I am reposting the first 8 strips before adding new stuff here to the dedicated Sleight of Mind blog page. I will be keeping the update schedule at weekly on Thursdays, so check back here next week for the next strip.
A bit of background: I have wanted to work on a comic strip for years, starting "Stinky and Tom" in Highschool, and adding Boom to the line up in Art school. I never really had the discipline to keep up with something as demanding as a weekly strip, and realized that while in Montana, where I submitted my strip idea to my hometown newspaper, the Enterprise in Livingston. A friend of Mine Kenny Puckett had been working with me on this project and we put together lots of ideas and half done comic bits, as well as a Simple comic. Simple being the original title of the Comic when we were trying to make it into a mini pamphlet comic. Through the years we redefined the characters, hoping to make them more mainstream, which just took the fun out of the characters and loimited our ability to write them as we knew them. This version of their illustrated lives however is back to the core of the characters, whether anyone likes them or not.
Many years later, and a few careers in between I am going back to my roots, and my true passion for making comics, and especially a comic strip. And have been able to produce enough strips to get some momentum going as well as a lead on my publishing schedule.
Thank you for reading! And I promise, additional essays such as this one will be kept to a minimum. I want this blog page to be focused on the comic. if you wnat to know more of what I am doing, then please check out my Inkworks blog. Thanks again!
