Summer!

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Leroy Brown

Hey friends! Here's a quick drawing I did while sitting at my table at a comic convention recently. I was inspired by the hot summer we're having. Speaking of temperature, some cool things are happening for ICECUBES. This September I will be part of a comics symposium hosted by the University of Houston-Clear Lake. It should be a lot of fun with great art and great talks by fellow cartoonists. Also premiering this summer is the Happy Comics comics page appearing in print in the Kingwood Monthly newspaper, featuring ICECUBES, Zombie Boy, Urban Jungle, Jim Corn and Spudcomics. It's great to see some 'cool' comics in print for the first time! So sit back and enjoy the warm weather and watch for more ICECUBES news coming real soon! :) Leroy Brown

2 thoughts on “Summer!”

Bo Lumpkin
07/23/2013, 3:03 pm
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Good to hear the good news. I have ben missing you.
1. Leroy Brown
  
  07/25/2013, 11:43 pm
  
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  Thanks Bo!

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!