tangocharlie

tangocharlie, 3 days ago to random

Now nominated for a
WILL EISNER AWARD!
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/

https://mastodon.social/@tangocharlie/112436061330888302

tangocharlie, 6 days ago to random

Am I the asshole?

Friend group is saying “install WhatsApp and be in our group chat!”
I don’t want to give Facebook Co my phone number and complete knowledge of my social circle.
OTOH, I already have Instagram installed on this phone, so I’m already in for a penny.
I think I also just missed out on knowing about a get together for lack of WhatsApp, but also: they all have my phone number.

Am I “Old Man Shakes Fist At Cloud,” or is there any sense in this?

tangocharlie, 6 days ago to random

Hmmmmmm, Steam Decks are cheaper than I thought they were AND Hades 2 is already Steam Deck-verified.

Hmmmmmmm.

tangocharlie, 6 days ago to random

Happy #WebcomicDay!

PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY is a full-colour 18th-century adventure — a story about growing friendships, corrupt leadership, and terrifying pirate ships.

Read it right now!
👉 https://www.delilahdirk.com/dd4/
Become a Secret Reader:
👉 https://www.tonycliff.ca/delilahdirk/dd4

A page from the comic PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY
A page from the comic PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY
A page from the comic PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY

tangocharlie, 11 days ago to random

Chapter Four of PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY continues for Secret Readers, in which our heroes meet some new neighbours.

👉 🏴‍☠️ https://www.patreon.com/posts/103941607

This is an ongoing work-in-progress graphic novel!
Secret Readers help make it possible! Thank you, Secret Readers!

flargh, 12 days ago to random

I got through almost two seasons of "Extraordinary" before realizing that Kash and Carrie are a pun.

ethanschoonover, 13 days ago to apple

Thin is boring.

Take a year off hardware, #Apple . You just launched an AR headset and killed off a billion dollar a year car. You're all over the map.

New pencils are nice but what creative people REALLY need is for you to sort out your software story. Fix what's broken. Innovate on your apps and interoperability between them. Figure out how to use all that power in the iPad besides just "it's a big phone".

Step by step you are ship-of-theseus forgetting what makes you a great company.

tangocharlie, 14 days ago to random

“WE RAN OUT OF KETCHUP” scrawled on the side of the fridge, written in ketchup.

https://mastodon.social/@tangocharlie/112389515725865645

tangocharlie, 15 days ago to random

I’m going to stop cleaning our house and if anyone complains I will say it is “environmental storytelling.”

tangocharlie, 17 days ago to random

HURRY!
New pages for Chapter Four of PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY are up now!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/103566465 👈 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ 🏃

(It's a graphic novel / webcomic about family relationships, friendships, and pirate ships. Give it to the middle-grade reader in your life and secure your position as their cool relative.)

tangocharlie, 26 days ago to random

Despite being middle aged, here’s a thing I have to think about every time I encounter it:

Noon is 12:00PM, not 12:00AM.

Why do AM and PM start an hour before the cycle loops? Noon should be 12AM. Midnight should be 12PM. Whose idea was this?

tangocharlie, 28 days ago to random

#SilentSunday

tangocharlie, 1 month ago to comicbooks

Book-Publishing Fun-Fact.

In 2012 I self-published a 30-page #comic, DELILAH DIRK AND THE SEEDS OF GOOD FORTUNE.

11 years later, in 2023, despite the default pay-what-you-want price being $0.00 and only being available in (DRM-free) PDF format from one obscure store, it made up 5% of my #book "royalties."

It's not the complete picture, but take from that what you will.

(You can read/get it here: https://www.tonycliff.ca/delilahdirk/seeds )

#ComicBooks #GraphicNovels #Publishing #bookstodon

tangocharlie, 1 month ago to random

The shocker for me was that there are artists spending 8 hours to pencil a page and 7 to ink them. 😳😳😳

I would love to spend that much time on a page.

From: @cartoonistcoop
https://mastodon.art/@cartoonistcoop/112247306090717809

tangocharlie, 1 month ago to random

Happy #PortfolioDay to all who celebrate!
I'm an author, illustrator and lapsed animator in the Pacific Northwest. 👋
You may know me from https://www.delilahdirk.com/ …?
I am currently making an adventure graphic novel and trying to raise a child!
More info about the former here:
🏴‍☠️ https://www.tonycliff.ca/delilahdirk/dd4
And in general:
🎉 https://www.tonycliff.ca/

Two illustrated characters travelling across a photographed log
artwork titled "Adventures in the Pacific Northwest"
Illustration. A flying sailboat skimming across the water before the Rock of Gibraltar

tangocharlie, 1 month ago to random

Say what you will about Adobe and their practices, which I don't love, but…
Lightroom competitor CAPTURE ONE offered a free limited version of their software, but I guess they don't want to support it anymore, so they've disabled it. It quits upon launch.
At least you can still install, say, Photoshop CS6 and it will run (I assume. I haven't checked).

tangocharlie, 1 month ago to random

I hope you're having a nice Saturday.
Me, I'm working and listening to this Jordi Savall album, wishing someone would make another good ASSASSIN'S CREED game (without all the "Animus" nonsense).

https://open.spotify.com/album/4AcEzVqValYnjV8zKdEX9X?si=G6GYRl3gT9mBgC40I5YEnw

tangocharlie, 1 month ago to random

Everyone please give me a round of applause.

I've been testing out a livestreaming setup, and was frustrated that YouTube was showing a max resolution of 720p, when I was CERTAIN I was outputting 1080p.
I assumed the problem was some obscure backstage shenanigans.
Turns out, I overlooked a simple pulldown menu in OBS.

👑
🧠

tangocharlie, 1 month ago to random

In this week's update to the PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY production diary…
🗳️ The form is up for Chapter Four Patron Acknowledgements. Patrons, tell me how you want your name to appear! Link in the post.
🚗 A brief summary of our household's winter-long car troubles, which make me very specifically grateful for PDAP's Patron Readers.
🎏 Flatting for Chapter Four continues!

👉 https://www.patreon.com/posts/its-time-for-101243949

tangocharlie, 1 month ago to random

Watching movies with the kiddo means revisiting stuff I thought I was familiar with - with the advantage of time, it’s easy to see the gulf in rendering and animation quality between, say, MONSTERS INC and ZOOTOPIA.

Or MONSTERS INC and MONSTERS UNIVERSITY.

(Have you watched ZOOTOPIA recently? It’s really good. As are the other two, but they probably get more credit for it.)

tangocharlie, 1 month ago to random

Assuming BLUEY is an authentic Australian cultural document, I have a question:

The family seems to leave their windows and verandah doors wide open all the time.
This seems blissful, but is it realistic? What about mosquitos? I would worry about mosquitos.