Updated Reliablecomics.com

I made a lot of changes to Reliable Comics to make it more of a blog/e-comics deal. For the next month or so there'll be daily postings of all the past Danny Dutch comic strips (I renamed the strip to Reliable Comics' Laugh Menu because there's a dude on flickr named Danny Dutch now and his updates are screwing with my Google Alerts, and the strip's more of an ensemble thing anyhow *making a smug Hollywood face*) and I'm going to put as much of my other comics and drawing junk on there as I can get around to. So check it out and post some comments and subscribe to the RSS feed and buy comics from Sparkplug. From now on I'll only use this site to share Hulu clips and lettering samples.

This image sums it all up:

Danny Dutch #41 & #42

Two new comic strips in my horrid Flickr set!

Danny Dutch #40

Strip #40

Danny Dutch Postcard

I've been working on this postcard the last couple of evenings. I think it's supposed to go in the same print run as Austin English's Windy Corner #3, coming soon. I posted this to show something that I was working on instead of more dumb promo stuff, but I guess I messed it up. Next I'll get back to work on Strip #40 and maybe other stuff.

Danny Dutch Reviewed on Daily Crosshatch

The Daily Crosshatch has posted a pretty nice review of the Danny Dutch Comic Book:

"The characters ... almost treat each other like objects in a room passing time rather than as friends or lovers. It lays a strange mood on the reader, and even though I’ve re-read this book enough times to know what that mood is, I can’t quite put a finger on it. It’s really unique."

Seattle Stranger Reviews Danny Dutch

The Danny Dutch comic book got a favorable review in the Seattle Stranger.

"New Portland-based comics publisher Sparkplug has produced some exciting work in its short existence, but the most fully formed and hypnotic of all of them is Danny Dutch..."

Take that, Bookhunter!

Danny Dutch #39

Danny Dutch in Cream City Review Available Now

According to their site, issue 32.2 (Fall 2008) of Milwaukee's The Cream City Review is out now. I gave them ten of the weekly Danny Dutch strips, plus a new short strip called "The Secret Handshake" to run alongside them. I haven't seen a copy of it and I don't know anything about the rest of the stuff in it, I'm sure it's great.

I'm not completely sure of their distribution, but it's probably available at indie bookstores and that bottom shelf in the magazine section at Barnes & Noble.

Thanks Comics Reporter

Tom Spurgeon, the Comics Reporter, gave Danny Dutch a nice mention over the weekend in his round-up of webcomics that he reads:

"I look at these comics frequently, and while I enjoy them and respect the level of craft involved I have this strange feeling that I'm going to like some future work by King so much that it will force me to go back and re-examine these and I'll like them that much more."

I hope he's right, but there's no reason to hold your breath.

Anyway, be sure to follow the link and take a look at the other things he mentions, there's lots of neat comics on the list. Also, if you came here from there, you might find it easier to follow Danny Dutch on Flickr, or maybe it's just as easy to follow the links from here. SHRUG

PS: There'll be a new strip this week, probably. Watch this space

Danny Dutch #38

I think the lettering is pretty good on this one.

Danny Dutch and Jin & Jam Reviewed

Rob Clough posted a nice review of Danny Dutch and fellow Sparkplug bullpenner Hellen Jo's Jin & Jam #1.

Danny Dutch #37

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #36

I didn't do anything for a month! Anyhow, I'm a step away from just killing this blog since I never post much of anything anymore...You should bookmark the Danny Dutch Strip RSS Feed or my Flickr photostream since that seems to be where all the big action is. Also keep an eye on reliablecomics.com since I just renewed the domain for another year. And don't forget to buy Danny Dutch's Illiterate Yellow Funny Book from my inestimable pooblisher Sparkplug Comic Books and Stories. That's it, I guess.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #35

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #34

It's hard to get these done! I complained to a friend about the ungodly amount of drawing that goes into doing train tracks.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #33

Weekly Strip #33

Not much for blogging lately, I guess. I'll post the finished #33 tomorrow or Saturday...

Oh, take a look at my APE photos here. It was a blast; I learned that I speak in a gruesome indifferent monotone, just like Tom Neely.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #32

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #31

For next week

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #30

For this week, whenever it is.

Some of my best lettering in this one.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #29

For the week of September 29-October 5.

I guess I'll use the thumbnail Flickr provides, but it's pretty small so you have to click through, sorry.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #28

Strip #28

This is the last one that'll go into my Danny Dutch comic book, coming soon. I'll probably take a week or two off from drawing the strips to mess around with cover coloring and complicated junk like that. Please keep checking back, though.

Also, congratulations to the other cartoonists who were nominated for the Ignatz award in the Oustanding Online Comic category (Chris Onstad, Jesse Reklaw, Joey Sayers, Tracy White), one of which will win.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #27

Strip #27 first panel, all finished! Congratulations!

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #27

Strip #27. i'm really making some headway lately! I just have one more strip to do to complete enough for my upcoming comic book. I drew the cover over the weekend. I think it'll look pretty good, I guess.

Busts!

I'm going to use these as part of the design on the inside covers of my upcoming comic book. With luck it'll be in color, with some additional designey junk.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #26

First panel of #26

I like the way that small lettering at the bottom came out.

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Weekly Strip #25

This is the first panel to strip #25

Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon linked to the strip today which was pretty neighborly of him. If you came from there thanks for the interest. I've only posted the first panel of the last few strips as a tease for the eventual mini-comic version that I'm planning for APE in November.

You may also want to look at the Flickr set of the strips for an easier reading experience ( I think so, anyway). I tend to get stuff posted there before I put it here--gotta get my money's worth!

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #24

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #23

Just to tease anyone who's reading these, for the next few I'm just going to post the first panel and then force you to buy the printed version if you want to read the whole thing. Coming in November '08.

It might also save me some time which I can devote to drawing more comics, or drawing the same amount of comics, but faster. Or better. Or merely maintaining the same lax schedule as always...the sky's the limit!

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #22

For the week of July 28-Aug 3.

I finished this yesterday, but forgot to post it here. I've been putting them on Flickr first lately, then forgetting all about it.

Weekly Strip #22 Half Done Preview

click here for super big size

Links, News, Updates, Everything

I got linked/recommended by Rick Bradford/Poopsheet and Steve Stwalley/Stwallskull in the last couple of days. Thanks fellas! And hello to visitors from there.

The weekly comic strip is lagging as usual, I'll probably have something by the weekend, or maybe next week? I really only started working on it tonight. Once I get 25 or 30 done i'll make a mini-comic of the best ones. Look for it at SPX or APE, I suppose, if it gets done.

I will also be a COMICON INT'L next week, Thursday thru Sunday. I'll be creeping around the Sparkplug Comic Books table. Also there will be Dylan Williams, Trevor Alixopolous, Jeff LeVine, Tom Neely, Tim Goodyear, Jason Shiga, more ! I'll be wearing this t-shirt:

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #21

For the week of July 7-13.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #20

For the week of June 23-29.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #19

For the week of June 9-15.

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Sketches for Comic Strip

Here's a couple of sketches I did to practice for this week's strip (coming next week!). This is Penny, Danny Dutch's girlfriend, and I've used her so seldom I always have to re-learn how to draw her. Sorry about the weird colors; she looks like a scary doll.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Comic Strip #18

For the week of May 26 thru June 1.

I guess I'm going to have to stop calling these weekly strips, since I never get them done on time. I'm working on a 60-70 page story in my sketchbook, but it's going to be in my boring style and not my funny style, coming in 2009!

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #17

For the week of May 12-18.

Part 2 of 2, continued from last week.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #16

For the week of May 5-11

This is a two-parter, concluded next week.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #15

For the week of April 21-27.

This is the best comic strip I've ever done.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #14

For the week of Apr 7-13

It took me forever to get this done. I won't be drawing these guys again because it's too hard!

Also take a look at this raw scan, before I added the graytones. (very large size)

There's an RSS feed of my Flickr gallery of weekly strips here, if you are so inclined.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #13

For the week of March 31 - April 6.

I was beginning to think I went overboard with the drawing on this, but it came out ok.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #12

For the week of March 24-30.

Take a look at the pencil versions of two of these panels in the previous post.

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Half Way

These are the pencil roughs for panels 3 and 4 of weekly strip #12, which I'll post next Wednesday, March 26.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #11

For the week of March 10-16.

I hope I can stay on schedule from now on, but it's hard to get these done now that I have a job!

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Reasons

Well, not much is happening for me lately--just moved into a new apartment, but I don't have enough of my stuff transported to get any comics or scanning or much of anything at all done. However, I mean to have Weekly Strip #11 for next Wednesday, March 12, and a post or two with scans of Chinese comics I brought back from my trip there in 2004; I have some neat stuff that I rediscovered during my packing. I may also get some stuff together to add to gluyaswilliams.com, but that's within the next few months, not particularly anytime soon.

Please keep reading!

Weekly Strip #10

For the week of Feb 11-17

So much work for so little payoff! I might take off next week...

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Weekly Strip #9

For the week of Feb 4-10

My internet is back, surprisingly

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More Reasons

AT&T has let my DSL service get interrupted, so my week vacation from weekly comics may go into two weeks...

Reasons!

You may have noticed that this site hasn't been here for a few days--i'm using a free webhost (Doteasy, which has always been really nice, service-wise; use me as your referrer!) and I exceeded my monthly traffic quota of 1gb. I chalked this up to lots of hits from Google Image Search, where somebody will download my whole site to see one thumbnail of boobies. So I uploaded a robots.txt file to try and stave off hits from there; if I did it right, soon none of the images from this site will show up in the image search. Bad or good, I don't know, we'll see.

NO COMIC STRIP THIS WEEK: I also took a vacation from my weekly strip with the site outage as my excuse. Back next Wednesday, Feb 6, for sure! I've been getting a pretty good response to them...if only they could earn me some money! Speaking of which:

I've been trying to FIND A JOB this week, so far not a lot of luck. I must be looking too far up on the foodchain or something. Ironically, a job involving 'food' and 'chain' may be in my immediate future. If you'd like to help, it would be appreciated, please get in touch! (gosh, that reads like I'm asking for donations or something--not at all...leads, leads!)

Thanks for reading. I think I'll do one more dry, texty post after this, and then get back to not posting anything. Alienated yet??

Weekly Strip #8

For the week of Jan 21-27

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of Jan 14-20

UPDATE: I've gotten a lot of nice feedback on this one from here and there; thanks a lot for looking, everyone!

I also made a banner that links to the Flickr set of these strips. It's there on the right, or if by some chance you're looking at the RSS, here it is:

Or if you don't like Flickr, you can click the weekly strip label to see them here or if you don't want to do that either, they're all on reliablecomics.com. EASY

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Supertrash: Venus In Furs Poster Redo

I did this for the Supertrash Film Fest / Art Show that's upcoming on February 1-3 in Portland, Ore. I'm not sure if they automatically accept whatever's sent in or if it's juried somehow, but we'll see. Pals Tom Neely, Chris Cilla, Alex Holden and Jim Rugg have also done one, probably others I don't know about.

Anyway, I did Venus in Furs, a terrible movie from the late 60's about a horny jazz musician and a hot naked ghost(?) lady, and a hot jazz singer lady who never gets naked and three murderous jerks. Don't bother watching it.

This is also my excuse for not having a new weekly strip for today. Not the real reason, but it's good enough. I may have a strip for tomorrow. Sorry!

New Weekly Strip

For the week of Jan 7-13

New logo, hope you like it.

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of Dec 31 thru Jan 6.

I tried some "special effects" for this one.

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of Dec 17-23.

There's no new strip next Wednesday, check back on January 2, '08

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Running Late

I didn't get started on my strip until today, so I may not make it by Wednesday, but anything can happen.

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of Dec 10-16

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New Weekly Strip

For the week of December 3-9, 2007.

Check back next Wednesday and maybe there'll be another one! MAYBE! And tell your friends, please.

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New (Weekly?) Strip

New Projects Dept: Make a weekly comic strip. This is the first one, for the week of November 26 thru December 2, 2007. We'll see if 12/3-12/9 materializes. I got no job, and I wrote three or four strips this morning, just need to draw them--I'd be a real slob if I didn't get a second one done at the very least. Wish me luck!

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