Update

To those willing to listen...

The Wild Acorn LLC is an art consignment store in Manchester, MI, which is consigning pet portraits from me...so far, no bites.  Today, however, I just handed in a few (very few) greeting cards with comics on them.  If all goes well, they should sell out in a short time and I can submit larger quantities.  So much fun.

Fun 4 All Comics and Games is, of course, a comic books, cards, and games store in Ann Arbor on Washtenaw Avenue somewhere between Eastern Michigan University and the ArborLand Plaza.

I'm having a couple days to myself, so today, I decided to hand in a resume and show the attendant a PDF of my comic book-in-progress, Wolfram: A Gothic Parable.  After all, this is the kind of thing I want to go into and I need a job to support my drawing and other necessities.

The attendant seemed to like the book and offered to pass the file on for the company to look at.  Also, he told me that any callbacks would be made the following week.

Sweet fortuity, I thought to myself, it looks like I put my resume in just in the nick of time!

No promises yet...but hope seems feasible.


So anyway, to those willing to listen,

God has really been good to me!

Update

Sorry I haven't been updating regularly.  I've been busy around the house and with job hunting and such things as these, but I'm still hoping to update twice a week (never less than once).  I've also added my twitter updates so I can tell you how Wolfram is coming along without intruding on the comics.

In the meantime, enjoy this comic, the raw material for my second postcard design:

And feel free to go over old memories of Smile and Wag from the Eastern Echo (in other words, earlier posts from this blog).

First wide-format single panel for the Sunday edition of Workin' Dogs.  Maybe soon I'll start working in color.

Workin' Dogs 3

Workin' Dogs

And this time, it's even been signed!

Huzzah!

(That last outburst being a leftover sentiment from my Saturday at the Renaissance Festival, from which I learned that it is quite enjoyable to be a nerd for a day.)

New Cartoon Idea: Workin' Dogs

A cartoon about workin' canines... in workin' situations.

Dr. Milkcowski's "Happy Cow" audition video--to violent for the internet!

E. Echo, 16. Sept, 2010

art and story copyright Eric D. Muntz

Well, it's not the best quality, but I don't have the original on my computer yet.  Hopefully it will.

In any case, I've said it before, and I'll probably say it again very soon, but Milkcowski simply is not a "Happy Cow.  Next Tuesday (I hope) I will begin to broadcast the "Tennis Tournament for Man and Beast."  Does Jonathan know enough about tennis to be a worthy opponent to Kate?  Meet Dr. Spot's stunt double!  And who will win?

Ooh.  That sounds really cheesy.

Um...just keep an eye on the blog, okay?

Eric Muntz out.

Guest Starring: Hemingway!

copyright 2010 by Eric Muntz

first published 4. Feb. 2010 in the Eastern Echo

This was based on a visit I made to Marion Bros. Coffee House in Clinton, MI.  I found a few sample bottles of lotion from a local massage and personal care company, one of which was "Baby Powder" and one of which was "Hemingway."

I think I overdid the rendering in the third panel.  Oh, well.

The Ceremony and the Reception

copyright 2009 by Eric Muntz

first published 3. Dec 2009 in the Eastern Echo

The style will get better soon.  It's easy to see in this one that I went a little overboard on Milkcowski's dewlap wrinkles, and wrinkles elswhere.  I'd been practicing rendering a cow as convincingly as possible.  This one was also drawn in parts and pasted together.  Each character, except for Milkcowski and Little Johnny, was an individual layer in the photoshop document.

copyright 2009 by Eric Muntz

first published 7. Dec 2009 in the Eastern Echo

I used the Photoshop paintbrush to render Luther (German Shepherd, sort of intended to allude to Martin Luther, one of the Protestant Reformation's most famous leadership figures).  If he looks a little out-of-place, that's why.  I was thinking of having Jonathan be bare-chested, but I figured I should go a little less over-the-top than one might expect me to.

If you look in the background of the second panel, you can make out Ewenice, Ramsey, Cream, and Milkcowski (Cream was used a couple times, though sparingly, in "Season 1").

copyright 2009 by Eric Muntz

first published 10. Dec 2009 in the Eastern Echo

My editor told me that the reception could make for some really funny and awkward situations.  So I went for it with Jonathan stumbling over the rather obvious differences between the relationship between himself and Little Johnny and the relationship between the lovely new couple--it's probably one he should have just let slide.

copyright 2009 by Eric Muntz

first published 14. Dec 2009 in the Eastern Echo

Slide shows...always fun, especially if you don't know about your slide organizer's skills with photo-editing software!  I don't know what to say about Little Johnny's appearance.  He probably would have looked just as cute without the diaper and pacifier.  It's only been within the last half-year, by the way, that I've learned to change a diaper.  Small new relatives have recently arrived!

<3

FALL2009 Semester Kickoff Week, belated

copyright 2009 by Eric Muntz

first published 5. Sept 2009 in the Eastern Echo.

I'll be adding comments later, if I have the time and forethought to do so.

copyright 2009 by Eric Muntz

first published 9. Sept 2009 in the Eastern Echo

Supply Sergeant Ferritz (both weeks, summer finale)

As far as I know, this was published in the Eastern Echo, but I'm not sure.

Supply Sgt. Ferritz was invented to be the archetype of a weasel--a fast-talking swindler.  This one had better line quality than the one below.

This one was never published in the Echo.

And the line quality kind of stinks.  But I like the joke a little better.  I don't really think I know quite how to draw a weasel yet.

You've been a great audience.  The Fall semester is approaching, and you may expect the  first post tomorrow.

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Funs with puns.