tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63424655158341983722011-11-27T19:27:00.739-05:00Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-77555052671526521852010-06-10T07:00:00.000-04:002010-06-10T07:28:56.278-04:00

...and, heck, welcome to everyone else, too. And thank you, Mr. Edwards for the guest strip opportunity.I have admired Abel Boddy for a long time and am flattered to be associated with it in this way.You readers have reached the blog of It's the Michaels, my labor of love that will one day be coming to a book store - or iPad - near you. God willing. Until then, please enjoy the strips I have

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-46981444673617608122009-06-01T15:43:00.005-04:002009-06-03T20:47:41.789-04:00

I will be at the Prism Comics booth at the MoCCA Art Festival this weekend in NYC. I am officially slated to be at the booth from 3-4 Saturday but I'll probably hang out longer because hey, when else do I get to hang with other cartoonists? I went to this event last year and it was a lot of fun. This year promises to be even better. It has to be, because last year occurred during a punishing heat

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-60499533132973233492009-02-08T17:33:00.018-05:002009-06-01T15:43:24.137-04:00

Lots o' stuff has happened to me over the past few months. I was able to make the leap from web page to printed page and got my cartoons published: Prism Comic’s annual guide included an original Michaels piece called Toomey’s Guide to Fire Island. Also in June I started a comic strip for NoiZe Magazine called Party Chasers. In addition to the strip, NoiZe has give me work doing illustrations for

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-42587586470386566732008-04-02T19:04:00.011-04:002008-04-03T07:38:29.030-04:00

Tackling cartooning as a hobby means that it often takes a back set to the rest of my life. But just so you know that I have not abandoned you, here is a status update on things I have been doing instead of posting fresh, tasty installments of the Michaels for your comic consumption.Prism GuidePrism Comics is a nonprofit organization that supports LGBT comics, creators, and readers. I am happy to

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The setting sun marks the end of the first act of this episode, which means this is a good place to take a break. I get a lot of great feedback from you guys and one of the things I hear repeatedly is that people who enjoy reading this comic want more more more! Specifically, you have told me that you would prefer to wait longer in between updates if it means that you can read more pages at one

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-70276734930874016082007-10-01T05:45:00.000-04:002007-10-01T06:03:00.389-04:00

Early Hanna-Barbera cartoons have had a big influence on my drawing style. I had assumed that Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera designed their own classic characters, but they didn't. This amazing cartoonist named Ed Benedict designed most of them, including the Flintstones, Yogi Bear, and Huckleberry Hound. Ed's characters incorporated design concepts you still see in cartoons today: The delineated

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-21363402550338118202007-09-23T19:05:00.001-04:002007-09-24T06:23:31.228-04:00

We just got back from a very nice weekend visiting our friends upstate. So, while I do have a comic update for you, I unfortunately didn't have time to write too much in my blog. But you'd rather see new cartoons, right? Good, that's what I figured. More next week.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-63052367018919360452007-09-17T06:50:00.000-04:002007-09-17T06:49:38.405-04:00

It didn't take long for me become what I dreaded most - a web cartoonist who devotes half his blog posts to apologizing for never updating his comic. Maybe I can look at that as a milestone?I had a great summer at Fire Island (Um... doing research for my comic...) during which I was able to hear Rihanna intone UMBRELLA ELLA ELLA five hundred gazillion times -- about twice as many times that

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-26917197123140878992007-08-29T10:39:00.000-04:002007-08-30T10:49:54.982-04:00

Chris and I are catching a train at Penn Station in less than an hour so I will make this posting short and sweet. My season at Actual Fire Island is winding down and I will now have more time to work on Cartoon Fire Island and to updating this site on a regular basis, starting September 17.See you then!

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-27683361875696443532007-06-26T18:35:00.000-04:002007-06-26T19:29:31.012-04:00

June is coming to a close and I realize that I won’t be able to update the comic for a few more weeks. The good news is that I am, in fact, working on It’s the Michaels. Currently I am toiling over an elaborate background. My approach to drawing is to create one or two pages with detailed backgrounds, and then alternate those pages with ones that have either no background or a repeated

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-34859372839010895122007-05-01T00:00:00.000-04:002007-05-01T16:21:39.616-04:00

The time has come for me to take a brief hiatus from the Michaels so I can focus on my regular web design work - the work that actually pays the bills. This is my first break but will not be my last.When I am able to turn my attention back to It's the Michaels I will wait until I have a small cushion of new strips built up before I start posting them again. The next installment will probably

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-66398877889157667672007-04-23T07:24:00.000-04:002007-04-23T11:43:46.366-04:00

I hope you like this update because the backgrounds took me a long time, which is why today's installment is just a single page again. Sorry - but see how pretty? Soooo pretty! Pretty pretty trees.I originally envisioned It's the Michaels as a print comic and paced it like a TV show. Publishing it as a web comic has allowed me to change it from something I want to do into something that I am

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-30201563298499408662007-04-16T07:20:00.000-04:002007-04-16T07:22:56.597-04:00

About today's installmentTa-da! It's the first group shot of all the Michaels. In real life their heights would be as follows: Lacey is 6'5": bigger than everybody. Crane is 6'2". That's how tall my boyfriend is, so that is, to my mind, the most handsome height to be. Connor, Bryce, Stuart, and Jason are all of average height: about 5'10". Toomey is somewhere between 5'2" and 5'6". He's the

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-89010935982472870372007-04-02T07:07:00.000-04:002007-04-02T17:17:45.774-04:00

Chris and I are going out of town Thursday for a long weekend, so the next update after today will be Monday, April 16 at the soonest.But enough about me. Check this out: The long-dormant blog run by the owners of the Pavilion is all a-buzz with activity. Most interesting is that they have an updated picture of the Pavilion renovation that you can see here.In addition, it seems that a reality

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-7112919961080874572007-03-26T07:35:00.000-04:002007-03-26T21:23:08.551-04:00

In answer to the many inquiries I have received about my process for creating It's the Michaels, here is a short overview.Episode structureYou may notice that I refer to each update to the story as an installment. That's because it's not an episode. If you look at the bottom left corner of every page in the cartoon you will see that these installments are all part of Episode 101 (Season 1,

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-20346594242548502022007-03-22T00:00:00.000-04:002007-03-21T23:20:27.813-04:00

This is just a short note to let you know that you can expect the next installment of It's the Michaels to go up on Monday. It might go up sooner, but when does anything ever happen ahead of schedule?If you would like to be notified every time a new installment is ready, send a message to chris@itsthemichaels.com and I will add you to the Michaels Mailing List.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-46477578911409857292007-03-19T06:06:00.000-04:002007-05-01T16:58:34.373-04:00

Talking about Roxy is so last week but I'm going to do it anyway. Two interesting articles were printed about it. One was in the New York Times, and in it John Blair reveals that Roxy's patrons were rated 1 - 4, with 4s being the beautiful people and celebrities who got in for free. The straight and the ugly, meanwhile, were lumped together into the 1 category.The Village Voice had an

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-52319377738011291582007-03-14T10:35:00.001-04:002007-03-16T08:44:34.761-04:00

"Live into that" is the advice my friend Sean dispenses when I call him up panicked that my comic will never see the light of day. He means that I should not focus on the immense pile of work yet to be done, but instead define my goals and then decide what I can start doing today to get there tomorrow. It's an actionable approach to living one's dream, and - I'm just going to say it - being a

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650794788354644403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342465515834198372.post-57653787931187282542007-03-10T17:31:00.000-05:002007-04-02T08:03:11.293-04:00

It's my web comic! This is what we in the web biz call a soft launch. The web site is live but I've only told a few people about it. As of this writing I plan to add a title page and then add some background people to the opening scenes. But I am driving enough traffic here that I wanted the people kind enough to check in to have some indication that the site is, for all intents and purposes,

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