Merry Christmakwanzanukah Solstice!

I was inspired by a Giles strip while working on this. It look two days of planning and sketching, and two more days to ink and apply the grey marker. May Ray (holding the streamer) is one of my oldest characters that I still like, whom I've put in a comic for the first time in two years. There's another four characters that I haven't quite yet put online yet...

Cinderelliot: Elliot/Cain, Miles/Arbrook, King, Pinhead, Fairy Godfather

Westbury Detectives: Mara Wright (all of the above are also in this, but still...)

Hyperspace Bunny: Bunny, Ray Hatcher

Skipper the Robot Kid: Sarai Mizuno, A.M.I., Robby Phillips, Bunny2000, Sera (from the remake)

Quinn: Rick Jones

Our Own May Ray: May Ray

The 27 Ghosts of Endo: Endo Hiramatsu (that guy about to get copped by the Godfather)

I'm also in the picture frame!

As soon as I finish some maths homework, I've got some model sheets of The 27 Ghosts of Endo to post. It's based on a dream I had (which I encorperated into an episode), and odds are that it's going to be my next project.

For anyone interested, this was the Giles strip I was inspired by...

Cinderelliot Site!

http://cinderelliot.tripod.com/index.html

This was made of pure HTML. I started learning HTML and CSS back in 7th grade or so, and it's helped out now, seeing as SiteBuilder had closed down and so has Geocities, and I'm certainly not going to Webon.

Anyways, the profile pictures for Miles and the Stepsisters aren't done yet, but everything else is totally functional. Let me know if there's anything I should revisit and edit there.

Also, I saw "Planet 51", and it was a...complete disappointment. I'll have a bigger review later on. I wish we'd just waited five days until The Princess and the Frog came out, because I really want to see that.

This is the best thing I've heard all day.

As a fan of Kyuukyoku Choujin R / Ultimate Superman R, I'd have to say that this is the best tie-in song, given how it embodies the series perfectly.

Also, I went trick-or-treating, because I knew I'd be stealing candy if I didn't. I went as Gendo Ikari again because it was too cold for my new flapper costume. Did you know they still make DOTS gumdrops? I mean seriously, what the hell?

Long story short, but now I am supposedly drawing the Fairy Godfather as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, because there is a supposed need for musical numbers and leather underwear in my output.

Too Soon?

Gift art for my friend Vicki, whom got the 6000th hit on my art page. Look, it's those two dudes from Death Note. Did you know that I generally shouldn't put anime characters in my style? I'm pretty much only in the clear with Tezuka's characters.

Well now that's wonderful

So apparently, if I make a character with black hair covering half of their face, there's a higher chance of that character being the most popular one in the strip. There must be a sexual trigger about it or something

Such is the case with Rick Jones, the chain-smoking 17-year-old best friend of the titular character in Quinn.

I don't want to get all weird on you people at 9:38 in the morning, but I can't believe a character based on dozens of different kids from my school living in crap lives became the best character.

What the hell is this

I'm listening to Michael Jackson and goofing off in printmaking, and wanted to show you all something. The following is the first result in a Google search of "Cinderelliot"*...

http://www.fictionwise.com/servlet/mw?t=book&bookid=35179&id=5069

So, apparently my debut comic shares the same name as a women's erotica book. However, this Elliot is a complete Mary-Sue and is effeminate. Look, another Fairy Godfather!

I tried reading the larger summary on that page, but I got the horrible feeling that the author masturbated to it while writing it. Luckily, this whole dilemna doesn't bother me too much, because I refer to my Elliot as Cain (which is technically his "birth" name, if I should be getting creepy on this).

Should I be concerned about copyrights? The book is selling for $2.98 and can probably not be brought up in polite company, so I doubt if there's anything that could happen. My biggest dream is to have an animated, feature film length version of Cinderelliot (my version! my version) and it would be funny if we had a Larry Potter disorder.

*Yes, I searched this. I am egotistical.

So, I've got Cinderelliot #1 in the school library's magazine section. It seems to be getting read...it's switching spots quite frequently, so either someone has a Mad Hatter-esque obsession of constantly moving the magazines over by one spot, or it's getting attention.

In the meantime, I'm waiting to be driven to a friend's house for a Tetsujin 28 marathon, because we're almost done the series and are only going through the episodes with Kenji. I've been feeling mildly fluish since Tuesday, so right now I'm eating blueberries in the hopes that it'll do something for me.

For now, have a Fairy Godmother scribbling:

Someone suggested early on that it would be easier to offer the comic to people if there wasn't a gay man involved. Imagine the Godfather's personality in a woman...we have what is known as a Tsundere, and the thrill of inverted gender is gone. Similarily, if someone were to use a devious, attractive, sniper lesbian in something, everybody would love that character for the reason that she differs from the female "standard" towards the male. Not to mention that lesbianism tends to be more marketable...

Anyhow, this is who you saw in issue one. Now if you don't mind, my ride is late, and I have finished the blueberries.

I give you, Jack Arthur

Also, Becky Byrd the human. I'm going to keep her like that and make her Dr. Byrd's adopted daughter.

New Jack Arthur = Kenji Murasame + Kelly Johnson + David Tennant + Spike Spencer

If you saw the original WDA comics, you'd find that Jack was originally a pretty big moron who was incapable of working alone. Such is defunct, and now he's much easy to draw and operate.

Pinhead and Birdbrain's logo, with bonus katakana.

New Cover Page

If I were to have a formal paperback reprinting of the book, this is what I would want to be on the cover. Personally, I think King is the best-drawn person here, but nobody's going to notice him, because every living female who I have forced the comic on is in love with the Fairy Godfather. I had trouble colouring his party outfit, because I had never planned what colours would be used. Blue and grey, I think.


(Did I ever mention how Garrett Morris influenced King's overall being? If you're too young or haven't seen old episodes like I have, Garrett was the first African-American on Saturday Night Live. Despite being very typecast and having few notable parts, I always rather liked him. Not as much as Belushi & Akroyd, but Garrett was up there with them. Strangely, I just didn't like Chevy, and the only way I could tell Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman and Gilda Radner apart was by their hair.)

Lost Scene, #1

Midway through the comic, I started to come up with a lot of individual scenes that were only extra character development. I embellish my characters as it is, so there were three short scenes that never really went anywhere. I was planning to just let them go (or put them into an extended film version, DUN-DUN-DUN), but I realized that I'm the creator! I can make these supplementary scenes, and they'll be completely legit.

Today's page is of how King and Stepmama/Alexis ended up having the affair. Notably, you get to see Alexis when she was younger (by six years) and non-bitter, and King when he was a little less mature and easily moved by his libido. Did you know that I find it a huge turn-off when women smoke? I put this in, but you're probably more surprised that women would attract me in the first place.

The moral is, if anyone promises you a ridiculous amount of money for a one-night-stand, get that shit in writing.

Coming soon:
*Fairy Godfather talking to Mina near the end of issue two
*Elliot and his brother arguing in the apartment house lobby, early in issue one
Someday, whenever there's a professional paperback printing, I'll have all the pages together in one tidy alignment...

ALSO COMING SOON! HYPERSPACE BUNNY