Well guys it has been fun. Look out for the next few weeks I will be running all of the strips I have left in my hard drive. So look forward to them. They will all be retitled with something a little new. Enjoy!

First off I went on hiatus for a few weeks to recenter my interest. Secondly I am trying to redesign the website. Thirdly I wanted to practice a new style.

On the first topic: the hiatus came after I changed up a very pivotal apparatus of my mind. I started a medication that really made my brain change in not such good ways. This effected hundreds of important things over all my life. My comics suffered for it and I found myself unable to actually finish anything I was working on. The worst was that I was completely unable to focus on getting anything done let alone sit infront of a computer for three hours to write draw and post each strip. Since I am still a new cartoonist a single cartoon can last about 3-4 hours each day I work on it. From finding the headline to sketching it out to drawing it to putting it on the site and writing about it. So I need to have a sort of focus. I found that I was not in love with the process because it felt like torture to do anything for that long. Even if I liked it. So I stopped liking it and things were just not fun. So I wanted to figure out a way that I could get things back to good. Which brings me to my next point, the redesign.

I think I watched a Frasier episode and it said to make your home your castle. No wait it was a Simpsons episode. You know the one where Moe loses interest in bartending and goes back to his college to talk to his dying professor. Meanwhile Homer takes over the bar. The professor tells Moe that he should love where he works so Moe redesigns his bar to a po-mo club bar. I will not be turning the website into a po-mo clubbing site, but I am trying really hard to make it into someplace I would like to go to on a daily basis and just check it out. The look so far in my redesign is flash based. and here is the segue into the new style.

I decided that I love the look of flash. I used to draw in it all the time and it really fit my style. But I found that I have gotten used to drawing with AI and PS so it has been a hard road trying to figure out how to draw right in flash. The main point of it is that your first sketch is pretty much your last, as redrawing in flash like you would in PS is nearly impossible due to there being no pixel sizing on the brushes. They are all relative to the zoom you are currently at. I feel that is its biggest failure and if they could make it so you have pixel sizes then it would be the ultimate program. In my opinion.

So those are the three things I am currently working on during this working vacation from the strip. I will keep you updated with where we are going and when we are going to be done. In the mean time, remember to check out ToolsComics.com drawn by my good friend James Kuhn. He will surely entertain with his very professional news paper comic strip updated Monday Wednesday and Friday.

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The poster will not let me post for some reason!!!  I will figure this out before the end of tonight.  Hang in there.  If you want some new comics you have not seen before check out the old archives at: newsepics.blogspot.com

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So it is the year 2009 eh?  I have been doing a lot to get News Epics! running and looking good recently.  Most other things have taken a backseat and I am really enjoying my time.  If this is your first time here then you should check out the archives  by hitting the first button, or if you want to see very old archives take a look at News Epics! the Blogspot version which date back to July of 2008.  Here is the link:  newsepics.blogspot.com

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You can read the gooey center of reapings about his site in the “About News Epics!” section, but here I will give you the quick version:  

News Epics is about making fun of the news that fails to have a heart on any situation.  In it I find a serious loss of humanity so my job is to exagerate the news headlines as I see them.  I never read the story before making the strip as that defeats my inital reading.  This is more about the headlines than the story.  

It is a fun little project I started a few months back.  I update every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually the day before so you can read them that Monday, Wednesday, Friday respectively.

Enjoy!

Adam

If you like them and want to read the back logs, I will see about getting them up here, but until then, check them out over at http://NewsEpics.Blogspot.com