I should update this thing more, shouldn't I?

(Oringinally posted on the inkdick blog, but I'm double posting it here for good measure)

Ok, so obviously you have noticed that I didn't get today's (well, yesterday's) strip up. The final prep for SPX took longer than expected. Much longer. And since I will be gone for the weekend and part of the week, no new inkdicks until Wednesday. After that, we'll be back on our regular schedule.

Also, I'm behind on getting the iDonate original artwork done, so if you said you'd be at SPX and would pick up your art there in person, sorry, it's not ready yet. Don't worry, I'll mail you your art when it's done (with something extra thrown in maybe as a way of saying sorry for the delay). It'll be mailed to you before Thanksgiving, I swear.

Now on to more SPX news. Here is what you can expect to see (and buy) from me this year at SPX:

Inkdick #1 and #2 ($2 each). Not only can you read the first two and a half months of inkdick off-line, but you can sport a pretty bitchin' mustache with them.

Inkdick #3 ($2). Look how clever I am, combing the top half of my cartoon-self face with the bottom half of my real-life face. Actually, this is not clever at all. But the comic itself is good.

Inkdick #4 ($2) Hot of the presses. Literally. I just got done making them 30 minutes ago.

Omnology ($1) and Boxcar Joe ($4) Omnology is a dirty, dirty comic. Boxcar Joe comes in a neat little slipcase that takes forever to make, but the end result is worth it.

Zak & Sara ($3) Don't tell Ben Folds, he'll sue me. The comic is help shut by a flap in the back with VELCRO. I repeat: VELCRO. How cool is that?

8 Pages of Monsters Doing Everyday Things (either $0.50 or $0.75, still haven't decided) A one-sided page no-staple color comic. Amy colored it and did an kick-ass job. This is an SPX 2008 exclusive, so once it's sold out, it's sold out forEVER.

Grunge Lobster #2 ($1) and Rocket Tonic Quarterly #3 ($0.75) AKA all the old shit. These two titles are soon to be retired and go out of print, so pick up the last copies while you still can if you'd like to remember Retro Pranas.

I am sharing a table with Falynn Koch and Kevin Singles at table B-16. Here is a map:

A very sweet location, no? We'll be between Drew & Eleanor and Brian Fukushima. Not a bad place to be. Not a bad place to be at all.

So if you are in the Bethesda, Maryland area come out this weekend to SPX, and if you will be there already, stop by the table and say hello. I'm not THAT socially awkward, I swear.

BIG NEWS!

I am FINALLY caught up with inkdick, after a whole summer spent playing catch up. So that means no more posting up two strips everyday to get caught up. There is a new posting schedule, so listen up closely, kids.

Starting today there will only be ONE new inkdick posted up everyday. Comics will be posted TWO DAYS AFTER the day they happened. For example, a comic that happened on the 6th won't be posted up on the website until the 8th. Simple. Get it? Just come back everyday for a new strip. I will try my best to get the day’s strip posted up before noon everyday, but no promises, but it will be posted at some point during the day (unless in the case of trips and emergencies).

I hope THIS time I can actually stick to a daily schedule and don't fall behind the 8-ball again.

http://ghostcarpress.com/inkdick/

So, um, would anyone like to advertise on inkdick? Because you totally can now if you want to.

I'm taking the weekend off from posting up indicks. I'm a little behind and need to get caught up/take a breather.

Comics will get back to their regular positng schedule of two comics a day starting Monday.

To make up for my suckage this weekend, here is a video of a kitten.

Now for those of you not living in Savannah this will mean nothing to you, but for those of you living here this is what we've all been waiting for...

STARTING JANUARY 2009, THE CITY OF SAVANNAH WILL HAVE CURBSIDE RECYCLING!!!!

FUCK YEAH! It only took this city 25 years to catch up with the rest of the country.

Uh oh, looks like somebody got a new and REAL e-mail address. No more student.scad.edu e-mail crap for me!

pranas@ghostcarpress.com

So in case you haven't noticed, inkdick, the journal comic I've been doing since April, is back up and running. I got behind posting them, and got way fucking behind doing them. Yeah, I got the semi-valid excuse that I was in the middle of finals and in the middle of moving to a new house, and that my crappy scanner broke on me (literally, shattered glass everywhere), but excuses are lame. So I'm back up and running.

So, until I get caught back up, I WILL BE POSTING 2 TO 3 INKDICKS UP EVERYDAY. That's right, EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Until I get all caught up again. Right now I'm about a month behind (June 29th is the last completed strip I have so far, but I'm working on it) and at my current schedule I won't get caught up until mid to late-August. At that point I'll try to post up a day behind, so there will be one new comic up everyday. But we'll get to that bridge when we cross it.

For now, check the site everyday for updates, and be sure to click the "previous" button to view the other comics I post up that day. Afterall, you don't want to miss any days in my exciting life, right? (Spoiler alert: An upcoming strip deals with me shopping for canned corn. Exciting, I know.)

This posting schedule will be good, trust me. You get an ass-load of inkdicks (that sounds dirty, I am sorry) and I am forced to create at LEAST two inkdicks a day just to stay ahead of my posting schedule and that will force me to get caught up faster and be able to spend more time on other (better) comic projects, instead of having these journal comics looming over my head.

Sorry I got behind, but I'm back for a long while. Get used to it.

i need to re-fall in love with being an artist again.

i need to re-fall in love with comics.

please hold...

Lookie. lookie! More inkdicks have been put up (9 in total!), so head on over and check them out! I'm going to try and get more timely with these, so check back every few days for new stuff. Ideally, I'd like to get it where I post up a comic once a day, but that may take a few weeks, once I get internet and all that jazz set up at my new pace.

I've gotten a lot of good and positive feedback on these, so I'm going to keep going on with them for as long as I can.

But enjoy the comics, and please help spread the word! Tell all your friends! If you don't have any friends? Get off the internet and make some, and then tell them to go read my comic.

inkdick, the first in a line of Ghost Car Press webcomics, is now live and open for business! Go there and check it out, and if you like it, bookmark it visit it over and over!

Right now I only have a month of comics up (March 24-April 23), still need to post up some more of the older ones. The new strips will be up sometime next week, so go back and check those out.

Spread the word, please!


And for those of you that have been upset because I haven't been posting up any new Rocket Tonics for the past few months? Well, take a wild guess at what the SECOND Ghost Car Press webcomic is going to be...wink!

oh dear... it looks like somebody went ahead and registered http://ghostcarpress.com...

FLUKE was awesome, got a lot of good books, caught up with old friends, met lots of new people, and sold more than I thought I would.

Saying I am behind on getting up old strips is an understatement.

I need to get a real website. Soon.

Should I do grad school in Atlanta?

sorry for not really posting much the last few months. It's been a horrible quarter in school for me, which is weird because I've grown so much as an artist this quarter and have accomplished many things I've never done before, but it was still horrible.

A small taste of the horribleness:

• Only got about 5 Rocket Tonics done, so my strip was only in the paper half of the quarter
• Had at least 3 (maybe 4) mental breakdowns all in the span of a week and a half early this month
• I majorly dislike my art history class and wrote the worst paper I have ever written in my life for that class.
• Found out some of my friends can be major asshats at times
• THE BIGGIE: Was in a bike accident and fucked up my right (drawing) hand! This fucked me up with finals, just drawing in general, with the Comixtravaganza, etc. and sent me into a state of depression because if I can't draw what's the point of existing? It's getting slowly better and I should see a doctor, but I have to wait until after finals because I have sooooo much work. :(

To leave things off on a brighter note (and to make myself feel better), and list the good things of this quarter:

• Valentine's Day (rest of the info here is personal ;) )
• I made/am in the process of making three awesome mini-comics that are making me push my own limits as far as mini-comic production goes.
• Actually used photo emulsion to make a screenprint
• Accomplished a TWO color screenprint
• Wrote some awesome poetry and got back into that
• Won the armor last week (it's an RA thing)
• Found out I had some pretty amazing friends
• Made 70 bucks at the Zine Fair and made lots of awesome trades
• I feel like I've entered the "next stage" of my mini-comic life, moving away from simple computer printed covers, saddle-stapled half size comics and moving towards screenprinted and hand-crafted works of art

Because lists are fun, here's what I want to accomplish next quarter, my last FULL quarter as an undergrad

• See a doctor and have this hand get better
• FLUKE
• Set up a website (and online store)
• Clean my room
• Get table for SPX and maybe team-up with someone
• A Rocket Tonic for EVERY week of the quarter, no missed weeks
• Rocket Tonic Quarterly #4 and collect the first three into a big volume
• Two minis by the summer (GL#4? 77 Samurai? others?)
• Over break reprint massive runs of Omnology, Zak and Sara, Boxcar Joe, and Beard
• Write a feature length script
• See my academic adviser
• Get a place with Andy and others for the summer and next year
• Actually post my comics up on LJ again
• Be happy
• More that I can't think of right now

So there is only a week left in the quarter that has been eating me alive. I look forward to spring break. It will be good, yes, good, and next quarter will be much better I feel, yes. I'll try to post all the old comics up during that week when I am not stressed. Thank you for bearing with me for the time being.

Turns out I still had a few comics from last year to post up still. And on top of that, I haven't posted in a month. YIKES! Lots of things have been going on, among them...

• Sequential Tart interviewed me a few weeks back. Thanks, Joey!

• I got a new bike today (me posting this comic late is semi-ironic, I guess). I am going to miss Mordecai-259, but he served well for over ten years. Life goes on...

• I printed Zak & Sara, but I messed up the covers, so I'm going back to reprint. Still trying to get the hang of screen printing. They should be ready in time for the Zine Fair on the 22nd.

• I caved in and bought Guitar Hero III

The dude from Jaws is dead. That sucks.

I think this is the last rocket tonic i did in 2007. I don't know, there mioght be one or two more that i forgot about. I'm back at SCAD now, so I'm going to get started soon on the 2008 rocket tonics. Should be fun. I am going to be super busy this quarter. I have to produce 70 pages of comics in ten weeks for my mini-comics class. so by spring, I'll have lots of mini-comics for sale, hooray!

true story.

it's hard to draw comics when all you've got is nubs.



in two days i leave woodbridge for a long, long time. hopefully that will get me out of my funk.

My red wool cap looks nothing like Waldo's! Mine is mostly red with some black lines and no fuzzy pom-pom on top! Waldo's is evenly red and white with a red pom-pom on top! get it right people or pay the price!

Many people seemed to like the topper comic more than the main comic when this printed. I tend to agree with them. Actually, I really agree with them. A LOT. I like the idea of topper comics, so I think I'm going to keep doing them when they fit. I just hope I don't end up ripping off Maakies.

Recently I've been addicted to Mario Paint musical compositions, and these weird Canadian history tv commercials.

What are you addicted to this holiday season?

This was the first new Rocket Tonic of the 2007-2008 school year, so I guess the joke was that I disappeared all of summer (which was true), or something. Yes...something.

This is one of those comics that to me worked better in the sketchbook and not so much when I actually did it. I think if I had cropped the first panel a tad and made the 2nd panel really skinny and cramped and then made the last panel really long and even more spacious, it might have come off like I wanted it to. Oh well, no use spilling over cried milk. We learn from things that we do. Or at least, we should.

In ten hours I leave for western Georgia to pick up my little brother from army basic training. I'm the artist, he's the soldier. I'm the hippie, he's, well...the soldier. Opposites, but I still love the little guy. It'll be nice to have him back. So until Saturday I'll be MIA.

Wow, two months since I last posted a comic! I'm on a fucking roll, I am!

This one is a "lost strip" meaning I forgot I did it after it was printed, it got lost on my computer, and did not get numbered in my Rocket Tonic "master file". When I found it I freaked, because I am very OCD about numbering things and keeping them in order, so I had to look-up where in the sequence this one went, and then renumber all the strips that came after it. Ugh. But here it is, in it's proper place. Number 51.

I'm going to post all of the rest of the 2007 strips before 2008 rolls around. Hopefully in 2008 I can actually keep this damn thing updated on a more regular basis and stop being so flippin' lazy.

Oh, and I decided to go back to DeviantArt, but I got a new name, as I got sick of my old gallery. So go add http://rockettonic.deviantart.com/ to your watch lists or whatever. Does...anyone even still use deviantart anymore?

yes, it was the best week ever, and no, there will be no two-bit comedians providing commentary on said week. This ain't no VH1.

In no particular order:
- went bowling
- learned how to do emulsion screen printing
- won the armor (it's an RA thing)
- comix art forum
- comic workshop with kaz
- portfolio review with kaz (he loved my stuff!)
- mini-portfolio review with heidi arnold (she too loved my stuff)
- won a free comic for drawing the best moose-wolf with an over-sized head
- finally saw darjeeling limited
- and oh yeah, got the girl!

yes, it's been my best week ever so far. There are only two things that could bring me down, finals and not getting into the Sequential Art Anthology (we find out the results on Wednesday). I have lots to do before this Friday (when I return to the 'Bridge), such as:
- 5 page comic story that I'm having trouble laying out
- finish a rusty screenplay that Ib have not touched in 3 weeks
- math shit
- clean/pack
But other than these things, life is pretty much perfect for me. Comics, the girl, and bowling. What more could a dude ask for, man?

I'm going to post all the Rocket Tonics (and maybe some other work) up over break once finals are over. See you then!

Why have I not been posting comics on here? :(

This school quarter has been fucking amazing inspiration wise, but in terms of getting things done, it's been pretty down right poopy. I already had to turn in two things late to my Backgrounds and Props class (one time due to SPX, the other due to me getting the Anthology comic done). Missed three weeks of Rocket Tonic getting printed. Barely touched the mountain of comics I got at SPX. All around laziness.

Winter break is coming up in two weeks, so I'm going to try and get caught up on posting Rocket Tonics and other comics. Also going to form a plan to go through and read all the comics I got at SPX. I tihnk I'm going to try and do a Review-A-Day sorta thing over break. Maybe I'll even move on to the unread Fluke comics I haven't touched since April. Yes, APRIL! Ugh, this laziness is sickening at times. At least if I had mono or something I would have an excuse.

This break is going to be filled with a lot of comics, bowling, and drinking.

Off to SPX!

I don't have a table but will be roaming the floor. This is what I look like (I'm the one in the hat).

So if you see me, say hi.

Got 90 Grunge Lobster #2s and 35 Rocket Tonic Quarterly #3s, so buy some from me, or (even better) let's TRADE!

See you knuckleheads there!

So, The Small Press Expo, or SPX as the cool kids call it, is coming up something quick. I am tres excited, but I am also tres nervous, and tres sleep deprived. I had the genius idea of starting Grunge Lobster number two late Thursday, thinking I'd get it done and printed by Wednesday night. I forgot the fact that I still have school to do and a job as an RA. Got two pages (three if you count the cover) left to pencil and an ass load left to ink. So I am stressing.

Will I get it done or will this all be in vain? Will people like this as much as they did the first one or will the year and a half build-up/procrastination hurt it? Will it be crap because I rushed it? (To be fair, I did the first Grunge Lobster in the span of a day and a half, so...) Am I good enough to even be a cartoonist, let alone step foot into SPX? These questions race through my sleep deprived mind at 3:30 on a Tuesday morning.


So HOPEFULLY by SPX I will have Grunge Lobster #2 ready to go. I may or may not have the 4th Rocket Tonic Quarterly done by then, but don't quote me on that, as I need to check and see if there is enough material for another collection. There would be another Loose Ends portfolio zine, but I have not done enough Sequential Work since last spring to warrant one of those.

I need sleep, and after this weekend I will get some. This post is pretty dumb.

The current Rocket Tonics will be posted up after SPX, so chill, mutha ucka!

EDIT: Moment of self-doubt over (for the time being). I'm now genuinely getting just plain excited about SPX. Even if I don't get GL#2 done or if it sucks, fuck it, man. I'm going to be surrounded by some of the awesomest people in the whole fucking world for a whole weekend and it is going to be a blast no matter what! (I still need sleep though...)