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Trouble is My Business Part 3 (Page 17)
The first meeting. As always, Lee leaves a lasting impression on people.
Trouble is My Business Part 3 (Page 15) And A Birthday Greeting!
One of the things that I’ve always liked to do was have things going on in the background of my work. Because they are in a sleazy bar, what else is going to happen? A bar fight of course.
Happy Birthday to the person who Lee is based off of. You know who you are! Without you, this comic wouldn’t even be here. Have a great day!
(At this point I’d like to point out how cool it is that this comic has updated itself on both Isaac and Lee’s birthdays)
Trouble is My Business Part 3 (Page 11)
This is what I like to call the “Mos Eisley” scene.
Trouble is My Business Part 3 (Page 10)
Well… I really liked the story at this point, but I certainly wouldn’t do a page layout like this now. Not unless the story called for it. This is one of those pages that I look at like one looks at an old hair style that they used to wear. Yikes!
Trouble is My Business Part 3 (Page 6)
If the pidgeons are this bad, can you imagine what the patrons of the bar are like?
Trouble is My Business Part 3 (Page 5)
This scene is a rare one in that it was actually a request. A friend, and co-worker, of mine wanted to die in one of my comics.
Now Isaac & Lee is, not only a drama, but also a dramatised version of actual events so I began thinking about how I would kill off his character (who hadn’t been introduced yet). I don’t know if he was serious about wanting to be in the comic, but he had presented a writing challenge to me and I felt obligated to rise to meet this challenge. But how?
Then one day life decided to give me his story. They say that life is stranger than fiction and his story is no exception. He was at a different job and he was on his lunch break. He unwrapped his sandwich and began eating it. All of a sudden, a seagull swooped down, attacked him (giving him some very deep cuts that probably needed stitches) and took off with his sandwich. The basic story was strange enough, but my mind decided to run with the story and make it even more bizarre than the original.
Looking back, I’m not sure why I changed the bird from a seagull to a pidgeon. Maybe because I feel that pidgeons are funnier than seagulls, I’m not sure.
What I like about this scene is that it sets the stage for what happens in the bar. In the same way that the guy outside the bar is eaten alive, so too is Lee.
Trouble is My Business Part 2 (Page 3)
Hooray for the lack of paint bucket use! I’m not sure what I was thinking, but it’s pretty obvious now that those two blacks in the doorway are completely different. I think this was back when I was using a PC to do my work. In addition to it constantly crashing because I was making the computer do too much work, the monitor I had had terrible resolution. I think it was a SVGA, and not even a flat screen CRT. My point? I could barely see what I was doing on that old thing. It’s amazing Isaac and Lee turned out as well as it did at the time.
Trouble is My Business Part 2 (Page 2)
The nice thing about a psuedo-biographical comic is that every once in a while one of the people in the story will read what you are creating and then add in their two cents worth, which in turn, ends up in the comic. (re: the backdoor joke) This book I like to call “attack of the trench-coats” in the same way the first issue had an excess of bookcases.
Trouble is My Business Part 2 (Page 1)
I’m back to add commentary to the pages. As I drew these almost seven years ago, I have quite a bit to reminisce about. As we begin the second story, the pace picks up a bit. This is where the shirts begin to show up in the story. Each shirt pays a bit of homage to something that each of the real life people were known for at the time of the initial publishing. Oh and yes, more bookcases.