Well, seeing as I posted some people a link, I ought to make an effort

Having more or less abandoned Blogger as of late, I felt obliged to return. I have stopped doing my main Blogger blog, having turned to Tumblr, but I still felt guilty about leaving this blog - my little spin-off comic blog, the blog that didn't do anything wrong but was caught up in this shift from one website to another.

I visualised cobwebs and broken windows. The faded paint on the sign over the main entrance. The tattered remains of a long-forgotten comic, trampled into the exposed floorboards. And I felt sad.

So here I am again, and I promise to make a bit more of an effort, like a divorced parent who hasn't been spending a lot of time with his offspring.

Here, my child. Have a comic. And then we can go home and have ice cream until your mother picks you up, 'kay?

It's been too long!

I have blatantly ignored this webcomic blog of mine. to make up for this, I've gone to the effort of hand-drawing the following comic strip. Furthermore, it's two pages long! Oh yes!
What, you want more awesome news? You got it, pal! The comic is the first in an upcoming series I'm planning to do! Yeah!
Honestly, the things I do to reclaim your love.

Chess.

Harry's Day Out

Living Without Sleep

Right. Here's another mildly amusing little comic for you. Well I say 'little'. It's quite big. You'll need to zoom in a bit to read the speech bubbles - sorry 'bout that.

A great big floating D.

I've been suffering from an extreme creative drought as of late. Fortunately, I stumbled upon a wonderful artist called David Shrigley whose work has inspired me no end. Hence this... bizarre... cartoon. I like it, though.

 

A Belated Update

Sorry it's taken this long for me to get round to updating this webcomic vlog. The only excuse I can offer to you is that I have been focusing all my creative cartooning energy into a little black book of random comic strips that, when full, I intend to publish. As the content of this webpage is public domain and not protected by copyright, I won't be putting said comics up onto here before they've been copyrighted and published.
I want money. Simple as that.
Anyhoo, I will aim to do the occasional comic for this webby thing because it seems a waste of a perfectly good blog otherwise.

In the meantime, here is a picture of a kitten.

Cheerio.

Not strictly a comic

This is a drawing, and it has a speech bubble. Although it isn't really a comic strip, I think it just about qualifies as a worthy contribution to this blog. So here is my digital trace of Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecktor in the magnificent film 'Manhunter'. And yes, the film-makers did spell it 'Lecktor' and not 'Lecter' for this film - it's not a spelling mistake.

Anyway, this took bloody ages to do, so tell me what you think!

Cows

The idea for this comic was born from a conversation I had with my friend, Ross. I have no recollection of how we got onto the subject of cows doing shadow puppets, and I don't really think it's worth the brainpower to try to remember.

I sort of got carried away with this one, and didn't bother to trim it down. This is partly due to the fact that I ended up with exactly 16 panels, giving me the opportunity for a mighty fine 4x4 layout. It is also partly due to the fact that I liked how long the cows took to reach a fairly obvious conclusion, and how it makes the bizarre final panel pack a little extra punch.

However, I don't particularly regard this one as my best. I didn't sit back, half-smiling with pride, when I finished it. It was more of a "fuck it, that'll do" attitude.
I did say, when I started this blog, that I would experiment with different styles and storytelling techniques, so that's why I'm posting this up. I can't tell if it's funny or not; as the creator, I tend to view my comics from the wrong angle, letting my knowledge of their history, their creation and the problems I had with them affect my opinion. This may be genius. But it may be absolute crap.

You tell me.

Don't think this sudden productivity will last

I felt like doing another comic, so here's another comic. I personally regard this comic strip as not quite as funny as the previous one, but I want to experiment with different styles. The ending to this one is rather unexpected, and I think that's what makes this funny. Feedback, please! Outside of Facebook, I've only heard from a Mr Matthew Brinicombe (ta, good sir!), and I need feedback to develop into a productive member of society.

Anyway, enough chit-chat. I know what you came here for.

Merry Halloweenmas!

Here is the latest comical offering to you. It took so long to do because I went and got me some swine flu for a while. After that passed, I had writer's block, which was probably something to do with my mind still being a bit all over the place from the 'flu.
Fortunately, real life did what it does best recently, and pissed me off. I saw a Christmas aisle in Tesco's, when there was still a bustling Halloween aisle. It's bloody September!
So I decided to grab this opportunity by the dangly bits, and squeeze some comedy out of it. Here is the juice of my efforts.

Not very well as of late.

I really wanted to do a comic today, but a nasty fever has rendered me a sneezing, shambling wreck. Nonetheless, I persisted, and in the end, managed to produce a bit of humour from my condition.

Normal service will resume as soon as this blasted illness releases its icy grasp from me.

Jesus...

Welcome to Will's Webcomics! This is a brand spanking new blog that I have created to show off my attempts at drawing comics. Hopefully, this public display will provide me with feedback regarding story, drawing techniques, and humour, to name but a few areas I'm developing.

I decided to create this blog because I have many ideas for comic strips, but I didn't want them to clog up my other blog. As long as there's a link to this blog from there, and a link to that blog from here, this will just serve as an extension of my main blog. A spinoff, you could call it.

Anyway, I present to you a semi-improvised little cartoon I just made that really kick-started this urge to get these ideas on t'interwebnet. Bon appetit!