Isaac & Lee
The Digital Edition
Isaac & Lee
The Digital Edition
So sketchy. Having done this artwork a few years ago now. It is pretty painful for me to look at. But I will inflict upon you dear reader! To further the store and to reassure you that it gets better….I promise!
Also, at this time, I’d like to say Happy Birthday to the real life Lee. I hope the day is everything that you want it to be.
Ah…old comics. In as much as Lee is awkward in this scene, so is the artwork. At any rate as I mentioned earlier, this scene is meant to establish how Lee interacts with the fairer sex.
Enter the romantic interest. I initially introduced this girl because I wanted to show how Lee interacts with the ladies. I won’t go into too much depth here yet suffice to say that she is used to help develop Lee’s character.
So, when I finally do the big Omnibus of Isaac & Lee, I’m going to include an alternate end scene to this subplot. But the thing I like about this scene is that you don’t really know if he did this by accident, or if he felt that the youngster needed to “expand his knowledge”.
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.
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.