September 4th, 2008
KinokoFry #035 - Where Babies Come From
But that spot on the shelf isn’t out of reach of babies!
This is the very first (and last?) strip drawn straight onto the computer. I’m using a new program and giving it a go. What do you think?
EDIT: Made the text lines a bit thinner.
EDIT: I have a shirt design up on Threadless.com!
September 4th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Cool pix Rebecca.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
oh it’s been so long… so long. The strip looks nice.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:36 am
WOOHOOOO!!
September 5th, 2008 at 8:31 am
I personally prefer the style of the hand drawn comics.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Finally! An age old question of curious toddlers has an answer that everyone will be happy with.
September 5th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
The biggest question is what floats your boat more at the moment. I’ve come to love using a tablet to draw - but that’s because of the precious Ctrl-Z. This looks as good as always. It’s still freehand, and the style is still there. Of course, the highlight is a baby’s tooth chomping over the panel below it - and as long as you’ve got that, well… what more could we ask for?
Hmm.. now if you’ll excuse me, my Sex Ed. teacher has some explaining to do…
September 5th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
I liked the hand drawn style a bit better. The lines are a bit too thick for my liking, and, personally, I liked it when the characters didn’t have pupils. The pupils kind of don’t match the characters in my oppinion… :/
Still a good comic, though! :D
September 5th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
This is kind of a silly criticism, but I really preferred when the backgrounds of all your panels blended into each other.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
This colors and lineart are a lot bolder in this one. I like it a lot, but there just seems something more personal and enticing about the hand drawn ones. Though I totally understand the motivation to do them on the computer and you definitely do it better than many other web comics. What new program you using?
September 5th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Rebecca, the sudden style change threw me for a bit, but it looks nice. I can see what Trella means about the way the backgrounds used to flow through the whole comic, but for this one, where you depend on different camera angles, it would have been really limiting to try and use the same device here.
So to recap, they come from the baby-pipe, migrate away, but in terms of daily use, they go on the second shelf, above the cans of mystery, and next to the… snail butter?? Must make a mental note of it.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Heh, I love the Yoshi’s Island reference.
September 6th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
It looks great Rebecca! Your art style is so unique, so quirky, i’m pretty sure it will look great no matter what medium you use. Keep it up!
September 6th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Rob 64: Well done! It WAS a Yoshi’s Island reference in a way.
Thanks for the compliments/thoughts, everyone!
September 8th, 2008 at 4:09 am
i agree with Trella, i like when the backgrounds are blended into one another, but if you look at the second panel, the baby is biting over the border :)
September 8th, 2008 at 7:59 am
It is nice with the blending together of the backgrounds when the comics strip is only moving through time but when it’s moving through spatial perceptions also, with zooming out and spinning around and walking to the shelves, I would imagine it a necessity to forget about the blending. I really like this comic, panel three especially.
September 15th, 2008 at 9:02 am
MARIO AND PEACH ARE DOIN’ IT AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT PIPE!!!!!!1111!!1 LOLz!!11oneone
September 15th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Pff Threadless. You should just put things on Zazzle.com, Rebecca, for people would buy them already.
September 17th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Rebecca, I prefer the hand drawn, sorry!
As for the story, I won’t show it to my kids! It will bring them nightmares! :D
September 19th, 2008 at 3:00 am
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September 20th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Thanks for all the feedback, everyone! There is a new comic coming up soon, and it will artistically be an improvement on this one, I hope. I’ve learnt a lot recently.
Incidentally, I’ve been doing some work for Eegra this week and there will be something of mine up there tomorrow too.