It’s no secret one of my guilty pleasures is THE BIRDS, a dark, twisted, meta-kinda web stip by my pal Robin D. Laws.
I enjoy it so much, I leapt at the chance to write the forward to the first collection, published by Pelgrane Press. Well, now, the second collection – “There Goes My Dream Job” – is coming out, and Robin asked if I’d do a week’s worth of BIRDS strips, to help celebrate the fact.
More work for no money? Why, yes. Yes, please!
OK. In all honesty, this was too hard to turn down. In part because it consisted mostly of cutting-and-pasting a single drawing in Photoshop (must stay TRUE to the spirit of the strip, don’cha know?), but mainly because it meant getting to play in Robin’s severely dysfunctional sandbox (LOOK OUT FOR SHARDS OF GLASS!), and, golly, it’s just not that often that I get the opportunity to draw characters pulling handguns on each other in DORK TOWER.
(BTW – If you think anthropomorphic gunplay is bad, it gets worse as the week goes on. Trust me – it gets much, much worse.)
So anyway, here’s the first strip. You may wanna click on it to get the larger version over at Pelgarne’s THE BIRDS site. New strips to be added every day this week.
So, thank you, Robin! It was a ton of fun, and I’m looking forward to the new collection. I’m sure it will be a blast.
A quick blast to the abdomen from from a Saturday Night Special, to be specific…
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Possibly it’s the deep, dark, BIRDS frame of mind I find myself in, this week, but the following popped up in my inbox this morning:
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REALLY, Spammers? REALLY? You’ve just given up even trying, now?
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