The 200 Comics Challenge

I spotted a fellow artist (link) at DeviantArt twenty-some strips into a 200 Comics Challenge, and decided I should embark on it as well.

The rules designed for the preservation of my sanity are:

1) Black and red ink only.

Just like the old newspaper riddle, except ... literal? I tend to color nothing or everything in my work, so limiting myself to black, white and red should lend some expression, some dynamic look and/or simplicity to my panels. Who knows--maybe by comic #100 I'll be able to properly shade an object.

2) Don't overthink the (3-panel) strip: it goes beginning, middle, end.

My father and my wife both tell me that I think too much. It's true. The three panel strip is a lean creature. There's no room to draw people humming and tying their shoes, much less draw them humming then tying their shoes (unless that's the joke). The framework of a three panel strip is as rigid and free as a haiku.

See? I'm thinking too much already. The 200 Comics Challenge is a challenge, I think, of quantity and learning. I'll draw a lot and I'll learn. I'll be happy with that, even if I draw four strips a week and the whole thing takes me a year to finish.

On I go.