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May14

Snuffy! Run down t’ th’ store

by Greg Cravens on May 14, 2013 at 10:12 am
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The lure of Shelby Forest isn’t just the disc golf, or the camping, or the hiking, or the fishing, or the miles of roads you can bike on.  Not even just the raptor rehab project in the nature center.  Heck, some people don’t even know half that stuff is out there.

But everyone knows about the General Store.  Taxidermized critters, snakeskins draped on the rafters, every kind of soda you could want, hamburgers made to greasy order, and all the rest. ALL the rest.  Name something you imagine would be in a hundred-year-old store.  It’s got a good chance of waiting on you there at the General Store. Name something you’d like from the average quicky market any time in the last twenty years.  Probably in there somewhere.  Fishing lures, VHS tapes, used paperbacks, bent-nail-puzzles, snacks, pickled eggs, candy bars you’d have sworn they don’t make any more.  Go check it out.

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May09

Kayakers in the News

by Greg Cravens on May 9, 2013 at 4:59 am
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DebRebel has been kind enough to supply us some more internet links to crazy kayak goings-on.

Here they are:

Kayaker rescues family after car accident

Not what you want landing on you when you’re out in your kayak, Helmet or not.

Children of the CornFed greet kayaker

I think I’ve been on this river. It’s the one next to the cow pasture, right?

Kayaker gets the Oogies after shark appearance

Ask “Are they biting today?”… You don’t usually get the answer “God, I hope not!”

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May02

Team US

by Greg Cravens on May 2, 2013 at 9:38 am
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I am not an orderly person.  My studio, my mind, and my personal abilities are disordered and chaotic.

Consequently, not all of the Team Us folks have made it into the Hubris cartoons yet.

Part of the reason is that I didn’t want to clump everyone in on the first ‘day’, and part of it was that I had some other gags to tell.

Part of it is that the image below is my ‘notes’ so far.  I think only Molly isn’t on my sheet.  Molly, and maybe others who got lost in the shuffle of emails with attached photos being saved into a folder, which then proved to be a bad idea.  The emails were saved in some flakey format where the photos didn’t show up, and I had to go back and match things up and made a mess of it.

So, if you haven’t appeared in the strip so far, and you’re NOT on this page (click and maybe click again to zoom if necessary), then you may have to remind me.  Also, if you are, or if you know the lovely young lady on the right hand side of the page without any name or sport noted, remind me who you (she) are (is).  I can’t seem to match up the proper info for an identification.

Or, of course, if you haven’t sent me a photo so that you can be part of Team Us, well, Now might be a good time.

Back to the action!

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Apr25

Uni-retorts

by Greg Cravens on April 25, 2013 at 9:27 am
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Four times before, I’ve given you some quips that unicyclers are forced to come up with because the typical person, when confronted with a unicycle says one of four or five things.  It gets very dull giving the same one or two answers (the four or five questions are not very different from one another)  And so, here you go.  Number five in the series of things that unicyclers say when the general public comments on their riding of said unicycles.  This one cannot be said to pedestrians, it must be said to bicyclers, you understand…

To pedestrians, one says, “Me?  No, I passed these other guys up the trail, and THEY were riding TWO wheels… each!  Amazing!”

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Apr23

Sketchy… veeery sketchy.

by Greg Cravens on April 23, 2013 at 9:21 am
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So at the convention a few weeks ago, I was giving away Hubris and Buckets pencil pages.  I stamp the backs of them with the web address and use them as freebees.  A friend of mine (who does real comic books) said I could be selling them, but I think they’re better used as marketing tools, especially since 1) I still have the finished art on another paper altogether and 2) my pencil pages are so loose as to be offensive.  Wanna see?

Here you go:

I change things on the fly- the spacing and size of the characters, the words… weird stuff.  Fast and loose is my game.

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Apr13

Rollin’ and Tumblin’

by Greg Cravens on April 13, 2013 at 9:15 am
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The County Fair cannot be said to be on the cutting edge of technology, but it IS doubtless on the cutting edge of deep-fried food-like things and amusements than can be neatly transported and/or assembled by people who cannot fathom how to keep one’s teeth into an adult lifespan.  That being understood, I wanna know where to get one of these things.  And I wouldn’t be paying no four dollars to bumble around in a kiddie pool, neither.  I’m thinking some kind of learning curve that leads to whitewater.

 

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Apr11

More ConStumes

by Greg Cravens on April 11, 2013 at 7:37 am
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I think there’s no comment needed here, other than to apologize for the shaky photos.  More ConStumes:

 

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Apr09

Convention time

by Greg Cravens on April 9, 2013 at 11:17 am
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I have been giving considerable thought to bringing Hubris to various conventions around this country and Canada (Hey, Allan!) and so I’ve dipped my toe in, locally. Didn’t gamble much in the way of merchandise or table time, but it was fun, and I think there are a few new readers since then (Hey, guys!)

Here’s me at MidSouthCon-

I had some books to sell, a skateboard to sell, and lots of stickers to give out, along with some original pencil sheets for anyone who acted truly interested.  I’d also like to point out that the outlandish buckskin jacket I was wearing was complimented more and more thoroughly at the convention than it has been for ten years prior.

There weren’t a lot of sales made, and it was tricky to keep the attention of the Convention-goers.  Comic strips aren’t always the biggest hit at Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Comic book events.  Comic Strips are for a different kind of reader.  Some of you might take that as a compliment or as an insult when I point out that the convention-goers I was speaking to looked like this:

 

And like this:

 

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Apr06

SK8 Art

by Greg Cravens on April 6, 2013 at 9:19 am
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There are various folks, encouraged by Memphis’ success in building a first-class skate park, who’re fundraising to help our their own towns in building nice skate parks, too. One way this is done is the occasional fun-fund raiser. Where folks donate things like (ahem) Hubris books and Hubris skate decks and… y’know… Real Art. Here are some photos I’ve been hanging onto of some fine lookin’ art that was sold to support the Hernando Skatepark, which (If I understand correctly) the town has already included plans for in a new park area, but if the local skaters can raise sufficient funds, then the city will put in a larger, better skate area. Coolness, I say. Just so long as maintenance for the park is accounted for in annual budgets, right, City Fathers?

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Mar28

Young Mr. Owens

by Greg Cravens on March 28, 2013 at 9:16 am
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It’s Kid Art Day here at Hubriscomics again.  Derion drew a skateboarder.  More or less.  He originally brought me the drawing with just the guy standing there.  When I said that only drawings with Hubris-type themes were going on the website now, he added the skateboard and the ‘speed lines’.

I usually return the kids’ drawings to them in a little sketchbook make from 11X17 folded and stapled.  I think that may be Derion’s motivation.  I think that ’cause he handed me the drawing the first time and said, “I want a sketchbook!”

If I keep upping the ante required for these sketchbooks, eventually these young’uns will learn to draw all kind of cool stuff.

 

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