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New Prairie Dog Cover

August 3rd, 2010 | by Dakota
Posted In: Blog, comics

This is likely to be the last Prairie Dog I do before I make the move to Vermont and begin classes at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Time allowing, I’d still like to do stuff for Prairie Dog while I’m away, but it will probably be less frequent.

This was a fun cover to work on because the editor wanted everything to be hand-drawn, including all the text and the Prairie Dog flag itself.

Sadly I fucked up everything with a lower-case ‘e’ by somehow managing to forget the ‘e’ ‘Sainte-Marie. I fixed it in the image below to pad my bruised, oozing, comatose ego.

This completely kills this cover for me for three reasons:

  1. Proper spelling banishes evil spirits to the land of hungry ghosts.
  2. My parents named me Dakota because they liked Buffy Sainte-Marie, and she named her son Dakota … I feel like I should know that shit.
  3. A girl who liked my comics used to email me wanting to hang out and she spelled my name ‘Dakoda’ every single time. It drove me crazy, and many evil hungry ghosts snuck through the veil of the living during those dark days, let me tell you.

Anyway, also included in this issue is a new Dennis: The Poor Little Poor Boy strip, which can be found on the Dennis page.

└ Tags: Center for Cartoon Studies, comics, cover art, illustration, stupidity
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More Little Strips and Digital Blips

July 29th, 2010 | by Dakota
Posted In: Blog, sketches

Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they’ve been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don’t explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing.

- Tom Waits

When drawing in my sketchbook I always struggle with this. It becomes too easy to just draw the same things over and over again– the things that worked once or twice.

So to shake things up a little, I’ve taken to drawing spontaneous and quick comic strips. Usually they start with a title or an image, and then I have to quickly complete them for good or bad.

Octoroks!

Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t.

Other times I draw characters from Zelda instead of Mario.

└ Tags: comics, cryptids, melancholia, sketches, ultraviolence, video games
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