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Steve Walsh ||
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- My first ever comic attempt was called "Labrats", and was based on the computer lab job I held in my undergraduate college years and the people surrounding it. The origin of the name is probably self-explanatory.
- My second attempt was named "Normalness". It was basically about my life and friends at the time. The art improved from the original Lab Rats art, but not much. It updated once a week. The name came from the guy who inspired the character Jared and his friends who used the term "Normalness" to express when something was either so bizarre that it had looped back around on itself and become normal, or was so extremely and inexplicably normal, that it was bizarre. The logo features a line looping back on itself to express this. The name of this strip become the umbrella name for my artistic endeavors.
- Attempt number three was "Unthinkable!" (that was the title, not an expression of the believability level of the strip itself...). It followed the path of Normalness, but with a few crazy things like storylines (kinda...), my first non-human characters (along side the return of Jared and Rini), and (if I might say about myself) steadily improving artwork. The name came from the first anime I ever saw, "Macross: Do You Remember Love" (a movie that has yet to make it in any respectable form to the US -- no "Clash of the Bionoids" doesn't count -- neither does anything from "Robotech: The Movie" or "Megazone 23" so knock it off). Several times in that movie, when Zentran or Meltran get blown away in some grandiose fashion, they yell something in their language (made up) that is translated in the fansub I have as "Unthinkable!". The best kanji translation for "unthinkable" I could find was "shin gai" which found its way into the logo for the comic.
- The next project was called Negative Zen and it was probably my best looking, most varied, and most funny strip. I stopped doing NZ really because I got tired of doing one-shots and wanted more consistency in the characters. There's really nothing that holds NZ together in a coherent form other than the fact that I did it.
I may do more NZ strips in the future if I have a funky idea or a one-shot that doesn't fit into my new project.
The Geeks Domain is comic number 5 and so far I have the best grasp I've ever had of what the strip is about. It sounds funny, maybe, but this one has a feel to me. A vibe, if you will. It's a M-W-F black and white comic with a story and characters and continuity and everything. Check it out if you have a minute.
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