April 2005: Nuthouse was mentioned in an issue of Velocity Weekly. You can read the whole story here.

February 2005: The Nuthouse 2.0 site is finally up and running. Complete with new links, including my cafepress site with t-shirts, mugs, etc. I have many links to comic related sites down the right side along with other sites which content inspires me. Contact me about link swapping if you are so inclined. Down the left side are links of local interest, familiar to those of you within earshot and for those who are not, a nice way to get to know the area which inspires Nuthouse.

Of possible interest, I have begun to ink the strip on the computer rather than the traditional way. Long-term this should help me save time although until I get used to it, it will take about as much time if not a little longer in some cases. I hope this will help me insure better line quality as well as save time which could be used for things like backgrounds and larger (Sunday sized) strips. Maybe I'll even have more time to color the strips.

Here are some of the steps involved:

This is a panel drawn in pencil and then scanned into Photoshop.

Here's the same panel that has been changed from pencil grey to non-photo blue (well blue anyway). This helps me to see what I'm drawing over when I lay the blacks down in Illustrator.

Now you can see that the panel is indeed a vector image. This is an outline view in Illustrator complete with the word balloon and text.

And here is the panel in its completed form.