I seem to have a sickness that causes me to start new web projects. The latest symptom of this is something I’m calling fridgetoons. Essentially, I have a bunch of magnetic letters on my fridge next to a whiteboard. My housemates come along and arrange the letters in to a caption. I then illustrate the caption on the whiteboard. I take a picture of the results and post them on the Internet. Once in a while, they end up being funny.
It’s been a pretty satisfying project so far, mainly because I can draw them quickly and they aren’t “precious”. My earlier attempts at comics failed because it took me more than a week to do each page. I suppose if the outcomes were awesome, I could have justified it (there are those that can) but the results were always sub-par. These comics, on the other hand, are intentionally sub-par, which is somehow psychologically liberating, resulting in more output. This is all to say that I’ve produced quite a few of them in a pretty short period of time. There’s even an accidental guest strip by a totally famous web cartoonist who happened to be getting something out of my fridge.
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