floating on the breeze...

So, this'll be the last post here. I'm gonna leave it up for a while, because some people may not know about it, and I want to catch the stragglers up to speed. I've moved everything over to MiloTheCloud.com and the blog exists there too. The reasoning was that I really hated all the clicking one has to do on blogger. Click to see the full size, scroll through and THEN click to find comics from the past. I've moved to Wordpress and specifically Comicpress which gives a fully customizable setup that's made for webcomics. So you'll be able to scroll easily through all the archives, and look through the blog posts separately if you want to read them.

So, there it is. Goodbye blogger, and hello MiloTheCloud.com. Follow me there, and add your name to my email list, so you'll get newsletters on merch and other happenings.

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Milo Comic Strip #17

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The colors are not as good on this as I'd like. Photoshop always drains the color out when you convert to jpg. Anybody who knows the magic of how to keep that from happening, I'm all ears.

Hank finally gets the drop on the little guy. I'm sure this will end in tears, or possibly shreds of rubber all over the ground. But not for a while yet. Probably it'll get worse before it gets better. Maybe for years.

Nailing down a cloud (or at least asking him to sit still for a second)

So I’m doing this exercise, because I’m building the Milothecloud.com website architecture, and the first steps (in a tutorial I was checking out) involve defining exactly why you’re doing this thing. Which is something that I’ve never actually sat down and considered. I mean, I just draw the comics because I enjoy doing them, and I’m doing the book because I love the story, and I made the first toys because I wanted to see if I could. But the sitting down and defining is a really good thing to do, whatever you happen to be taking on, because it makes you consider if you actually want to do this thing at all. Looking at it in black and white makes you go, “hmmm. That’s pretty big. Do I really want that? Am I prepared to do all of that?” The even better thing right now is that I’m answering, “Hell yes I do!” I’m going to need help with it, and that’s maybe where I’ll have some problems (because I’m a dreamer, and not that good a delegator) but the thought of that doesn’t fill me with dread or make me want to stop. It makes me say, “I don’t know how I’ll do that, but I can learn.”

The thing that made me want to write this down was that I was thinking of who my audiences are, and the thought of the kinds of people that might dig what I’m doing made me realize that there’s something very cool about the age that we live in. Because of Twitter and blogs and message boards about random interests that are shared by niche groups of people around the world, it’s a very interesting time to be a small-time creator starting out. The fact that every time I post one of the Milo strips on http://www.sulliedreputation.deviantart.com someone favs it, or adds me to their watch list, means that the strips are enhancing someone’s life, even if only in a small way. And because of that, people will start to find it, and because of that, they’ll start to find the other things I’m doing, and planning to do on MiloTheCloud.com.

I’m very excited, and I’m glad if you’re lurking out there. Hit me up on twitter http://twitter.com/SeanArcher, or drop Milo a message on the digsby widget and let me know if there’s something that you’d love to see that you haven’t seen yet. I’m not promising it’ll sync with what I’m planning, but I promise to listen. At least until the haters show up and start griping about how there isn’t enough helium in Hank’s body to lift a teddy bear. I’ll have you know it’s super-helium, and the bear is made of a space-age polymer that weighs next to nothing. Your child won’t even know he’s holding a bear!!

Anyway, if you’ve read that whole thing, then cheers to you, and I hope that you enjoy the ride.

Sean

Milo Comic Strip #16

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This look on Milo's face is something that cracks me and my lady up when we do it to each other. Best used when feigning indignant astonishment and pain. Milo's pain is real though. As is Hank's utter disregard and slight amusement at Milo's distress.

Milo Comic Strip #15

Click to embiggen, (I think, although, it might actually be as big as it'll get right here. I don't know, it's 2 a.m. and I'm only posting this because I set myself these stupid deadlines and I'm trying desperately to keep them and also plan a wedding).

I don't really want this to become a political cartoon, but sometimes you just gotta say something, and Lou is a good voiceless voice. I figure he'll sell his services to the highest bidder, even though he'd probably do it all for free just to prove he can.

Have a nice Friday. I plan to go for a walk.

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The end of the storyline. With a healthy dose of truth about balloons. Ingrates, all of them.

No comic today.

Unfortunately the scans I did today (which I was going to work on at lunch and on my break) are corrupted. I tried something different and tried to scan straight to a .psd and it didn't work. I went to open them just now and it told me that Photoshop couldn't open them because they weren't valid photoshop documents.

Which is kinda lame.
Sorry, folks.

Not comics...

This is something I happened across, and wanted to share with those who come here. It's about 9 minutes long, and it's worth watching. Very cool, and touching.


World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

Milo Comic Strip #13

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For some reason this one took me for-freakin'-ever. Hope you enjoy. I like the middle Hank, myself. Self-righteous little balloon. Sleep now.

Milo Comic Strip #12

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Here's Eva. She looks a bit overwhelmed to be meeting the boys. As well she should be.
Not gonna say much on this one. I could have worked for hours more on it, and not felt like it was done. But I want these to come out in as timely a manner as I can, so I let go of it.

Enjoy.

Milo Comic Strip #11

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Better late than never, huh? I'm doing my best to keep to my Monday and Thursday upload. This is technically still Monday, though it's stretching it well into Monday night. (11 pm central standard time). I'm very happy with the sketches I've been doing on Eva, who I think I'll be able to introduce to you folks on the next strip, which'll be a full pager. Want to introduce her in a cool way. Till then, Lou deadlifting a blender.