerry had a horizontal layout that thought would work well for the site. As it turns out, it worked very well for me, and Monkey & Bird finally saw the light of day!<\/p>\n

Above is an old sketch from my attempt at creating one panel from a three-panel, one row comic strip. Cramped isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first cooked up Monkey & Bird, Tina and I thought it would be great as a daily comic strip so we looked at comic strips and did research on syndicates which was all fine and good. 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