inky Stories is my collection of web comics of mostly short, self-contained stories. Genres include satire, horror, romance, sci-fi, and crime fiction.
A vigilante serial killer's one-man war on crime is escalated to the next level.
My schedule currently allows me to make custom, comic book-related art for you. Sensibly priced by size, deadline...
Art, design, and concepts for an insurance industry marketing campaign for Ask Kodiak, a commercial insurance search engine founded by Michael Albert and Allan Egbert in 2015.
Got enlisted to Gaspar's Posse, hung out with Denis Kitchen, got free lettering help from Tom Orzechowski and Chris Eliopoulos, and sold a few Inky Stories while squatting a con table. Possibly my best convention since WonderCon 1999.
Wordpress always bothered me. Since launching in 2011, managing the Wordpress file system, themes, plugins, and MySQL database seemed like an increasingly overblown solution to host comics. My being particular about markup and styles only added more complexity. I built a static HTML site as a local guide, pasting HTML content into Wordpress fields. This occasionally caused conflicts with various extensions and updates. Wordpress also generated too much spam comments and emails.
Without the dots, ink gain and absorbent newsprint, the colors are louder than intended. This was discovered during the economic and technological shift of the 1980s, when publishers actually printed 64 colors on nicer paper. That's when the industry went with full digital color, effectively ending the four color process era of comics.
In the pre-digital era of print production, there were a few ways to spice up single-color line art with implied gray tones. Along with crosshatching, coquille board and screentone (most commonly called Zip-A-Tone), the richest and most expensive method was Duo-Shade by Grafix.
Something that @BriggsNicholas and @bigfinish might appreciate: "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" by @evandorkin , 2009. #theprisoner https://t.co/5X11IYHMQQ pic.twitter.com/nKx7FpFL15
— Inky Stories (@InkyDavid) March 3, 2020
Yellow filter of Mexico: reality vs. the Mexico of American movies pic.twitter.com/HMvY9AB2PM
— Inky Stories (@InkyDavid) January 28, 2020
I'm banned on @Facebook for three days for posting "In Voluptas Mors" by Salvador Dali and Philippe Halsman. What's fine for Silence of the Lambs is too raw for their "community standards." pic.twitter.com/Jwia1GZ7zq
— Inky Stories (@InkyDavid) January 13, 2020
Waris Hussein might be Earth's most highly evolved life form. pic.twitter.com/6mUYci7MIv
— Inky Stories (@InkyDavid) January 4, 2020
Took a while, but I think I found my ideal remote setup. Live at @DistrictHall pic.twitter.com/BtaIrAvsIV
— Inky Stories (@InkyDavid) December 26, 2019