Bramble Vine Comics

The guys over at HalfPixel.com have been recording a truly great podcast called Webcomics Weekly. Brad Guigar, Dave Kellett, Scott Kurtz and Kristofer Straub do a huge service to aspiring cartoonists everywhere by talking about tips, techniques and lessons learned in the cartooning biz. I've found the show immensely useful and have a learned a lot. It's like a free college course in cartooning.

On one of their recent shows Scott and Dave joked around about the fictional comic strip they keep referring to in their examples and named it 'No Shoes for Tuesday' about a cat that tries to get shoes. They mentioned it almost off-hand, but I thought it would be funny to actually give the comic strip a shot and made this. I posted it to the Webcomic Weekly online forums and other cartoonists have since joined in and started posting their own takes on the idea. You can see them in the forum thread. It's a funny little exercise and I'm enjoying seeing other people's ideas about it.

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