new website

2011-02-23T21:20:00.000-08:00

hey everyone, I have successfully finished moving all of my stuff over to my new website at trending-topic.net, where I'll be putting up a new comic every thursday now. Check it out, there's a new comic there now. Also, everything will be on the new rss feed located here for those of you that use that sort of thing.

Zach Out

Smoke Bomb!

2011-01-14T06:16:00.000-08:00

What's this? A comic? And only a week and a half after the last one none the less. Don't have much to say about this one other than I'm sorry of the cold emotionless beast I unleashed on the world in the third panel. I was trying to go for sexy face but somehow wound up with soulless abomination, and for this I am sorry.

It haunts me in my dreams.....

Zach Out

Existentialism, Thursdays at 8

2010-12-29T21:39:00.000-08:00

There's a little solipsism thrown in there as well for good measure. Sorry for the lag between updates. I had my Capstone project to get my bachelors last semester and it pretty much sucked up all of my time. Now that my school schedule is loosening up a bit I'm gonna be looking into getting a real website and sticking to a regular schedule. Expect another comic much sooner than this one took.

[Edit] I cleaned up some of the dialog in the last panel due to some feedback I got, hopefully it makes more sense to people who aren't me now.

Zach Out

Frank

2010-11-15T15:54:00.000-08:00

Here's a story I did for an anthology a little while back. I wanted to wait till after it came out to put it up here.

Scott Pilgrim Poster

2010-11-08T11:40:00.001-08:00

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Sorry for the lack of comics lateley. I'll be posting some new stuff soon. In the mean time here's a poster I made for movie night this weekend. We're watching the Blu-Ray of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Zach Out

The Creative Process

2010-07-22T05:03:00.001-07:00

This one is pretty much self explanatory. I will say though that I had much trouble deciding on how to draw the 3rd panel. I couldn't decide if I should just do a cartoon of it or draw it 8-bit but painted. You can see I chose the latter. I entered this one into the comic battle this week, you can vote for your favorite comic (hopefully mine) at http://www.cloudscapecomics.com/2010/07/21/comic-battle-round-7-voting/

Zach Out

Batnap

2010-07-01T10:02:00.001-07:00

Batman basically works 3 full time jobs. You can't tell me that doesn't start to hurt his performance at some point. I entered this one into the weekly webcomic contest again. You can vote at http://www.cloudscapecomics.com/2010/06/30/comic-battle-round-4-voting/. The last panel was originally gonna be the joker drawing a penis on batman's face, but I decided that might not fly in the contest.

Zach out

No Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Rock

2010-06-20T21:49:00.000-07:00

Deep down Jaws is really just sad that his Hendrix cover band never worked out. I'm really stoked about how the lettering in panel 2 turned out. Pretty sure that this comic only makes sense to me though, but whatever. I entered this one into a weekly comic contest, so fingers crossed it makes it to voting. Expect a new comic about scooters as soon as I stop hating my line work on it, and probably some journal comics before then.

Zach Out

[Edit] Voting has started on the comic battle. Head over to http://www.cloudscapecomics.com/2010/06/23/comic-battle-round-3-voting/ to cast your vote.

Journal comic #1

2010-06-20T16:32:00.001-07:00

If only I had more hours in the day. Real comic coming tomorrow. Expect more journal comics from time to time.

Work Meeting Comic, Diversity Training!

2010-05-06T20:13:00.001-07:00

I had to go to diversity training for work for a whole day so I drew a comic while I was there. I kid, but it actually wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting it to be. And totally not saying that because I'm afraid they'll fire me if I don't.

Zach out

Oh Oh, it's magic

2010-03-14T23:37:00.000-07:00

I still love google, no matter how many unicorns the condemn to a live of imprisonment.

In other news, I submitted a shirt design to threadless and you should go there and vote for it right now!

Zach out

(go vote now)

YAY!!!

2010-03-11T07:04:00.001-08:00

My laptop is working again! Expect a new comic soon. Here's a little word to the wise to explain the delay.

oops

2010-03-04T13:19:00.001-08:00

I was planning on having a new comic up this week but my tablet broke, so I'll have to wait until I get that fixed to finish it.

sorry,

Zach out

An the award goes too...

2010-02-22T20:59:00.001-08:00

This one has been sitting in my sketchbook for a while now. A long while. I gave everyone time to forget that this joke has been made like a million times. I was reading Dresden Codak and A Lesson is Learned and wanted to try to mix up the panel layout a bit, and thus this comic was born. It's okay I guess.

Zach out

It's a secret

2010-02-15T14:18:00.000-08:00

Had a few snow days this week so I decided to finish this full page comic I wrote a while ago. I take any chance I get to make superman look like a jerk. I hate that dude. With a passion. Seriously, he sucks. I'm pretty happy with the panel layout in this one. I was getting tired of 3 panel comics. It took forever to ink and color so I probably won't do another one for a while. Expect another comic to come in the near future. About Kanye West maybe? I dunno, you'll have to find out.

Zach Out

Apathy

2010-02-09T20:10:00.000-08:00

What is this? A new comic? Well, it's not actually that new. I drew it about a month ago and hated it so I didn't post it, but now that I haven't updated in a while I decided to dust it off and put it up. Yay standards! I plan on actually updating every once and a while this semester. I make no promises on how often, but I will update. I've been reading a lot of new comics lately, namely Hark a Vagrant, The Everyday, The Loneliest Astronauts, and Space Avalanche, and feeling simultaneously inspired and depressed at my lack of creative output lately, thus my return to the update cycle. See you again sometime in the foreseeable future.

Zach Out

hiatus

2009-11-28T10:50:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the sudden hiatus with the comic. I got sucked into another project unexpectedly and it's been taking up most of my free time. One of my friends is making a video game for XBOX live arcade indie games and he asked me to do all of the graphics. We'll hopefully have it ready for release by the end of the year. I included a screen cap so you can see a little of the process. Expect comics to start up semi regularly again once I finish up the game. It's a rampart style strategy game called castle wars.

Zach Out

post this week

2009-10-05T13:06:00.001-07:00

It's midterm week and I was busy over the weekend so no comic till next Monday or maybe this Friday depending on how much hw I have. I've got a few comics planned out though so next week should be a multiple update week.

Zach out

bassmaster

2009-09-27T11:17:00.001-07:00

Sorry for the delay, I got kinda swamped with schoolwork. I'll probably only have one update a week for a while until things slow down.

My little brother, a member of the fraternity of the forgotten half of the rhythm section himself, wanted me to do a comic about the bass. Somehow I don't think this is what he had in mind. This comic takes place in the best lit club in history by the way. This is a statement of fact and in no way a reflection on my ability to draw characters in low light.

Expect another update next Monday or so.

Zach out

.. Just like every cowboy sings a sad sad song..

2009-09-11T15:46:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure if you can consider what the Terminator universe uses "Logic" but I digress....

Sorry for the update so late in the day, I had homework to do last night. I started using google analytics so I'm sure the 5 of you will be very disappointed. Google analytics is actually really cool. I can look at all sorts of stuff like how much time the a person spends on the site and what screen resolution they have. Now that I think about it, it's kinda stalkerish. I wouldn't go as far as to say it makes me feel like the Chuck Berry of web comic artists, but it's definitely a little intrusive.

I'm pretty proud of this one. The comics have , in my opinion, improved in quality since the first few I drew. A trend I hope continues. If this keeps up I may try advertising somewhere at some point.

Chuck Berry was a rock legend that also enjoyed videotaping girls at, uhm, at inappropriate times in a restaurant he owned later in life btw. Look it up for yourself... actually don't look it up, it's creepy.

out

Honesty in Advertising

2009-09-07T19:16:00.000-07:00

I figured I'd keep with current events and make joke about a commercial that started running several years ago. I'm really happy with the line work on this one. This is the first one I've done that would have looked decent if left it black and white. I hate these commercials by the way. I don't know if I really made that apparent with the comic. Justin Long is hilarious, but they make him act like such a tool in these. Anyway, expect a longer comic Friday if I get it finished on time.

out

Dreams of what could have been

2009-09-04T07:14:00.001-07:00

I've been so obsessed with Batman since Arkham Asylum came out. It's so awesome! I could just punch people in the face for hours in that game. I know it's getting a lot of hype, but it is totally warranted. Stealth games don't often interest me, but staying hidden is rewarded remarkably well in this game. There are few things in life more satisfying then popping out of a heating duct, putting some random thug to sleep with your big, burly arms, and then booby trapping the floor next to him to explode when his buddies come to check on him. Oh, no. Here come the feelings again. But honestly, what real man wouldn't want him to rock you to sleep with his warm, but firm embrace?

If you've made it this far in the post, congratulations, you are my biggest (only) fan. Anyway, I'm very happy with this one. It's my favorite of the comics I've done so far. My man crush on Batman may have influenced this choice.

Is the plural of succubus succubi?

2009-09-01T04:56:00.000-07:00

I've created yet another great study in how to alienate large segments of your potential audience. Most people would have referred to it as the new Megan Fox movie. I am not most people.

I can't decide if I'm looking forward to this movie or not. As much as I love Diablo Cody is as much as I hate Megan Fox. But, there hasn't been a good succubus flick in a while, so it might be worth a view. Diablo Cody is the woman who wrote Juno by the way. Maybe I should have said that first.

I feel like the layout is much better in this comic than the last one. I'm not happy with the colors though. I got almost all of the way through coloring it and thought, "Why didn't I set this at night?" That would have been much better. I like the drawing of the succubus in the last panel at least. Oh, other comic stuff, I've decided I'm gonna try to stick to a Tuesday Friday update schedule like Wondermark. Which is an awesome comic that you should read.

It's the robot from logans run

2009-08-28T12:23:00.000-07:00

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I think I succeeded at making the most specifically target comic ever with this one. I started out on the right track. "Healthcare, that's a hot topic right now. Lots of people care about that. I think pare that with a joke about a sci fi movie from 40 years ago that all of 4 people will get." I like the art in this one, but I think the joke turned out more political than I wanted it to be. This doesn't reflect my views on the bill in any way, I just thought that it was funny that the people against it at the town hall meetings were describing it like the world was gonna turn into Logan's Run if it were passed. Check in next week as I try to make my target audience even smaller!

questo

2009-08-26T19:40:00.000-07:00

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I was trying to do a "If people said the things they say on twitter in real life" thing about Questlove with this but it didn't really work out. I like the art in the first panel at least. Learn and move on. It's gonna take me a little while to get my bearings so I'm just gonna try to get all of the bad comics out of my system as fast as I can. I promise the text will be larger on the next one. I tried using the font from twitter for effect but it turned out too small.

Trending Topic

new website

Smoke Bomb!

Existentialism, Thursdays at 8

Frank

Scott Pilgrim Poster

The Creative Process

Batnap

No Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Rock

Journal comic #1

Work Meeting Comic, Diversity Training!

Oh Oh, it's magic

YAY!!!

oops

An the award goes too...

It's a secret

Apathy

hiatus

post this week

bassmaster

.. Just like every cowboy sings a sad sad song..

Honesty in Advertising

Dreams of what could have been

Is the plural of succubus succubi?

It's the robot from logans run

questo