Hello everyone! I know that you are expecting a strip right now, but it wont be ready until either later tonight or tomorrow morning. Sorry to keep you waiting.
Category: Blog
Getting Back on Track
Hello everyone!
I’d like to take this chance to welcome everyone back! For those of you who popped by to see if there were new updates, I really appreciate it! These past few months have been extremely stressful with the computer break down and then convention season beginning. But now that my computer is fixed and I’m back from Calgary, I’m ready to bring you new stories!
But in addition to new stories, I’d also like to link to my older stories for those people who are just coming to the site. What I’m going to do for those people is have Throwback Thursdays, but I’m not going to repost the old strips as I know that’ll break up the continuity for those of you who are up to date. So instead, I’m going to post a link to the old strips.
Another thing that I’m going to be doing as well is opening up for commissions. This will not take away from the site. If anyone wants commission work done, please head over to my store at store.moongatestudios.com and click on the commission button.
The final thing that I am also doing is revamping my Patreon Page. Basically, I’m passing around the hat and asking for donations. I don’t need much, but it would be handy to be able to offset the cost of hosting the site, which, after over ten years of comic creating now needs to move to a bigger server. Really, any little bit is a appreciated and I’m only too happy to show my gratitude by offering advance content, sketches and other goodies. so become a Patron today! https://www.patreon.com/Beth
Again, I’d like to thank you all for sticking by me and coming back as I get back to creating the comics you know and love!
– Beth Wagner
Continuing Struggles…
Isaac & Lee: The Beginning : Part 5
This is my Cat note book:
It was the second note book where I jotted down thumbnails and story ideas for Isaac and Lee. It has a nice velvety cover (which also decided to double as a lint brush apparently, as per all of the cat and human hairs and lint that it’s collected)
It occurs to me that I lost this notebook for a while so I had to recreate pages while I was trying to finish the second story. as I look through this book now, I’m pretty sure that there are alternate pages that never made it into the second issue.
Isaac & Lee: The Beginning : Part 4
When I was just starting out, I had no confidence in my artwork….I don’t know how much that’s changed really. Well, that’s not true. Back in the day, I threw this out as an idea for a cover but immediately shot it down because I thought that I couldn’t draw it at a decent level. Now? If I were to have this rough draft for a cover? I would be able to create a cover from this, no problem!
Isaac & Lee: The Beginning : Part 3
My goal with Isaac & Lee was to simply make a comic book, working on developing the production and printing process, unfortunately art and story were the afterthought and I tried to keep the initial story fairly simple because I wanted my main focus to be on creating the physical book. I consciously modelled my art style after Bil Keene with a bit of Hergé because I wanted an art style that I could easily create. Again, this was me focusing on the process of creating a physical book rather than the art and story behind it.
Isaac & Lee: The Beginning : Part 2
My process back then was to do thumbnails and then to pencil and ink each panel on a separate page. Then, as you can see below, I would paste them on to a page manually in order to create the layout. Keep in mind, this was my first comic and I hadn’t learned the process yet. In fact, I wouldn’t break out of this part of the for several books.
Isaac & Lee: The Beginning
Well, here you have it. The first thumbnails of Isaac & Lee #1:
Isaac & Lee was the first mini comic that I self-published. I had no idea what the process was for creating a comic, not really. The only knowledge I had was from books that I read when I was a kid and from my training in pre-press and press operations. When I started there was no such thing as Ka-Blam, Print-on-Demand services and webcomics were in their infancy. So my friend was Kinkos and my home printer.
A Quick Update
Breathing a Little life on the site
Hello all!
So here’s the thing, I started drawing this comic a while ago and am slowly posting everything. I’ve got quite a bit stored up here, but I realised that it just doesn’t have any omph if I I don’t give some updates in between. It would feel mechanical to me, and that’s the last thing that I want this website be like. Isaac & Lee is anything but mechanical and so this site should be mechanical either.
My answer to this? Occasional blog posts in between the comics, just to say hi or whatever. To let people know that, yes, there is a person here who is making the comics (and is continuing to make the comics) as opposed to some mechanical drone.
Uh….. Not that I have anything against drones. One of my best friends is a drone…..
Please send all hate mail to moongoth@hotmail.com
But seriously, if you have any questions or comments about this webcomic please feel free to comment and let me know what you think or even if you just want to say hi!
