Thursday's Guest Artist: Tyler Martin of "Wally & Osborne" (4 comments)
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Thursday's Guest Artist: Tyler Martin of "Wally & Osborne"

in News by DaveKellett

Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 12:00 AM

One of the things Japanese Manga — and later, John K. of Ren & Stimpy — does very well is jump into a hyper-realism when it "focuses in" on an object. A simply drawn, everyday object becomes this incredibly ornate, detailed, *important* thing when looked at closely. It's a very cool cartooning tool. And few people use it better than Tyler Martin, our Guest Artist for today. I've seen him do it plenty of times on his wonderful, all-ages strip, Wally & Osborne, and he uses that technique really effectively here. I mean, c'mon...look at that third panel! That's frame-worthy artwork, right there, and an awesome visual gag, to boot. Flaco's face alone is worth the price of admission. :)

Tyler's not only a brilliant cartoonist, he's the mastermind behind ComicPress, a powerful and popular WordPress theme specifically designed to publish comics with all the support of WordPress. Aaaand he's a web designer, aaand he's one of the creators behind Lunchbox Funnies. The dude's a machine, basically. Check out all his work at the hub siteMindFaucet.

And don't forget! If you enjoyed today's strip — And how could you not? Look at panel 3 again! — drop Tyler a note to thank him for today's awesomeness!

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Re: Thursday's Guest Artist: Tyler Martin of "Wall (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 12:16 AM (#42387)

Hehe. The 3rd panel is my fav.


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Re: Thursday's Guest Artist: Tyler Martin of "Wall (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 07:36 AM (#42390)

Wow! I absolutely love this strip, & the detail is amazing! I'll admit that it even caused me to go check out Wally & Osborne.
Now I've got a new 'toon to brighten every morning.
Thank you!!


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Re: Thursday's Guest Artist: Tyler Martin of "Wall (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 11:59 AM (#42392)
Mr Kellett:

As much as I love your daily renditions of Sheldon, I must confess that Mr. Martin's guest strip nearly made me laugh coffee through my nose. (Yes, that's a compliment -- not a pretty image, but humor is that way sometimes.)

- fearless

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Re: Thursday's Guest Artist: Tyler Martin of "Wall (Score: 1)
posted Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 02:41 PM (#42430)

I must say that I have never seen a comic strip art style go from cartoonish to realistic and back to cartoonish so quickly before. The only other example I have seen like this that worked correctly was a Barkeater Lake Comic when guy would take pictures of Comic Strip characters but they would all develop as photo realistic versions of the characters. It was a neat effect. Naturally the punchline was the character saying "that doesn't look like me at all." and then assuming that the camera must be broken.


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