The Adventures of Clip and Art #9

Like Rear Window

Whell! Suffice it to say I'm far more pleased with this strip than the last one. Especially the last panel. I can't take credit for figuring out how to get the lighting to work, but executing the idea and seeing the end result fills me with mirth bordering on auto-erotic ecstasy.

Also, new character? Yes, please!

Fifty cool points to the first person who identifies the clouds outside the window in panels two and three.

The Adventures of Clip and Art #8

Peeping Art

I've been wanting to try a more minimalist, background-less strip for a while now.  I'm not sure how I feel about it.  On the one hand, it looks like I'm spatially retarded, but on the other hand, I ended up with something vaguely Wondermark-y in visual design.  I also don't like that this strip has a grand total of two words, two of which are not actually words.  It was a fun experiment, but I probably won't do something like this again for a while.

Also, I don't really know what the inside of a gym looks like.

The Adventures of Clip and Art #7

Gregsbook

I'm back. I regret having taken such a long break, but that's what happens when you work retail during the holidays and live at least 1000 miles from friends and family you haven't seen in months.

The Adventures of Clip and Art #6

Duet

I'm back after a two-week hiatus.  Thanksgiving followed by the madness of the retail world in the weeks preceding Christmas and the unreasonably inflated workload of finals week left little time to do anything else.  Thankfully, all that's behind me now, and I can get back to comicking the shit out of the internet.  I'm going to try my damnedest to push another strip out before the end of the week; I'll have to tear myself away from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood long enough to make it happen.

One thing I forgot to mention in the last Clip and Art post is that I wrote Clip's light bulb out of the story because it was a horrendous bitch to work around.  It took up so much panel space and was a major contributor to the Unreadable Text Disaster that plagued the first few strips.

The Adventures of Clip and Art #4

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Who is the shadowy figure attempting to break into their apartment?  Where did Clip go?  Stay tuned for the answers to these questions and more!

You may notice a few changes.  Clip now has feet.  Speech now has bubbles.  I had wanted to avoid speech bubbles since they're extra work and they obstruct the image, but they're just too helpful to not use them.

Screen Bean Theatre #2

It's All Downhill From Here

This strip is not affiliated in any way with any webcomics you may have seen in the past, specifically one which employs "FUUUU" as a recurring punchline.  I testify that I had not even heard of that particular comic before I made this strip.  I also testify that that comic is fucking brilliant.

This week reminded me of that one episode of Stressed Eric where Eric goes to the hospital and continually sustains more injuries while he's there.  I had fully intended to do another Clip and Art strip on Thursday, but between covering extra shifts at work and having to pick up unexpected slack for a school assignment, time kind of got away from me.  But hey, at least we completed Red Dead Redemption; expect a thorough analysis of that beauty of a game next week, along with our regularly scheduled two Clip and Art strips.

I'm off to New England Webcomics Weekend tomorrow.  I am effing-fucking excited.  No idea what to expect, really, but I'm hoping I can get Ryan North and David Malki ! to sign my vine-fresh copy of Machine of Death, which is, incidentally, fantastic so far.  Only two stories in, but they were delicious.

The Adventures of Clip and Art #3

College Technology

This strip was inspired by a customer I helped last week. A rather elderly gentleman needed to find a particular film. I found it and handed it to him. He complained because it was on DVD, not VHS. What followed was me trying to convince him that DVD is a superior format and him trying to convince me of the opposite. During our discourse, he referred to DVD as "college technology." The term, I believe, has longevity.

In case you're wondering exactly how old Cybart is, he is as old as any given situation calls for him to be.

Screen Bean Theatre #1

The Only Other Possibility

I put together this strip a week or so ago, half as a Photoshop test run and half because I thought this was the sort of thing I would do for the main strip, but it turned out to be too minimal and too self-contained. But it's still kind of cute, so I don't want to just throw it away. Every weekend, I'll post one of these Screen Bean Theatre strips as a little side comic, just for shits and giggles.

The Adventures of Clip and Art #2

Fair Trade

Clip and Art are building a spaceship?!

My proficiency with Photoshop grows by the day. Not bragging or anything. Hardly. I feel like I have so much to learn. Just watching Alex Wroten wield its tools and produce an image far more complex than this webcomic in a fraction of the time it took me to finish this strip makes me realize exactly how far behind the curve I am. Still, they say the best way to learn a foreign language is to live in a place where the natives speak it, so I will continue ambling my way around this software until it is my bitch.

Is it me or is the text in my strips too damn small? What do you think?

The Adventures of Clip and Art #1

Kväårtdning

Welcome to The Adventures of Clip and Art, the webcomic made entirely with Microsoft Clipart.  Maybe it's funny?

I must apologize for one of my design decisions.  Try as I might, I could find no substitute for the kitsch, the levity, or the ubiquity of the world's most overused and underinspired font: Comic Sans.  I have employed its fugly face here, but my tongue is so deep in my cheek it's about to punch through.

Feedback is compulsory.  Just think of it as the "If You Don't Vote, You Can't Complain" argument on a much, much, much smaller scale.  I am too new to Photoshop and not far enough removed from what I have created to know what needs more attention, so I need you to tell me.  Please.