More old Mini Squires added to comic page

Eh? It is being ironed, bambino.

Because that new comic I’m currently working on …um…won’t be posted anytime soon, I thought I’d keep this blog warm by adding more of the old comics. Head over to the Squires of Dimness comics page to see the latest additions – Laundry Woes 2 and 3 (smartly placed UNDER the first Laundry Woes).

Forgive the horrible organization. I’ll get my shtuff together sometime! And I’m still figuring out a way to post the regular length comics. I guess it’s about time I buy my own space! But anyhoo, enjoy for now!

Moleskine Passions Rambling

I love Moleskines. Have I said that enough times?

Not too long ago, I read about the new line of Moleskines that are coming out in 2010: Moleskine Passions. How cool is that? Of course I think they’re cool – I’m already planning on picking up at least the ones for cooking and music.

But then there’s that nagging snob in the back of my head. It’s great that there are going to be special Moleskines for documenting memories of different things like food, wine, and music – but I (and I’m pretty sure many others) thought the uniqueness of the existing Moleskines were that we could record any memory, idea, story  in any style we want. So, in a way, these new Passions feel a little limited (stress on little!).

I thought of this as I was adding a new ticket to my Japanese album Moleskine that I’ve turned into a concert/event ticket album. This is what I mean – how many of us are using the existing collections and filling them with our memories, ideas, stories however which way we want. The plain notebook can be a collection of collages for someone, while it could be a personal note-taker for someone else, or a recipe book for another – you get what I mean.

As limiting as the Passions sound at the moment, I’m totally not against them – I nearly love everything Moleskine comes out with and who doesn’t love more choices? Don’t be surprised when I start prattling about my food, music, book, and wellness Moleskines!

Squires Halloween Coloring Fun!

One of these Squires is not like the other...

This is kind of a little cheap-shot. The calendar deal fell through, but I didn’t want to leave the Squires of Dimness out of the Halloween fun! I invite you sparse viewers to download this image and color it as you will.

Halloween 09 Coloring Fun!

Happy Halloween from the SoD!

EDIT: Feel free to share links to your coloring results!!

Squires appreciate fine cinema

Thorn and Whyte enjoy fine cinema

After digging up my old Amadeus DVD and remembering how brilliant and hilarious it was as well as how freakin’ adorable the Mozart couple were depicted I was suddenly driven to doodle some sort of parody.

At first I thought, “Wow, why couldn’t there have been an Amadeus 2? Oh wait, that’s right, he’s dead.” While there obviously can never be a sequel, Squires Thorn and Whyte can watch one – though, being a zombie movie.

So in this rough doodle of a comic that will, likely, never appear finished, Squires Thorn and Whyte lounge on a couch while watching and commenting on a Mozart zombie flick on TV. These were drawn in my larger Moleskine sketchbook, where the two top panels have the Squires watching and commenting, while the bottom two are “scenes” from the movie they’re enjoying.

Speaking of scenes, check out this “scene” in Prismacolor pencil where Zombie Wolfie subjects his wife to pulling his finger. It’s the first thing he tells his wife after climbing out of his grave. Poor Stanzi.

Ok, no lie, this is a work in progress. And it’s a regular-length comic too! But I can’t promise when it will be finished. All I know is that it will be finished, much to everyone’s misery…

Halloween WIP doodles

Gonna be a rough Halloween for Thorn

Halloween’s coming and since I’ve totally dropped the ball on the calendars for the past few months after March (I think), I thought I’d try to start those things up again. What better month to pick things up than October?

So I thought I’d break out the Prismacolors – including my new toys – and whatever remotely funny situations I could think of and started doodling away.

Hot dogs and Squire Thorn are always a favorite subject as can be seen in past  comics and this rough doodle on the left. Excuse the illegible scrawls. I’m sure you get the idea what Thorn’s screaming.

Another idea, on the left, is Squire Thorn’s disapproval of his fellow Squires’ Halloween costumes. Hm, can you guess who’s who under those cheap ghost costumes?

But this was absolutely the day’s favorite doodle. How can you not resist the clumsiest Squire with a pile of (fake) fruit on his head? So who knows, one or more of these ideas just might end up in October’s calendar – keep it here!

In unrelated news, check out Bake n’ Blog. We’ve added a few more entries on our baking adventures!