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&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=XqfweB5w4Uo:nigRek01hGA:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=XqfweB5w4Uo:nigRek01hGA:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=XqfweB5w4Uo:nigRek01hGA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=XqfweB5w4Uo:nigRek01hGA:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=XqfweB5w4Uo:nigRek01hGA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=XqfweB5w4Uo:nigRek01hGA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/XqfweB5w4Uo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2009/01/good-bye.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-3373090831596333173</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-14T05:00:00.382+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SkitZo MaN</category><title>SkitZo MaN - by Robin White &amp; Geoff Hooper</title><atom:summary>Commentary: It seems to me, as I recall, this gag was an idea I was sitting on for a long time before using.  I seem to remember it being one of the captions Geoff sent me really early on, and I put off using it, thinking that since it was based on the idiom "You can't judge a book by its cover", it would be a good piece of cover art for an eventual book.  Well, after sitting on it like a year or</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/JnDepIB4FGw/skitzo-man-by-robin-white-geoff-hooper_14.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=JnDepIB4FGw:OPRQnyOcvzE:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=JnDepIB4FGw:OPRQnyOcvzE:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=JnDepIB4FGw:OPRQnyOcvzE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=JnDepIB4FGw:OPRQnyOcvzE:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=JnDepIB4FGw:OPRQnyOcvzE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=JnDepIB4FGw:OPRQnyOcvzE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/JnDepIB4FGw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/12/skitzo-man-by-robin-white-geoff-hooper_14.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-3144302843137347351</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-12T16:40:03.705+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Webcomic of the Week</category><title>Webcomic of the Week : "Minims"</title><atom:summary>Some people might argue that this week's pick is not really a comic at all.  But one might argue that my own SkiZo MaN is not a comic either.  Whatever you want to call it -- cartoon, illustrated gag, comic strip, whatever -- Minims is worth checking out and good for several laughs.  Written and Illustrated by Tom Weller, Minims features, well, minims.  A minim can be described as "a statement </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/5kASFdyaKuQ/webcomic-of-week-minims.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=5kASFdyaKuQ:ODH-IAWqeLY:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=5kASFdyaKuQ:ODH-IAWqeLY:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=5kASFdyaKuQ:ODH-IAWqeLY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=5kASFdyaKuQ:ODH-IAWqeLY:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=5kASFdyaKuQ:ODH-IAWqeLY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=5kASFdyaKuQ:ODH-IAWqeLY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/5kASFdyaKuQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/12/webcomic-of-week-minims.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-825907920566175257</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-07T21:55:21.241+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SkitZo MaN</category><title>SkitZo MaN - by Robin White &amp; Geoff Hooper : Of Moutains and Mole Hills</title><atom:summary>Commentary:  This brings us up to the beginning of 2005 in our re-runs, and also the first strip I remember putting the copyright info on -- a big "duh" that I should have been doing all along in the original run.  What I still wasn't yet doing was putting the name and credits right in the artwork itself.  I would have added it before this re-post, but it's Sunday night, I'm getting tired, and I </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/_lpa74_lKtM/skitzo-man-by-robin-white-geoff-hooper.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=_lpa74_lKtM:3z2x9lTGjP0:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=_lpa74_lKtM:3z2x9lTGjP0:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=_lpa74_lKtM:3z2x9lTGjP0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=_lpa74_lKtM:3z2x9lTGjP0:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=_lpa74_lKtM:3z2x9lTGjP0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=_lpa74_lKtM:3z2x9lTGjP0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/_lpa74_lKtM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/12/skitzo-man-by-robin-white-geoff-hooper.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-5447487777805521575</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-01T18:00:00.407+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SkitZo MaN</category><title>SkitZo MaN's Silver Lining</title><atom:summary>Commentary: This toon brings us to the end of the 2004 SkitZo strips in our re-runs with commentary.  And it seems like an appropriate one to end on, too, whether or not it was actually the last one of 2004 originally (of which, as I mentioned before, I can't be certain because of poor file-naming), though I do think it was.  Why is it appropriate?  Because it's also (I believe) the last time I </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/YIJ-3bLTnyM/skitzo-mans-silver-lining.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=YIJ-3bLTnyM:JlliitKlyyQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=YIJ-3bLTnyM:JlliitKlyyQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=YIJ-3bLTnyM:JlliitKlyyQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=YIJ-3bLTnyM:JlliitKlyyQ:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=YIJ-3bLTnyM:JlliitKlyyQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=YIJ-3bLTnyM:JlliitKlyyQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/YIJ-3bLTnyM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/12/skitzo-mans-silver-lining.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-7991540361263815462</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-29T10:34:32.246+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Webcomic of the Week</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Resources</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inspiration</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Comics Industry</category><title>Stuff Comics Artists and Fans Should Check Out NOW</title><atom:summary>I have several things to share, most of which involve linking elsewhere, so I thought I'd put 'em all in one post for your convenience.  And my laziness. Anyway, here are several comic-centric links for your enjoyment.1. This week, my Webcomic of the Week winner is Copper, by Kazu Kibuishi.  The downside is it's updated only monthly and there's no RSS feed.  But the upside is that it's big, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/oxzv_2IFegU/stuff-comics-artists-and-fans-should.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=oxzv_2IFegU:DyET56TJRI0:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=oxzv_2IFegU:DyET56TJRI0:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=oxzv_2IFegU:DyET56TJRI0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=oxzv_2IFegU:DyET56TJRI0:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=oxzv_2IFegU:DyET56TJRI0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=oxzv_2IFegU:DyET56TJRI0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/oxzv_2IFegU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/11/stuff-comics-artists-and-fans-should.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-3257941051194698885</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-24T08:00:00.507+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SkitZo MaN</category><title>The Grass is Always Greener...</title><atom:summary>Commentary: In our SkitZo MaN re-runs we're coming up to the end of 2004.  But as I said before, they're not being re-posted in the original order, because of my bad file-naming at the time of original creation.  Remember, kids: name your files in an easy-to-keep-in-order-and-remember fashion.  Don't be like me.This is one of SkitZo's more sinister moments, where even his best friend is fare game</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/SSqVBi98UV8/grass-is-always-greener.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=SSqVBi98UV8:Sg7UumFx7Uk:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=SSqVBi98UV8:Sg7UumFx7Uk:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=SSqVBi98UV8:Sg7UumFx7Uk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=SSqVBi98UV8:Sg7UumFx7Uk:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=SSqVBi98UV8:Sg7UumFx7Uk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=SSqVBi98UV8:Sg7UumFx7Uk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/SSqVBi98UV8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/11/grass-is-always-greener.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-7484680925100099113</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-19T19:00:00.154+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Comics Industry</category><title>The Changing Face of Comics Publication</title><atom:summary>Keith Drury, a writer I follow, who usually writes about more overtly spiritual issues, has an interesting piece HERE this week on The Changing Face of Publication.  He has some good insights, and interestingly enough a lot of what he describes is already happening to comics.  There are tons of newspapers going out of business, so an up-and-coming cartoonist doesn't have much chance of getting </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/GrPW7GOCoHs/changing-face-of-comics-publication.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=GrPW7GOCoHs:ngKUVIr2lts:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=GrPW7GOCoHs:ngKUVIr2lts:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=GrPW7GOCoHs:ngKUVIr2lts:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=GrPW7GOCoHs:ngKUVIr2lts:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=GrPW7GOCoHs:ngKUVIr2lts:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=GrPW7GOCoHs:ngKUVIr2lts:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/GrPW7GOCoHs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/11/changing-face-of-comics-publication.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-8311524756506427702</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-17T17:00:00.826+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SkitZo MaN</category><title>A Chain Is Only As Strong as Its Weakest Link.  Or so they say.</title><atom:summary>Commentary: Not too much to say about this oldie. Fairly typical SkitZo stuff.   I do like the look on SkitZo's face, and part about the "tranq's" (though that's an unnecessary apostrophe, isn't it?). The color and shading on the ground seem a little off too me.  Meh.  I should get back to working on my new webcomic...a2a_linkname=document.title;a2a_linkurl=location.href;</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/fMBMsdG3cGs/chain-is-only-as-strong-as-its-weakest.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=fMBMsdG3cGs:LuVX7nGx3oQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=fMBMsdG3cGs:LuVX7nGx3oQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=fMBMsdG3cGs:LuVX7nGx3oQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=fMBMsdG3cGs:LuVX7nGx3oQ:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=fMBMsdG3cGs:LuVX7nGx3oQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=fMBMsdG3cGs:LuVX7nGx3oQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/fMBMsdG3cGs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/11/chain-is-only-as-strong-as-its-weakest.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-469151688063073195</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-15T16:43:22.358+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Techniques and Tools</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Artistic Development</category><title>Colour?  Or Color?  Anyway, Not Black &amp; White</title><atom:summary>As another follow-up to this post  and this post, here's a full-color version of the same drawing:a2a_linkname=document.title;a2a_linkurl=location.href;</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/VvKeD8r8U58/colour-or-color-anyway-this-ones-not.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=VvKeD8r8U58:2pEk719wv7o:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=VvKeD8r8U58:2pEk719wv7o:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=VvKeD8r8U58:2pEk719wv7o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=VvKeD8r8U58:2pEk719wv7o:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=VvKeD8r8U58:2pEk719wv7o:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=VvKeD8r8U58:2pEk719wv7o:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/VvKeD8r8U58" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/11/colour-or-color-anyway-this-ones-not.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-3563746170164687266</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-15T16:44:25.263+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Techniques and Tools</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Artistic Development</category><title>Cute Couple Poses Dramatically in a Heroic Fashion</title><atom:summary>As a follow-up to the other day's sketch book post, here's a finished version of one of the sketches I showed you.  For comparison's sake, I'm posting the original sketch again as well, and you can scroll down for commentary on how I did it.The hows and whatnots: First I took the sketch and blew it up using my scanner/copier/printer, then taped that larger version to the light board.  From there </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/iVgLYm7JBRQ/as-follow-up-to-other-days-sketch-book.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=iVgLYm7JBRQ:I9GobboM-Pc:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=iVgLYm7JBRQ:I9GobboM-Pc:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=iVgLYm7JBRQ:I9GobboM-Pc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=iVgLYm7JBRQ:I9GobboM-Pc:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=iVgLYm7JBRQ:I9GobboM-Pc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=iVgLYm7JBRQ:I9GobboM-Pc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/iVgLYm7JBRQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/11/as-follow-up-to-other-days-sketch-book.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-8011572793741871834</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-14T16:59:01.664+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Webcomic of the Week</category><title>WebcomicS of the Week -- "Buttersafe" &amp; "Left-Handed Toons"</title><atom:summary>This week it's a return to the randomness you know I love! It's a toss-up between Buttersafe &amp; Left-Handed Toons (by Right-Handed People).Buttersafe, by Raynato Castro and/or Alex Culang, besides being obscurely named, is simple, fun and just a little bit twisted.  Okay, maybe more than a little.  Go on over and  check it out.Left-Handed Toons, by the apparently-right-handed Drew and Jusin, is </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/KksfFrdB3RE/webcomic-of-week-buttersafe.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=KksfFrdB3RE:fAquQxKQ_Kw:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=KksfFrdB3RE:fAquQxKQ_Kw:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=KksfFrdB3RE:fAquQxKQ_Kw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=KksfFrdB3RE:fAquQxKQ_Kw:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=KksfFrdB3RE:fAquQxKQ_Kw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=KksfFrdB3RE:fAquQxKQ_Kw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/KksfFrdB3RE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/11/webcomic-of-week-buttersafe.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-3344419177673267583</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-10T16:38:00.863+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SkitZo MaN</category><title>There's Nothing Like a Good Plumber Joke</title><atom:summary>Commentary: This is one of my all-time personal favourites.  Not only is it a delightfully contrived pun, but I like the clean, non-cluttered, well-laid-out  look of this cartoon (unlike the one I posted last week).  Also, my father and brother are both plumbers, so I've always had an affinity for plumber jokes.  As for what I don't like, not that I'm bragging, but there's not a lot.  Unlike a </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/f5NE39K1YO4/theres-nothing-like-good-plumber-joke.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=f5NE39K1YO4:x4Gjgr1KqIw:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=f5NE39K1YO4:x4Gjgr1KqIw:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=f5NE39K1YO4:x4Gjgr1KqIw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=f5NE39K1YO4:x4Gjgr1KqIw:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=f5NE39K1YO4:x4Gjgr1KqIw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=f5NE39K1YO4:x4Gjgr1KqIw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/f5NE39K1YO4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/11/theres-nothing-like-good-plumber-joke.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-1955246713784175614</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-07T18:24:00.386+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Webcomic of the Week</category><title>Webcomic of the Week Award -- "The Abominable Charles Christopher"</title><atom:summary>This week's Webcomic of the Week is  The Abominable Charles Christopher (found at abominable.cc -- get it?  Abominable CC?), a unique little gem of a strip created by Karl Kershle. (What's with all the hard to spell names these days?)  Here's how Kershle (can I call you Karl?) describes the comic on the site's About page:The Abominable Charles Christopher follows the adventures of a dim-witted </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/jFNsLogb4Vg/webcomic-of-week-award-abominable.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=jFNsLogb4Vg:crq4PDwSSg4:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=jFNsLogb4Vg:crq4PDwSSg4:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=jFNsLogb4Vg:crq4PDwSSg4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=jFNsLogb4Vg:crq4PDwSSg4:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=jFNsLogb4Vg:crq4PDwSSg4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=jFNsLogb4Vg:crq4PDwSSg4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/jFNsLogb4Vg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/11/webcomic-of-week-award-abominable.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-6536894847854189075</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-07T17:00:48.410+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inspiration</category><title>51 Japanese Characters</title><atom:summary>Check out this really cool site: 51 Japanese Characters, both a great creative project and cultural study.  Found via drawn.ca.a2a_linkname=document.title;a2a_linkurl=location.href;</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/D3xXBh5dnsk/51-japanese-characters.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=D3xXBh5dnsk:ZKNA535-PZA:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=D3xXBh5dnsk:ZKNA535-PZA:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=D3xXBh5dnsk:ZKNA535-PZA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=D3xXBh5dnsk:ZKNA535-PZA:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=D3xXBh5dnsk:ZKNA535-PZA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=D3xXBh5dnsk:ZKNA535-PZA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/D3xXBh5dnsk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/11/51-japanese-characters.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-7281660744300409890</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-05T18:00:01.015+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Artistic Development</category><title>Learning to Draw Comics by Learning Japanese</title><atom:summary>No, this isn't about manga, though I do think western artists could learn a few tricks from our Japanese fellow-cartoonists (and I'm not talking about just aping their style, which is what most non-Japanese "manga" artists do -- but that's a topic for another post).  Today I want to talk about a realization I made recently: a lot of the principles I'm learning while studying Japanese can be </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/D_SwhophwKk/learning-to-draw-comics-by-learning.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=D_SwhophwKk:pWUafwNBh5w:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=D_SwhophwKk:pWUafwNBh5w:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=D_SwhophwKk:pWUafwNBh5w:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=D_SwhophwKk:pWUafwNBh5w:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=D_SwhophwKk:pWUafwNBh5w:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=D_SwhophwKk:pWUafwNBh5w:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/D_SwhophwKk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/11/learning-to-draw-comics-by-learning.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-1885605405638166232</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-03T18:10:00.852+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SkitZo MaN</category><title>SkitZo MaN This Week : On Carnivals and Crying</title><atom:summary>Commentary:  This is one where I can just picture the reader groaning -- Wait, can you picture a sound?  Is that another groaner?  Anyway... This one continues the stuff from 2004.  Personally I like the joke (Geoff's idea like most of the good ones), and SkitZo and the other characters look pretty decent.  The background, on the other hand, is pretty weak.  The big, empty grey area is boring and</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/O6qGZJtNtEQ/skitzo-man-this-week-on-carnivals-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=O6qGZJtNtEQ:eInvcNrZqXI:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=O6qGZJtNtEQ:eInvcNrZqXI:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=O6qGZJtNtEQ:eInvcNrZqXI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=O6qGZJtNtEQ:eInvcNrZqXI:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=O6qGZJtNtEQ:eInvcNrZqXI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=O6qGZJtNtEQ:eInvcNrZqXI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/O6qGZJtNtEQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/11/skitzo-man-this-week-on-carnivals-and.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-3222981100761173329</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-31T18:08:21.844+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Webcomic of the Week</category><title>Webcomic of the Week Award -- "Misery Loves Sherman"</title><atom:summary>This week's winner:  Misery Loves Sherman, by Chris Eliopoulis (a hard name to spell but a cool guy nonetheless).  Misery Loves Sherman is a comic strip done in a similar style to the late, great Calvin and Hobbes, but features a boy and some aliens instead of a boy and a toy tiger.  There's more to it than that, of course, so you should check it out for yourself.  Good for a few laughs, and </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/QrPFvxKrcSM/webcomic-of-week-award-misery-loves.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=QrPFvxKrcSM:MHAneKNAvgo:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=QrPFvxKrcSM:MHAneKNAvgo:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=QrPFvxKrcSM:MHAneKNAvgo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=QrPFvxKrcSM:MHAneKNAvgo:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=QrPFvxKrcSM:MHAneKNAvgo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=QrPFvxKrcSM:MHAneKNAvgo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/QrPFvxKrcSM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/10/webcomic-of-week-award-misery-loves.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-4873944503700440328</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-31T18:09:36.250+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Video</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Techniques and Tools</category><title>Drawing With Water</title><atom:summary>Who knew this was even possible??? Found via drawn.ca, Emmanual Guibert drew an entire graphic novel (Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope) using water! Very cool.a2a_linkname=document.title;a2a_linkurl=location.href;</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/D3mmNNX9zNE/drawing-with-water.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=D3mmNNX9zNE:gywkDqND-n4:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=D3mmNNX9zNE:gywkDqND-n4:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=D3mmNNX9zNE:gywkDqND-n4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=D3mmNNX9zNE:gywkDqND-n4:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=D3mmNNX9zNE:gywkDqND-n4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=D3mmNNX9zNE:gywkDqND-n4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/D3mmNNX9zNE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/10/drawing-with-water.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-6333168957912798469</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-29T18:00:00.729+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Productivity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Business</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Promotion</category><title>What I've Learned From a Lack of Success in Webcomics</title><atom:summary>It was back in February of 2004 when version 1 of SkitZo MaN dot CoM went live.  The one-panel twisted gag SkitZo MaN webcomic (or cartoon, depending on who's definition of "comic" you use) based on idioms, proverbs, puns, was not new to Geoff (my co-writer) and I, but this was our first time to introduce it to such a potentially large audience.  Several of our friends became fans, as well as a </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/mzn_Lo247AA/what-ive-learned-from-lack-of-success.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=mzn_Lo247AA:K-dyTPYNwWw:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=mzn_Lo247AA:K-dyTPYNwWw:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=mzn_Lo247AA:K-dyTPYNwWw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=mzn_Lo247AA:K-dyTPYNwWw:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=mzn_Lo247AA:K-dyTPYNwWw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=mzn_Lo247AA:K-dyTPYNwWw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/mzn_Lo247AA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/10/what-ive-learned-from-lack-of-success.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-2130987779751847645</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-27T18:00:00.447+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SkitZo MaN</category><title>On Blind Squirrels and Explosives</title><atom:summary>Commentary: Not too much to say. SkitZo looks a little off to me, but over all I think this is a pretty decent one.  The blind squirrels are pretty funny, and I like the contrast in color between the "ka-blam" and the blue sky.  One thing I do remember about the making of this is that when Geoff sent me the script I was like "What?!" because I didn't recognize the proverb "Even a blind squirrel </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/HDYe2B_K-s0/on-blind-squirrels-and-explosives.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=HDYe2B_K-s0:V1oqG8Gxizo:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=HDYe2B_K-s0:V1oqG8Gxizo:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=HDYe2B_K-s0:V1oqG8Gxizo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=HDYe2B_K-s0:V1oqG8Gxizo:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=HDYe2B_K-s0:V1oqG8Gxizo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=HDYe2B_K-s0:V1oqG8Gxizo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/HDYe2B_K-s0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/10/on-blind-squirrels-and-explosives.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-539365826344551854</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-20T10:00:00.378+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Video</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Techniques and Tools</category><title>Digital Inking and Coloring of Nemu-Nemu</title><atom:summary>A little behind-the-scenes action from the makers of Nemu-Nemu, found via YouTube.a2a_linkname=document.title;a2a_linkurl=location.href;</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/4oqaCzkjtV0/digital-inking-and-coloring-of-nemu.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=4oqaCzkjtV0:rj-uN8xq4FY:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=4oqaCzkjtV0:rj-uN8xq4FY:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=4oqaCzkjtV0:rj-uN8xq4FY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=4oqaCzkjtV0:rj-uN8xq4FY:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?a=4oqaCzkjtV0:rj-uN8xq4FY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/skitzoman?i=4oqaCzkjtV0:rj-uN8xq4FY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/4oqaCzkjtV0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/10/digital-inking-and-coloring-of-nemu.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-6094307271504006148</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-17T21:37:09.844+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Webcomic of the Week</category><title>Webcomic of the Week: M.I.M.E.S.</title><atom:summary>This week's award-winner is M.I.M.E.S., a fun, cartoony action strip by Harold Jennett and Wayne Cordova.  M.I.M.E.S stands for "Mobile Initiative for Muting Evil Syndicates", and is described like this on the site's about page:A freak accident involving a radioactive barrel caused members of the traveling Cirque de Circus to develop powers beyond their imagination! Er, well actual they developed</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/1WPNHlW0sFg/webcomic-of-week-mimes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/skitzoman/~4/1WPNHlW0sFg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.skitzoman.com/2008/10/webcomic-of-week-mimes.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14402633.post-2299453802498354837</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-14T10:00:00.108+09:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Techniques and Tools</category><title>Learning to Draw Comics on a Light Board, Part 2</title><atom:summary>A while back, I wrote about how I'm learning to use a light board to improve my cartooning skills.  If you weren't around for that post, you can check it out HERE.  In short, I blow up rough sketches (thumbnails) and trace them on the light board, adding detail as I go.  At the end of that post, I mentioned how I wasn't completely satisfied with the way this ninja-elf-chick drawing turned out:</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skitzoman/~3/DrRP63ITJ3k/learning-to-draw-comics-on-light-board.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Robin)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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