Category Archives: Never for Money/Always for Love

Hey all…

Yes, I know that the last entry was all about our grand Avilon Zoo adventure, but it was only after posting it that I realized that I had left out a couple of other bits from the trip. After all, it is a huge place.

I thought about letting it go and moving onto a new cerealsat story line, but ah well. What’s a couple of pages, right?

Bada-bing! Now I’m done.

For the Love of a Man

Hey folks! Here’s a comic about an Avilon Zoo trip Giz and I went on a couple of Saturdays ago. ‘Hope none of you are diabetic (I kid. It’s not THAT schmaltzy). Enjoy!

(Fun Facts: Their orangutan male is named “Joey” and their tiger is “Ruffa”!

Hehe… Wonder if her keeper’s an Annabelle)

Thusly, from now on, I resolve to do most of my lettering with a fancy computery font. *Is so proud, beams are shooting outta her butt*

Crude, Raw Lovin’

I did some digging and lookit what I found! My first ever comics diary, circa 2007! A lot of it’s really messy and really shameful, but what the cabbage, right?

Maybe I’ll scan a couple of pages when I grow the patience. Hee. But in the mean time, here’s one I found gathering dust in my hard drive: a poorly scanned doodle of shameless Johnny Depp and Alan Rickman McLovin’!

(I bet he is.)

For those who remember the movie, I can honestly say I didn’t enjoy it much, save for one or two scenes. I mean, visually it was great; even the concept of MEAT PIES had me. I think what ruined it (for me, anyway) was a lot of the high pitched, god awful singing that was going on. That little boy’s irritating singing haunts me to this day. Jeez Louise.

No complaints about Alan Rickman though; HE was dee-lightful!

And yet another awkward episode of-

Happens to the best of us.

The red bits were originally colored by hand, but since I haven’t figured out how to make the blacks richer without losing color, I’m somewhat at a loss. I ended up re-coloring the bits in PS. 😛 Tacky?

On another note, I’m certain most, if not all of you have already discovered ROBO-UNICORN-ATTACK. I didn’t give it much thought until last week… But MY SWEET MERCY, it’s addictive and shiny!

It’s got me mesmerized since; crashing into walls and dancing with crystalized dolphins to the eternal loop of Erasure. @_@

Quick Draw

Hi hi! Well, it’s been awhile, hasn’t it? I’ve been so out of the loop ever since Knives got buggy… Even more so after I accidentally comicked up a hellstorm due to a gross misunderstanding on New Slang contribution guidelines 😛 I won’t bore you with the details since, well… It’s quite embarrassing. (Although a precious few of you know what I speak of. hehehe.) But needless to say that in due time, I’ll be uploading a CRAPLOAD of pages, starring one Ria Redulla and her Heavy Metal past.

In the mean time, I tried to get back into the groove with some doodles. It was quite difficult actually.

Mikey, you will not believe how many tries I went through to get your face right.

And a little starter before this clip comic; I recently invested on a dress form 🙂 No, I won’t be going into dressmaking, but I will be opening up an online shop to sell clothes under consignment (i.e. as a fund raiser and not personal gain). ANYway, I found a great price for a fairly new dress form online and ordered it!

This little episode happened while I was carrying it to the baggage counter:

Regrettably, I messed up Mikey’s face at the punchline; I forgot to draw in the cheeks!

Just a couple of hours

I actually drew and inked these last Monday, (in a Burger King, no less!)

Oh yes, before anything, disclaimer alert:

Since Knives, my laptop got buggy and went to the shop, I haven’t been able to properly clean up my CerealSat work. Normally, “cleaning up” wouldn’t be that big a deal, since cropping was all I ever needed to do back in the day. However, now that I’m using other scanners (belonging to my mom’s office and Giz), I unfortunately don’t know how to automatically get the contrast level I’m used to… Thus all the gray and dullness. Ugh. I know, it’s horrid; I apologize for all the gray and all the dullness.

THANK YOU FOR FIXING IT TZI!

“Because X is the new Y”

Last week or so, the lovely Alice asked me if I was interested in contributing comics on “Dating” for New Slang. Naturally, I yelled HELLYES! got to work immediately, and then proceeded to tear my hair out the next following day. As it turns out, I know next to NOTHING on dating. YES I can share a story or two about relationships, but somehow that’s not quite the same thing, is it?

Gizmo, I resolve that we should go on more dates.

Either way, please excuse the choppy narrative… I kind of winged it on the final stretch and didn’t plan it out as well as I should have. ‘Hope you enjoy though!

Like what you see?  Check out New Slang for more prose and essays by artists who tell it like it is.

Gasundheit

Three pages done in one night… Not bad, if I do say so myself. Tiny disclaimer though (as always): I was pretty zonked by the time I was inking in the narrative so I apologize for the misplaced commas and general choppiness of it all. Enjoy!

Bet a few of you are trying to remember if you got hugs from me eh? 😉 Bet you can’t remember. I’m sneaky itchy ninja.

On another note, a few of you might have caught the premature release of “Playing the Game” yesterday, and you might be wondering why I took it down. Well actually, it’s my contribution to New Slang‘s February anthology of “Awkwardity”; after some thought (and coaxing from Alice :o) I figured I might as well let them have “first” publish. Well… almost first anyway. To those who haven’t read it, keep an eye out for it there! I spent a solid week of tearing hair follicles out just to get it done. In the mean time, stay tuned to CerealSat folks! Cheers!

Inbetween Days

Alright kids… just like the first panel in this set says, these hourlies were drawn and inked out the day right after I resigned from good ol’ Bates 141. (That was… around Feb 2 or something. @_@)

Now,some of you might be thinking: “ZOMG REG YOU QUIT??”, while a few of you are more of a “Pfft. Old news.” variety. I apologize for the loss of days here at cerealsat, but just like my last two entries screamed, I do NOT own a scanner. That said, updates might have to be more scheduled from now on, since I no longer have the luxury of a fast working, hi-res Canon scanner right at my desk. (/tear)

NOR do I have a steady income of moneyz…(/cry)

…or officemates to troop to Bugsy’s with at 7:00 PM. (/WAAAH)

AHEM. But enough of the bawling right? This is old hat news as far as my days go, afterall. So without further delay:

I also apologize for the wonky spacing and de-sat quality. I SHOULD fix it, but after all the bruhaha I went through just get these 5 pages up (finally) I really would rather NOT. hehe… (I dunno. Maybe later after supsup._

Off we go!