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Isaac & Lee: The Beginning : Part 5

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Crazy Lizzie

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

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Crazy Lizzie

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

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Crazy Lizzie

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

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Crazy Lizzie

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

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Crazy Lizzie

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.

Isaac & Lee 2017

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Crazy Lizzie

Hello everyone!

Sorry I’m late, this was a complete mess up with my scheduling app. But I should be back on track! Next week I’m going to start posting old roughs of Isaac & Lee, starting at the beginning! I’ll also include a new sketch so if nothing else you can see how much the art style has changed over the years. I’ll go over how it all started, so stay tuned!

Isaac & Lee – The State of the Comic

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Crazy Lizzie

As we draw to the close of issue #9, so does the first story arch. It’s been a lot of fun and I’ve really enjoyed developing these characters.

Over the past few years, the webcomic has been catching up to the hard copy comic. We are now at a point where it’s caught up and no further story has been created. I needed a bit of a break from the characters.

I have taken that break and have begun work on the next issue. However, it’s going to take some time before any pages are ready to be posted. So, after a two week break (which doesn’t include Isaac’s Run), I’m going to go back and post some of the initial ideas and sketches that I had for the series.  I’m also going to post some concept sketches for characters and post some process work and of course there’ll still be exciting new instalments of Isaac’s Run.

When I get back to posting the main I’m going to change up the format a bit, although you won’t really see a difference. I’m moving to the normal model for webcomics, which is posting the pages first online *then* collect them in a printed format. Crazy, I know.

I’m hoping that the new format will be able to speed up my time on getting a book out and hopefully improve the quality of the finished print book. Basically, I’m doing it all for you, my loyal readers and fans.

Right now, I’d like to thank you all for sticking by me all of these years and I look forward to telling you more adventures of Isaac & Lee.

– Beth Wagner

2016