Doot Doot Garden: The Blog of Craig Thompson
April 30th, 2008

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sockman’s salvation April 19th, 2008

My brother Phil and his wife Ami just visited for a week. No pee-fights this time around,
though in our last couple of hours together we did collaborate on a jam comic.

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It stars characters crafted by my brother in our childhood - Sockman, Detective Skelly, Robot Egg, and Ninja Thrasher!
( ~ my character designs were always lame & milquetoast…) Apologies to you blog-readers,
but I had to post this to at least amuse our childhood buddy Evan.

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These “salvation army” battle scenes were doubtless inspired by our father’s plumbing occupation
and our family exclusively shopping at thrift stores.

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cuddle doodles April 8th, 2008

While this box of BLANKETS roughs is still unpacked, here’s a few more things…

1) a couple of thumbnails for a cover idea…

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2) … doodled on the back of this ROBOX script - one of the gazillions of bill-paying jobs I worked on to fund BLANKETS

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3) … the final ROBOX story, written by Phil Amara, colored by Dave Stewart, published by ex-employer Dark Horse …

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4) … (fourth verse same as the first) a few more obsessive variations on the cuddling couple.
I sketched that pose a dozen more times and then scrapped it altogether.

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There’s plenty more were those came from. My continued thanks for the supportive blog comments!
Sean, as far as I know, I won’t be attending Stripdagen in the Netherlands this year.
No shows planned other than the upcoming Stumptown in Portland.