ICECUBES the comic strip #329

Posted on September 8, 2023 by Leroy Brown

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I love his duds!
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  Freeze is a film director now – he has to look the part!

Year In Review!

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Leroy Brown

Well, here we are again at the beginning of a brand new year! 2014 holds some great surprises for ICECUBES fans and we’ll continue building on what we did in 2013! A quick look back on the past year will reveal some pretty neat ICECUBES facts:
* ICECUBES is regularly syndicated in print in the Kingwood Monthly newspaper. I also created and edit a full monthly comics page featuring other guest artists including Mark Stokes of Zombie Boy, David Wilborn of Urban Jungle, Michael Hawkins with Jim Corn, Lonnie Easterling with Spudcomics and Kim Belding with PicPak.

* ICECUBES was featured at the awesome Comiculture Symposium at the University of Houston in Clear Lake. I participated in a live panel with James Barr creator of The Crow and ICECUBES comic art was displayed in the University art gallery.

* ICECUBES the book is in 5 comic book stores all across the country!

* The first ICECUBES comic book is almost completely sold out. (some artist editions left)

* I started work on a book of my earlier more ‘underground’ strips called Atomik Comix. A zine preview was created for Houston Zine Fest and is still available for $1 + shipping.

* ICECUBES was submitted to some of the larger newspaper syndicates.

* More original art was sold at conventions and online. There is more original art up for sale, click here!

* ICECUBES premiered 2 animated comics! Woohoo! More to come.

* Finally, a big surprise is coming in the next few weeks… so stay tuned!
Show your support for ICECUBES by purchasing one of the remaining numbered artist editions of the book.
Thanks for reading ICECUBES! 🙂 Leroy Brown

Drawing Strips.

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Leroy Brown

I like it when I am so busy drawing strips that my table starts looking like this. Much more to come in 2014, including a big surprise!! 🙂

Artist Edition.

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Leroy Brown

Limited Numbered Artist Edition. Here are the numbers that I still have: 54/ 55/ 57/ 58/ 59/ 170/ 173/ 176/ 177/ 178/ 181/ 183/ 184/ 186/ 192/ 195/ 196/ 197/ 198/ Very few left, hand numbered, bagged & boarded, individually personalized. No shipping until January 1st.

Bo Lumpkin Our Friend.

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Leroy Brown

Bo Lumpkin was probably ICECUBES’ biggest fan. For a couple of years now he faithfully read ICECUBES and always commented on the strips. Often his comment would be the only one the strip would get. Even during lean times when it seemed all the other readers had disappeared, I could always count on Bo. I loved Bo’s comments. They were always funny, clever and most of all supportive. I remember one time when I felt the strip was being completely ignored and the web stats were down in the low single digits, there it was: a comment from Bo! I replied to his comment: “Hey Bo, knew I could count on you! 🙂 Iâ€™m hearing crickets otherwiseâ€¦ I think the internet generation is miffed ;)” and Bo replied this: “Crickets might be a good idea. No one seems to be bittinâ€™ the other bait I keep throwinâ€™ out.” Classic Bo! At times I can honestly say that his comments were the only thing that kept me motivated. So for that, I can only say: “Thanks Bo! :)” Leroy Brown ps: as proof of how good a friend Bo was to us webcomic artists, here’s a short list of other tributes: Life On 66 Bug Pudding Bearman Cartoons My Life In The Trenches The Joy Of Stephen

Holiday Special!

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Leroy Brown

Ok dear friends, as promised here is the *fantastic holiday special* on ICECUBES the Book! From now until January 1st 2014 *free shipping* on all book purchases (USA & Canada only and just $10 overseas for up to 2 books)!! That’s right, every book comes with free shipping so you only pay $15 for a regular copy or $20 for the numbered artist edition! I only have 19 numbered edition books left! (I’ll be glad to email you the numbers, just shoot me an email at icecubescomic(at)yahoo(dot)com.) I will sign and personalize every book, no exceptions! 🙂 Artist Numbered Edition! (they come bagged & boarded) Additionally, with every purchase of a numbered edition I’ll include a super special limited edition copy of AtomikComix! This little zine was made for Houston Zine Fest and is the prelude for a book of my early underground comics. These were $5 each at Zine Fest and you can get one for free with your purchase of a numbered edition ICECUBES book! Hurry and get your books, the first printing of ICECUBES the Book is just about all gone! I just want to take this opportunity to say a big *thank you* to everyone who continues to support ICECUBES and helps to keep this strip alive! You make it all happen! More great things to come in 2014! Merry Christmas everyone and have a wonderful New Year 2014! 🙂

Leroy Brown

Talking Balloons and Blue Lines!

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Leroy Brown

Recently I did a strip that required a lot of talking balloons in one single panel. I had to plan it out so that it could be read and understood properly and that there would be room for the characters as well. It took some fussing around and I ended up scoring the entire height of the panel with blue lines! ICECUBES the comic strip 220 pencils

Since I don’t use a computer for lettering, once I place something I have to commit to it. In the past cartoonists would often blue line their whole strip and I’ve seen Lil Abner strips that were scored from top to bottom regardless of how much text there was! This was often done by an assistant. In my case I was surprised to get to that point where I actually had to do it for practical purposes. Pretty neat! You can see the inked panel here. ICECUBES the comic strip 220 ink

I was pretty happy with the end result, especially in the last panel where I had to use some white paint for the snow effects! ICECUBES the comic strip 220 panel b

You can own this strip if you’d like! I am making it available with *free shipping* to anywhere in the US and Canada, and only $10 shipping overseas. I will gladly sign it and personalize it for you as well! **SOLD** Read the final published strip *here*. Thanks for visiting! 🙂