Author Archives: AFDStudios

Cops, Daniel Boone, and LOLCats. Comics, everyone!

Posted on March 27, 2012 | Comments Off on Cops, Daniel Boone, and LOLCats. Comics, everyone!

(From "Blue Bolt" number 11, 1941.)

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META: Yet more tweaking

Posted on March 26, 2012 | Comments Off on META: Yet more tweaking

Tonight I added two slightly nifty features to the ol' blog. First, I added a "current contest" widget in the right side bar that will (duh) show you whatever contest is the current one. I bet you could not have figured that out had I not said it so forthrightly.

Second, the "Sketch of the Day" category now shows you the actual images instead of just the list of headlines. It's the same thing I did for the "Hall of Fame" category a few days ago.

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SOD.246

Posted on March 26, 2012 | Comments Off on SOD.246

I drew this on the plane Sunday. Like, on real paper with a real pen. Crazy talk! I kept looking for the undo button.

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Posted in Sketch of the Day

Caption Contest 119: Howdy!

Posted on March 26, 2012 | Comments Off on Caption Contest 119: Howdy!

Your challenge this week is to come up with the best replacement dialog for this comics panel (which comes to us courtesy of the always awesome Glenn3's "Say What?" PhotoBucket site):

The best entry (as judged by yours truly) wins the author's choice of either any item they like or any portrait to be included in HeroMachine 3′s final release, or a custom black and white “Sketch of the Day” style illustration (you pick the subject, I draw it however I like).

All entries must be left as a comment (or comments) to this post. Keep ‘em clean (appropriate for a late-night broadcast TV show), but most importantly, keep ‘em funny!

No limit to entries, but please, self-edit and only put up ones you genuinely think are good!

(Original panel © DC Comics, Inc.)

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Character Contest 86 Winners

Posted on March 26, 2012 | Comments Off on Character Contest 86 Winners

The "Seven Deadly Sins" contests got to be a bit of a slog, so last time I combined the final two into one joint effort. I thank all of you who stuck it out to the end!

We had some really good entries, and since the overall numbers were fairly low, I thought I'd put every one into a slideshow so you can go through them all like I do each week. Afterwards I'll call out the ones I thought were particularly good and then the overall winner. Enjoy!

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Posted in Challenge Favorites, Challenges, Character Design Challenges

Forget the sound, there's a hand eating your face!

Posted on March 26, 2012 | Comments Off on Forget the sound, there's a hand eating your face!

(From "Blue Bolt" number 11, 1941.)

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Too … many … jokes

Posted on March 25, 2012 | Comments Off on Too … many … jokes

(From "Blue Bolt" number 11, 1941.)

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Pop Quiz 3 Results

Posted on March 24, 2012 | Comments Off on Pop Quiz 3 Results

Many thanks to everyone who took yesterday's Pop Quiz! I asked you to create a "Monster Manual" style creature, and boy did I get some great ones! Rather than picking and choosing, here they all are in one place. A couple of folks submitted more than one entry, so for them I just took the first one they put in.

Note that I've got a new feature installed -- just click on any image and a Lightbox style slide show will start showing you the image, the author, and the name. You can arrow through all of the entries in a row. I hope this makes it easier to view them. Let me know what you think.

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META: Blog tweaks

Posted on March 24, 2012 | Comments Off on META: Blog tweaks

I've tinkered with the site a bit and wanted to note it for both of you who are interested.

  1. The "Featured Character" link in the header now automatically shows a random image from the set of 30+ blurbs I've created over time. Now I don't have to edit the header manually each time with the latest one, I just create it and put it in the right directory.
  2. Clicking on the "Featured Character" image in the header, or choosing the "Hall of Fame" category in the right column, takes you to the newly formatted gallery page showing off some of the best contest winners from the past. The intent of this page is, of course, to honor those who have created some of the best images ever, but also to impress new visitors with the versatility of the program. Like the featured blurb, all I have to do is put a post in the "Hall of Fame" category and it will automatically show up on that page.
  3. The big header image at the top now rotates randomly with every page you go to as well.

As you can see, nothing major, but it took more work than I thought it would so I wanted to trumpet it from the virtual rooftops. Yay me!

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SOD.245 – Testing out the new tablet

Posted on March 24, 2012 | Comments Off on SOD.245 – Testing out the new tablet

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Posted in Sketch of the Day