Sad…

Posted on February 12, 2025 by Leroy Brown

Dear ICECUBES friends, it is with a very sad heart that I share with you that my dearly beloved wife passed away during the Christmas holidays. This has been very difficult for me and it is hard to even gather the courage to draw. I will try my best in the coming weeks to do more ICECUBES strips, but for now I just want to say thank you for being fans and God bless.

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Tim Kretzer
02/13/2025, 12:38 pm
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I’m so sorry, Leroy. I can’t imagine what you must be going through emotionally, etc. All my best to you, and I hope and pray you’ll be ok. I just came across your channel today. I watched one of the traditional inking segments, and really got a lot out of it; really enjoyed it. Many, many thanks.
1. Leroy Brown
  
  02/13/2025, 5:32 pm
  
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  Dear Tim, thank you very much for your message. I am so glad you enjoyed watching the video. I will try and do more on the traditional pen & ink style that I use. All the best!

Ice Bag.

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Leroy Brown

I always enjoy the graphics on bags of ice. They are so funny sometimes. Here’s a good one! 🙂

Pencil sketches.

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Leroy Brown

Some pencil sketches for strip # 089. Featured in ICECUBES the comic strip Vol. 2 for the Kindle! Be on the lookout! 🙂

see the published strip here

Kindle Volume #2 Cover Art.

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Leroy Brown

Preliminary pencil sketch for the cover of Vol. 2 on the Kindle. It’s coming real soon! 🙂

ICECUBES the comic strip. Kindle Vol. 2!

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Leroy Brown

ICECUBES the comic strip Volume 2 on the Kindle is coming out real soon! Watch for the announcement on Facebook and Twitter! Get it first and show off to your friends! More than 60 pages of comics and art from your pals at ICECUBES. This will be the one everyone will want, so be on the lookout for ICECUBES the comic strip Volume 2 !

Color matters! Peanuts vs. McDonalds.

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Leroy Brown

It used to be that comics had really great colors. Big primary colors printed with halftone dots. A lot of the times the color dots were off register and would bleed outside the lines. That was so cool! In fact my wife and I agree that it made the comic better when the color was off register like that! Nowadays I’ve noticed that colors are no longer printed that way. In fact colors lay real flat on the page now and seem to look dull in some cases. For instance this Peanuts Sunday cartoon just looks flat and lifeless.

The colors are drab and dull. Its quite upsetting actually to see a once great comic strip like Peanuts reduced to looking second rate. Whoever colored this did an awful job. But that’s not the only problem. The colors are extremely flat and are perfectly within the lines, how deadening is that? Sometimes too much technology just kills something great. I did find something cool though. It seems that McDonalds still uses the old halftone print jobs on their Happy Meal bags! I think they look great by the way and so much more dynamic than that poor Peanuts strip. Good job McDonalds, I hope they keep it up!