• Wed 9/1- Comic up! (I know right? about damn time)
• Thur 9/2- Filming the Educated Ape
• Fri 9/3- Ask the Educated Ape Ep 12 posted
• Sat 9/4- DRAGON*CON
• Sun 9/5- DRAGON*CON
• Mon 9/6- DRAGON*CON
• Tue 9/7- Doug’s Birthday! wish him well! (might be a birthday comic in there)
• Wed 9/8- A day of rest,
• Thur 9/9- Filming Educated Ape
• Fri 9/10- Ask the Educated Ape Episode 13

There you have it folks, a set amount of deadlines that you can all hold me to! and I know you will, the amazing group of task masters you all are. I will also try to film a LIVE from DRAGON*CON video for you. Perhaps a blog as well, we shall see.

I am still living out of a bag this month so if I have to delay something please be kind, but soon a new Dogtoon Office will be up and running! WOOT! so excited! till then,

Stay Classy Dogtoon Nation!

Rupert Cornelius is back in his old set, and looking to his new formspring.com account for questions to answer, this week vampires, puppies and David Duchovny

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Check out the COMIC BLOG and go behind the scenes!

Hey All,

So, the Holidays have come and gone, the dinner parties, the feasting, the drinking and as with many people…..I have a pleasant reminder of how much I enjoyed it, in the form of a semi protruding and rather annoying gut! I feel this is made all the worse by my being a generally skinny guy. Nothing makes
a belly worse then having it on a skinny frame. So as I work to get rid of mine lots of comedic things have happened and I felt a good old comic story line is just what the doctor ordered!

I think I have really gotten my schedule down, (though work is moving me all around gahh!) but I think at this point I will have Monday as my color update, and Wednesday as a line art day. This gives me plenty of time to work out my story lines and color between the Wednesday and Monday update. I also am fervidly using my sketch book to get out story idea’s character notes and overall story arch’s. I really feel sorry for anyone who has to decipher my ramblings. But at least I can make sense of it, and I am really stoked to get this story underway,

A little about the comic story, I really liked the idea of Doug being the butt of a joke every now and again and since I did in fact gain some weight what a great little fact to poke fun at. This story line will of course develop for a few strips to come. So stick with it!

Check out the comic HERE!

Check out the comic blog for all the insights!

COMIC BLOG:

Time once again for a little insight as to the comic that I do. So lets go over it a bit, first off I really did enjoy Avatar, and doing some research into how James Cameron made the movie made me love it all the more. I mean real time motion capture, and re-inventing 3D cameras? MY GOD! the film geek in me experienced a joygasim and a half! That said the reason for the title of the comic “Ferngully + Smurfs + Aliens = Magic” is because thats how I felt walking away from the theater. “Haven’t I seen that basic plot before?” and Yes it felt like someone meshed the afore mentioned movies together but on retrospect, I have tasted cheese before but that does not mean that same cheese mixed with a sauce and noodles wont make a lasagna that is all the better for its combination! So to that I say “WELL DONE Mr. Cameron!”  for so many reasons! and I am glad he won awards for his work! they are well deserving! it is a visually stunning piece that I enjoyed from start to finish! 

So on to the comic itself. Since its no small secret that Doug the Dog is based on me…. if this is news I refer you to our similar names; And when I was a kid, like most kids when I saw a movie or TV show I liked I tried to BE that movie, dressing up, playing pretend and all that fun! Well, as I took on the character of Doug the Dog I basically decided he had to embody some of those youthful and playful parts of my childhood in his semi adult years. To that end, playing Avatar seemed like a fun option. Also coloring him as a Ni’Ve was such fun! and after inking this piece there was no way I was going to let it remain in black and white! At first I planned to have him holding the arrow ready to shoot but found that covered his face too much. So I opted for the “just shot the arrows” look, this also turned out to be more fun to have a few lodged in Backslash’s backpack! I also only drew one panel for this strip, intending the entire amount of dialog to fit in the empty space around the characters. Once I got to the layout stage I really liked the idea of having the scream break up the action more, so I added the second face frame then. For time sake I decided not to go with my first option to fix this which was to redraw a second panel with an angry looking Backslash and a missing Doug, though comical (and that is the intent of this strip after all) Deadlines loomed so I went with the close up on the face instead. 

I really am glad to getting back to full color strips and hope to do a lot more. I have been working out a few story lines that I am really stoked to get under way. New characters, new adventures, and more about the world our Dog House friends live in.

till then all hope you have a great day! and check back Wednesday for the next update! 

Comic #55