Just to let everyone know, with the unexpected possibility of moving next month from Florida to Texas and my son being sick, updates will resume as soon as possible, hopefully being back on Friday Monday. We will keep you updated.
Update: My son has been sick all week, many trips to the doctor, so be here Monday (September 26) when the new Z & G will be up.
Working on Monday’s proved to be a little more trying than usual. A late night trip to retrieve some forgotten items and me falling asleep at my tablet cause me to have to hold off until after work on Monday. It also didn’t help that I was doing a double sized comic. I know this sounds like excuses right now, but I would rather explain myself than have you all think that I just didn’t update. So expect the comic out sometime tonight. I have it sketched out and stuff so it shouldn’t take me long to complete it when I get home. Thank you for your understanding.
I really need to up my frequency that I post blogs. I rarely do it and I think to keep people wanting to come back regulary, I need to post other than on comic update days. Now the question is, what do I blog about. There are many things that interest me that I could blog about. The question is, what is it that interests me that will have people actually want to read about. I could do movie reviews or just blog about current events. Heck, I could do both. I know that once I make the decision, it shouldn’t be that bad to keep it going. So if there are suggestions at what you would want to read about. Let me know.
Rol
Thanks to John Wigger from Zombie Roomie, he saw that I needed help and he offered it to me. One thing I have not been very pleased with are my word balloons. If I could actually hand draw them, it would be fine, but as you can see, I can’t. I sent over my artwork to John and he wrote me up a little tutorial on how to accomplish something I was lacking in. With the tools he has provided me, I hope to make my comic a little more pleasant looking. Here is the example John sent me. I am hoping to use the tutorial he sent me and re-do Monday’s comic and continue to do the comics in somewhat this manner.
With all that is going on in my life right now, I thought I would change up my update schedule and reduce Z & G to just Fridays which I thought would free up some time. I was wrong. I ended up doing a random comic MJC Presents on Mondays and still keep my RetroWednesday going. I had missed a couple of updates for the Wednesday comic and then I realized I was trying to fit my life and schoolwork around my comic. The schoolwork is a new element I added into my life in April and I did not plan accordingly. This past Monday (10th) I put my comic on hiatus till June and though it makes Z & G a cliffhanger, it needed to be done. During this time I am planning on focusing my time on Family, Work(Navy), and school. One of the great things about this time is I also plan on finally creating a buffer to alleviate some of the scheduling conflicts that may occur in June when I start updating again.
I still plan to draw and keep in touch via Twitter as to not be forgotten. Right now I am doing a piece of art for Bearman Cartoons. And I have some fan art I am finishing up for three people. Thank you all for your support and understanding. Hopefully you will join me once again when I come back in June, rejuvenated.
Roland
College. It is something I haven’t done since I joined the Navy in 1997. This is my first go-round with college, and luckily I have acquired some college credits through out the years by the schools and jobs I have had in the Navy. As if attempting a webcomic wasn’t enough on my plate, I have added this and my plate is getting pretty full. So until I can get into a good routine with this added responsibility, I am going to make “Z & G” a Friday only comic. Now I am still doing RetroWednesday until that resource is dried up. And possibly I am still going to be posting a small topical comic on Mondays. So really this is not reducing my “workload” that much, but I feel that making “Z & G” a Friday comic only, will allow me to give it the attention it needs right now to hopefully progress my writing for the strip. With that I am working on making a new banner for the site and making some ad banners and stuff. So really instead of reducing my workload I am just rearranging some things to hopefully make things smooth. I hope everybody understands, and I thank you for your support.
Wow, I have been getting a lot of hits today, and I know it has to be because of Milly’s cameo in the webcomic Space Between. There are a few of us webcomicker in Twitterverse that are Pokemaniacs, and one of them is the creator of said comic. He made up a very awesome picture of a few of us Poke-players’ characters. Go check it out.
SOMEBODY MUST DIE! And you the reader gets to be a part of this. Leave a comment of what recent character that has graced the world of Z & G should either live or die. The fate of (Tyrone, Milly, Hammy Worcestershire, or Dan Worcestershire) can be decided by you! The Worcestershire storyline is ending soon, so get those comments in!
My tablet. Ever since I have received this wonderful gift, I have been using it for my line art and coloring for my comic. With that, I am constantly trying new things and trying to get comfortable with it. I got used to inking it with my actual pens, now I am getting used to the tablet with “sketchy” results. I have never claimed to be an artist and my plan has always been to find an actual artist, but until that ever happens, I want to bring my comics to you. So some of the coloring and lineart may look different from comic to comic, but rest assured I intend this to be an improvement process. If I don’t feel comfortable with the digital inking process, I may just need to go back to actual ink pens. Until I come to that conclusion, I just ask that you bear with me and hopefully get some enjoyment from “Z & G.”
And as a reader appreciation, leave a comment and let me know what recent Z & G characters should live or die! (TYRONE, MILLY, WORCESTERSHIRE BROTHERS)
-Rol
It always amazes me how I can have a script of dialogue ready to go up until I get ready to put it on the actual comic and then other things just hit me and it changes. That is actually how Milly became a character on Z & G. Originally she was going to be a dream sequence of Milla Jovovich, being that is Z’s) crush. But instead all these story plot ideas rushed in and she became “real” and part of the cast. I should be finishing up the Worcestershire story line here in March, of course I told myself I was going to finish it in February, but I ended up going to Texas for two weeks and it kinda threw things around. I’m finally getting things back on track and have changed my update days to Monday and Friday. Giving me Wednesday to possibly upload some little nuggets of joy I found while visiting my parents. Also I hope you like the layout of the site. Changes will continue to make the site better looking.
Rol
