I’ll be at San Diego Comic-Con Wed through Sun at booth 1228, with a whole BUNCH of convention exclusives! Exclusives like:
– “Pickles” Posters
– “Keeping the Homeland Safe” Pug Posters
– Drive Keychain/Bottle Openers
– Drive All-Key Cards
– And magnets out the wazzoo!*
*(Can’t make it to the show, but want these exclusives? Join up for a quarter at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics or Patreon.com/drive before July 25th to get the secret Patreon store link!)
I am super appreciative of Zach Weinersmith doing a TALES OF THE DRIVE story for us! If you enjoyed his short as much as I did, you have to check out his daily comic: SATURDAY MORNING BREAKFAST CEREAL!
I’ve now moved his story in the archives, so that you can read it STRAIGHT THROUGH. Star here [http://www.drivecomic.com/archive/160523.html] and click forward!
And of course, here are our previous TALES OF THE DRIVE stories:
– Dylan Meconis: drivecomic.com/archive/150820.html
– Ryan North and Tony Cliff: drivecomic.com/archive/160208.html
– Christopher Hastings: drivecomic.com/archive/151026.html
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And! If you want to be super cool: You can say nice things to Zach about his Drive story on Twitter: @zachweiner
SHORT VERSION: Sheldon has a new colorist, starting today: Beth Morrell!
LONG VERSION: Little fun-fact about me: I’m color blind in the red-green part of the spectrum. For those not familiar with color-blindedness: It doesn’t mean a red chair is invisible to me, or that I see a red chair in black and white (Although my grandfather did! He was 100% color blind!). For me, my color-blindness just means I see a different color from what you see (…sometimes *very* different) when I’m looking at the same red or green chair you’re looking at.
WHICH WAS FINE when, at a young age, I picked an art form that was largely black-and-white. Cartooning was the perfect art form for color blindedness! Black lines on white paper! Bam! Poifect!
BUT THEN THE INTERNET CAME ALONG, and now that the print costs of color printing weren’t a factor anymore, everyone sorta-kinda started to expect color cartoons in their daily webcomics reading.
WHICH WAS FINE, as I sorta figured out workarounds using math, color spectrum guides and Photoshop, to tell me when I was coloring a red chair…red. But coloring was never natural to me.
ENTER BETH MORRELL, a super talented Washington-based artist, who’ll be coloring Sheldons going forward! Beth has an incredible eye, and creates fantastic art in her own right. And though she’ll be coloring Sheldon with a palette that’s very similar to my own, at first, I imagine she’ll start experimenting and branching out into her own subjective choices as time goes on. Which is a very long way of saying: We’re about to get some great, great coloring…starting today!
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Please check out Beth’s incredible work at BethMorrell.com! And if you’re inclined to be awesome, welcome her to the land of Sheldonistas on Twitter at bethisomething
Hey, in fun news: Last night in Memphis, SHELDON won the Silver Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society! Pretty neat!
Mentally, I still feel like a young kid in the cartooning world — even though that’s not at all true — so this feels like a nice pat on the back from the heroes I grew up reading.
Today begins our fourth TALES OF THE DRIVE guest story: “A Little Time”! Zach Weinersmith’s tale will unfold over the next eight weeks, as the crew desperately attempts to fix mistakes made in time travel. You’re going to love it.
And! AND! If you’re not familiar with Zach’s work, make sure you check out Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: It’s nerdery at it’s finest. Here’s the link: [http://www.smbc-comics.com/]
Our third TALES OF THE DRIVE story, “That Time the Veetans Defeated the Tesskans…FOREVER” has been moved in the archives, so now you can read it straight through. The story now begins HERE.
[Additionally, here are the links for our two previous tales, YOUR DISTANT HOMELAND and CUTE THINGS.]
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I want to say a huge public thank you to Ryan North and Tony Cliff — two artists I have infinite respect for — for producing such a delightful story in the DRIVE universe. They’d never worked together before, but the story and images they produced melded perfectly, and were a delight to read.
Any time I open up a DRIVE story to guest artists, I do it with one unusual caveat: NO EDITING FROM ME. I bring in artists I trust, and then let them run free to write and draw what they like. A.) Because it’s a sign of respect to their time and talent, and B.) Setting them loose in such a way often produces their best work. And boy was that the case, here. I loved this story. Loved, loved, loved it.
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If you loved it, too, PLEASE TAKE A SECOND TO TELL THE ARTISTS ON TWITTER. It always means a lot to artists to hear a kind word!
@ryanqnorth | https://twitter.com/ryanqnorth
@tangocharlie | https://twitter.com/tangocharlie
And make sure you check out their work!
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And on Monday: We begin Zach Weinersmith’s story, “A Little Time”!
Seattle! It’s time for our ANNUAL FRIENDSHIP HUG OF FRIENDSHIP. Because I’m at Emerald City Comicon, Thurs-Sunday! With rad exclusives you can only get at the show!* I’m at booth 1116, on the main Skybridge entrance! You can’t miss me!
*(Sheldon Patreon supporters will also get a chance to snag ’em, next week…to thank them for supporting the strip! So sign up for Patreon at twenty-five cents, if you haven’t yet!)
Seattle! It’s time for our ANNUAL FRIENDSHIP HUG OF FRIENDSHIP. Because I’m at Emerald City Comicon, Thurs-Sunday! With rad exclusives you can only get at the show!* I’m at booth 1116, on the main Skybridge entrance! You can’t miss me!
*(Drive Patreon supporters will also get a chance to snag ’em, next week…to thank them for supporting the strip! So sign up for Patreon at twenty-five cents, if you haven’t yet!)
I’m done with all updates/changes in the DRIVE archives! It looks great! Read through the archives again, and you’ll see.
In fact: For those of you who like proofreading/fact-checking, I NEED YOUR HELP. For the big DRIVE omnibus book of Act One, I want to make sure I didn’t introduce new typos or mistakes.
So! I’ve put together this public, shareable spreadsheet where you can note any corrections you think should be made.
1.)
As you read through the archives from here: http://www.drivecomic.com/archive/090815.html
to here:
http://www.drivecomic.com/archive/150817.html
2.)
Note ANY suggested changes or corrections, here!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ku_IY1olAbtMZrpK-lxZ1Drq1T7xUDOmRXXtwpWL2wk/edit#gid=0
And thank you!!!
-Dave
Thought I’d share this with you, as it’s been consuming my weeks. (But in a good way!)
I really want the DRIVE hardcover book to look amazing, so I’m taking the time to go over each comic file with care. The story’s been told over 7 years, using *three* separate ways to draw the strip (ink, ink/digital hybrid, pure digital), and in the process transitioning between three different computers. So files are NEEDIN’ ORGANIZATION!
Most notably, when you read through it all at once, you see 7 years of variation in font and color choices…which I’ve always intended to unify for the book (and for the site). I’m very pleased with how it’s turning out.
I’m also taking the time to George Lucas a few key panels that I’ve always hated
to look at. Panels that were drawn either when I was super sick with the flu or under some time crunch — which resulted in, well, panels I hated.
Here’s the most glaring example:
