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Alfie’s Tail

Art and colors by Sterling Martin. Story by Greg Tjosvold.

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Comic Book Coloring Samples

Colors by Sterling Martin. Artwork courtesy of Marvel Comics for educational purposes.

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I took a comic book coloring course with Comics Experience to learn more about coloring comic book pages. These are the sample pages I completed in the class. I learned so much about color schemes and flatting from this class! You can check it out
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Casey O'Malley
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From the Flying Saucers Are Swell! Intro
From Casey's New Telescope
From Casey's Meditation Experiment
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Freaky Flicks!
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Book Cover Art
Back Cover Art
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"Careers" Book Page
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Fleas on Flick was my first dive into comic strip storytelling and my first webcomic. It was all drawn on paper by hand at first and scanned into the computer. The character was born on a scrap of paper while I was working in a box office, and it ga
Tennis Ball was Flick's best friend and one of the more unique characters in the strip. His voice basically represented the anxieties of Flick, but also the truths he'd rather not acknowledge about himself from time to time.
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The cornerstone of Francis' character was that his gifted intelligence made him terrible at being just a regular cat. It caused him difficulty on a regular basis, and all that frustration usually ended up being taken out on poor Flick in the form of
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Dee-dee quickly became one of my favorite characters to write in this strip. I am not exactly sure what made the character charming for me other than because, unlike the other characters, he/she (I could never decide which) was not fed by an owner o
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Ants were regular visitors to Flick's food bowl outside. (Something my poor outdoor dog had to deal with when I was growing up.) This comic got an editor's pick on the site I was publishing on which made me pretty happy.
One of my favorite inspirations from Calvin and Hobbes was using poetry with comics. Here are a couple of my attempts to do the same with Flick.
I no longer have the entire series online to share, but I may compile them in a book someday the way I did with the much easier to write and draw, Oranges Are Funny.
 
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Eddy
Bedtime Story
Don't Put Eddy in the Washing Machine!
Washer Attack
Legit Ghost
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Primordial Love

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