Upstart Comics

Version One of Upstart Comics. A space for beginnings.

Month: July, 2011

Landing Screen Layout Ideas

Here is my working concept for what the eventual landing page for Upstart Comics will look like.  That page will link to the comics, this blog (which will move to blog.upstartcomics.com), and contact info.  I’d like to figure out a way to have the word balloon on the page receive a blog feed to display [...]

More Logos

Well they still aren’t there, but I’m closing in on a working logo.  I need to find a better font, similar to the middle design but with letters that are a bit wider.  As with the website as a whole, I need to bring this to a close soon so I can get to actually [...]

A bit better

This is slightly better, not incredibly embarrassing like a few posts ago.

Mouthwash via Paul J. Bearsworth

That last post was embarrassing, so I had to put something else up before I went to bed for the night.  Here is an abandoned start for a comic re-telling of Goldilocks I was working on for an iFanboy contest.  I actually like the idea, a noir-ish look at a broken Papa bear after the [...]

Illustrator is not my friend – a sketch.

This is the rough draft of what I am hoping my logo will look like one of these days.  I had the idea for the logo back in college, even used it in a story I was writing as the logo for a telephone company.  Unfortunately since then those “Above the influence” commercials have been [...]

Formatting for fun and profit!

These are a few other images I have done for people over the past few years.  The two nursery rhyme illustrations were for the birthday of a friend’s daughter.  The Fenway Park images were for a Bostonian cousin who was married a few years ago. The Nursery Rhyme drawings are 500 pixels wide, Fenway is [...]

Jumping ahead, like an idiot.

Well in thinking about what I want this website to one day be, and the functionality I’d like to figure out how to build, I started to jump about 12 steps ahead myself.  While its not a terrible idea for me to want to learn a programming language, at this point it would be another [...]

“Herm-own-ninny”

This was the most web ready of what I had at hand.  Not properly optimized mind you, but it’ll work for this first shot into the 1′s and 0′s of Internet. This is a drawing of Hermione I did for a friend and fellow Harry Potter fan.  As Midwesterner in New York, prone to travel for [...]