NEW VOTING INCENTIVE! PAPER DOLL PUCK – THE HOWLERS EDITION!!!
This week, a vote for Puck on TWC gets you access to printable Paper Doll Puck – Howlers edition! Make Puck dress up as the ungodly Howlie, or the even ungodlier Howlers ‘uniform’ which she refused to wear.
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR PUCK!!! IT MAY OR MAY NOT EARN YOU A STUFFED BEAR!
And as for the comic…
This one took me for-freakin-ever to finish. Sometimes I really, really hate my method of creating these things. Way too much labour involved for such paltry results. But it is what it is, I guess.
For those non-Canadians who might not be familiar with the term ‘tonsil hockey’, I’m sure you can figure it out.
How about having Tracee wear a sari like the women of India do.
Unlikely.
How the H – E – double hockeysticks did Phoebe grow up this naïve in case del damned?
And wow, Tracee’s a committed golddigger to swap spit with Scratch after this…
It’s the fundamental mystery of Phoebe that she is as innocent as she is despite her upbringing. Recessive genes, maybe?
After seeing her bedroom, I’ll hesitatinly give you “naïve”, but “innocent”…? Uhh… Nnnnoooooot so much.
Enh, you may be right.
And P.S.? Your efforts reap very good results. Don’t sell yourself short. ^^
Thanks. I just sometimes get envious of people like Danielle Corsetto who does Girls With Slingshots; it takes her two hours to make a comic (digitally painted in a sketchy yet highly appealing style). When these comics take me twelve hours, it just makes me wonder. If I adopted a looser style, I might be able to pull off two or three comics a week. But then it wouldn’t look as pretty. I dunno.
Ms. Corsetto has a lovely style, but so do you. You each have your own good points. It’d be rather jarring to see puckcomics suddenly shift styles after the evolution your art has already undergone.
Yeah, I feel like I like the current style, but that the pace of the comic generation doesn’t totally jive with the structure of the comic. In short, I think that the comics play back really well when you archive-dive and read them in sequence all in one sitting, but I feel like the glacial pace of one comic a week doesn’t have the momentum to keep regular readers interested. I don’t know; I’m just sort of thinking out loud here. I guess I just can’t have my cake and eat it too. I’d like to put out more comics per week, but I don’t want them to change style. Which is impossible. Unless I quit my day job. Nnnnnnnot a good idea.
Considering that webcomics aren’t a lucrative business? Good choice.
Amen to that, brother. I’ve made exactly zero dollars off this comic. Well okay, that’s an exaggeration. I’ve actually made way LESS than zero dollars, but when I think about it that way, it makes me want to cry, so I just call it zero and try to save face that way.
dude i dont care if you put them up once a mounth! you are consistent! many other webcomic artists are having trouble keeping to their scedules right now. it seems like every webcomic i read other than PUCK! and MISFILE are hitting major roadbumps in timing. but again its the consistency of your scedule i enjoy so take your time and keep rolling out the beautiful masterpiece strips we have come to expect from you.
Thanks, man. That’ very encouraging. I, too, really don’t like it when webcomics have serious problems with update schedules. I’ve always tried to keep consistent, and it’s nice to hear that someone else values that.
Frankly, I say that quality > quantity. I’d rather have 1 good strip/week than 5 bad strips over the course of 5 days. Might just be me, but eh, I dunno.
Gianna (thenoobcomic) sometimes updates… Very fast and other times, she takes quite a bit of time (I personally mean no offense towards her, should she read this; I’m just stating facts).
As a creator, I prefer the quality over the quantity primarily because I feel a little better looking back at the product later.
And even the big ones like PVP aren’t always consistent with their schedule. Sometimes Scott takes a Thursday or Friday off without warning, and doesn’t come back until Tuesday.
So yeah, keeping to an update schedule is a great thing. Keeps your audience and helps it grow.
Well, that’s the beauty of being that dude from PVP. He can make his own rules. Or the dude from Homestuck, who takes breaks that sometimes span years. And people are right back there for him afterwards. I … don’t think I could pull that at this stage. Or ever.
I’m surprised you carry on doing it when it takes that long.
Taking that long is precisely why I got put off making webcomics.
Damn you Tracee! Stealing a young girl’s innocence!
What was difficult about the Howler doll set?
It wasn’t the Howlers doll set that took me forever; it was the comic. CorelDraw is partially to blame. Sometimes something happens in the comic (like a really complex vector pattern somewhere) and it makes everything slow down, so that every action I take requires a three second pause before it happens. You work with Draw. Has that ever happened to you?
The only really fast computer I ever had was a 486 loaded with DOS.
Click and GO, Baby !
It did everything instantly, for real.
Hopefully the horsepower will catch up with the software again, someday (not holding my breath).
I love Phoebe’s outfit. Hooray for dragons!
Dragons make everything better. You got a crappy ten year-old Kia? Paint a dragon on that and BAM!!! Instant awesome!
I like the dragon on Phoebe’s outfit. Nice, front and back.
That is nice.
The girl with the dragon outfit-ooh!
Only less Swedish.
So impropriety smells like that coffee made from civet poop?
EXACTLY!!!
I’ve never heard ‘tonsil hockey’ before but for some reason, I now want to see it. And I hate sports. Go figure.
I’ll confess, with the exception of panel 3, I… Kind of fail to see how you could take so long to finish it. Maybe I’m missing something? I dunno.
(Panel 3 refers to the floor and stairs).
Backgrounds take me forever and a day. And CorelDraw sometimes starts seriously slowing down if there’s something in the file that it doesn’t like. Then I’m fighting with a program that hangs for three seconds every time I do anything. I had to redraw at least one panel. It’s really just a cluster#$%@ of weird stuff that occurred on this strip.
Business associates with benefits…
I think very little business gets done in this situation.
phoebe’s glasses all askew made me grin…i LOVE this story line 🙂
Glad to hear it! Phoebe seldom gets flustered, but I always have fun drawing the times that she does.
Puck is one of the best-drawn strips out there, so fear not that your time-intensive artistry is in vain. I’m certainly not much faster … I spend about 6-8 hours on a single comic (shading is a major time sink).
That’s really nice to hear you say, especially when the opinion is from a talent like you. But it’s even nicer for me to hear that someone else takes a while to generate their comics. I think that if you’re working with real ink on real paper, the process slows down considerably. That’s just a guess, but I think it’s a good guess.
I too love Phoebe’s outfit. But I have to wonder, how come Daphne is still wearing the clothes she came in yesterday (strip time)? She sleep in them? Afraid to ask about her undies.
Daphne’s not wearing the same clothes. She came to Satan’s house wearing a “Who’s the Bossk?” t-shirt, and now she’s wearing a “I put Baby in the corner” t-shirt. (Okay, really the outfit is exactly the same except for the shirt logo and the coloring, but Daphne only really has one outfit. Oh, and the “Who’s the Bossk?” t-shirt was a rare 3/4 length sleeve job. So there was some difference there.
Man oh man, those backgrounds. You have my unending respect.
Thanks. I try. Though so often they’re almost entirely obscured by word bubbles! At least we can see a little bit of the background anyway. We just need to know where we are. That’s enough.
Hmmm…”Tonsil Hockey”; that’s a nice way of putting it. Although it leaves enough to one’s imagination. 😀
Stunning backgrounds you’ve drawn, E. Kudos for not cheaping out!
I wish I could figure out how to more effectively cheap out now and then. You know the type of cheaping out where no one notices? Enh, maybe it doesn’t actually exist.
Just imagine the sound effects.
I more imagine the play-by-play commentary.
When will we see Colin’s family?
Let me take the time to applaud the hours of work that went into Phoebe’s outfit. It looks awesome! ^_^
Actually, it looks like it would sell for quite a bit if you pitched it to the right fashion designer.
You mean I haven’t generated something that’s largely tasteless and terrible? Wow! I’m … not sure what to make of that, actually.
Well, I’m not saying wear it to church, but to the dance club? Sure, or maybe even a bit more day-to-day wear for a girl who (like Phoebe and many others) is comfortable being seen as sexually attractive.
just started reading about amonth ago.
like the jokes very much and would love to see a book of your comics.
dont worry about the slow pace. there are other comics for the other days to fill the gap.
kudos on your continuing commitment. when you do something you love it always is worth it in the end.
Thanks for saying so. Always nice to get the votes of confidence. It’s hard when you’re working on something like this to not look at other (way more successful) people and think “Should I be doing what they do? Is what I’m doing wrong?” Good to know not everyone thinks so.
Yay!! All caught up after almost a year, I think?
And the great thing? Getting caught up on a year’s worth of weekly comics takes, like, five minutes!
HA Phoebe better listen to your friend’s eldest (though adopted) daughter!
Daphne knows what’s going down. Always.
I’m pretty sure the term ‘tonsil hockey’ is pretty well established here in the States, too. I’ve heard it plenty of other places, I’m pretty sure including a couple of American sitcoms.
Well, good. Because it needs to be perpetuated.
@L.K Crocuta
TRACEEE would be highly put off to have her TONSIL HOCKEY insulted as LESS THAN PROFESSIONAL.