11: Nick Draking in the Money

At a party in Turners Falls, this guy ask me "Are you Jason Gallagher?"

It turned out he reads my comic. I was so flattered that some random dude was a fan that I didn't even get his name. So if you're reading this, sorry I didn't ask your name, random dude.

At the same party, Brandon guessed correctly that Fishheadman has other abilities that have yet to be revealed. How very shrewd of you, Beaver.

Some where out there on the interwebs, there is a video of me bouncing a statue of one of the wise men off a trampoline into a friend, while screaming "I got your gift right here!!"

For those of you on the livejournal, I started a community called "gamezorz", in which members are encouraged to post game related art. If you are a gamer, check it out.

10: Exposition

This page was 90% turmoil, 10% effort. If I had known how easy this page would be, I would have done it before it was overdue. Alas.

9: Nightriderz

Bless me readers, for I have sinned. It has been 10 days since my last update.

The landlord called us in the middle of the week and announced he would be coming by to pick up some things from the attic. At the time, our house was a total mess, and we freaked right the fuck out.

Since then I have been busting my ass every waking hour cleaning the place, or recovering from exhaustion from doing so. So not so much with the Fishheadman. However, I've had much time to think about FHM and contemplate the increase of quality.

I tried a new technique with this page, and I'm quite pleased with the outcome. I drew the comic on a piece of graph paper, which allowed me to use the lines to measure things. Then I scanned it, cleaned it up, and adjusted the panels for optimum framing. After all this, I printed out the result, taped it to a piece of bristol board, and inked it on my light box. It's a variation on a technique Eric from Minimalist Stick Figure Theater told me about.

Next page, I do believe I'll try drawing different layers of the comic on different pages, to give it more of an animation feel, and allow me to really go into detail without making the colorization process a nightmare.

For those who didn't get the punchline, go read Questionable Content.

8: Welcome to the Vomitorium

This one took a lot less time to finish, which was a nice change of pace from page 7. I've changed my method yet again, implementing the light box in a battle of the pencil against the ink.

My friend Eric, proprietor of Minimalist Stick Figure Theater, holds movie nights on occasion, and last night was definitely the best so far. We watched The Shadow, which was pure comedy gold, and Adam brought a crazy spaghetti zombie film that featured a miniature 30 year old playing an 8 year old. I busted a nut laughing the first time I saw him, and things just got worse from there.

The best line of the night goes to Kyle when, during the Shadow, we viewed a message flying through a complicated network of pneumatic tubes and Kyle said "It's the internet!"

Second place goes to whoever said "Meanwhile, on the set of Brazil" immediately afterwards. I'm pretty sure that was Dan.

I sometimes fantasize about what I will say on my next Fishheadman post, but when it comes time to write, I just want to get the damn comic up.

7: The Fuzz

I've got a fever. And the only cure is not doing this comic!

No, seriously. I've been sick. What's your excuse?? ...Sorry, I'm being defensive, I know. That wasn't fair and I'm sorry.

Expect things to pick up from here on out. We are officially past the birthing stage. Thank you for letting me give birth into your eyes. Thank you. I'll never forget this...
...moment.

I like how this panel explodes over the whole house. It really breaks out of the past few that have all been dialog in the bathroom. I hope the pacing isn't too painful. If there is one flaw every linear webcomic has, it's that they all seem to drag on forever. There's precedence, dammit! The pacing issue has a lot to do with the page by page delivery. When you buy a comic, you get to read every page at once.

I dug out my old light box, so I'm going to try something a little different. We'll see if it pans out with the next page. This is an evolving process that's every bit about me getting good at this as it is about me telling a story.

6: In Which Our Hero Discovers the Lot of an Artist

This one took a lot longer than it had any right to, due to extenuating circumstances. It seems like I scanned the page ages ago.

The story is starting to pick up. I've introduced the main characters, and soon we'll be exploring the setting. Fishheadman takes place in a world similar, yet different from our own. Different in the same way the Japanese Spiderman TV show was from the tales we're familiar with. Though I can 87% guarantee Fishheadman will not involve giant robots. The possibility exists, but I'm opposed to giant robots on general principle. There is a line where the size of an automated humanoid simply becomes redundant.

I get a lot of my ideas from current events. I am a news junkie, to which the staggering number of podcasts on my aggregator can attest. I swear, I don't even listen to music on my iPod anymore, except for the occasional Brian Eno when I can't seem to fall asleep.

Yesterday was my favorite girl Elizabeth's birthday. I hope Fishheadman becomes profitable at some point so I can buy her nice things instead of photoshopping pictures of my scantily clad form bursting out of a birthday cake and printing said images on photopaper.

I have some ideas for promotional materials that I will be producing eventually so I can pimp the comic at conventions and eventually sell said merchandise.