This is the first in a series of drawings of this one particular boy.. Since I haven’t posted on here in a while, I’m gonna warm up this week by posting some drawings instead of jumping straight into new comix. Those’ll start next week, by which time most people will hopefully have noticed that I’m posting again. I like this sketch,but it was kind of a challenge, since we were sitting on some sort of old concrete outcropping out on Sutro Heights, it was getting windy, the ink I was using was too thin, and the poor guy there, as flexible as he might be, was getting pretty cold.

Ok, here we go. This story, as outlined, is about 23 pages long but I figure it might grow by a couple of pages as I do it. Either way it seems like the best way to go about posting it is a few panels at a time, and then post the complete pages after I’ve posted the panels from each one. I’m not sure if that’ll be confusing, but it’ll allow for updates to this website on a fairly regular basis, so we’ll see how it works.

The story is the origin of Rickets the Robot, and the tragic love affair in his past. I’ll talk more about it as it unfolds.

So the plan for the immediate future is to start, hopefully at the beginning of next week, posting pages for a 23 page story I’m working on called Marching to “The City”, and which tells some of the origin of Rickets the robot. In between pages for that, I plan to keep posting shorter strips that will develop the current story of Rickets and the other characters, and which will comprise issue three, the cover inks for which were a recent post.

Here it finally is! I plan to color it, add come things to it, of course put a title and etc., but here are the inks.