Hi patrons,
It's been almost 3 weeks since I got back from Japan, but I'm still finishing up some watercolors and sketches from the trip, on top of my usual workload. Naomi took this picture of me i...
2018-10-06 23:09:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to SuperButch!
I took a few weeks off for a trip to Japan and Thailand--there will be a sketchbook PDF as soon as I get through all the scanning!--but we're planning to return to our we...
2018-09-29 19:46:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Barry here. Becky is super-busy, but she still managed to get this page done.
I'm especially fond of the last panel, which is the result of a bit of the back-and-forthing that leads to most of my fa...
2018-08-29 20:37:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Becky and I both want to apologize for the less frequent updates lately. We feel bad about it and want to get back to weekly updates; unfortunately, that doesn't look likely to happen in August. ...
2018-08-14 18:27:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Becky: Oh good, after so many crowd scenes, here's an uncomplicated page to draw!
Also Becky: I must dig through last year's photos from Olympia and Seattle in order to create the ultimate seedy wa...
Becky here! The staging in Panel 4 was inspired by an ill-fated attempt to see what time it was while holding an open bottle of essential oil. :)
2018-07-18 04:29:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Three cheers for Barry's flamboyant word balloons!
2018-07-11 08:14:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Barry here! I really like this page. Panel 3, in particular, is one of my favorite panels in SuperButch so far - I just love Becky's drawing of Mona laughing. (I did call for that in the script, but i...
2018-06-21 19:44:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Victory!
Thanks for your patience!
Weekly updates will resume shortly!
Good night!
Hi everyone! Becky here. I'm done with the double-page building-cutaway crowd scene!
I learned something about my process, too. Lately I'd been doing 99% of my artistic decision-making in the digita...
2018-06-10 06:45:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Becky here. Barry and I had a great time at VanCAF last weekend, but as you can see, international comic conventions and finishing double-page-spread crowd scenes don't mix!
There were...
2018-05-30 05:02:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, folks, Barry here!
No new page this week, because pages 70 and 71 are a double-page spread - and it's a doozy, since I gave poor Becky about a zillion figures to draw. We'll post both page...
2018-05-18 08:50:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Barry here.
As you may know, Becky does the art, and I do the lettering.
I enjoy lettering, actually - it's an interesting challenge.
Trying to place balloons and pane...
2018-05-10 07:32:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! Becky here. In between putting my watercolors up at World Cup Coffee, going to Denver for a comic convention, ...
2018-04-26 23:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! Barry here.
Becky showed you my scribbled layout for this page in the previous post.
I should mention, though, that that isn't our typical procedure. More typically, I include some ...
2018-03-28 00:20:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Kansas is saying "Turtle Shell Hotel...Yes, there are rooms available...by the day or by the week..." (She works in Turtle City's Japantown. Thank you to Naomi for the translation--that's so coo...
2018-03-20 07:36:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
We took advantage of a momentary lapse in suspense in order to finish this page, which belongs in Issue Two (about 12 pages back). When you're writing a comic script, you need to think a...
2018-03-13 07:44:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew! I am happy with how that last panel turned out. I copied the doors and the wood moulding from some photos I took in Salem last summer. (Did I tell you about that comics road trip? I drove; Barry...
2018-03-07 08:35:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patrons! Barry here. Page 61.
In my original script, I had Lillian saying "Let's cut the bullcrap." But "bullcrap" clanged on Becky's ear, so she went searching for expressions meaning B.S., and ...
2018-02-23 05:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons! This week's page is going to go up Wednesday, because I spent the weekend working on my first cartoon for The Nib!
The idea for this comic started--as SO few good things do--with a Faceb...
2018-02-21 07:01:54 +0000 UTC View Post
(You might have noticed we skipped a page number since last week. You didn't miss a page; we're just doing some re-numbering for future page-turn purposes when we print the comic on ...
2018-02-14 05:55:54 +0000 UTC View Post
I won't say there's a reason this week's SuperButch update is late, but there is a layer group in the Photoshop file called "page layout fourth attempt." It was definitely a combined Becky-and-Barry e...
2018-02-09 00:58:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This page involved a late-night India ink spill and an "oops where's the file" moment, so in this case I hope you have much more fun reading this page than I had making it! XD
Guess what: If you're ...
2018-01-30 17:39:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone. Becky here. We are super-proud to give you the first peek at the cover image for Issue Two! (You may recognize it as an image from page 54, but redrawn with SEVERAL rounds of artistic fe...
2018-01-16 07:36:52 +0000 UTC View Post
