College Soup - Part 7

Wait... what's this?.... is it the latest part of the comic story Michael hasn't updated since November of last year? (gasp)... It IS!!! Hooray!!!

For the umpteenth time, I apologize for the EXTREME lateness of this comic. Finishing this story arc been banging around in the back of my mind since I posted the last installment 7-8 months ago. Recently, I became greatly inspired by Chris Sanders' new web-comic Kiskaloo as well as all of John Sanford's Chippy & Loopus strips, all the comics on Dumm Comics (link on bottom right), E.C. Segar's Popeye & the Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse strips Thad K. posted a few weeks back.

Before continuing on, I advise you go back into the archives & re-read the first 6 pages. To make it easier for you guys, here's a link to the old strips. The first part was on September 3rd 2007, so start from there & work your way up. There are a few random articles n' bits strewn inbetween, but it'll be easy to get through it all. LINK!

I did about half the comic in color, then I realized it would probably look better in good ol' black & white, so I hid the color layer & just posted it as such. It was a real pain compiling all the images together & bordering them off. After looking over my old stuff, I can see I've definitely "improved" on my "draftsmanship" (if you can call it that). I guess my first year of college really DID pay off. The lettering, bubbles & borders were done in Photoshop, but on future strips everything will be all hand done in pencil & pen.

Without further ado, here's part 7 of For the Birds: "College Soup" (aka "Soup or Sales")

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College Soup - Part 6

It's been just over 1 month since I put up the latest installment of the College Soup story. About time, right?

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Notice anything different about this comic compared to the last ones? This comic was completely drawn & colored in Photoshop! All done thanks to my brand new Wacom Intuos3 Tablet!

I know that all the fat people & background characters all look like they're from a separate universe that seems to be made up of blue marshmallow men, but I just didn't feel like drawing dozens of different fat people. It took long enough to begin with (8 1/2 hours from start to finish). From know on, I'm just going to scan in the drawings & color them. It's a lot less time consuming.

& as an added gift, here's the original layout. This was my only reference for how the comic should be drawn. See if you can compare the rough & the final to seewhat the differences are between the two.

*UPDATE*

Hey! I figured out how to superimpose pictures on top of eachother in Photoshop! Now you can see the rough & the final in one shot! Enjoy!

College Soup - Part 5

Here's part #5 of College Soup! Enjoy!

For the Birds - College Soup III

Here's part three of "College Soup".

Since drawing comics isn't my forte, my thought & word bubbles take over the whole panel. I gotta keep working on my layouts.

For the Birds - College Soup II

"College Soup"... that's what the story is called...enjoy!

*Update - by the way, nobody has guessed the answer to the question I posted August 25th. I'll give it one more week so any guessers could have a last chance to win the prize. Guess away!*

Stay tuned for Part III!

For the Birds via SVA

Here I am, settled down in my cozy little pad at SVA...with 6 other roommates!

Seriously, it's a real blast here. All my roommates are all swell mates & they great to be around. All the comforts of home all in one place. College life is sweet (& pretty expensive).

Here's that big surprise I promised you guys a few days back: a shiny new comic starring your favorite blog-oriented & heavily copyrighted fowl!

Unlike my last comic fiasco, I've got a majority of the story laid out already, so all I got to do is scan 'em, post 'em & finally bask in the blogger love!

Stay tuned for the second installment in the next couple of days