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Cloud Town Tuesday Part 9, comix commentary with friends
[00:00:00] There was a terrorist attack during a tornado. In a tornado. At the same time. It was a tornado. Wizard of Oz style. Welcome to Cloud Town Tuesday. The day where I share a page from my graphic novel, Cloud Town, and um, tell you about the process of making it. It's like a, um, editor's commentary on a DVD.
Here it is. Let's go. Let's do it.
Oh yeah, so this is How'd this happen? I started by drawing everything as spreads. Thanks. But then I had to switch to single pages because, , it was too big a file for my Procreate to handle when I wanted enough layers. Uh, originally this novel was going to jump back and forth between text and prose.
And it started with an essay that Penelope Quick wrote about the creation of skateboards and kind of told you a little bit about the world secondarily. But it was talking about how, um, skateboards were invented by children. For children, like in the rubble of, [00:01:00] of bombings in world war two, French kids nailed parts of a roller skate onto the plank of wood.
And then that was it. Um, and just like being stoked about, , skateboards basically, and spelling a bunch of stuff wrong and not doing any research and getting a C plus. It's cool. Is it you that just like drew on a piece of paper and then took a photo of it on a desk? Yeah. Nice. And then, so when this starts getting populated with.
I'm going to keep fast forwarding. So this is all of her dad's like tech stuff. Um, like he's got just like, soldering pens and like some people use dental tools to like fix and replace, um, screens. Uh, these are woke crystals. I was gluing googly eyes on crystals for awhile and I was like, if I really wanted to be a millionaire, I'd start a Kickstarter for woke, crystals.
com. Uh, but instead I just put them around here. Yeah. Uh, this is like a soft phone that you could like. Use like a snap bracelet. Your whole comic is just a business pitch [00:02:00] for the woke crystals. This is like those Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday pill things, but they're just using them and replacing them. How'd you break your computer screen?
Okay, so one day I went to the coffee shop next to my house and uh, they used to give me free coffee a lot, which is nice. Um, but it was right next to my house. It was 7am. I was never there that early usually, but I was teaching. Uh, middle school writing class and the lady grabs my coffee and turns quickly my mug because I brought my own mug back in Pre co-vid days.
She turns and just smash it slips out of her hand just smashes against the wall. She's like i'm so sorry I'm, so sorry. I like I don't know. It's fine. It's fine. I got too many mugs She gives me a cup of coffee for free was very kind and then I bike to work At work, one of my other teachers had brought in a vase to pull out poetry poems and she immediately like Slips off her chair and lands on the vase and it shatters and she gets a cut.
She's okay But I was like what a weird day and I kind of forget about it until I'm biking home and one [00:03:00] of my backpack straps snaps My backpack swings around hits the front wheel of my bicycle. I do a flip and then land on the On my backpack, breaking my laptop screen, my phone screen, and my front wheel is totally destroyed.
Oh, did it bend the front wheel? Yeah, it's like a taco, so I had to carry it with its wheel in the air. I just limped home. Like, this was after I knocked my teeth out, so I was like, at least I kept those in. That's fucked up. Yeah. So I just like limped home, and it was just like one of those weird days. I'd be so sad.
I had to go find a new backpack. And then I bought new screens. It wasn't a Mac, so you could actually do that. Oh, that's good. Yeah. Also, yeah, and this is me trying to figure out, um, like, scales for both colors. Like, how many different arrays I want to use. Um, my editor was, like, also wanting me to add some narration.
Because, like, she's like, These editors. Yeah, they want people to know what's going on. It's ridiculous. Almost kind of adds too much to [00:04:00] it. Yeah. But, yeah, I don't know. And then, you just have, These are the name of your kids. They're all home. And it shows you what level of Danger the world is in green blue orange indigo.
It's almost always is that based on like that, you know stupid stuff We had like in the early 2000s. Yeah when we were kids and every morning on the intercom at school They'd be like code red terrorist alert level orange So just so you know kids in kutztown pennsylvania, like there might be someone Gonna getcha.
It's pretty ridiculous. And they'd have one for like an earthquake. Oh, we only had terrorist alerts. I mean we had tornado warnings too, but very, but then there was an actual tornado and there was a terror, uh, tornado warning. There was a terrorist attack during a tornado. In a tornado at the same time. It was a tornado.
Wizard of Oz style. Wizard of Oz style. Weather terrorism. Inside [00:05:00] a tornado. You know, in the second, uh, series of, uh, G. I. Joe, no, with the dreadnoughts, where the dreadnoughts were in this cartoon. No, it is real. Um, the Cobra commander and Dastro created the weather dominator, weather dominator, and they did use weather for, for terrorist reasons.
Oh, that's good. Yeah. Um, I find this kind of boring to watch. How are you guys feeling about it? Um, yeah, it would be more interesting to see something character related. This Cloudtown Tuesday is cut short by our [00:06:00] impatient
