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It’s still Wednesday! And this is an update! Not the usual sort of update, I grant you. But another gorgeous color by Miss McCusker! It has assuredly been too long. Revel in it! New comic next week!
Can you hear that whistle blowin’?
I’m not sure if I can.
Notes on the comic: This comic was originally posted in November of 2006. Note the “This is the jail side” sign in the central panel. “Haw!” as Vincent would say. When I originally signed on to this gig, the deal was that I would color the old Macropod comics sequentially from the beginning, inching my way towards the ever-receding horizon of new comics. In 2008, I abandoned that quest and began coloring comics from approximately “whenever I felt” to “whatever I was given.” (I enjoyed the crisp line work and fewer panels of the newer comics too much!) However, every so often I make progress on the original goal. This is one of those days.
The heavenly shine on Vincent’s prison accouterments in the 9th & 10th panels and his twice-as-holy cross (look at that preternatural shine, yours for just 9.95!) make me hanker to see Vincent draw a pietas. Can I make that happen just by wishing? I sure hope so!
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The conclusion of “The Regular Sort of Seed This Time,” now with 100% more thrilling nanomachine action! Enjoy!
–A few notes on the comic: Like “The Regular Sort of Seed,” I again tried out a limited color palette on this comic. I didn’t stick with it, however. The detailing on the nanomachine took about ten hours over a period of several days. I couldn’t decide how I wanted to paint the “Attack” dial, so I ultimately ripped off the look of a gas meter panel. And look at that spiffy shine on the needle. Oh yes; that was my favorite part of the whole image.
Well, it didn’t take long for us to figure out that updating new Vincent Macropod colors on Fridays wouldn’t work. So here’s to Vincent Macropod in Color on Mondays! This is another one from the middle of 2008. I’ve been eager to share these since I first started stockpiling work for the new site.
Notes on the comic: I liked the black & white motif of “More Songs About Demon Seed” so much that I decided to try a limited color palette with an emphasis on black for this one. Don’t you love that fourth panel of Hank and Fluffy?– It’s certainly one of my favorite.
Colored in the middle of 2008, “More Songs About Demon Seed” was a continuation of the flat coloration style that was started in “Communicado.” I’m going to be running older colors on Fridays until the end of January as I work on some awesome (and perhaps swag-related) projects for Vincent Macropod.
As for a note on the comic, how do you like the black & white horror film feel of the last three panels? I decided to go black & white when I became fustrated with the color palette I’d originally chosen (yellow-green, blue and tan don’t always work well together).
“The Return” in brand-spanking-new colors! It’s great to be back on Vincent Macropod. There is a certain pleasure that splashing bold colors on a page brings that cannot be replicated by any other kind of work–except, say, with a fly-fishing rod, four buckets of latex paint, and a jumbo-sized tarp. But, boy, I wish I could get these things done by deadline.
Hijinks aside, I’m still working out when to post the backlog of colored comics that I built up over the hiatus. I’d like to post them on Sunday nights, but logic tells me that I’ll space them out on Fridays over the upcoming months as Playtime Magazine’s demands on my time are quite significant.
In any case, I hope you all enjoy Vincent Macropod’s new digs!
This edition of Vincent Macropod was drawn & colored for presentation at Dan and Gina’s wedding. A colored copy adorned every table, and yay unto the people who were happy. By the end of the evening, Kessen and I were in fact signing copies for the guests to take home. I assured them that these very special editions would be worth hundreds of pennies on Craigslist. However, that was before the market bottomed out. I’m sure they’re now worth much, much less.
Presenting “Bring Me a Dream” in wacky alterno-vision color! Note: wacky alterno-vision color appears exactly like normal RGB color on the majority of LCD TFT monitors. In order to purchase your very own Alterno-Vision Color Monitor, please send one dollar to:
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Presenting Vincent Macropod in “Communicato.” Enough said!
Enjoy Vincent Macropod in “The Right Man.” Normally I run all of my colors by MK’s watchful eye before posting, but due to his illness, and the extreme lateness of the hour in which I finished (i.e. several minutes ago), I’m simply hoping for the best on this one!
“Why Are You Taking Our Christmas Tree,” presented in (in)glorious RGB color! As you may notice, this week’s color is pretty trash. I’ve been working on it since a day before I came down with another illness, this one indeterminate of origin, terrible of symptom, swift and merciless in its progression. So let’s just have it up and be done with it! Moving on to bigger and brighter things!
The good Reverend is talking me into coloring this comic again. So, maybe expect to see this one again sometime in the future as a bonus comic, with brand-spanking new chiaroscuro colors. In the meantime, enjoy the ones we’ve got now for “The Right Hand of Voom”!
I think “Anatomy of a Kangaroo” came out pretty neat. Let us not speak of the other.
Sorry about the mini unplanned hiatus last week, folks! I came down with a lovely cold on Valentine’s Day, and haven’t recovered fully yet. Here’s the color for the appropriately titled “Tardy.” Please accept this humble bribe by way of apology.
This is becoming habit with me. Maybe I should start posting these things on Thursday? Heh. Enjoy “Other Languages Are Funny” in stunning digital color.
Listen to the Macropod. I’m not so good with text. Or remembering the day of the week, apparently. Enjoy!
I nearly forgot it was Friday. Enjoy “Vincent Macropod in Nin Ja” in stunning Technicolor!
I think it is safe to say that this colorized version of Vincent Macropod is merely done so I can move on to the next. Nothing to see here folks.
This week’s colors brought to you by Clownies, Rodeo Clown Brand Novelty Pants! Go on, comic for you sir.
So I’ve been talking up Lilawyn’s colors quite a bit ’round here. This is, of course, because I love them, and demand that you love them also. Each and every one has been a delight. But this week’s is seriously the best so far. She’s always done an excellent job, but now she’s outdone herself. The sheens on the weapon! The ricochet effect! Check it out!
Oh, and by the way, the Gore Sword was created by Patton Oswalt. And this is a loving tribute. An homage.
Color Vincent Macropod is back! This week, it’s one that I regard as a ‘classic’ Vincent Macropod, for really no good reason at all. It is, of course, colored by Lilawyn – look upon her works, ye mighty, and despair! Seriously, she outdid even herself this time. It is SO BADASS.
I should probably mention once again that the Gore Sword was a comic drawn by the very funny Patton Oswalt, back when he was a kid, and then posted on his site after he got all famous. I’d link to the original, but ’tain’t there no more. I love you, Patton Oswalt! Don’t be mad!
Ahh, as true today as it was when I drew it. Only now infinitely better-looking. Check it out.
Usually, I try to stay away from the overtly political stuff such as this. Mainly I don’t want to get pedantic, ’cause I would – holy crap, would I ever. Also, when I think about politics, I tend to get not funny. Which I suppose is a similar sort of thing, eh? Ahhh well. Enjoy the cartoon, and please, tell Lilawyn how awesome she is.
Ladies and gentlemen! Presenting the next mind-bending part of the Vincent Macropod Age! I give you – Vincent Macropod Color Saturdays! Which is to say, on Saturdays now, there will be old Vincent Macropods, rendered into living color by the dizzyingly talented Lilawyn. Oh, it is a wonder to behold.
It’s fitting that the first one should be this one; this was actually the first one Lil ever did. She pretty much hit it out of the park on the first try, let me say. Though I did, eventually, decide that Vincent was a Red Kangaroo, so she changed it, which I told her she didn’t have to. But that’s how she works!
I command you to enjoy!
(Originally run in the previous post by Vincent on Dimfuture.)
–Notes on the Comic (Jan 2009): Notice the trying-to-be-fancy line work that I did on a few of these panels? Yeah, that didn’t turn out half as well as I hoped. Gosh, it’s almost painful to view these old colors. I have no idea why Vincent would have called me dizzyingly talented; this is amateur hour in here! And not the Vincent-is-fucking-rad-at-everything-his-done amateur either. Moving on.
(Originally run with Vincent’s post on Dimfuture)
–Notes on the comic (Jan 2009): The first Vincent Macropod in Color posted at Dimfuture. So how did I end up coloring for Vincent Macropod? By a predictable twist of fate, I had become recently bored of my own comic (which was only about six or seven strips in) due to my rather weak illustration skills. I had wandered over to Dimfuture and discovered Vincent Macropod. Hoping to hitch my star to the actually-funny comic, I colored “A Desire to Do Good” to audition for the piece. Or maybe I was asked first? The beginning of Vincent Macropod is pretty hazy to me; The Usual Suspects forum has since taken its metaphorical trip into the West, so there’s no help to be had there.
Looking back on this comic, I can see the rather sharp learning curve for coloring comics in a timely fashion ahead. Oh, the lessons that were learned.