Colin Posts

Seven Aspects of the Landlord p.1

I’d resisted drawing a landlord strip because I don’t do much autobio, and crazy landlord stories are a dime a dozen, but I finally reached a point where I felt like I needed to do it to exorcise some of my frustration. It’s not in an autobio format, but the whole strip is inspired by my current (soon to be ex-)landlord, and though condensed is unfortunately pretty true to life (re: panel 4, he’s an optometrist, though I’ve no idea how). This strip has a lot more cussing than my others because he is a cussin’ cuss.

June 24, 2010 | No Comments

Fathertron

Whoops, no comic today, but here’s the Father’s Day card I made for my dad:

Comic tomorrow, OK?

June 21, 2010 | No Comments

Excuses, excuses

Sorry there was no new comic yesterday (or today, so far). I suddenly had an opportunity to submit a guest strip for a webcomic I like, so that took up the drawing time that would have gone into my own strip. I don’t know for sure if it’ll be used, but if so I’ll certainly post a link.

June 18, 2010 | No Comments

Square Dance #4

This issue of Square Dance contains:

-” Spinning World”: A winter’s worth of strips about time and culture: holidays known & unknown, plus “Great Moments in Nuclear History”.

- “Super Friendly Garlic”: The story of a very friendly bulb of garlic.

- “Winter in Headville”: A wordless doodly comic about the coldest season in a land where everyone is a head on little legs.

- Plus a bunch of miscellaneous silly strips.

…all behind a classic winter-themed cover.


5.5″ x 8.5″, 24 pgs $2.00  


June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment

Beware the Vampire

Well, there’s my take on vampires for you.

Maybe in October this will become a downloadable comic-with-puzzle for printing and foisting on trick-or-treaters.

June 14, 2010 | No Comments

Wild nights

Recently I’ve had a couple of nights where I returned home after dark to find no one else home, all the lights off, and fireflies blinking around in the darkness, and stood around for a while just enjoying it.

This past Saturday night, I stamped the covers of 165 copies of Play. Sunday I glued game booklets into 120 of them.

June 14, 2010 | No Comments

Spin the Spinner

The first of my two pages in the latest Trees & Hills anthology PLAY; on the second, the personal gets political. Cathy Leamy had some kind words to say about PLAY in general and (to my pleasant surprise) my piece in particular.

June 10, 2010 | No Comments

Winter in Headville (pg 8)

June 7, 2010 | No Comments

The New Setup

Oh boy oh boy, look at my new website setup! OK, it doesn’t look radically different from the old setup (which itself was pretty recent), but I’ve finally jumped on the “latest-comic-on-top, blog-on-bottom” bandwagon. I may actually post stuff to the blog now that it won’t push my comics down out of sight! All the comics are back up except the hourlies – I’ll get to them eventually. Other than that I have maybe a few minor style tweaks to fiddle with when I feel like it, and I’d like to spruce up the sidebar a bit, but I’m basically considering the renovation successfully completed. Yay!

I had been partway through converting my site to use Comicpress (got distracted by anthology production, touring, etc.), then the other day after recommending Daniel Merlin Goodbrey to someone, I went to look at his site. I was surprised to see he was using Comicpress, and thought he’d done a really nice job with it, until I saw his blog post that said he was actually using Webcomic (and it turns out he hadn’t customized the default theme all that much). I checked it out, it seemed a little easier to use & better suited to my needs, and here we are! I like it so far.

Notes on navigation: besides the obvious navigation links, you can click the comic to go forward (unless it’s the last one), and you can also navigate the comic with your arrow keys. How cool is that? Navigation works within each comic; to see other comics, go to the “Comics” page and click away! (One-off strips are pooled together).

Okay, boring website talk is over now! You can look forward to more comics, and a higher volume of blog posts – talk about value!

June 4, 2010 | No Comments

Winter in Headville (pg 7)

June 3, 2010 | No Comments