Jul20

Guest Art: Zorphbert and Fred

by Dan Long on July 20, 2009 at 00:00

So, I did a guest strip for fellow “newspaper-style” comic strip artist Dawn Griffin of Zorphbert and Fred! We have very different art styles, so it was fun to draw a full-page strip in my style, using her characters. Zorphbert and Fred are two aliens disguised as dogs, studying human life.

Click to go there!This was a little dealy she had going where people can invent what these aliens look like under the masks!  It happens to be my first official guest strip for another webcomic artist.  I look forward to doing more for other overworked webcomickers in need of a vacation!

Jul13

Rejected Comic: Almost There

by Dan Long on July 13, 2009 at 03:00

Hi!  So, this is a sample from the “Almost There” comic strip collection that I submitted to newspaper syndicates back when I was 19 years old.  I’m thinking of setting up a separate site to display these as a limited-run thing.  I probably will sooner or later.

The concept of Almost There was a family living next door to a crazy inventor.  As you may be able to tell from Edmund Finney’s Quest to Find the Meaning of Life, I don’t like being limited by reality in my comic worlds.

Click to see the full "Sunday-style" comic!

The concept was rejected outright.

This particular strip was probably the inspiration for the first Edmund Finney strip.

More rejections to be posted…