1. Written by admin, on 28-02-2005 04:12
Eric's Portfolio ain't too shabby either. Check out the inks on Johnny Dollar at the bottom of the page.  
 
-Bob Stevenson 

2. Written by Guest, on 28-02-2005 05:57
But Bob, if you listen to the kids making webcomics, inking is a relic of the past and not worth learning. 
 
Kids are dumb. You should learn every possible aspect of your medium you can. 
 
-William G

3. Written by Guest, on 28-02-2005 07:00
Although I use flash for lots of my inking these days, my Windsor Newton, Series 7, Number 2 still puts out the smoothest lines on the planet. It seems wierd to suggest in the face of all you can do with photoshop, but that brush is the most versatile tool on my desk.  
 
Some of Eric's lines are beautiful proof. 
 
-Bob Stevenson

4. Written by Guest, on 28-02-2005 11:33
As for the confusion about the 1970s-1980's...I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate that the guy grew up during those times. When I create MY time-travelling Epic, I'll take my characters back to the early 90's, because that's when I grew up (culture wise). Ace of Base, New Kids on the Block....and Vanilla Ice was cool and all the kids on the playground kept making lewd jokes about President Bush's last name. 
But I digress.  
 
It IS nice to see something "classicly" comic-book on the web for a change. Random thought: I can't tell if he's creating new Veena comics or he's just using Keenspace to republish pages of the Veena book. Considering it was self-published, it's possible.

5. Written by Guest, on 28-02-2005 14:00
I had the same thought and asked myself do I care whether or not this has been published in print before? I'm posting pages of JIH: Isle of Demons here on the site before the head to print so no, I don't care. It's a creation I'm enjoying, print or web.  
 
I'm thinking that over the next few years tons of print material will be making its way to the net, stories I missed or never would have paid for. Great. Bring it on. 
 
(I was overjoyed to see Megaton Man on the web. The books were hard to find for a while and I wasn't in the mood to shell out much for twenty-year old stories, but on the web...) 
 
-Bob Stevenson

6. Written by Guest, on 28-02-2005 16:07
Does ANYONE not have a random link to Acid Keg?

7. Written by Guest, on 28-02-2005 16:47
Huh? I link Acid Keg for two reasons. First, I like the strip. Second, he's linked me and I'm not all that opposed to link trades. 
 
Also, back in December I did a horribly inadequate review of Acid Keg for the Webcomics Examiner.[Here]. The strip deserves better. 
 
I have no idea why you've brought up Acid Keg, but I just began watching "The Prisoner." Steve makes heavy reference to it and as I had not seen it when I did the review, I missed them, misinterpreted the images really. "The Prisoner" is some campy, campy stuff and Steve's appropriation of it is spot on funny. 
 
OOOOH. I get it. Acid Keg is in the banner rotation so must have appeared at the bottom of the page you viewed. OK. Well then, nevermind. 
 
Now back to some talk about Veena. 
 
-Bob Stevenson

8. Written by Guest, on 28-02-2005 19:26
There's a link to Acid Keg on the Veena site as well, perhaps that was what Guest meant. 
 
//Erik Melander

9. Written by Guest, on 28-02-2005 19:34
Acid Keg's taking over the web? Good. I can think of plenty worse.

10. Written by Guest, on 01-03-2005 06:55
I randomly linked to Acid Keg recently. 
 
I also like the retro look of Veena, though I haven't taken the time to give it a good read yet. 
 
_______________ 
But Bob, if you listen to the kids making webcomics, inking is a relic of the past and not worth learning.  
 
Kids are dumb. You should learn every possible aspect of your medium you can.  
 
-William G 
 
_______ 
 
And don't get me started on those kids that do all of their coloring on a computer but can't paint to save their lives. They're EMBARRASSING. Everyone should stick to traditional media like me.Even if they do better work on a computer than I do with paint and ink... they should start painting so that for that brief moment when they're figuring the tools out, I can say I'm better than them.

11. Written by Guest, on 02-03-2005 02:27
Hi guys, Eric Theriault, the artist on Veena here! 
I'm not sure where to begin...One of the question was if the material being published on the Keenspace page was actually new material or not, The answer is "not". I'm not screaming it on rooftop because I don't really want beople to feel cheated in any way, that's it's not fresh material, but i'm using the web to try to reach new readers. It's actually a lot of networking because the web is not like broadcasting, but I believe it's something that's growing and has actually a chance of finding more readers than the comic book market that's slanted toward Marvel or DC.

12. Written by Guest, on 02-03-2005 02:34
Quote:"As for the confusion about the 1970s-1980's...I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate that the guy grew up during those times." 
 
You got me there. But it's not pure nostalgia, there's a reason: The pair of glasses where made in the late 50s, so what made them haunted happened somewhere between then and now... 
 
And Yes, i'm a fan of good inking, of nice smooth brush stroke. Once you get a good control over that tool, I can garantee you that using a computer is a futile and slow process. 
But i'm using photoshop for coloring... 
 
Eric Theriault

13. Written by Guest, on 02-03-2005 02:41
I'm not worried about previously printed material making its way to web. Lots of folks on the web hope to do it the other way around. As you said it's also a good marketing strategy. Your audience is very cheaply scalable. 
 
Also, I've been thinking about how stories work serialized in this way. It's a different read than in print somehow. 
 
At any rate, I'll be checking back. 
 
-Bob Stevenon

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