An Older Scene in its Proper Place

I’ve posted an older version of this scene before.  But this one has updated lettering and an actual ending!  It’s also the first scene of “Ghost Squirrel” I ever drew – it may look a little different.

By the way: I’ve set up a central location for these pages.  Now you can read it in order.

Comic book pencil layout featuring a wide view of a cafe. An impatient Owl waits for someone to show up.

Ghost Squirrel Scene Two – Layouts version 2

Right-o!  Reworked boxing scene in full.  Page 5 has an extra panel.  The original (second version) was fine and all, but it didn’t quite match the pacing of the rest of the scene.

The scene is meant to be a quick paced teaser to establish the rather important plot point that Squirrel is…well…already dead!

Comic book pencil layouts featuring a ringing boxing bell, a cheering animal audience, and a bobcat taking a swing at a squirrel.

Comic book pencil layouts featuring many small panels. An owl watches a boxing match, looks a little worried, and nervously holds a pocket watch. Meanwhile, the bobcat and squirrel fight.

Comic book pencil layout featuring a continued boxing match between a bobcat and a squirrel. A nearby guppy has unkind words to say about the squirrel.

Comic book layouts featuring a boxing match between a squirrel and a bobcat. The squirrel gets up off the mat to take on the bobcat. Meanwhile the owl looks intently at the strange pocket watch.

Comic book layout showing the squirrel punching the bobcat. The bobcat winds up a punch in retaliation and the owl, for some reason, looks happy about this.

Comic book page pencil layout showing the final "tock" of the pocket watch while the audience looks shocked. The owl is extra pleased.

Ghost Squirrel Comic Page 3

comic page showing squirrel finishing his conversation with owl and exiting out onto a stage like space filled with a diverse and strange audienceThere are so, so many crowd scenes in this story.  I shall be a master crowdsman by the time this story is finished.

Ghost Squirrel Comic Page 2

Page two of Ghost Squirrel.  Meet the two main characters: Furtive Squirrel, the titular Ghost, and his (more-or-less) sidekick Intrepid Owl.

Comic Page in Pencil Layout Stage Showing Dialogue Between an Owl and a Squirrel

Comic – Circus Insurance

UPDATE: This is the old version of the comic.  The finial version can be found here.

A six page color comic informally called “Circus Insurance”

Comic book page showing an exterior of a house with a circus in the background, then a close up of a stressed pigeon comic book page showing a sequence where man watching a newscast about an escaped lion hears a sound at the door.  He prepares to attack the intruder. comic book page showing man opening door to reveal lion eating his pet pigeon. comic book page showing man running away from door to take refuge in the kitchen only to be greeted by a golden monkey comic book page revealing that there are three golden monkeys in the kitchen.  They hand the man a card saying "Circus Insurance" and then go to attack the lion Comic book page showing one of the monkeys throwing a grenade at the lion.  The man ducks down as the explosion hits.  When the smoke clears, he calls the number on the card