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Trouble is My Business Part 2 (Page 6)
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.
Trouble is My Business Part 2 (Page 5)
Will Lee answer the phone? Thrill to the exciting conclusion! Yay slice of life stories. They can’t all have pulse-pounding action.
Trouble is My Business Part 2 (Page 4)
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.
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.
Isaac & Lee Issue #2: Trouble is My Business Part 2 – the Introduction
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!
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.
Trouble is My Business (page 14)
We finally come to the end of the first issue and the beginning of the adventure. I remember having such a time with trying to figure out the logistics of turning on car lights effectively. At the time, I was planning on printing everything off on my home printer. This was right before the advent of POD. I hadn’t heard of Ka-Blam or any of those places, so when I was drawing stories, I had to take into account the amount of ink that I’d be using in the printing process of the book. The art suffered accordingly. It’s pages like this that make me want to revise the series.
Trouble is My Business (page 13)
Lee says goodnight and we’re left with Isaac who sits for a bit. We see a little bit more character development as he whips out a notepad and begins making notes. What is he writing? I don’t know if we ever get to find out really.