PIPE DOPE #78

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PIPE DOPE #77

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I know I keep changing the way the Peeps say General's name. The truth might be that I keep changing my mind on how their pronunciation should be written, but for now let's just pretend each Peep pronounces it slightly differently, and this is the first time we've "heard" Blue Peep say it.

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PIPE DOPE #76

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Happy Memorial Day, welcome back to Pipe Dope, and many thanks for your patience during my one-week respite. It was a much-needed break and a terrifically productive one, to boot. While I didn't build a huge buffer for this week, I managed to get a bit ahead of schedule and, most importantly, I totally nailed down the outline going forward; while I've always known when and how Pipe Dope is going to end, the road map from here to there has been, admittedly, a bit hazy. Also, within that outline, I did schedule a few more weeks off to give myself a chance to occasionally catch my breath. So then, here's hoping for smooth sailing through to the end in early 2012.

More tomorrow. Yo-ho!

Pipe Dope Thumbnails

Apologies again for not posting new Pipe Dope panels this week, but believe you me, the break is doing me good and helping me nail down the roadmap through to the finish line, which will be Friday, February 3, 2012. (Practically just around the corner!) Anyhow, for the benefit of anyone who might be interested in such things, here are my sketchbook pages with thumbnails for the past five weeks:

Some things you might take away from these pages: Weeks 12 and 13 were as much (if not more) about the number of panels each day as they were about what was drawn in those panels. And this past week, in #75, I really didn't know how I wanted to do that sound effect until I was working on the actual panel.

I think with the upcoming Week 16 I might start including the thumbnails in the last post for every week (ideally on Fridays, too often on Saturdays). Just a thought. We'll all know what I decide on Friday, June 3.

I hope you enjoy this peek behind the curtain, and I hope you all come back this coming Monday, May 30 for #76. Have fun in the meantime. Yo-ho!

PIPE DOPE #75

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As usual on a Saturday, I apologize for being late with the post. It took me awhile to figure out how I wanted to do that "chomp" sound effect, and by the time I decided, the morning was gone and I had a bunch of errands to run. So it goes.

I've been planning this cliffhanger for a while, but I'm afraid the suspense will last longer than I'd originally thought, as I'm definitely going to take this coming week off from posting. I'll try and get some behind-the-scenes stuff up on Monday to hopefully keep folks entertained, and then we'll find out the Peep's fate on Monday, May 30. Have fun in the meantime!