Round One: Day Twenty Six
there’s this cake shop i go to, with the beautiful cakes and the cute counterstaff. sometimes, just walking past when the wind is right, you are surrounded by the smell of airconditioned sugar; it is wonderful. this episode sort of happened several months ago, but the pastry in question is forever locked in my head as “the girlfriend bun”, and i have never gotten ’round to tasting it.
thirty-five damn years old, and still with the schoolgirl crushes. does it ever end?
Tags: Bowb
November 26, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Perfect palette, as ever, and the lettering looks fine. I personally love hand lettering, no matter how sloppy (Eddie Campbell being a perfect example)– computer lettering rarely fits (unless you’re Chris Onstadt, who somehow embraces the artificiality and makes it his own; cf. ‘Achewood’).
Love the pacing & presentation, particularly of the dreaded Girlfriend Bun. You really know how to pick your shots. Keep it up!
November 26, 2007 at 6:27 pm
I really love the color here. nice and easy on the eyes, and not taking away from the pictures but adding to them.
November 27, 2007 at 12:38 am
Ha ! I love this one. Bowb — I really want you to do a mini comic so I can keep enjoying your work. Do you think you might?
Congratulations on making it through the rehab!
November 28, 2007 at 12:22 pm
[...] i went into this, nor any ideas of what to draw. actually, the one story i wanted to tell was the girlfriend bun story, and i’m kind of glad i waited until the end; i felt much more confident with all the [...]