
Ah Lee, always so nervous and stressed. Sometimes he reminds me of Tony Randall’s character from the Odd Couple.
The Digital Edition
The Digital Edition

Ah Lee, always so nervous and stressed. Sometimes he reminds me of Tony Randall’s character from the Odd Couple.

Isaac’s superhuman ninja-skills. Oh man, the hair is one thing I’m glad I got away from. I had to re-ink the hair after I penciled it. Drawing each strand of hair? What was I thinking?

Another one of those great moments when we get to see a paranoid Isaac.

This page is all about the doughnut and is based on actual events.

I like this scene because it is not only a bit of foreshadowing for later on in the series, but it also shows what will become a pattern for Isaac and Lee to interact. Lee is going about his life and Isaac comes along and shakes things up for him.

Will Lee answer the phone? Thrill to the exciting conclusion! Yay slice of life stories. They can’t all have pulse-pounding action.

Does Lee get the girl? In some ways this scene is extremely important. Why? You’ll find out as you read on. This woman is one of the many departures from reality I took. In this case, I use her as a tool to develop Lee’s character.

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.

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.

Is everyone ready for the second issue of Isaac & Lee? For those of you just joining us, feel free to search the archives to see the beginning of the story. At this point however, you can still pretty much jump right in and enjoy the story without any problems. I originally started this series as a mini-comic. After seven years of drawing their story I am releasing it online so that more people can read the story. If you want to read the story in hardcopy, it is available from the Isaac & Lee online store. If you have any questions or comments on the story feel free to let me know what you think. I am also available for commissions as well. And now, the story!