Marci, p10

This one didn't need too much tweaking so I thought I'd make it a bogoff today!

Massive thanks to my good friend Edward, for taking over my scanning (including all those that need re-scanning- legend!)

Marci, p09... sorta finished

So I finally managed to get the dusty old windows machine even the burglar didn't want, up and running. It crashes about 7 times a day, the monitor crackles, and this leviathan takes 4 minutes to start up... but by God it can run photoshop (kind of). Anyway the monitor truly is horrendous and giving me a headache, so this doesn't have all the tweaks I will need to make in the end but I have a backlog of almost 10 pages to upload!

 

Ooh, what idea has Marci got now?

 



 

 

The misadventures of Burglar Bill

A little while ago our neighbours got broken in to. Whilst the security companies made plans to upgrade the windows and doors, and I argued with contents insurance companies over the best deal, I decided to set up evocam on my mac. That's EVOCAM: http://www.evological.com/evocam.html. It worked as a motion-actived cctv camera, and I set it to upload any photos it took to my web server. Every morning I turn it on and leave for work, checking my ftp once or twice throughout the day for any updates.

Yesterday, I had one. It looked like this:


"Well that's jolly odd," I thought, "There's a fellow in our flat! I say, what can that unscrupulous looking gentleman be doing in there? Perhaps he's the window security man, he is due round soon"

The was instantly followed by another:

"well this IS strange! It almost looks as though he's alarmed to find a camera has snapped his gruesome mug, and is attempting to cover it. Perhaps he's just embarrassed by looking so terrifyingly like a ragamuffin whilst going about his unrequested yet definitely law abiding activities in our flat"

Despite the obviously innocent misunderstandings, Philip jumped into a taxi and hot-footed it in to our flat. Unfortunately we did not arrive to newly fitted security windows, or some kindly yet scruffy man waiting at the flat to explain all- we found this




























































Luckily they couldn't fit our tv through the window, which they'd popped back and out of its hinges. they did however take my imac, 3 laptops (2 broken), 2 cameras, a pair of earrings of little but sentimental value, and an xbox (theday GOW3 was released, the selfish buggers!)- and, as you can see, completely TRASHED the place looking for all this stuff.

Unfortunately my Marci project will be seriously delayed, as all my high res, put-together pages are lost and will need to be rescanned (somehow) so please excuse me if there's a little delay.

3 things to take away from this experience

• Cats do not make efficient guard-pets (I'm as surprised as you are)


• Do not quibble about a few quid spent on contents insurance- insurance costing 20 quid more than you'd hope to spend is better than NO insurance (and a massive premium when we go to get it now)


• If you see the gentleman in the topmost picture, please do slap him round the face with a leather glove and denounce him as a craven...then make a citizen's arrest because HE STOLE MY STUFF

Marci, p08 finished

As she eats her synthetic, nutritionally enhanced food, Marci can't help but stare at the wonder across the road.

One of my favourite pages so far!

Marci, P07 finished

Marci goes to spend her unexpected windfall

This is Marci

I needed to make an icon for london expo, so I found myself making a rather large (given that the icon needs to be 100 x 150px) watercolour. Hopefully this could form part of the comic front cover, and it's good watercolour practice!

Marci, p06 finished!

A wild stranger appears! This one is my favourite page so far :)

Marci p05... more finished :)

So i like this one more! there are still a couple bits I would like to change if I had time, but I hope it tells the story :)

Marci p04... again sorta finished

now this one is NUMERO UNO to re-do, but again, at this point i just have to keep trucking on so i've at least got a version of all the pages before i start nit-picking!

Marci, p03... sorta finished

ok so this one is number 2 on my re-do wishlist, so I was a little unsure about posting it here. But hopefully it will still let people see the story flow.

Marci, p02 finished

Marci, p01...again

The digital painting wasn't giving me the feeling I was going for, so I tried a real watercolour base instead. I'm a lot happier with this look, even if I dont have as much control over the image. Onwards!