ÿþ<title>KIWIS BY BEAT!</title> <body bgcolor=BBCCFF link=CFDFFF vlink=CCCCFF> <meta name="description" content="Minus."> <meta name="keywords" content="KIWIS BY BEAT! This still says Ribald youth. WILD."> <link href=kiwifeed.xml rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Kiwifeed" /> <a href="http://www.koalawallop.com" target=blank border="0"/><img src="./pics/corner-splat.gif"></a> <center> <table border=0></center> <tr><td> <p> <br> <center><tr><td bgcolor=99AAEE><font color=ffffff><font size="3"><b><center>Here is an old strip! The comic ended last week for anyone not yet aware, so I'm running some extra comics for the rest of the month.<a href="prints.html">I'm also taking the last round of print orders this month.</a> If this is your first time here, you should probably <a href="minus1.html">start from the beginning</a>.<br><img src="minus/minus78.jpg"><br><br> <font size="3"><b><center>Originally it was actually the beginning of a story. The original story was pretty cruel so I ended up changing it to something lighter before I decided to just leave it as a standalone strip. I did draw one more comic from the story before it was scrapped though, and here that is(most of the comics like this one that were drawn but didn't go online weren't colored, so I've added light washes to them): <br><br> <img src="minus/minus-e1.jpg"><br><br>and a standalone strip:<br><br><img src="minus/minus-e2.jpg"><br><br> I drew 3 or 4 versions of this but didn't like any of them. I liked the guy toppling in the background more than I should have but in all of the scenarios set up the angry minus never felt right and in the end I never sorted it out. I was going to put up more than these two comics today but it didn't occur to me that I'd have to ink/color any of them until it was <i>too late<i>...</b></font size> </center> <tr><td bgcolor=99AAEE><font color=ffffff><center><h2><a href="minus1.html">first</a> <a href="minus130.html">previous</a> <a href="minusarchive.html">archive</a> <a href="minuse2.html">next</a> <br> </table> <table border=1></center> <br> <tr><th bgcolor=99AAEE width=200><font color=ffffff>About the comic:<p><font size="2">Each minus strip is painted on a 15x20" piece of Illustration board. With this comic I am pretending I am making a comic strip for a newspaper in the early 20th century. A special newspaper that lets me use as much color as I want, because real papers have limitations on that sort of thing. Or maybe they did in the past I'm not sure! </font size> <br></font color> <th width=20 bgcolor=BBCCFF> <th width=580 align=left bgcolor=99AAEE valign=top ><font color=ffffff> 10/7/08-Hi! My accidental slight change in the site's design has left me nothing to put in this box! Um... <a href="http://metaminus.wordpress.com/" target=blank>LINK!</a> If you've ever wondered what the <i>real</i> meaning behind any of these comics are... visiting this blog won't help you out any. <br><br><center>rezo</center></font color> </td></tr> <tr><th bgcolor=99AAEE width=200><font color=ffffff><center><h2><a href="http://www.kiwisbybeat.com">KIWIS BY BEAT!</a></h2></center><th width=20 bgcolor=BBCCFF> <th bgcolor=99AAEE valign=top width=580 > <center> <font color=ffffff>links</center><p><font size="2"> --<a href="http://www.dresdencodak.com" target=blank>Dresden Codak</a> <a href="http://www.perfectstars.com" target=blank>Perfect Stars</a> <a href="http://www.iamarocketbuilder.com" target=blank>I am a Rocket Builder</a> <a href="http://www.secretcrocodileadventureclub.com/" target=blank>Crocodile Adventures!</a> <a href="http://riceboy.jho-tan.com/" target=blank>Rice Boy</a> -- <a href="http://www.rumblo.com" target=blank>Rumblo.com</a> <a href="http://www.pigrelated.com" target=blank>Pig Related</a> <a href="http://www.kristyvsthezombiearmy.com" target=blank>Kristy!</a> <a href="http://www.elftor.com" target=blank> elftor</a> <a href="http://www.qwantz.com" target=blank>Dinosaur Comics</a> <a href="http://www.unlingual.com" target=blank>Unlingual</a> <a href="http://www.zxipi.com" target=blank>Zxipi</a> <a href="http://www.leadsalad.com" target=blank>Monica Furious</a> <a href="http://www.boltcity.com/copper" target=blank>Copper</a> <a href="http://www.smbc-comics.com" target=blank> Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal</a> <a href="http://www.alessonislearned.com" target=blank>A lesson is learned</a> <a href="http://www.bohemiandrive.com/comics/npwil/episodes" target=blank>Nine Planets without intelligent life</a> <a href="http://www.eightland.com/" target=blank>Eightland</a> <a href="http://www.buttercupfestival.com" target=blank>Buttercup Festival</a> </font color></font size> </td></tr> </table> <font color=ffffff><center><a href=kiwifeed.xml>rss</a> <a href="http://syndicated.livejournal.com/kiwifeed/profile" target=blank>livejournal</a> <br><br>copyright © Ryan Armand - 2006</center></font color> </table>