Day's Worth

2011-09-01T18:10:00.001-07:00

I'm in!

REVIVAL !!! !!! !!!

2011-08-20T08:22:00.000-07:00

Anybody wanna join? email me for the new password and be a Team Blogger (click on the button in the sidebar).

And now.....on with the show.......

WOOOOO!!!!!

thanks for reading......and do consider joining a marathon :)

-Victoria Koldewyn

Wrick's Entirely Digital HCD With Color

2009-06-02T03:54:00.000-07:00

Aloha all ye mighty HCD fans. ...okay, okay and air conditioners too!

Just so you know, i'm trying to find my way. ...again.

These panels - written and drawn - are all entirely done on my computer. . . that is - they are all entirely digital. amazing, yes? okay, amazing to me - and way fun too.

...mostly i used my Wacom Cintiq - one of the new versions of a pen and tablet. just so you know...

...have fun.

Yes i almost missed the fact that i had started.

...with Color.

....later that day...

...and of course then my real day began. ...

...and then my real day ended because i had other things to do too.

...however of course any day is right for having fun, yes. have fun. aloha.

2009-05-23T15:15:00.000-07:00

rather than comment, i'm going to post.
wrick, you said "hmmm.. i suspect i've lost some of that ability to deliver a comic sense to these panels."
i beg to differ. your prayer flag panel brought a real grin to my face, i have been there done that with the wind and the flags. it actually reminded me of hanging queen size white sheets on a washing line during a dust storm (at the pub i worked at in the australian desert last year).
i am yet again procrastinating on a project that i REALLY need to get done, and the stress is so immense that i now feel completely immobilised! silly silly me, i know myself better than this surely, but still i fall into the same holes!
fear not, good blogpeeps, i will knuckle down for the next 2 weeks and arise victorious!

Victoria's May 2009 HCD

2009-05-06T20:13:00.000-07:00

Heeeey everyone! I can't believe it - I'm back after India, and I just remembered Hourly Comic Day...apparently so did you all. Splendid.

Daaaayummmm, it's good to be here!

Above: front cover (is it obvious?)
Below: inside front cover - I have a tradition of making these into comic booklets. At 18 panels, I needed to make two additional, to work it all out properly on the photocopier format.

Below: I see it in my photo viewer, looks right side up. Dunno why it loaded sideways. Tilt your head! Watch the crick in your neck!

not again!! what's going on here....

yeargh...again with the sideways....

and too lazy to fix it :)

Back cover!

Now I'm off to read the rest of you's!

HCD Panel for May, 2009

2009-05-03T06:09:00.000-07:00

hmmm.. i suspect i've lost some of that ability to deliver a comic sense to these panels. still... this is what i did on May Day, 2009. Cheers on a comic day. ...ok, it's May 3rd. it's still a comic day, yes.

...and what's really funny. . . ok, fun... this entire panel was done using my new (ok, relatively new) digital toy. yup, i plunged in. i did this on a Wacom Cintiq. have fun.

Welcome Returnings

2009-04-26T07:52:00.001-07:00

cool on bloggering.
create on. blog on.
and you know...
do the fun stuff too.

- the feather bloggerer.

SHOUT OUT TO THE CREW

2009-04-25T14:53:00.000-07:00

hey hey hey everyone!
just thought it must be time to drop SOMETHING onto this blog....
hope you're all well and being creative in whichever form that takes. for me it's making preserves (feijoa chutney, yummm) and writing lots of words and taking lots of photos! not so much of the drawing stuff. but i've finally sort of started blogging again, so i am in a fine mood, and just wanted to share!
;-)

xx

May 1st

2008-05-11T11:22:00.000-07:00

Well well well, it's been a while :)
(As usual, click for larger images.)

See you next month! :)

May Day 2008

2008-05-01T07:46:00.000-07:00

Heeeeeeeeere we go!!!

Thanks to political cartoonist and artist extraordinaire Steve Brodner for inspirational drawings to draw from. The guy is phenomenal.

Staff Day 2008

2008-04-07T20:54:00.001-07:00

I decided to do a little comic today; it was our Annual Staff Day, in which the whole LRCS (Library, Recreation and Cultural Services) meet for half the day together, and then break into separate groups by department. Today woulda been my day off, but you can't beat being paid and fed, right? Right! On with the show!

Rennie! Today is Staff Day! I've been waiting for this ALL YEAR!!!

Last year they handed out stuffed monkeys that screamed when you hit them on the head, and their arms were slingshots, so .............. yeah, there were flying monkeys all over the place. I can't believe they actually went through with that, considering how tight-assed and stiff-lipped they usually are. It was great!
One year the theme was all about 'window dressing'. You know, walking the walk and not just talking the talk; how we're not all about keeping up appearances and pretenses.

.........Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.....................

Mine pictured here did not go over too well with the crowd I was, by default, forced to sit with at this particular table. Another one that I chose was rejected, but another table came up with it: I'm too sexy for my/pants on fire. I liked these too:

why buy a cow when you can ride a cowboy (what clichés were mashed up there?!)
the blind leading the monkeys (!!!!!! yessssssss!)
it only hurts when I /become my mother
anything can go wrong /up my skirt
the harder they fall/I laugh
three's a crowd/up my skirt

So said our hostess for this session.

Charity was sitting across the table from me, picking books off the shelf and being all Wheel of Fortune with them.

Poor lil' bugger!!
He sho' do like it gruff :-)

That's his tail, you pervert!

We all love her
So very much.
She treats us with such respect!

*snicker*

Sad, really.

Okay, thanks for stopping by! Grab a leftover croissant knot and a bottle of Almost Real Juice on the way out, why don't you?

April 2008 edition - Victoria

2008-04-01T12:11:00.000-07:00

Work in progress, hope to add throughout the day!

Victoria's Leap Year 2008 HCD

2008-03-05T20:21:00.000-08:00

I decided that since it is leap year, had it not been then February the twenty-ninth would have been March 1st, in keeping with doing this thing on the first of each month.

yarp!

* moshi moshi - answering the phone in Japanese is spoken thusly

Back Cover for the zine:

creepy little orphan annie

Wrick's Hourly Comic Day

2008-02-25T03:52:00.000-08:00

Hey. Veek. Congratulations.

HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY
ON A GREAT IDEA!

HOURLY COMIC DAY
One Day A Month!

Wow, way cool on HCD making the rounds of a calendar.

Learning in the ways I have through my HCD attempts has astonished me. Thank YOU.

Sheesh. Nope, that's not rain. ...altho it could be. It's mostly just life. In the normal sort of way.

It's clear to me now that I can do it - something i was not sure of at all a year ago... ...and I can do it around the clock, even tho I miss some months. Heck, I've probably missed some months most of my life. Even so, I still want to play.

Seeing you keep at it, seeing your efforts, is inspiring. I'm going to keep trying too. I suspect my efforts will evolve - I'm seeing that a little more clearly now. So even if I only get one - and hopefully two and more - pieces a month, I'm still going to play on some day, in some way, every month if possible for as long as you keep going. May be even on the last day of the month. I'm just not going to give up the iceberg until every day has sunk, in which case I'll crawl up on the next iceberg on the next day and aim at every day of that next month too. It may be like this month, one piece (ok two, i did two postcards like this one, one is for Naiviv if she likes it).

How about you and i swap one in

March! - THE OFFICIAL FIRST MONTH OF THE 2ND YEAR OF HCD!

I hope that's ok with you. ...because some times life is a balancing act. ...even when your hands are full - have fun. have fun hard! - aloha - Wrick

Victoria Feb 2008

2008-02-01T21:31:00.001-08:00

Good evenin' y'all. It's way past my bedtime, since I only slept five hours last night. Which is like.......not enough! I'm posting what's gone on today so far, and tomorrow, I will visit you all again. Meanwhile, you can check out the official forums hosted by the guy who originated the HCD idea, John Campbell. This month, it's a worldwide event!

off to the forums!

Victoria's New Year 2008

2008-01-01T10:43:00.000-08:00

Heeeey, not only has a whole 'nother month flown by, but a whole freakin' year!!! aahhhhh!!! And so without further ado, the day as it happens:

(this month I am trying something new, since I'm home all day: I'm posting each hour instead of one big chunk at the end of the day)

click piccies for bigs!

(I found a picture on flickr, of a girl I've been drawing. A new to me photo. And it totally reminds me of a picture of my brother, it's chilling. In a very cool way.)

last panel! quarter after 11pm and I am definitely toast. ciao fer now, ghouls

Wrick’s December 3, 2007 HCD #007

2007-12-05T00:41:00.000-08:00

Aloha & Welcome to:

Wrick’s December 3, 2007 HCD #007

Rain humor. hmmmmm.... ok. let it be wet then. ok, it's high winds and high surf too. way cool on the big surf. ...well... watching it anyway. . . ...i'm not going out there on those 35' to 40' wave faces today.

Yup - odd yuck about clicking images to see bigger works (so you can read what the panel says), now that clicking puts it on your desktop too. hmmmm...

If you do want to see things easily readable: Click an image - then when you're pau (finished) you can clear/delete the files/images from your desktop . ...or... snicker-chortle when ever you need some (weird) rain humor. . .

as always of course, have fun - aloha - Wrick

P.S.
Server outage followed by power outages here on Dec. 4, 2007 meant that i wasnt able to get my HCD up on the 4th. - so... now i'm trying again - on Dec. 5th. this weather - wind, rain, high surf is expected through the week end... so... more of the same and if i disappear... that's where i probably am.

P.P.S.S.
(Oops. A couple of times I dated these 12-1 rather than 12-3 or 12-4 - which they should have been. oh. heck. never mind. sheesh.)

Cover:
My HCD actually began here:

Yup, that's it for my HCD this year - hopefully not my last tho... Have fun in the rest of the year, panels, and life.

Sure. You can join us for a few attempts at humor - anytime.

have fun. ...and if you dont have any fun - make some. - aloha Wrick.

Victoria's December HCD

2007-12-01T21:29:00.001-08:00

Well howdy doo. De doot doot doot. De dah dah dah. That's all I wanna say to you. That, and the following day in progress as of 10:15 this evening. Click on the pics for biggers and come on and join us sometime, hay? You can pick any day, or days, for as many hours. Just draw somethin' darn it. It's rilly fun.

**okay I just noticed something new: to click for bigs, it downloads the picture to your desktop whereas last month, Booger would just load a new page in your browser with the bigger picture. What a load of doo doo.**

Nov. 2007 - Who is Wrick anyway?

2007-11-09T13:53:00.000-08:00

Wait. i dont have to answer that do i?

In case the words on the panel dont show up well i'm posting them here (you can of course click the image to see a larger view:

Nov. 11, 2007
Yup. Another falling off the edge of the world moment day week Month(s)! Gotta like
those – that’s the time to take risk, yes… like… one more HCD Panel!! At least one!
“…It’ll get better. It’ll get better”, He whispered into the sky, laughing as the great
spiral began again...

Who said, “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.” ???

Yup. This is my esoteric sense of humor… ok warped too. Go ahead unwrap warped
and see what happens. “Ok I will.” He again called into the everness as he continued
his soliloquy on the spin side of laughter . . .
Happy Novembering - ©07 Daddario

FROGSTAR JOiNS iN THE FUN!

2007-11-08T19:29:00.000-08:00

hello peeps!
YES, i finally managed to do it!
one HCD down, many more to go i hope.
xxx

Victoria's Nov HCD

2007-11-02T22:09:00.001-07:00

We-heh-hell, whaddya know? Here's how my day was, how about you?

CLICK FOR BIGS! YOU KNOW YOU WANNA SUPERSIZE IT

Here's the back cover, for when I make these into a zine, which I do every goshdarn month oh yuh.

Here's the inside front cover, or the inside back, I have not yet decided oh noh.

right-o! thanks fer stoppin' by.

guess what?

monkey butt.

October's Here

2007-10-05T22:21:00.000-07:00

Shyooooooooooo! Autumn has arrived!

September 1st!

2007-09-03T11:43:00.000-07:00

Harro!

Goobai!

September!

2007-09-01T22:50:00.001-07:00

And awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay we go!

Ye can click for biggers

ps - you can listen to Freeworm's streaming music on the web for FREEEEEE:

Freeworm

August Hourly Comic Day!

2007-08-02T21:31:00.000-07:00

Well I've said it before and I'll say it again - can ya believe another month has come and gone? Eeek. I think this is the best month of the year by far. Summer is finally in full swing, and my new home really rocks. Hope your summer - or whatever season you're in right now - is ticklin' yer fancy too.

* and for the record, it is now the 2nd of August, and the new fridge Roper STILL hasn't turned off. Time for a new fridge. Sorry, Roper. Unless being on all the time saves energy somehow. I'm dreading the electric bill already though.

Vivian's August HCD

2007-08-02T07:02:00.000-07:00

Yes! Two in a row. Now with hints of colour!

Take it away, Genghis.

Vivian's 1st of July, fashionably late!

2007-07-24T14:24:00.000-07:00

Yeh, I have been scannerless for some time (or maybe just too lazy to set my scanner up?) but here is my HCD for July 1st!

Until next time, which is pretty close at hand (;
Make tea, not war.
-Vivian

Victoria's July 2007 Hourly Comic Day

2007-07-08T20:38:00.000-07:00

Well hey there.....welcome to another month, and me in another new home. This time, much better than the last move (in March). I think I'll just sit me a spell here. For a long time. This place really rocks.

Happy Joo-lye!!!

Click for bigs!

Wrick’s July 1, 2007 HCD #005

2007-07-03T05:36:00.001-07:00

Aloha All & Welcome

Whew. Made it. ...Although... It occurs to me that I'm not exactly sure if Hourly Comic Days are becoming more strange, more normal or more eerily familiar. How can you tell? How do you know? Who do you ask? ...Are they becoming strangely normal or may be normally stranger? In any event, upper or lower case as the case may be, thanks for looking because you're always:

Welcome to have fun with my July 1, 2007 #005 Hourly Comic Day; Life Imitates Art.

As always, click the panels if you want to read them.

...and mostly, have fun. - aloha - Wrick (...in case you dont get any further than this...)

Well? Strangely normal or eerily familiar? Despite encouragement to make a choice, voting on either will not alter the reality of my normal... ...or strange for that matter... it will simply define commitment to voting. However leaving a comment may be responded to in time. Have more fun. - aloha - Wrick

yikes and normal

2007-07-01T23:07:00.000-07:00

ok. it's July 1, 2007. i am working on my HCD. it may be delayed - normal for me - but it may be a while yet before i post them, (ok. ok. meaning days... but not toooooo many) i am scratching and scrambling and eeeking each panel out. so... if you dont see something here soon... watch... er... erm... for life. cause life... sometimes... imitates ART. that is... erm... it's a delayed wow. yes! sometimes. yes! have fun. that's the way it's supposed to be. . . aloha Wrick.

Vivian's June 1st :)

2007-06-08T07:40:00.000-07:00

Hey kids, I am in the middle of moving and I'm really supposed to be cleaning and packing stuff, so without further ado, my HCD contribution for June (click for bigger images):

Make some noise if you wanna, and please join us in drawing on July 1st!
Make tea not war,
-Viv

Wrick’s June 1, 2007 HCD #004

2007-06-05T07:48:00.000-07:00

Wrick’s June 1, 2007 HCD #004 – Center … ok, Slightly Off Center… of the big Pacific puddle. Star date 004 dot 20 dot panels dot 0f dot 0h. … wait. That’s something else…

…waiting and waiting and waiting. I was so busy waiting for HCD to begin… that I missed the beginning of it. In fact I noticed HCD had begun almost 3 hours after it began. Then I spent the rest of the 24-hour day trying to catch up and going so fast that I got further behind the faster I went until I’d catch up and then get behind again. But its ok, cause I ended my 24-hour HCD about 24 hours later at 2:24 AM…

Is life normal this way?
Cause mine sure is.

Further more as I worked I realized how far out and off the world I had stepped recently . . . but that’s normal too. Sheesh.

So here ya go, my permanent-and-falling-normal-race-to-get-behind AND catch-up HOURLY COMIC DAY of sorts – which is also probably why I’m posting on the 5th after I did HCD on the 1st... Hey was that really an alien spacecraft normal kinda day I saw someplace?

(Click on the individual panels to make them larger or write a documentary on the wonder of why you are here.)

Ok. Now go snicker someplace else or comment if you're at work and snickering isnt allowed. - Be having fun. - aloha - Wrick

Victoria's June 1st 2007

2007-06-02T08:22:00.000-07:00

click for larger pics!

Better late than never....

2007-05-28T04:49:00.000-07:00

I finally managed to get my scanner working, but then I discovered that I'd left pg1 at my Dad's! So here is pg2 onwards so I've at least got my comic up while it's still May :D I'll add pg1 in when i pick it up at the weekend.

Wrick's DARK Hourly Comic Day - yikes #003. ...May 1, 2007

2007-05-02T14:35:00.000-07:00

Well heckos you speedy demon co-Hourly-Comic-Day Movers & Shakers. ...heck i'm still on yesterday the way this planet spins off it's 24 hour axis of time zones against little rocks in the big middle of a big (Pacific... or should that be Specific) puddle... well... Heck. ok... not exactly...

Weclome to my DARK HCD...

... ... . . . . . . ...it was a desparate and gloomy, down and groany late Monday night eve. . . ...ok, it was near mid-night the night before Dark Tuesday May 1, 2007 and i piled in to it like a tsunami against a vacuum. . . ...shudder... . . . blinders on, shutters 90% closed i ventured into my DHCD (Dark Hourly Comic Day). ...and it all began like this:

... ... ... ok it ended like this and then it began like the next one.

...comments are for my enjoyment. keep that in mind or i'll send a Dark Tuesday into your mirror the next time you brush teeth, comb hair or otherwise burp babies. . . ...i have that on good authority via my ominous and omnipotent dark warlock powers of evildoerness... . . . ...well, heck i hope you had a snorkeling chortle anyway.

...enlightening in increments but still casting shadows... yours truly - aloha, Wrick.

Vivian's May 1st

2007-05-02T11:57:00.000-07:00

That's right kids, I'm posting my scans already! I've noticed that I don't actually draw for every hour, more just now and then after no particular system, but is it really that important? I think not. Onwards!

Victoria's May 1st

2007-05-02T10:10:00.000-07:00

Well hello there! Can you believe another month has come and gone again? Believe it, or not, it has. I think it is time for me to invest in a scanner. The light in this apartment isn't the greatest and I can't seem to provide a good source of it either, despite buying a few lights when I moved in. Sorry if it's a bit fuzzy, but I made the pictures pretty big so click to see more better.

Here's a day in the life of a me in Oregon:

Vivian has arrived! Late as always, but with gusto!

2007-04-23T06:45:00.000-07:00

Hello kids! These are my drawings for April 1st, which was about a frillion years ago. I'll be quicker with the scanning next time! (Click for bigger images.)

Comments & stuff welcome.
-Vivian Evelina

Wrick's Hourly Comic Day - Again 2 - April 2, 2007

2007-04-03T18:47:00.000-07:00

Aloha Hourly Comic Day Blog Readers.
Welcome to my Day's Worth comic-ing day.

The panel file sizes below are a little smaller
than they were last month, hopefully this will
make them easier to see on one screen when
you click a panel. If not... I'll try again next month!

I appreciate your time here and enjoy your comments.

Most of all, Have fun. - Aloha - Wrick.

The above panels were created in a wire bound 6" x 6" Canson Field Sketchbook with Rotring Water Soluble Ink and an Aqua Flow Brush (a brush with it's own water supply).

If you want to leave a simple comment, click on the comment button below to leave your hello and/or where you are from (in "general" is fine - state/country) or what, if anything, you enjoyed of my work.

Would you like to post your Hourly Comic Day here? Drop Bonnie a note in Victoria's Comment area.

Thanks for LQQKING. Have Fun and Join us for another HCD soon. - Aloha Wrick.

Victoria's April 1, 2007

2007-04-02T10:41:00.000-07:00

Victoria's Day!

2007-03-02T19:27:00.000-08:00

Heeeere ya go!

I made the pics a bit bigger so click to enlarge.

Wrick's Hourly Comic Day Color Panel

2007-03-02T04:16:00.000-08:00

Sample for possible ways to add color.

Wrick's Hourly Comic Day Feb. 28, 2007

2007-03-01T23:02:00.000-08:00

Yikes is about right.

Yup. Yikes is about right.

...so... what cha think? should i add color to a few? that'd be fun.

have fun. aloha - Wrick
©07 Daddario

2007-02-05T13:52:00.000-08:00

COMING SOON!

.......I hope.....